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The BPF Bottle Blowers Group is a strong networking platform for independent manufacturers of plastic containers including both extrusion and injection blow moulders.    The Bottle Blowers Group exists under the umbrella of the BPF Packaging Group / Division, which encompasses all plastic packaging manufacturers / converters in the BPF.

Some of the top issues the Group is currently addressing include:

• Operating in a business climate progressively characterised by increasing materials and energy costs, and increasing members’ dexterity with which these costs can be passed down the chain.
  
• Responding to the increased pressure of customers’ procurement tactics. including members’ exposure to the increased use of internet reverse auctions, as an example of customer-power, undermining the value-added aspects of plastic packaging manufacture.
  
• Influencing attitudes to plastics containers in terms of their environmental footprint, product safety, and their value as compared to their cost, amongst all relevant stakeholders including customers, political decision-makers and the media.
  
• Managing cost pressures associated with the implementation of UK Packaging Waste legislation, including inputing relevant points to the various ongoing consultations relating to the UK laws and the EU Directive on Packaging and Packaging Waste.
  
• Monitoring the impact of imports of semi-finished and finished goods on the UK bottle blowing sector.
  
• Maintaining an active awareness of the latest research and development in the design and manufacture of plastic bottles and containers to retain a competitive edge.
  
• Sustaining a fundamental commitment to address industrial health and safety issues.

Members are involved in:

Extrusion Blow Moulding

Injection Blow Moulding

Injection Stretch Blow Moulding

 

For more information on this Group, email: aroberts@bpf.co.uk

The Bottle Blowers Group meets on a quarterly basis under the wide umbrella of the British Plastics Federation drawing on the expertise of the Federation and its staff to support these meetings.  We would extend a warm welcome to Bottle Blowers throughout the UK to join with us in seeking to determine a mutually satisfying future together.

Bottle Blowers Group Chairman, Mr George Sweeney, RPC Group

Mr George Sweeney is General Sales Manager at RPC in Llantrisant and Chairman of the BPF Bottle Blowers Group.

"The BPF provides crucial networking opportunities to bottle blowers so that collectively we can better appreciate and respond to the strategic issues facing our sector."

Bottle Blowers Group Executive, BPF