Containerware

Two leading containerware companies, Owens-Illinois and Hazel-Atlas, and a leading noncontainer company, Corning Glass Works, uphold the Supreme Court’s decision in briefs replying to the government’s petition.

Product identifications screen printed directly on bottles, jars, and other containers are rapidly replacing conventional labels. This is especially true of beverages, cosmetics, and household products packaged in glass or polyethylene containers. Screening on containerware has evolved into a distinct field of operation quite separate and apart from routine screen printing.

Sands of lesser quality, suitable for coloured containerware, are also worked at Chelford and Congleton in Cheshire, Messingham in Lincolnshire and West Lothian in Scotland, all deposits which yield primarily foundry sands.

Earl Tupper, whose name became a household word because of the plastic containerware he marketed so successfully, died today in Costa Rica.

The market, however, needed cheap, easy to produce, decorative containerware and the process had to become more complex in order to produce three-dimensional forms.