Our Strategy Includes Innovative Thinking
When companies choose Constar for packaging solutions, they want more than a container. They come to us for our design services, which include ideation, fast-track development tools, and prototyping. We have an exceptional team of designers, materials scientists, and engineers at our packaging development center in Alsip, IL, who love nothing better than to sit down with customers and hammer out solutions. They created their own tools—CONSTruct™ advanced predictive engineering and i-Design™ software—that accelerate package development, while optimizing materials use and performance and eliminating guesswork. It’s an approach unique to Constar that results in better packages and better relationships. |
Strategic Focus
At Constar, innovation drives success. Our strategic focus is to leverage innovation as it applies to our technologies, our approach to new and existing markets, and to expanding the use of our packaging solutions around the world.
Constar continues to invest in technologies that enhance PET’s desirability for food and beverage applications. Constar’s continued developments with barrier technology and advanced design enable our customers to meet sustainability goals, while providing product in an attractive, consumer and retailer friendly package. Our innovations include DiamondClear®, PET with sophisticated oxygen scavengers that are blended evenly throughout a monolayer structure. This high-performing barrier material provides extended shelf life protection (up to 24 months), outperforming competitive monolayer offerings in an extended shelf life study. PET bottles with DiamondClear are a more sustainable alternative to glass and other plastics, offering the clarity of glass, and are 100% recyclable. Other innovations such as VCT™ and X-4™ technologies for hot-fill applications use innovative panel-less designs to gain both operational and experiential advantages.
Constar’s packaging technologies are rapidly gaining traction in new markets like wine, shelf stable foods such as pasta sauces, and condiments. This complements our strength in soft drinks, ready-to-drink teas, juices, and energy drinks. The advantages of advanced barrier protection, brand-building designs, and rapid development earn high marks in these markets.
Constar also welcomes licensing agreements for our barrier technologies. We offer the flexibility of sourcing raw materials, preforms or finished containers. This strategy allows us to expand the use of our materials to virtually any market in the world. Looking ahead, Constar will continue to provide value-adding products and services to brand owners to enhance market leadership, promote sustainability and maximize shareholder value.