Eco-friendly

Is your client looking for sustainable packaging?

Consider AOKI's "three R's" of sustainability:

  • Reduce: Aoki technology uses preforms with the optimum weight required to produce each container, thereby reducing the amount of material required.
  • Reuse: Aoki Direct Heatcon® technology uses residual heat from the injection molding process to stretch and blow the bottles. Also, part of the high air pressure used in the blowing process is sent to a lower pressure system and used in the pneumatic mechanisms of the machine.
  • Recycle: Aoki series machines can produce high quality PET bottles by using 100% post-industrial or post-consumer PET flakes. See details below.

Produce PET bottles from post-industrial — and even post-consumer — PET flakes

AOKI began to develop its PET bottle recycling technology in 1994 with the development of the AOKI Series machine, which molds reground PET bottle flakes directly into new bottles.

AOKI has succeeded in achieving low cost bottle-to-bottle production, making it possible to now use recycled PET flakes.

The traditional way to recycle PET involves an expensive and complicated process: After the PET bottles are ground and washed, the flakes are re-melted at high temperature and re-crystallized to produce recycled pellet material.

With AOKI's Eco-friendly technology PET bottles are only ground and washed to produce recycled flake material. Without the melting and crystallizing processes, recycling costs are reduced.