Press Release

New Green Technology For Shipping Bulk Glass Bottles and Jars Closes The Loop On Post Production Shipping Process.

Retired California native and Inventor Mark H. Costello has reverse engineered the standard shipping method for bottles and jars. Riverbank CA, 01/01/26: The standard method of shipping bulk bottles and jars post production is to stretch wrap the pallet before it is shipped to the customer. Mr. Costello was working at a major winery in central California and noticed how much plastic was being thrown away after each production run. After several designs Mr. Costello started the process of designing and patenting his version of how glass bottles and jars should be stabilized before shipment. Mr. Costello also noticed that when a trailer full of glass came into his winery to be unloaded, the glass stacks required up to eleven air bags to hold them in place. Mr. Costello Said, “my shipping method will truly
make producing single use glass containers environmentally sustainable, and will eliminate the need for stretch wrap and airbags currently being used by these facilities“. Mr. Costello also emphasizes the importance of being first to change over. “The first glass plant that changes over will experience benefits that their competitors will never see. One of the biggest is having a new tool for the procurement of new customers. If a plant can sell the same product without plastic and paper airbags and work out a long term contract where both parties see no loss on their ROI.

Glass Bottle And Jar Customers

This type of plastic is manufactured as a giant bag (shroud) that is placed robotically over a finished stack of bulk glass bottles. After placement over the stack, it is then heat shrinked to the stack. Each bag weighs approximately six pounds.

The plastic to the left is your most common stretch wrap in the glass bottle and jar industry. It weighs approximately three pounds per pallet.

How Do I Stop Receiving My Glass With Stretch Wrap On It?

1. Call your supplier and let them know about my panel system. Explain to them that your company would prefer an environmentally friendly alternative delivered to your bottling facility. Please forward my website to your collegues, I think this is worth talking about don’t you?

2. The glass plant industry has been packaging its finished bulk glass in this manner for thirty plus years hoping no one would come up with a solution, or never thought about it. Its kind of humerous that a forklift driver invented this right? If you are a major player in the winery,beer,spirits or food processing world, I urge you to communicate with your competitors and try and make a change not just from an environmental standpoint but for good old fashioned common sense.

How Does My Tech Remove
The Cap And Panels?

Panels and lid may be assenbled or disassembled manually. However, its advisable to use todays lift assist technology to create a safer workplace. Technologies such as vacuum lifters, manipulators, and articulated jib arms eliminate the need for manual lifting, reducing the strain on workers.

1. Place vacuum assist device on top of lid and lift approximately one foot.
2. Pry each panel off (Approximately 20LBS) letting them lean on the safety support that is in front of each panel.
3. Lower lid back on the stack and start removing the panels and place them on their corresponding pallets (long and short).
4. Note: The lid can be stacked robotically taking the place of the wood frame.
5. Panels are shipped back to your supplier just like pallets.

Benefits Of Using A Panel System

1. No more plastic and strapping to deal with!
2. Removal is quick due to its light weight design, a single panel weighs less than twenty pounds.
3. Wine change?, glass change? bad wine? bad glass? wrong glass? No problem now because all those stacks your techs used to have to rewrap and put away now just get their panels and lid back! Put one strap on top though for safety.
4. Remember all those pesky paper airbags showing up in your glass trailers? Our panel design has interlocking features that saves even more plastic from our land fills.
5. Store them inside or outside, our panel design keeps your bottles clean and dry!
Does your driver need to dump a bad stack of glass? Remove the front panel and start pushing from the back with a broom. Each layer is controlled by the other three panels which makes it much easier to handle.

Letter From the Inventor:

Dear Consumers,

If you purchase anything in a glass bottle or jar, please be aware that most likely, quite a bit of plastic was used to package your bottle for their shipment to breweries,wineries and food processing facilities. The glass bottle and jar industry has been using the same technology for the last forty years. They also use paper air bags to stabalize the loads in their trailers which is even worse for the environment. It takes approximately six to eleven of these air bags to stabalize the load. I designed my restraint system to give the glass bottle and jar industry an alternative to these existing post production shipping practices.