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
The image to your right shows three pounds worth of standard plastic wrap, which was removed off of a 44X56 pallet of 750mL bulk glass. The image layered on the top shows a shroud style wrap that comes out to roughly six pounds. Please look at the graphic below because its pretty amazing how much plastic the glass bottle and jar industry creates for their customers (you) to deal with.
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 and get it to the grocery store, restaurant or bar. The glass bottle and jar industry has been using the same technology to pack and ship their finished goods for forty years. How can an industry promote itself as “green” when as a whole, create a massive amount of plastic that their customers must dispose of? Oh wait I forgot, they also use these lovely paper air bags to stabalize the loads in the trailers. It takes approximately six to eleven of these air bags to stabalize the load. If you know someone of importance in the glass bottle and jar industry, i urge you to make them aware that there is now a practicle solution for switching over to an environmentally friendly method to ship bottles and jars to their customers.
The Future Is In Your Hands
I am fifty-nine years old and frankly have a good fifteen or twenty years left, with that said I hope that you, as a young person can see the damage that this industry is creating by the graphics presented above. Let’s encourage this industry to change by letting them know that people are starting to learn about the antiquated way glass bottle and jar plants pack and ship their products.
