Amcor Beverage Overview

Amcor Rigid Plastics Beverage Packaging Solutions

In an increasingly competitive marketplace, Amcor helps customers win business with unique packaging solutions for:

Category pioneers Portfolio expansion Material conversion

Customers Amcor because we are relentless in our pursuit of quality, reliability, operational excellence, and application of creativity and innovation — where art meets science. *All testimonials from “Voice of Customer Survey,” conducted

by Strategex and sponsored by Amcor Rigid Plastics.

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THEY DON’T COMPROMISE ON

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Growing segments Emerging brands Premiumization

QUALITY. IT’S A JOY WORKING WITH

THEM COMPARED TO OTHERS.

Amcor Beverage Customer*

We inspire...

Amcor develops attractive beverage packaging solutions that grab consumers’ attention, helping our customers grow.

Amcor offers custom and stock packaging solutions in bottles and preforms that reflect the needs of today’s consumers and their unique lifestyles. And because Amcor is committed to innovation and research, we keep our finger on the pulse of changing consumer needs, assuring that customers always have access to the latest technology.

With extensive expertise in PET, HDPE and PP materials and applications, Amcor is a leader in hot fill and cold fill, high pressure processing and aseptic technologies, providing packaging solutions for every segment of the beverage market, including:

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WATER

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JUICES

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READY-TO-DRINK TEA & COFFEE

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DAIRY & NON-DAIRY ALTERNATIVES

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SPORTS DRINKS

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ENERGY DRINKS & SHOTS

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CARBONATED SOFT DRINKS

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BEER

The right solution for every application, every time.

Bottles

Preforms

Closures

• Stock and custom • Shapes that include round, rectangle, square, and hourglass • Straight walls, ribs, and panels • Single serve and multi-serve • Stock sizes range from 2.5 ounces to 128 ounces • Vacuum absorbing base and other differentiating technologies • Industry standard finish widths ranging from 26.7 mm to 48 mm • Collaborative design and engineering processes to develop unique solutions

• Stock and custom • Expert guidance in preform selection • Wide stock selection of industry-conforming sizes and designs • Compatible with all Amcor single serve and multi-serve bottles • Industry standard finish widths from 26 mm to 43 mm • New preforms and designs are continuously added to our catalog

• Stock and custom • We partner with closure providers to ensure an optimized solution that fully integrates bottle, finish, and closure design and development • Amcor has a joint venture partnership with Bericap in North America to offer a total packaging solution

We enable...

Amcor provides superior service at every stage of the package design and development process.

QUALITY Our open and collaborative approach allows us to consistently innovate, exceeding customer quality expectations. Year after year our quality satisfaction and ratings are among the highest in industry. Amcor’s world-class quality systems align with Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI), FDA's Good Manufacturing Processes (GMP) and Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) benchmark certifications. Amcor plants have ISO 13485, ISO 9001, and FDA Interstate Milk Shippers certifications.

TECHNICAL SERVICES Before and during production, Amcor delivers flexibility, brand insights, cost efficiencies, innovation, and quality controls. Our Technical Services Engineers are skilled professionals with world-class manufacturing experience in optimized container processing for new design, new resin, and light-weighting. Services include: new package trials, line audits and evaluations.

MANUFACTURING OPTIONS Amcor has an extensive manufacturing footprint in North America. Our capabilities include clean room manufacturing, automation, 100% bottle and lot traceability, and 100% post consumer recycled (PCR) PET capability.

UpStart™

Plant Configurations

Amcor’s small volume platform offers customers world-class design, engineering, and production resources, as well as our advanced technologies.

Plant configuration options include direct in-line, direct in-line with depalletizer, through-the-wall or near-site, and supply dual filler line.

Upstart enables the right size investment for your business, with the ability to effortlessly scale up to our high-volume network as demand grows.

In-Plant Production / Onsites Amcor can integrate packaging operations into a customer’s building and infrastructure, managing customers’ plant operations, collaborating on new products and delivering innovation at every step along the way.

“They provide great service day in and day out.”

“They provide that true customer focus; there’s that collaborative approach when we have issues. I feel as if they are almost a part of my team.”

“Their know-how on injection tooling and modeling software is a strength. Their design expertise is a strength.”

“Engineering and optimization, Amcor is better at this than anyone.”

Amcor Difference the

“Their geographical footprint is a strength. Being able to meet demands is a strength.”

“Amcor is more innovative technically, and they actively bring innovation to us.”

“I’m hesitant to give out 10s, but they’ve earned it. I’m a stickler, and out of all of our suppliers, they are the top of the list because they get it and others don’t.”

We innovate...

Our full-service Research and Development Center in Manchester, Michigan, relentlessly focuses on innovation, design, and product engineering to deliver timely, sustainable, and on-brand solutions to our clients—every day. Our team consists of the most talented professionals in the industry. As a result we have unmatched depth and breadth in our beverage packaging expertise, and extensive portfolio of patents. We have an extensive portfolio of patents because we continually push the boundaries.

Amcor employs the most advanced technology.

We are a pioneer and leader in light-weighting technology, offering many of the industry’s lightest weight packaging solutions. These solutions provide design freedom, enhanced consumer usability, and greater efficiency for customers’ lines. Amcor also provides the largest number of barrier solutions, finishes, and processes available in today's marketplace. Offerings include:

HOT FILL

FINISHES

BARRIERS

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• Blow trim • Wide mouth and neck • Injected finish

• Active and passive barriers for oxygen • UV and light • Carbon dioxide • Mono-layer and multi-layer • Plasmax™

PowerStrap PowerFlex Coflex Ergogrip Flat panel Arches Origami

COLD FILL • Optimized petaloid • Anti-crease base design

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT • Industrial design • Advanced engineering and development • Advanced product testing laboratory including material testing • CAD and FEA • Prototypes and samples

PROCESSES • Injection stretch blow molding • 1-step and 2-step • Extrusion blow molding • Hot fill • Cold fill • Injection

Amcor’s holistic design and development approach encompasses functionality, brand goals and manufacturing optimization.

Amcor's Design • Technical drawings and 3-D models • HD Sculpting

Development • Perspective of operations as a whole, including tooling, platforms, manufacturing

• Integrated packaging design (bottle,

• Packaging engineers optimize functionality

• Performance & aesthetic

• Light-weighting for targeted

• Exclusive in-house design agency,

• Access to a pipeline of enabling

closure, label)

improvements to an existing design ScorCreative

performance

• Access to extensive custom preform and bottle portfolios technologies

 SCORCREATIVE

An award winning structural design studio led by designers with an array of expertise—from automotive and furniture design to brand architecture and interior design—are redefining the culture, models, and expectations of our industry.

8-HOUR MONTH

Cross-functional collaboration that compresses an extensive CAD process into an 8-hour time frame, yielding a finalized pre-production prototype.

Only Amcor...

We are a rigid plastics packaging leader.

Amcor Rigid Plastics continually pushes packaging boundaries for the beverage and food, wine and spirits, personal home care and pharmaceutical segments. We are committed to delivering the best possible packaging solutions—with speed-to-market, high quality, high value and responsiveness. Our cutting edge research and design capabilities paired with our advanced engineering and technology, help our customers achieve shelf differentiation and grow market share. Our capabilities encompass:

Hot Fill

Preform

Cold Fill

We are right where you need us.

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Kenosha Ames Denver Fairfield

Joplin Chino

Paris

Brampton (CAN)

Dunkirk Mt. Top Bellevue Allentown Napoleon Franklin

Manchester

Wytheville

Blythewood

Tuscon Kona, HI

Printed on recycled paper

Ft. Worth Dallas Orlando

Headquarters Manufacturing and In-House Plants

Amcor Rigid Plastics Beverage Division 10521 S. Hwy M-52 Manchester, Michigan 48158 800-666-7741 www.amcor.com 11/16