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Amcor launches lightweight 64-ounce PET bottle


May 13, 2013 12:06 pm ET

ANN ARBOR, MICH. — Amcor Rigid Plastics says it has created the lightest 64-ounce hot-fill PET container of its kind, weighing only 59 grams.

Amcor downsizing in Australia, closing plants


March 5, 2013 10:31 am ET

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA — The rising Australian dollar and cost pressures have pushed global packaging manufacturer Amcor Ltd. to shut two manufacturing sites and to downsize another site.

Amcor opens major Orlando, Fla., site


January 25, 2013 1:46 pm ET

ORLANDO, FLA. -- Amcor Rigid Plastics USA Inc. is expanding its presence in the Southeast with the grand opening Jan. 24 of a 500,000-square-foot facility in Orlando that boosts its bottling capacity to include the ability to make preforms in-house.

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