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In order to reduce material cost and improve cycle time during the preform injection process, the company had decided to reduce the weight of an existing plastics bottle by 5% for a juice application. Since it was uncertain whether the lighter weight container could still satisfy all physical properties and specifications, it was necessary to proceed with a prototyping injection mould to manufacture the new preforms. The lighter weight preforms were subsequently blown into the same juice container for testing. During the development of this lighter weight container, it was found that the bottle satisfied all the specified requirements, except the top load condition, i.e. the bottle was collapsing when the specified force was applied to the top of the container.
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