Cover Feature platform from which to show consumers new innovative design options or showcase completely new products. Setting the Stage Options for plastic aerosol containers are now more specified, giving the industry a clear process toward the marketplace. One of the original standards for modern plastic aerosol packaging is British Standard BS 5597:1991, created by a committee for the Packaging Freight Containers Standards Policy Committee in 1991. This standard laid the recent framework for inventors to utilize in the development of a plastic aerosol container. Although several attempts to market plastic aerosol containers were initiated in the 1960s, none have sustained shelf presence until recently. A significant driver allowing today’s plastic aerosol container is the technical evolution in the injection stretch blow molding (ISBM) process. ISBM improvements to support the conversion of carbonated soft drinks out of glass and into plastic significantly drove the quality and consistency of wall orientation and other process controls that are now being leveraged into the aerosol bottle. Leveraging the improvements in the ISBM bottle manufacturing process, several companies have worked to develop aerosol bottles. These aerosol bottles supported the request of a “Special Permit” (SP) allowing the distribution of plastic aerosol containers to the U.S. Dept. of Transportation (DOT) Pipeline & Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA). The PHMSA decided in 2009 to amend section 173 of the Federal Register (Vol. 74) permitting distribution of plastic aerosol containers. Discussion within the code-change preamble is the understanding that the ISBM technology has advanced and that there was no evidence that an issue had been seen in the SPs for plastic aerosol containers to date. Within the discussion of this amendment it is argued that approval of plastic aerosol containers would also help “enhance international harmonization and provide relief to the regulated community by removing the need for special permits”. In this code change, PHSMA set the parameters for a non-specified and a new “2S” specified bottle. Included in the PHMSA code are specifications concerning the shipping papers, labeling, marking and packaging requirements for transportation of plastic aerosol containers. Retaining focus on the container, we can pull from the PHSMA literature characteristics necessary for the distribution of a plastic aerosol. The the Marketplace December 2013 Spray 15 By Scott Smith, Chairman, the Plastic Aerosol Research Group (PARG), an affiliate of The Consumer Specialty Products Association (CSPA) Balea Shave Foam
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