ZOTOS INTERNATIONAL, INC. (Connecticut State, U.S.A.), which manufactures professional products for hair salons for the Shiseido Group, has reduced the amount of virgin resin usage while maintaining quality, safety and also the look of the bottle.
With the introduction of plastic bottle molding equipment, bottle production, which was previously outsourced, has been shifted in-house. After that, the development of molding technology featuring an original four-layered structure, which is innovated by sandwiching two layers that contain recycled plastic with outer and inner layers comprised of thin, virgin plastic, has enabled a maximum of 70% of recycled plastic per container to be used. This is expected to reduce the usage amount of new plastics by nearly 75 tons per year in addition to curbing CO2 emissions by approximately 360 tons annually.