Code for plastic containers
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• The British Plastics Federation has issued in handbook form a Code of Practice for the construction of plastic reinforced freight containers and also a draft specification for their taint testing.
The publication, Freight Containers, is the work of the Freight Containers Sub-Committee of the Federation's Reinforced Plastics Group, who have studied the problems arising out of the storage of foodstuffs, both at normal temperature and in refrigerated conditions. It contains not only the sub-committee's recommendations but also an analytical procedure for the determination of the contaminants in the laminate, a method of salvaging grp freight containers which arc contaminated, and hints on the repair of damaged freight containers.
• Full production will start this month at a new container factory at Bridge of Don industrial estate, Aberdeen. The 7200 sq.ft factory represents a major expansion for Body Engineering Ltd, which manufactures specialist container flats and insulated and refrigerated containers.