Berry Global eliminates static issues with Meech’s Hyperion products

Headquartered in Evansville, Indiana. Berry Global is a world leader in packaging and protection solutions. With 131 facilities and more than 23,000 employees across the globe, the company manufactures and sells plastic consumer packaging, non-woven specialty materials and engineered materials to more than 2,500 clients, including Walmart, Coca-Cola, and Procter & Gamble. With a proven history of excellence in packaging manufacturing and an ever-present, demanding, high-profile customer base, Berry Global is committed to its mission of ‘always advancing to protect what’s important.’ In 2014, to maintain and improve health and safety and efficiency in production, the company invested in Meech’s Hyperion 929IPS and 971IPS pulsed DC ionizing bars.

After experiencing static charge build up on bulk packaging equipment and being aware of the negative effects that it can have on safety, cleanliness, and production, Berry Global recognized the need for an effective anti-static solution.

Michael Hunt, Environmental Health and Safety Coordinator at Berry Global explains: “In our injection molding process, product is processed through various forms of packaging, which are either in forms of plastic containers and corrugated gaylords. We found that, in cooler months, static on some of the products became an ongoing issue”.