Proving Yourself in a Sustainable World

In the early 1990s, the company expanded the technology by both developing thinner films that cost less, and developing rotary machines for application that could operate at about 250-300 bottles/minute. The first stop for this technology for the beverage sector was with the glass industry and a new product launch—Clearly Canadian Sparkling Water. By developing the thinner, lower cost films, Spear was already beginning to operate in a more sustainable manner, though, at the time, sustainability was not something many, if any, companies were quantifying.