Tom's Historic PET Bottle Museum

Dr. Tom Brady graduated from the University of Michigan with a PhD in Plastic Materials Engineering in 1972 and began his career at Owen's-Illinois, Inc. just as the carbonated soft drink companies began asking their suppliers to create and offer family sized containers, which required an industry wide conversion from glass and aluminum to plastic. As a young Senior Scientist, Tom along with his O-I colleagues and along with other industry package suppliers accepted the challenge and over just a 10 year period created an entirely new industry to supply sustainable plastic PET packaging to the beverage, food, and personal care products industries. When O-I abandoned commercialization of the new and successful PET container in 1985 because it was affecting O-I's glass container business, Tom left O-I and founded Plastic Technologies, Inc. (PTI) with the initial goal of helping the Coca-Cola Company to self-manufacture its own plastic containers. Over it's 40 year history, PTI became a key technology development supplier and manufacturer of PET packaging for many of the world's international brand owners, resin suppliers, and machine manufacturers, and PTI also emerged as a key industry resource for training, manufacturing support, recycling technologies, and laboratory testing. Over its 40 year history PTI spawned 5 other subsidiary recycling, manufacturing, and technology development companies, including Phoenix Technologies International (PET recycling), PTI Operations (manufacturing), PTI-Europe, The Packaging Conference, and Guardian Medical USA (sterile medical packaging). Tom is retired and the PTI Companies are now owned and operated by SIPA Solutions, a successful manufacturer of PET packaging machinery headquartered in Italy. This book, "Tom Brady's Historic PET Bottle Museum" is Tom's 4th book documenting his career in the PET packaging industry and will be available at Tom's publisher, BookBaby.com and at Amazon and other book sellers, as are his first three books including The Impact of Owens-Illinois on the World, History of the PET Bottle, and Plastic Technologies - Our story,