Spurred by changing consumer demands, many of today’s high-volume markets are trending toward plastic containers instead of containers made of other materials.

The blow-molded bottles and packaging containers industry is highly competitive and fragmented. The most important strategy to survive and thrive in this demanding marketplace is specialization.

The definition of “flash in the pan” is “Something that has a showy beginning, but fails to deliver anything of value.” That’s how you might describe extrusion blow molding flash—the plastic left outside the body of a new container after blow molding.