The Eliminator Weed & Grass Killer from Pennington Seed is set to be re-launched in a new packaging format that has a battery-powered sprayer included in the primary packaging. This new offering provides customers the added benefit of convenience in lieu of conventional pump sprayers. Conventional packages often have sprayers in a separate compartment alongside the primary package which requires more space on the filling line and in the shipping cases.

Partnering alongside Pennington is TricorBraun. Together, they created a trimmer, sleeker package configuration that passes filling lines and utilizes space better.

Prior to the new packaging, TricorBraun delved into other sprayer packaging concepts on the market and came up with multiple ideas of integrated packages, leaving Pennington to choose the final design.

While creating the packaging, TricorBraun took the battery-operated sprayer supplied by MeadWestvaco (MWV) that Pennington planned to use and designed a 1.25-gallon primary package structure with sole indentations into which the sprayer nozzle and trigger could burrow and then offset the bottle handle to house the sprayer handle.

TricorBraun was able to design and control the very constricted tolerances that make the nesting of the sprayer work as a result of it building the package mold at its Cal-West Tool & Mold facility.

The design team also worked alongside CKS Packaging Inc., which blows the bottle, to successfully manage blowing the unusual bottle configuration. The mold is also built to produce a flash of material in the bottle’s handle area during molding through which a cable tie is passed that keeps the sprayer securely in place through shipping and shelving in the retail store.

Once the consumer purchases, they cut the tie to release the sprayer, but then can hook the trigger through the flash to keep the sprayer in place between applications. In use, the sprayer’s flow tube snaps into an opening in the bottle closure (which accompanies the MWV sprayer).