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From Rigid Bottles to Spouted Pouches: Innovation that Transforms Packaging and Performance

Hoffer Team — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 18:12:48 +0000

When Prestone, a trusted leader in automotive fluids, set out to refresh its packaging to a flexible spouted pouch for its top-off pouch, the goal was clear: reduce environmental impact, improve cost efficiency and ensure product safety. The company saw an opportunity to evolve the packaging from a rigid bottle to a large-format spouted pouch – a lighter and more sustainable packaging solution that uses significantly less plastic.

To make this vision a reality, Prestone needed more than a supplier. It needed partners with the expertise to deliver a high-performing closure system capable of safely containing automotive chemicals, ensuring child resistance and maintaining seal integrity. Equally important, the new design needed to meet customer demand for a more sustainable packaging option, one that strengthens the brand, reduces transportation impact and enhances the overall user experience.

Pouch converter and flexible packaging manufacturer Zacros America partnered with closure expert Hoffer Plastics to rise to the challenge. Together, they combined Zacros’ flexible pouch design expertise with Hoffer’s precision-engineered Trust-T-Lok P22 spout to create a safe, efficient and sustainable packaging solution that brought Prestone’s vision to life.

Learn how Hoffer’s Trust-T-Lok P22 Spout with six-pitch design made all the difference for Prestone’s debut of large-format flexible spouted pouches.

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Hoffer Plastics Debuts Expanded Lok Line at PACK EXPO Booth N-5138

Hoffer Team — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 17:44:58 +0000

Flexible and rigid solutions deliver more choices, more value and more impact.

SOUTH ELGIN, Ill. (September 23, 2025) – Hoffer Plastics announced today the expanded Lok family of closures, debuting at PACK EXPO Las Vegas (Sept. 29–Oct. 1), Booth N-5138. Building on a legacy of customer-driven engineering, the new line extensions give brands greater versatility, speed and value across flexible and rigid formats – while enhancing performance, reliability and shelf appeal.

Product highlights

Hoffer’s Trust-T-Lok Drop-In Cap & Spouts runs on existing pouch filling equipment without modifications and cuts plastic by 18.5%. Patented tamper-evident technologies boost product integrity and consumer trust. Caps are available with FDA-compliant PCR content upon request and are fully compatible with existing machines, including mono-PE and mono-PP structures, making this closure recycle-ready.
The new Trust-T-Lok P22 Spouts ease the shift from bulky rigid bottles to slim, efficient pouches, cutting material costs, energy use and CO₂ emissions. Up to 26 truckloads can be consolidated into one. Larger printable surface area enables bolder branding on store shelves. The spout is offered in tamper-evident, child-resistant and spray-hose versions on one versatile spout base for universal use on pouch making equipment.
38 mm & 28 mm Rigid Caps offer expanded options with uncompromising tamper evidence, faster lead times and compatibility with glass, PET and HDPE. These caps are ideal for fresh juices, dairy, kombucha and energy drinks. The 38 mm format comes in three distinct options-Hoffer Drop Lok, Standard Double Lead and DBJ neck finishes tailored to the niche premium beverage sizes most commonly seen at Whole Foods and Fresh Market.

“Every addition to the Lok line was designed with our customers’ biggest challenges in mind – reducing costs, improving performance and sustainability and making their brands more visible on shelf,” said John Strubulis, Senior Product Manager at Hoffer Plastics. “Our commitment at Hoffer extends far beyond supplying closures. Our commitment is to engineer solutions with real business impact.”

Meet us at PACK EXPO: To schedule an in-booth interview with John Strubulis, contact Jody Delie at jdelie@trefoilgroup.com.

Learn more: Visit our landing page for product specs and resources: https://hofferplastics.com/sem/lok-family-packaging-enhancements/

About Hoffer Plastics

Robert “Bob” and Helen Hoffer founded Hoffer Plastics in 1953. Over 70 years later, the company continues its commitment to driving success for its customers, employees and the industry. A full-service contract manufacturing partner, Hoffer produces more than three billion plastic parts annually with a consistent 99.45% on-time delivery record. The company serves customers in markets that include flexible packaging, medical, automotive, consumer, industrial, health & beauty and appliances. Located in South Elgin, Illinois, Hoffer employs more than 350 individuals within its 365,000-square-foot facility located on 24 acres. The company has pioneered numerous product innovations, including its Lok family of products. For more information, visit www.hofferplastics.com.

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Proprietary closures bring sustained growth to Hoffer Plastics

Hoffer Team — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 13:25:17 +0000

South Elgin, Ill. — The seed for Hoffer Plastics Corp.’s recent growth was planted more than a decade ago — even before the company won the Plastics News Processor of the Year award in 2012 — according to Alex Hoffer.

“To be able to tell the whole story, we have to go back to a conference room in 2009, when we were doing strategic planning, because we recognized at the time that we had a customer — and they’re still one of our largest customers, and we love them dearly — that too much of our business was coming from,” Alex Hoffer said.

“So the question that the group asked was, ‘What happens if they went away?'”

The strategic answer to that question was to develop a proprietary product. The move marked a big departure from Hoffer Plastics’ roots in custom injection molding.

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