Agr International, Inc.
Formerly called	Preston Laboratories
Founded	1927
Founder	Dr. Frank W. Preston
Website	www.agrintl.com

Agr International, Inc. is provides a line of products and services for quality control in the beverage and packaging industries in the United States and internationally. Its products for the packaging industry include on-line inspection equipment, laboratory testing equipment, ware handling products, and filling products.

The company’s products also comprise quality testing systems for PET bottles and preforms; and products for aluminum filler applications. It also offers container design services, consulting, in-house testing and evaluation, industry and equipment training, and product support. Agr International, Inc. is headquartered in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Products / Technology

AGR products for measuring and testing plastic containers and preforms manufactured from PET

by type:

Laboratory: High-precision, semi-automated and automated testing and measurement instruments designed for quality management of bottles, preforms and similar products
Online: Measurement, inspection and process management products that can be integrated into production lines for managing bottle and preform quality during the production process
Manual gauges: Low cost gauges that can be used in the laboratory or along the production line for basic measurement of bottle and preform attributes

by application:

Thickness
Pressure
Dimensional
Attribute Testing
Strain Measurement
Surface Treatment
Container Handling
Volume
Sampling
Process Control
Vision Systems
Shelf-Life

History

Agr International, Inc. was founded in 1936. The company was formerly known as American Glass Research.

References

PETplanet Insider Articles

Issue 07 / 2017: Blowmoulder automation tools
Issue 03 / 2017: The automated laboratory
Issue 10 / 2016: Control is better
Issue 09 / 2016: Agr Int. to display the CrystalView system for managing PET bottle crystallinity
Issue 07 / 2016: Agr international opens centre in Italy
Issue 03 / 2016: Inspection: Bottle control
Issue 09 / 2015: Test equipment for PET – inspired by glass bottle manufacturing
Issue 03 / 2015: Light weighting and quality control
Issue 12 / 2014: Management of CO₂ and water loss
Issue 04 / 2014: Improved shelf-life estimates
Issue 12 / 2014: Talks at Pack Expo 2015
Issue 01 / 2014: Looking into the crystal ball
Issue 10 / 2013: Peanut butter jar gets the vision treatment
Issue 09 / 2013: Better management
Issue 07 / 2013: Management, measurement and quality
Issue 09 / 2012: New inspection capabiility
Issue 07 / 2012: Agr offering Six Sigma
Issue 04 / 2012: Profiler gauges
Issue 04 / 2012: Agr provides an inside view
Issue 03 / 2012: Vision inspection products for plastic containers

External links

Agr International Website

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Preform production	Acme Disys Agr International Ahmisa Industries Limited Alpla ALSAD AMD Group Bahubali Group BMB Caiba Cantoni CanNeed CCT Chen Hsong Machinery Chemco COMPETEK Concordia Development Cypet Demark DOLOOP Dong-A Electra Form Industries Encore Custom Preforms Ltd. ENPI GROUP EPITOME Eskapet Esterform Packaging Etalon Europlast FlexBlow Fresh PET Frystal PET FUTURE PLAST Genoa Plastic Industries GS4PLASTIC GDXL Gulf Packaging Guozhu Group Hallink Hodmeter Hokkan Indonesia Husky Injection Molding Systems Huayan Huiyuan IMD Intergulf Ltd. IntraPac Kiefer Werkzeugbau Kirin Kisan Köksan A.S. Kronce Enterprise Development Lanfranchi LEO Precision Products Luxber Manjushree Technopack Meccanoplastica MHT Mold & Hotrunner Technology Milacron Moldintec M. Tanner National Group National Polyplast India Limited Netstal New Modern Plast New Thinking Mold Ngoc Nghia Industry Nishant Mouldings Nissei ASB OCTAL Otto Hofstetter Otto Systems AG P + S Technology Pass Card Co. Ltd. Parle Agro

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Inspection	Agr International Allvig And & Or Antares Vision Group AVID Corporation BMT Eckel & Sohn DAUSCH Delta Engineering FILTEC Fogg Filler HEUFT Intravis KHS IMD Miho MULLER Nordson Pressco PROMEC Sacmi SIKORA Sprana Torus TrinamiX Unisensor LIESE

Events	All4Pack ArabPlast Brau Beviale China Brew & Beverage drinktec Drink technology India Fakuma Gulfood Manufacturing Petcore Europe Conference PRS Plastics Recycling Show

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