French OYONNAX news (July 21, 2009) plastic fracture prevention property is an advantage for most applications, but not for ampoules requiring breaking bottlenecks. Now, the French S plastics processors riplast company has developed a new technology, the use of polypropylene (PP) makes the ray ampoule bottleneck is brittle and not in the "broken" bottleneck when the ampoule bottle is split into sharp pieces of glass.

The newly developed S ampoule riplast company located in the neck between the ampoule head and shoulders with a circular die casting gap. Then, the company uses selective beta - rays to cut the polymer chain, thereby embrittlement in areas around these gaps through specially selected PP materials.

This process of radiation treatment is integrated into the process of production and logistics. After molding, the printed ampoule was wrapped on the cardboard box and sent to the Beta Gamma Service company (BSG) factory, Germany, which is located 500 kilometers away from Oyonnax, France, to receive radiation treatment. It was processed by Bruchsal. According to the S riplast company headquartered in Oyonnax founder and owner Andr Tartaglione said, where the ampoule bottle will be exposed to low levels of beta ray "a few minutes".

This new PP ampoule provides a different size of 1.5 - 11ml, with a lower sharpness than a glass, which will not cause fragmentation, thereby reducing the risk of harm to people. It is said that this product is also easier to fill in, and when needed, the broken ampoule head is closed with the bottle neck.

Tartaglione believes that the new ampoules have the potential to be used for other uses, such as food products, to make it easier to open.