Collapsible household containers having a foldable wall section with shape-retaining characteristics are disclosed. In particular, collapsible laundry baskets, buckets, colanders, dish drainers, and cups are provided. The folding region may include foldable tiers of a flexible material, each tier having at least one stable, relatively expanded position and at least one stable, relatively collapsed position; and an intervening, non-folding tier composed of a different, relatively rigid material.

A method of making an article includes: heating a plaque formed from a thermoplastic composition; and vacuum forming the heated plaque to form the article. The thermoplastic composition includes a polypropylene polymer component and a fiber reinforcement component. The heating is implemented using one or more heaters having a maximum temperature output of between 1500-3000 C. and maximum intensity between 0.80 m and 2 m. The article may include a surgical tray having a bottom surface having side walls disposed around a periphery thereof and extending from the bottom surface.

Collapsible household containers having a foldable wall section with shape-retaining characteristics are disclosed. In particular, collapsible laundry baskets, buckets, colanders, dish drainers, and cups are provided. The folding region may include foldable tiers of a flexible material, each tier having at least one stable, relatively expanded position and at least one stable, relatively collapsed position; and an intervening, non-folding tier composed of a different, relatively rigid material.

The invention herein is related to the recycling industry in general, it is specifically related to a plastic container, preferably made of PET (polyethylene terephthalate), which can be molded, preferably, through blown air, defined by a back face, a front face, two lateral face, a lower face and an upper face, the multipurpose jaba-type agricultural container, and its manufacturing process, is cut manually or with a machine, and the front face is removed, to define an internal cavity and form the jabs-type container defined by a back wall and four perimeter walls, it has enough resistance to hold the weight of the products it contains, it also has a perimeter tab, on the external face of the lower edge, which allows the vertical stacking of several containers, with enough strength to evenly fold the weight, when being stacked, such container also contains several vertical ribs on the perimeter walls, and a main perimeter rib used as reinforcement elements, as well as holes on the sides that allow the release of gas generated by the products inside the container.

Collapsible household containers having a foldable wall section with shape-retaining characteristics are disclosed. In particular, collapsible laundry baskets, buckets, colanders, dish drainers, and cups are provided. The folding region may include foldable tiers of a flexible material, each tier having at least one stable, relatively expanded position and at least one stable, relatively collapsed position; and an intervening, non-folding tier composed of a different, relatively rigid material.

A container for food products is defined by a cup-shaped basket, which is made of a first polymeric material, and is provided with a gripping handle connected to the basket in rotary manner by means of two coupling elements, which are made of a second polymeric material, and are welded to the basket itself.

An apparatus for forming a plastic shopping basket body is provided, the basket body comprising at least three side walls. The apparatus comprises a plurality of mould sides, one per side wall of the basket body, each mould side including a form insert panel to mould the relevant side wall with customer-specific formations and/or apertures, the form insert panels being (readily) interchangeable to enable a plurality of basket bodies to be moulded with different customer-specific formations and/or apertures, for a plurality of different customers. In an embodiment, the customer-specific formations include branding and/or logos, and the customer-specific apertures include the shape, configuration and pattern of apertures defined in the walls of the basket body that is specific or specifically assigned to a particular customer. The basket bodies may be moulded in different colours, so as to further distinguish the basket bodies of and between different customers.