Pheonix Closures, Inc.
Injection Molded Closures

Phoenix Closures is a full-service manufacturing firm specializing in injection-molded closures. Since 1890 Phoenix Closures has grown its business based upon “continuous improvement through comprehensive service and technical excellence.” To uphold their technical excellence on the design and engineering side, Phoenix Closures uses SolidWorks CAD software.

Closure with heavier construction used for special applications where saftey and/or drop test scores might be important.

As part of the packaging industry Phoenix Closures serves the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, automotive, health and beauty markets. Examples of products the company has designed and manufactured include custom milk caps for Dean Foods Milk Chugs, Land O’ Lakes Grip N’ Go milk, as well as custom closures with the AccuSeal™ sealing system for Nestle’s Nestea and Nescafe Frothe.

Phoenix Closures designs its products in SolidWorks now, but had previously used AutoCAD. When looking to switch from AutoCAD, the company considered Inventor, Solid Edge, and Pro/E in addition to SolidWorks. Based upon recommendations from others as well as from their own research, they ultimately chose SolidWorks. “The eDrawing feature was a great selling point, in addition to the user-friendly aspect of SolidWorks,” Bridget Zemlo, Engineer, explains.

SolidWorks is used for the product design of the company’s closures and containers, as well as its machine and mechanical parts. Zemlo says the tool has been “extremely useful,” not only to engineering and design but also sales and marketing. “We can email eDrawings of the SolidWorks designs to the salespeople and our customers. Since they can rotate and move the design they get a much better feel for its capabilities than what they could see on a hardcopy,” she attests. SolidWorks has improved the efficiency and quality of their product development process.

Phoenix Closures credits their success with SolidWorks in part to their reseller. “Graphics Systems has been extremely helpful and very quick to respond to any questions we had,” Zemlo affirms. Between Zemlo and her co-worker, Darren Nickerson, one attends almost every SolidWorkout—Graphics Systems’ free monthly technical sessions. “We findthe SolidWorkouts valuable,” she declares. “Even if the topic doesn’t relate precisely to us, we can go and ask questions pertaining particularly to our designs.”

Design Gallery

Standard closure with continuous thread. Available in various sizes from 22mm to 120mm.	Closure designed to fit a specific bottle finish.
Closure with reverse side taper.	Volcano Bottle. Phoenix Closures is often asked to design matching containers and container finishes in addition to closures.