containerware

From container +‎ -ware.

containerware (uncountable)

1. Containers collectively.
   • 1945 February 24, Business Week, page 42:

     Two leading containerware companies, Owens-Illinois and Hazel-Atlas, and a leading noncontainer company, Corning Glass Works, uphold the Supreme Court’s decision in briefs replying to the government’s petition.

   • 1971, J I Biegeleisen, Screen Printing: A Contemporary Guide to the Technique of Screen Printing for Artists, Designers, and Craftsmen, New York, N.Y.: Watson-Guptill Publications; London: Evans Brothers Limited, →ISBN, page 142, column 2:

     Product identifications screen printed directly on bottles, jars, and other containers are rapidly replacing conventional labels. This is especially true of beverages, cosmetics, and household products packaged in glass or polyethylene containers. Screening on containerware has evolved into a distinct field of operation quite separate and apart from routine screen printing.

   • 1975, John Blunden, The Mineral Resources of Britain: A Study in Exploitation and Planning, London: Hutchinson & Co, →ISBN, page 299:

     Sands of lesser quality, suitable for coloured containerware, are also worked at Chelford and Congleton in Cheshire, Messingham in Lincolnshire and West Lothian in Scotland, all deposits which yield primarily foundry sands.

   • 1985, David Keith Cohler, Broadcast Journalism: A Guide for the Presentation of Radio and Television News, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., →ISBN, page 64:

     Earl Tupper, whose name became a household word because of the plastic containerware he marketed so successfully, died today in Costa Rica.

   • 1996, The Dictionary of Art, volume 12, Grove, →ISBN, page 783, column 1:

     The market, however, needed cheap, easy to produce, decorative containerware and the process had to become more complex in order to produce three-dimensional forms.