Manufacturing
Made in Washington: Liberty Bottleworks
Our photographer visits the Yakima-based environmentally sustainable bottle manufacturer.
By Navid Baraty February 14, 2018
This article appears in print in the February 2018 issue. Click here for a free subscription.
In Union Gap, just outside Yakima, Liberty Bottleworks manufactures the only completely customizable recycled-aluminum water bottles made in America.
Founded in 2010, Liberty believes that environmentally sustainable manufacturing can take place in the United States.
To date, it has made more than 1.5 million reusable bottles, shipping them all over the world and doing its part to reduce usage of disposable plastic water bottles.
In the large photo, gleaming metal bottles wait to be powder coated inside and out. Above left, Libertys proprietary outserts attach to bottle necks as anchors for the capping system.
Above center, bottles travel a conveyor from the internal powder coat oven to the external powder coat oven. Above right, an assortment of marbled caps spans the spectrum so that no two are alike.
Scroll through bonus photos from the shoot at GM Nameplate below, or click through the slideshow above. See more Made in Washington photo galleries here.
