Cool Stuff Being Made: Whirley Drinkware

Find out how Whirley Drinkware makes their plastic cups and jugs in this edition of Cool Stuff Being Made

Location: Warren, PA
Filmed: 2004
http://whirleydrinkworks.com/

Next time you take a sip from a plastic cup or bottle with a destination or product advertised on the side, check the bottom and see if it was made by Whirley Industries in Warren, Pennsylvania.

Their cups, mugs, and sports bottles come in a wide range of shapes and sizes for satisfying various degrees of thirst. Cartoon characters, amusement parks, zoos, and brands of coffee are just a few things colorfully represented on Whirley's products.

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[reducedeffort]

Excellent description of how cups are made.

[TheMrBlinx]

Great video. It's refreshing to see someone who knows what to say and how to say it.

[rsjumpers]

I am searching for the Mountain Dew and pepsi 64 oz cups in Wisconsin, we by them everytime we visit freinds in IL and cant find them locally I dont know if I can justify buying 250 of them butthey are great cups and are insulated better then any others I have found, I can put 1/3 cup of ice and get up the next morning with ice remaining in the cup, you make a great product. I hope to see more in Wisconsin

[MrChinchilla13]

@Sunclief yes it is and its just under 2 liters

[Hollrobb]

Toni has a nice hairstyle, I wonder if she;s had it for the past 40 years.

[BLUECHET]

i have several. i like them very much and when its hot i can drink 2 64oz of icewater a day. what a great invention. im searching for a 1000z tire tread bottom in clear blue.

[RebusValstay]

@Sunclief

I know they make a 100 ounce mug as I have several myself. I'm known at my work and at my university for carrying what it labeled as the "Mug O' Shame." But yeah, 100 ounces is the biggest travel mug that I know of that they happen to make. As it turns out I had to buy two from a gas station chain in Texas hill-country called CEFCO because my one mug died a terrible death. That said, the old mug lasted a good five years of constant use and abuse.

[Sunclief]

Is that a drinking mug? If it is it's huge.

How many litre's is it?