Made in Mississauga: We Blow Our Own Bottles and Distil Our Own Water
We make our own bottles. Most water companies do not.
Most companies selling water in the GTA buy their bottles from someone else. Plenty of them buy their water from someone else too, and put a label on it.
We do neither. Our 3 gallon and 5 gallon bottles are blow moulded at our plant on Verbena Road in Mississauga, and our distilled water is made in the same building. Canadian owned, family run, in Mississauga since 1986.
That is an unusual thing to be able to say, so it is worth being precise about what it covers and what it does not.
What we make ourselves
The bottles. We blow mould our own 3 gallon and 5 gallon PET bottles from virgin food grade resin. Not reground, not imported, not bought from a distributor and relabelled. The machine is ours and it runs forty minutes from most of our customers.
The water. Our distilled water starts as municipal water and goes through our own multi stage distillation process on site, tested between 0 and 5 PPM. Our spring water is Canadian sourced and bottled here.
The work. Our team is local, our trucks are ours, and the person who answers the phone is in the same building as the plant.
What we import, and why we say so
Not everything in a water business is made in Canada, and any supplier who tells you otherwise is worth a second question.
Caps are imported. We do not mould them. We buy them well, bring them in by the container, clear the customs, carry the currency risk and hold the stock in Mississauga. That is a service rather than an apology. A refill station cannot buy 660 caps from overseas, because it would have to buy a shipping container and wait eight weeks. Because we have already done that, it buys a case, in Canadian dollars, from a warehouse down the road.
A few other components arrive the same way. We would rather list them than write 100% Canadian across everything and hope nobody checks.
Why local manufacturing matters for empty bottles
Empty bottles are mostly air. A skid of them weighs very little and takes up a great deal of space, which makes them one of the more expensive things per pound to put on a truck. Freight on a pallet of empties can approach half the value of the goods themselves.
So proximity is not a marketing line for this product. It is the economics. A bottle manufacturer two provinces away can quote a lower price per bottle and still cost more delivered. An American supplier adds a border, a broker and an exchange rate on top.
Being in Mississauga is not sentiment. It is the reason we can be the cheapest delivered option for a GTA bottler or refill station, and the reason we are straight with anyone far enough away that we are not.
Shorter chains, fresher product, fewer surprises
Because the bottle and the water are made in the same building, there is no third party co packer in the middle. When something needs checking, one company is answerable. When a customer asks for lab analysis, it is ours to give.
It is better for the carbon maths too. Raw materials that travel by truck for a day beat raw materials that spend five weeks on a container ship, and our reusable bottle and recycling model keeps the same bottle in service for years rather than hours.
A family business since 1986
Puretap has been Canadian owned and family run for forty years. We started as a small local water delivery service in Mississauga and now serve families, offices, dental practices, refill stations and industrial customers across the Greater Toronto Area.
We deliver throughout Mississauga, Brampton, Oakville, Caledon, Etobicoke and the wider GTA, and pickup is free at 950 Verbena Road.
