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'Fun' closure a production problem solver

It’s not just its carriers and cases that are innovative. Solomon Wine Co. has topped its Muse-brand bottles with Zork closures from Zork USA, a division of Portola Packaging, Inc. (www.portpack.com).

Pw 6396 Muse Sb Cork

It’s the winery’s first use of the closures, which are custom-printed with the Muse logo.

The Zork closure system looks like a screw cap and pops like a cork. It features a distinctive corkscrew swirl-contoured, tear-away neck band, a tamper-evident metal cap, and an inner foil oxygen barrier.

Solomon president Scott Heron explains that the Zork makes the bottles easy to open and reseal, and removed any risk of taint the company had with its previous natural cork seal. “Our previous vintage used a T-cork covered with a polyvinyl chloride capsule and shrunk. These were added production steps that were awkward,” he says. “As brand sales increased, it became more difficult to get high-speed production and efficiencies from the [portable contract] bottling line. So the Zork solves several things on the production side including easy insertion. We get a better overall seal, and our bottle sparge is maintained. We have greater product integrity for a longer period of time.”

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