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Sustainable Packaging
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Innovation galore in wine category
The once stodgy wine industry is currently awash in packaging innovation (see page 44). Few of these novel packs are more unusual than the 2-L stand-up pouch shown here with an integral handle up top and dispensing spigot at the bottom. PW spotted it in the May issue of South Africa’s Packaging and Print Media, where editor Gill Loubser was kind enough to "share" it with us.
August 9, 2007
Wine: Page 20
Beverage
Topped off by lady luck
There is a saying that you make your own luck, but sometimes it just happens, as this example shows from Tom O’Brien, purchasing manager, White Rocket Wine Co., Napa, CA:
July 11, 2007
Sustainable Packaging
Sustainability news & events
Noteworthy Items Gleaned From World News
July 11, 2007
Beverage
Round container semi-automatic labeler
Simply place any cylindrical container into this labeler and it dispenses and applies a label. Works with small and large diameter containers, bottles, jars, even tapered cups.
June 25, 2007
Beverage
Target VP: experiences inspire great design
Compelling design gives consumers what they want before they know they want it, says Minda Gralnek, vice president and creative director for Target Stores. Target and SuperTarget reflect this philosophy in the design of store brands, and the company’s recent development of the Wine Cube carton offers one example of this thinking.
June 11, 2007
Closures
High-style glass wine bottles
Australian vintner Angove has repackaged its Nine Vines rose wines in premium 750-mL flint glass bottles supplied by O-I (www.o-i.com), with metal screw caps from AusCap (www.auscap.net) and pressure-sensitive labels provided by Collotype (www.collotype.com).
June 11, 2007
Beverage
Controversy over U.K. wine health warnings
"Jacques Chirac, chief detractor of eating in Britain, would lead the laughter," says food critic Egon Ronay, regarding the move to put health warnings on wine labels
May 31, 2007
Beverage
South Africa's poor hit with counterfeit food
Poor people in outlying and rural areas of South Africa are seeing a growing number of fake food products.
May 31, 2007
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Labelers to gather in São Paulo
Label Summit Latin America, taking place May 15-17 in São Paulo, Brazil, will bring local and regional label printers together.
May 31, 2007
Containers
In China, wine is fine
Wine imports surged by 91 percent in the first nine months of 2006, sources say.
May 31, 2007
Sustainable Packaging
Also in France, bag-in-box wine making inroads
The traditionally conservative French wine market is beginning to accept bag-in-box wine packaging.
May 31, 2007
Beverage
In France, viva la glass packaging
It's no surprise: The wine and champagne industry is the largest end-user of French glass packaging. That makes packaging the largest sector of the glass industry in France.
May 31, 2007
Beverage
U.S. and Italy working together on new Norwegian-inspired wine bottle design
With help from Italian glass manufacturers, ultra modern wine bottle designs will soon join screw caps in the search for shelf impact in the U.S. wine market, according to a California-based package design firm.
May 31, 2007
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Charcoal Activated Recyclable Cork Stopper
Estal’s Corkcoal cork and activated charcoal stopper, ideal for the wine and spirits industries, is available in three styles: sharp, barrel, and cornice and in sizes 21.5 mm and 18.5 mm.
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Ardagh Group: Single-serve glass wine bottle
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