It’s not easy to get to the town of Iveland in Norway, which is 30 miles north of the southern port of Kristiansand. But that’s where Oslo-based Voss of Norway’s bottling plant is located, near the source of its ultrapure water. And it’s where the company’s heavy, cylindrical glass bottles end up after traveling a circuitous international path that begins in Ireland where they are produced.
Blown in 375- and 750-mL sizes that weigh 390 and 540g respectively, the bottles were trucked to Ireland’s west coast and shipped to coastal England from where they were trucked inland for decoration by applied ceramic labeling. Once decorated, the bottles were returned to England’s west coast and sent aboard ship destined for Norway’s southern coast and then on to the plant.
