Wine In Portable, Single-Serve Packaging
After a break of 3 months, I finally found my enthusiasm for packaging technology returning. To my readers, who worried about this 3 months silence and contacted me to stimulate […]
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Highlighting Flexible Packaging
According to Euromonitor stand-up pouches are and will be up to 2017, one of the fastest growing packaging formats. In favour of the pouch is its lighter weight, compared with […]
Movements in Packaging for Alcoholic Drinks
With the running up to the holidays, it is time to have a look at the recent developments in packaging for alcoholic beverages. From strong to watery. Triple Crown Whiskey […]
Five New Packaging Innovations 07
From the UK/Australia – Chocolate tray dissolves in water The tray of Marks & Spencer’s new packaging for its entire Swiss Chocolate Collection is made from Plantic, a material made […]
Five New Packaging Innovations 02
It looks like that 2010 will be a very fruitful year for development in packaging technology and design. I have an enormous number of innovations from all over the world […]
Five New Packaging Innovations 01
From the USA – The Smart Bottle To turn heads, you need to be different. That’s the introduction phrase Exopack uses on its website, to provide, as they state, a […]
Wine Bottle Closures – Natural Cork versus Alu Screw Cap (part 3)
As I said Corticeira Amorim is not the only one with innovations in natural cork stoppers. Bacchus Wine Closures in partnership with Álvaro Coelho & Irmãos (ACI), the second largest […]
Wine Bottle Closures – Natural Cork versus Alu Screw Cap (part 2)
Cork is harvested for commercial use primarily from the cork oak (Quercus suber) that is endemic to the western Mediterranean countries. Once the trees are about 25 years old the […]
Wine Bottle Closures – Natural Cork versus Alu Screw Cap
Consumer packaged goods companies are forced to re-evaluate packaging formats and materials, as products and their packaging are inextricably linked to the trends taking place within the consumption habits. At […]
Wine in a Ready-to-Drink Glass
Attracting new consumers is crucial for winemakers, as consumption has been declining in most mature markets. And so the ubiquitous 750-milliliter glass wine bottle has gotten competition from new types […]
The 2009 Packaging ‘Goofies’ From Around The World
Are the packages I describe here, the result of some idiotic, stupid and incompetent designers? No, not at all, on the contrary. I just used the word ‘goofy’ to catch […]
A Touch of Class Enters the Boxed Wine Category
In the beverage alcohol market it is wine which is the primary growth driver, while at the same time the wine industry’s low margins and commodity market dynamics have made […]
An Exotic Change of Scenery
A major player on the highly competitive Finnish wine market, the Franco-British wine dealer and producer, Boutinot, introduced its two South-African Seriti wines in a distinctive exotic style. The Seriti […]
Aluminium Bottles for Wine adding Value to the Drinking Experience
In a recent study conducted by Owens-Illinois which polled nearly 150 wineries in the USA, glass was still the highest used packaging material with 99-100% of the wineries still using […]
Evolution of Wine in Bag-in-Box
Wine always had the areola of belonging to people with a sophisticated life style, a little snobbish maybe. Certainly snobbish, when you read the lyrical descriptions of the so-called wine […]
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