This market segment has the following specific feature: 97% of the collected glass comprises unbroken glass containers which, after cleaning and disinfection, are reused as packages for juices, beverages, etc. The remaining 3% of the collected glass (glass scrap) is used as source materials for glass industry. Taking into account the fact that the proportion of recycled glass reaches 20% and that the total amount of glass collected in 2009 was 3,277.2 thousand tons, in 2009 the recycled glass made up 655.4 thousand tons.

During last 10 years food processing industry was intensively increasing consumption of plastic, cardboard and aluminum package on the background of relative decrease of glass container consumption. Yet recent trend is gradual recover of interest to traditional glass package, inarguable advantages of which are correspondence to sanitary norms, usage of natural raw materials, see-through features, no interaction with content, and wide diversity of design and types.

A new high-speed bottling line at Stone Hill Winery includes a monobloc rinser/filler/capper/corker and is one of the few lines in the U.S. that applies screw caps to high-quality wines.

Sustainable packaging’ is getting a lot of attention. But what does it mean, and how can it appeal to consumers?

Finest Swiss spirits from Lateltin Lanz Ingold in PET bottles from kavo by greiner packaging