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PACKAGING TRENDS AND INNOVATIONS

Packaging trends and innovations

From a luxury product to

an everyday item – the

victory of glass containers

Claudia Siegele

YGIENIC AND side of things, then glass is also our everyday lives, and not only
ENVIRONMENT- a winner here as well, allowing as glasses, bottles and food con-
HFRIENDLY CONTAINERS to create bottles of all sizes with tainers.
Glass containers are by far the unique and beautiful designs. Glass containers, in fact, fulfil
most hygienic and environment- Just consider a special din- a wide range of different require-
friendly receptacles for food ner in a smart restaurant, which ments. They can convey a spe-
and beverages, with glass being would be incomplete without cific image through their shape,
unparalleled in its ability to pre- delicate wine glasses and a fine they can make statements, and
serve the taste of the product. bottle of wine on the table. In they are hygienic. Food and bev-
And if we consider the aesthetics fact, glass is very much part of erages packaged in glass retain

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