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PACKAGING
Packaging
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single and individually-custom-
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ised small lots. It’s very fast and
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unlimited in colour, design and/
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or 3D-effects. A very trendy and
cost-effective decoration process
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is the so-called ‘relief lettering’
which will give bottles a relief
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effect via application of a transpar-
ent material. In sum, there’s a
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nigh infinite variety of decoration
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options, all of which can be chosen
to enhance the beauty of bottles
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and so rendering them unique.
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SOME FACTS
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3 in-house decoration facilities

in France, Poland and UK
370 mio decorated bottles per year

~500 employees (working in

decoration) O

Quali Glass coat 2.0 will show off resemble carbon, ice, concrete
such changing Stoelzle-patented or velvet - thus gaining not only
colours as night colour schemes. visually but also in terms of tac-
Tigital technology brings yet tile appeal. To say more here: a
another powder-based decora- metallic finish can be achieved, as
tion, allowing for the realisation well as gradient colours, crackled
of photo-realistic artworks while or glitter effects.
saving 85 percent in CO emis-
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sions as compared with classic ENHANCED PRINTING
screen printing - a technique Printing on square containers
that’s well-suited for very small is no longer limited to one side of
lots and will allow for a high level bottles alone. Now it can also be
of flexibility. done across sharp edges - there-
by creating a 360° all-round vis-
EFFECT LACQUERING ual. Here there’s Quadrichromie,
Other standard processes, a CMYK print performed on
such as lacquering, have been a screen-printing basis, which
developed to achieve some stun- achieves fine, detailed artworks
ning new effects. Here bottles with photorealistic looks. Digital
can be sprayed, for example, to printing is a super option for

ABOUT STOELZLE GLASS GROUP STOELZLE

Fabrikstrasse 11
The Stoelzle Glass Group is a family-run company with six European production plants, another in 8580 Köflach - Austria
the US, and three decoration sites. The group has been producing high-quality glass packaging for the Tel.: +43-3144-706
spirits, pharmaceutical, perfumery & cosmetics, food & beverage sectors for over 200 years now. Here Fax: +43-3144-706251
Stoelzle covers all areas from product development, production, decoration to the delivery of closures. E-mail: office@stoelzle.com
www.stoelzle.com

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