Rope
01-21-2005, 03:18 AM
Dave Emerson spoke:
> IIRC there was a bit of a storm in the packaging industry when Cresta ("It's
> frothy man" - 19 was launched (1970?) as it came in revolutionary thin glass
> bottles. The downside being that the process they used prevented the glass
> being recycled.
>
> Nowadays many glass bottles/jars use this (or similar) process.
Cobblers - in the 1970s, in answer to the threat from the use of plastics to
save weight - particularly on airlines/duty-free, they started making much
thinner wines & spirits bottles, in the same factory, on the same process
lines. Only difference was the shape and speed of cooling.
Interesting fact #397
The bobbles on the bottom of glass bottles was introduced to deter dockers
thieving whiskey. They would pick away at the weak-point where the base
mould-mark is and hang hot water bottles under the bottles to catch the liquor
as it drained away.
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Rob_P
UKRM(at)indqualtec.co.uk
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> IIRC there was a bit of a storm in the packaging industry when Cresta ("It's
> frothy man" - 19 was launched (1970?) as it came in revolutionary thin glass
> bottles. The downside being that the process they used prevented the glass
> being recycled.
>
> Nowadays many glass bottles/jars use this (or similar) process.
Cobblers - in the 1970s, in answer to the threat from the use of plastics to
save weight - particularly on airlines/duty-free, they started making much
thinner wines & spirits bottles, in the same factory, on the same process
lines. Only difference was the shape and speed of cooling.
Interesting fact #397
The bobbles on the bottom of glass bottles was introduced to deter dockers
thieving whiskey. They would pick away at the weak-point where the base
mould-mark is and hang hot water bottles under the bottles to catch the liquor
as it drained away.
--
Rob_P
UKRM(at)indqualtec.co.uk
uppercase(d) BBIWYMC#1 BOG#11? MRO#31 IBCDBBB#1(kotl)
FJ1200, CCM130
Rebel without a clue