PHARMA, HEALTHCARE & COSMETICS: STO SPOTLIGHT A 100ml custom
designed, distinctively classic shape branded through imaginative
decoration by STO for New Zealand male fragrance, Native
Beautiful glass for personal care Stölzle Flaconnage on producing high quality glass containers for the personal care and perfumery sectors
An ultra-heavyweight bottle enhanced with complex embossing requiring the most skilful moulding process
per cent increase of the decoration facility, plus a brand new Customer Centre, combine to bring an already efficient glass moulding and decoration company into the 21st century. Even in these difficult economic times, five lines of single and double gob machines operate to near capacity producing the high quality flint glass and feeder colour for which the company has an enviable reputation. Investment has continued. In
High quality products require high quality containers and glass has long been held a premium packaging medium: quality image, an inert material, impermeability, longevity, tactile benefits and, in expert hands, great potential for moulding.
S
tölzle Flaconnage, a member of the Stölzle Glass Group, are experts in
both custom design and standard glass containers for the prestige spirits, perfumery and personal care markets. There are four production sites in the Group: Austria, Poland, Czech Republic and the UK. Just over two years ago, STO
Flaconnage officially opened a multi-million pound upgrade of its Knottingley, West Yorkshire factory. A new furnace, a fifth production line, state-of-the-art decoration machinery and over 50
the decoration factory, a third spray line has been added dedicated to personal care. Stölzle Flaconnage has a spraying capacity of 750,000 bottles per week. The company also offers an automatic acid etching process for a high quality and competitive finish, and is the only UK factory able to hot foil stamp bottles. The enlargement of the
decoration facility has been justified by a doubling of the factory’s decorative turnover. Decoration has for some time been of high importance in the prestige spirits market, now STO sees it playing a strategic role in the development of personal care markets as clients increasingly focus on primary containers. Alongside this increasing
emphasis on decoration, STO has experienced a move by clients towards more difficult-to- produce custom designed bottles, such as Marcel, Scentini (right) and Grant’s 25 year old Scotch (above left). Such bottles dictate the necessity for increasingly sophisticated automatic inspection to meet
quality control standards, and STO have continued to invest in the cold end of the factory, installing upgraded automatic inspection machines on each of the five production lines. Moulding expertise and the
wide range of decoration possibilities they offer have brought STO a leading position in the production of both custom design and standard glass containers. STO has also gained a reputation for responding to client needs. In addition to decoration, the company offers a wide range of closures and other
key components, making the company a ‘one-stop-shop’. No wonder Stölzle Glass Group is the first choice for so many. The
www.stoelzle website gives full details of the Group and its work with perfumery, personal care
and healthcare.
Stölzle Flaconnage Ltd, Weeland Road, Knottingley, West Yorkshire, WF11 8AP Tel: 01977 607124 Fax: 01977 672879
sales.uk@
stoelzle.com www.stoelzle.com
Skilful moulding provides debossed bubbles and embossed brand name in 30ml custom designed bottle for Avon’s Scentini
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