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the menu is extended by the spectrum of co- Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Croatia, Ukraine,
lours - clear, green, vetrogreen, cuvée, olive or Slovakia and recently in Moldova. Therefore,
brown. According to the glassworks, the latest it is successful in both, cooperation with small
trend in colour for winemakers is the uprising local companies, but also multinational cor-
cuveé glas melt (imagine something like olive porations operating in several countries and
drab) and the most common colour is olive. If processing several different products. Just for
winemakers demand exclusivity for selected example, Mr. Ladislav Darmovzal mentions the
wine lines, they can order bottles of up to 800 successful cooperation with the winery Les
grams. Thanks to modern technologies, glass Vignerons de la Vicomte in France, for which
brings other advantages - it is lighter, more a customer model of a VIGN-FIEF 750ml bottle
environmentally friendly, and cheaper. E.g., in cuvée glass is produced in Kyjov. If we re-

for the standard Burgunder wine bottle, the main in the wine bottles segment, Vetropack
weight has been reduced from the original Moravia Glass sells approximately 55 milli-
570 g to 435 g. These facts support the demand on bottles on the Czech market, and in total
for lightweight bottles, but place great de- all plants produce around 900 million wine
mands on designers, who must maintain their bottles.
strength and safety.
HOW CAN WE HANDLE IT ALL?
WE ARE AT HOME ALL OVER EUROPE At Vetropack, they invested in the interest
The traditional glasswork in Kyjov became of modernizing production, improving the
a part of the international group Vetropack working environment and, last but not least,
Holding AG since 1991 and can share expe- in the interest of environmental protection.
riences with other members of the group in „It is with the help of the holding that a huge
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