Aluminium closures / screwcaps - a sustainable choice for sealing wines / great marketing potential

Interview @ Mundus Vini about the utility of screwcaps / aluminium closures - the sustainability aspects and potential for marketing and branding of wines. Here we had the unique opportunity to speak with the veteran wine connaisseur, Paul Blom, of Schermer Wijnkopers - Distillateurs from the Netherlands.


The Aluminium Closures Group is an initative launched by the leading European manufacturers of aluminium closures and supported by the manufactures of aluminium strip and sheet for closures. Our members represent about 75% of global alu closure production.

This is the international body representing companies engaged in the rolling and rewinding of alufoil and in the manufacture of aluminium closures and alufoil containers as well as of all kind of flexible packaging. Its more than 100 member companies are based in Western, Central and Eastern Europe. Founded in 1974, it has its roots in associations which date back to the 1920s.