Bottle Tree Ranch

Pepsi bottler to construct Europe’s largest bottling factory, worth $150 million, in Romania

Pepsi bottling company is investing $150 million (euro105 million) to construct Europe’s largest bottling factory in Romania, officials said Monday.

The industrial unit will be located west of Bucharest, the capital of Romania, and will cover over 30,000 square meters. It will open on Sept.1, 2009.

In 2007, PepsiAmericas took over the group of Quadrant-Amroq Bottling QAB, a Pepsi producer and distributor in Romania.

The two production units for QAB Romania are in Bucharest and the other one in Covasna, in central Romania.

In Soviet communist rule, Pepsi was the only western soft drink that could be bought in Romania. Contender Coca Cola only appeared on the market in Romania after the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1989.

Pepsi Company announced previously this month it achieved an agreement to take over its two largest U.S. Pepsi bottlers, Pepsi Bottling Group and PepsiAmericas, in a $7.8 billion (euro5.45 billion) cash and stock deal.

PepsiAmericas sales were down upto 6 percent in the second quarter to $1.26 billion (euro880 million) compared with $1.34 billion in the same period a year before.

Bottle Inspection System

What's On The New Label

All nonprescription, over-the-counter (OTC) medicine labels have detailed usage and warning information so consumers can properly choose and use the products.

Below is an example of what the new OTC medicine label looks like.

* Active Ingredient: Therapeutic substance in product; amount of active ingredient per unit.
* Uses: Symptoms or diseases the product will treat or prevent.
* Warnings: When not to use the product; conditions that may require advice from a doctor before taking the product; possible interactions or side effects; when to stop taking the product and when to contact a doctor; if you are pregnant or breastfeeding, seek guidance from a health care professional; keep product out of children’s reach.
* Inactive Ingredients: Substances such as colors or flavors.
* Purpose: Product action or category (such as antihistamine, antacid, or cough suppressant.
* Directions: Specific age categories, how much to take, how to take, and how often and how long to take.
* Other Information: How to store the product properly and required information about certain ingredients (such as the amount of calcium, potassium, or sodium the product contains)

Labeling Requirements:

As a part of the registration process, the Department requires that a label for each brand, kind and size be submitted for approval prior to sale in the State of Maine. Labeling requirement are as follows:

* The deposit and refund value must not be less than 15 cents for wine and spirits, and 5 cents for all other beverages.

* On printed labels, the refund value and the word "Maine" or the abbreviation "ME" shall be clearly and conspicuously displayed on every beverage container using letters, numerals and symbols.

* The deposit logo must not be less than 1/8 inch high in clear and prominent typeface and a color contrasting with its background. The refund value shall not be indicated on the bottom of the container.

* On metal beverage containers the refund value and the word "Maine" or the abbreviation "ME" shall be embossed, incised, or printed clearly and conspicuously on the top of every beverage container using letters, numerals and symbols not less than 1/8 inch high.

* Additionally, if a manufacturer directly prints, embosses, or incises the Maine redemption value on the beverage container, the manufacturer or in the case of a private label, the brand owner must submit such labeled container, such as incised can or jet printed bottle to the Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources, Division of Quality Assurance and Regulations for approval. Placement suitability and security of the mark will be examined.

* With the exception of wine products, all beverage containers sold in the State of Maine shall bear a Universal Product Code (UPC) for that product.

* Beverages, when sold as a multi-pack unit, must have a UPC on each individual beverage container.

Collections of Bottles from 1800 to 1860

Types of bottles in the collection include: bitters, ale, beer, food, household items, ink, liquor, oil, patent medicine, perfumes, cosmetics, pharmacy medicine, snuff, soda water, wine, and champagne. The bottles assembled in this type collection are drawn from numerous extensive archaeological collections including Old Sacramento SHP, Fort Ross SHP, Columbia SHP, San Juan Bautista SHP, Old Town San Diego SHP, and Sonoma SHP.

Fernet-Branca Bitters:

This Fernet-Branca Bitters bottle was recovered from Columbia SHP; however, 18 additional shoulder seals have also been recovered in Old Sacramento SHP. The firm was founded in Milan in 1845 by the three brothers Giuseppe, Luigi and Stefano Branca. This bottle is made of olive glass, with a double ring on the finish and high push-up. The shoulder seal is embossed "FRATELLI BRANCA/MILANO."

Fleming's Export Pure Rye:

Bottle of Fleming's Export Rye is made of clear glass with a lady's-leg neck and an applied bead lip. Embossed on two sides is "FLEMING'S EXPORT PURE RYE//BOTTLED EXPRESSLY FOR FAMILY USE." Export Pure Rye is thought to have been manufactured by Joseph Fleming, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who was a druggist from 1856 to 1920.

Udolpho Wolfe's Schnapps:

This bottle of Udolpho Wolfe's Schnapps, a Holland medicinal gin, is made from dark olive green glass with a sloping-collar finish and is embossed with "VONTHOFEN'S/ SCHEIDAM/ S/ NAPPS./ TIC" on the body. Uldolpho and Joel Wolfe introduced their product to the American public prior to 1849. This bottle was recovered from Old Town San Diego SHP in 1984.

Jackson's Napa Soda Water:

Napa Soda Water was bottled at the site of natural springs in the Napa Valley, California. The springs

were discovered in 1853 and originally owned by John Henry Woods. Colonel John P. Jackson took ownership in 1872 after many court disputes. This bottle is made from clear glass with a sloping-collar finish and is embossed with "JACKSON'S NAPA SODA WATER" AND "NATURAL MINERAL WATER/CARBONATED/JACKSON'S/THIS BOTTLE IS NEVER SOLD".This bottle of Jackson's Napa Soda Water was recovered from Old Sacramento SHP in 1966.

Vaseline Chesebrough :

In 1859 chemist Robert Chesebrough was the first to extract the key ingredient of petroleum jelly, petrolatum, from a substance left on oil drill rigs. This jar of Vaseline Chesebrough is made from clear glass and embossed with "TRADE MARK/ VASELINE/ CHESEBROUGH/ NEW YORK".

Singer Sewing Machine Oil:

The first practical sewing machine was developed by Isaac Merrit Singer in Boston, Massachusetts, 1850. One year later, Singer and Edward B. Clark formed I.M. Singer & Company. In 1863 the company was incorporated as Singer Manufacturing Company. This bottle is rectangular, made of clear glass and embossed with the Singer "S" logo and "SINGER MANUFACTURING CO./TRADE MARK" on the front.

Soda Bottles

These bottles used in beer, mineral water, soft drinks, or fruit drinks. All of these bottles we call today "Deposit Bottles". Each bottle was the property of the bottler, and when you finished with the drink you where to return the bottle. There are five basic categories of these bottles, and each can easily be recognized by its shape, mostly by its top. An example of each is shown below. They are "Blob top", "Gravitating Stopper", "Crown top", "Hutch", and "Squat". The squats have two different types of tops: "Blob" (sometimes called "Pony"), and "Tapered Skirt"

Squat Blob o Pony

Squat Tapered Skirt

Hutch

Crown Top

Gravitating Stopper

Blob