Guala Closures & MGJ Launch New Range of Liners

28 Nov 2014 --- The world’s leading producers of aluminium closures and liners for wine have joined forces to launch a new range of liners with different levels of oxygen permeability rates.

Guala Closures Group and Lyon-based MGJ have worked for the last two years to develop the Oenoseal branded technology which extends across all the Guala Closures screwcap family for wines. The range currently comprises:

- Oenoseal ONYX - with an aluminium layer to ensure maximum impermeability to oxygen. Designed for delicate white wines and aromatic rosés, with a liner that better ensures sulphite-free wines.

- Oenoseal IVORY - ideal for white, rosé and red wines that require a low, but regular, supply of oxygen. Specifically enables the amount of free SO2 to be reduced when bottling.

- Oenoseal CORAL - designed for white, rosé and red wines which require a more significant supply of oxygen and enables the avoidance of reduction problems for wines with high tannin levels.

“Not only can producers now take advantage of the wide and readily available range of screwcaps that we offer under our Wine Developers platform - including all the branding customization that our patented technology allows - but they can now also select the exact liner for the exact wine. And all without changing the settings on their bottling lines,” comments Marco Giovannini, CEO and Chairman at Guala Closures Group. “We’ve taken our time to make sure the Wine Developers concept is just right and offers the high performance that our customers have come to expect from our screwcaps for wine.”

Founded in Italy in 1954, Guala Closures Group is the global leader in the production of non-refillable and aluminium closures for wines and spirits and now has 25 manufacturing plants around the world. The company has always placed great emphasis on design, research and development and now has the widest portfolio of any screwcap manufacturer, including the WAK, Viiva and Savin Premium. Guala Closures also has a fully accredited sustainability programme in place and last year off set the CO2 emissions on the production of 1 billion screwcaps.

Based near Lyon, the heart of the Beaujolais winemaking region, MGJ designs and manufactures seals for applications in the cosmetics, pharmaceutical, food-processing and chemical industries. They are also pioneers in the field of liners for screwcaps, and is the leading producers of liners for caps in the wine market.