Bag-in-Box on the road to success since ancient times
It's hard to believe that the basic principle of Bag-in-Box (BiB) packaging is now hundreds of years old. Even in ancient times the ancient Greeks stored their wine in sealed goat skins. The actual moment of creation of the Bag-in-Box packaging lies rather sooner in 1955.
At that time the American chemist William R. Scholle invented the liquid container. It was Scholle's intention to transport liquids safely and in a space-saving manner. For this purpose he initially filled the liquid in pouches made from composite foil material. To these he additionally provided a type of valve through which the bottled liquids could be easily removed, or rather poured from a tap. In order to stabilise the transportation bags that were still fragile, Scholle surrounded them with corrugated cardboard cartons.
Perfect quality thanks to ideal packaging
Today, still water, juices and wine, amongst other items, are offered to the end-user and professional sector in BiB containers. Even concentrates, cooking oils and ready-made sauces such as ketchup, mayonnaise, tomato puree and olive oil are now bottled in practical Bag-in-Box packaging. Away from the food industry, numerous companies in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries are also benefitting from the advantages of BiB packaging. So that the quality of the liquids intended for consumption is retained for as long as possible from the start, they are vacuum-packed. This has the additional advantage that they pour out of the tap free from additives. If the foil pouch is empty it simply stays like a deflated balloon - a thin packaging wrapper.
70 percent Bag-in-Box wine Down Under
About 60 years after being invented, BIB packaging is on the advance worldwide. It conquered the Australian wine market long ago. Now some 70 percent of Australian wine is offered in Bag-in-Box containers Down Under.
A trend that is also strongly taking hold in Germany as its advantages outweigh bottle filling for example. In excluding air the shelf-life is extended so that no overexposed wine has to be disposed of and wasted: every drop lands in the customer's glass. In addition, the purchase of wine in Bag-in-Box containers is also significantly lower priced: compared with a 0.75 litre bottle which costs approximately 2 Euros, the saving is about 50 percent in comparison to a 10 litre BiB container (standard size in the professional sector).