KeyKeg single-use recyclable plastic keg—VINOVIUM PARTNERS

Austin, Texas-based Vinovium Partners, a regional wine négociant, has announced the provision of a number fine wines in 20-liter kegs on the market to restaurants, bars, caterers, casinos, concessionaires, and cruise-ship companies inside the United States.

In its quest to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of bringing wine from wineries to customers, Vinovium Partners has partnered with the Netherlands-based makers of the KeyKeg, a single-use, 100% recyclable plastic keg that gives numerous advantages for wine buyers and servers. In keeping with company press materials, these advantages include:

• Less Product Spoilage and Waste: For the reason that wine is contained in a commercial-quality pouch sealed throughout the keg, wine is protected against the exposure to light and particularly air that may compromise the standard of wine. Whereas an opened bottle of wine have to be consumed within days, wine in a KeyKeg can stay fresh for no less than six months after first opened.

• Ease of Use: The kegs include a reusable quick connect / disconnect stainless-steel coupler that works with the CO2 systems already in use in lots of restaurants and bars, or with a hand pump (ideal for caterers and off-site wine service); nitrogen or oxygen replacement isn't required. The KeyKeg design features a stable foot flange and a heavy duty, recyclable plastic collar that permits as much as three kegs to be stacked on top of each other without risking stability.

• Ease of Logistics: For the reason that KeyKegs are ONE HUNDRED PC recyclable, there’s little need store, clean and sterilize, or return empty kegs. The kegs are simply flattened and dropped off any recycling location accepting plastics.

• Less Cupboard space Required: Each keg carries the equivalent of 26 standard 750-ml bottles of wine, with a smaller cubic volume than two bottled-and-boxed cases of wine.

• Less Waste (by Weight and Volume): An emptied keg and its coupler weigh just 2.4 pounds; when empty, the heavy duty plastic collar is instantly unscrewed and the keg itself easily flattened for 100% recyclability at any recycling station that accepts plastics. By contrast, the glass and corrugated required to package the 5.2 gallons of wine contained in a KeyKeg weighs nearly 30 pounds and takes up way more cubic space when disposed of than an empty, flattened KeyKeg.

Vinovium Partners, founded in 2012 with a watch toward nationwide distribution from its inception, can be introducing additional high quality, value-priced wines in alternative environmentally-friendly packaging types.

For more information, visit www.vinoviumpartners.com. 

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