You have a good point.

Aluminium screw caps can be formed and made on the bottle after it has been
filled. Or utilizing the same tooling approach used to make incandescent
light screw base but in reverse you can make tons of caps.
China may already have the tooling, outsourcing caps is not a problem.
Conversely, some Canadian and US companies already making plastic caps for
the food industries are already testing and working with major wineries to
produce an acceptable cap.

"Steve" wrote in message
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Because of the way that the screw caps are applied, I doubt that you
will see them.

Steve

On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 17:05:25 GMT, wrote:

The oak trees that provided the world with the finest cork are getting
very
old. As a result the quality of their bark used to make cork is not was
it
use to be. Some of those oak trees have been harvested for hundred of
years. The commercial wineries are well award of this and they are
gradually switching to aluminums screw caps to save guard the quality and
reputation of their wines.
Still some die hard people will not buy expensive wine with an aluminium
screw cap.
I am gradually switching to aluminium screw caps and seals. Over here I
can
only get the used 1 litre bottle with their original cap. The supply
store
are not yet carrying aluminums screw caps yet.