Luxury Packaging 2024 | Guala Closures

Tailor-made sophisticated and safe closures

Guala Closures has been guaranteeing product protection since the 1950s with its solutions, from the first patented non-refillable closure models to tamper-evident closures for the spirits market.

Today, 70 years later, the group operates throughout the world with 30 factories, where caps able to interpret market needs in terms of safety, design and material innovation and sustainability are produced. During Luxe Pack 2023, Simone Crivelli, group marketing manager of Guala Closures, gave us an overview of the new developments for the luxury sector.

«In the high added-value range of closures – the Luxury Choice – the use of numerous types of materials is notable, ranging from plastic to aluminium, from Zamak to ceramic. Guala Closure’s innovative solutions respond to the demands of the spirits market, but also other target markets, where safety closures and screw caps are prevalent, both for mineral water and for oil. In general, we have worked on the names and colours of the different closures so as to clearly define Gual’s identity and its offer for the different target markets»

Looking at sustainability and at future trends, Crivelli continues: «For Guala, sustainability has been an important issue since 2011 when we published our first Report, leading us along a path that will reach its peak in 2030, in the search for an ever-greater sustainability for our 30 plants throughout the world. It’s a theme very linked to future trends, in which we will see pressure to use sustainable and increasingly different materials of classic closures, with requests for particular customised and tailor-made solutions. In addition, there is a rapidly expanding growth in safety closures, a historic business for Guala, in India and China. Another segment that we are developing, also through awareness campaigns, is that of screw caps for wines & spirits, very well-known in various markets, especially Anglo-Saxon ones, but considered cheap by European markets, particularly Italy, France and Germany. This is despite the excellent barrier properties and the extensive customisation possibilities that this product allows ».