Leading glass manufacturer Beatson Clark will be showing off its range of beer bottles and talking to brewers about its design services at BeerX in March.

BeerX, the annual conference of SIBA, the Society of Independent Brewers, takes place from 11th to 15th March at Ice Sheffield, just a few miles from Beatson Clark’s factory in nearby Rotherham.

Beatson Clark will be exhibiting at the event for the first time on 12th and 13th March. The company manufactures bottles for breweries including Sam Smiths, Robinson’s, Meantime and Brooklyn Brewery in New York.

It will be exhibiting a number of new bespoke and standard beer bottles and explaining how it can offer bespoke packaging at a reduced cost.

“This will be our first appearance at BeerX and we’re really looking forward to speaking to the breweries and showing them the wide range of beer bottles we offer,” said Charlotte Taylor, Marketing Manager at Beatson Clark.

“Our in-house design team can create bespoke bottles for customers, but if budgets are tight or production volumes are too low to justify a completely new design we can also add embossing to a standard design to create a unique bottle.

“The possibilities are endless and we would urge breweries to talk to us about how we can add value and really make their beers stand out on shelf.”

BeerX also features the SIBA AGM, seminars on brewing, the National Brewing Awards and the Brewing Business Awards.

Speakers will include:

• Nicky Morgan MP, Economic Secretary to the Treasury
• Tim Martin, founder of JD Wetherspoon
• Dr Charlie Bamforth, from University of California, Davis
• Steve Grossman from the Sierra Nevada Brewing Company

To find out more visit www.beerx.org

Notes to editors:

• Beatson Clark specialises in providing glass packaging solutions for niche brands in the food, drink and pharmaceutical markets worldwide. The key to its success has been flexibility, innovation and the high quality of its containers.

• Beatson Clark’s customers are at the core of its business and the company is proud of the long-standing partnerships it has developed thanks to the outstanding level of service it offers.

• Beatson Clark has a turnover of £44 million and a production capacity of approximately 496 million units or 88,000 tonnes.

• It has ISO 9001:2000, BRC/IOP Food Packaging Hygiene Standard and OHSAS 18001:1999 Occupational Health & Safety Standard and its manufacturing capability has an emphasis on flexibility to facilitate short tailored production runs. It has a UK distribution centre located in Rotherham.

• The Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) was formed in 1980 as the Small Independent Brewers’ Association to represent the interests of the emerging new wave of microbrewers.

• Renamed in 1995, SIBA is now one of the most authoritative and respected bodies in the brewing industry.

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