Labelling 750 Bottles Of 'Worcester College Apple & Pear Juice'

1 of 2 metal cages full of juice filled bottles

This year's fruit harvest from the college orchard have been pressed and the result, 750 bottles of 'Worcester College Apple & Pear Juice' that now need to be shrink band wrapped, labelled and boxed. 

Ready for shrink band wrapping and labelling

Preparing the boxes

Bottles waiting to be shrink wrapped

White shrink band wraps

Kieron, Peter and Ali spent the morning at Waterperry Gardens working together to process the bottles. First each bottle was placed into the heated shrink banding machine to heat seal a white shrink wrap band around the cap and neck. The banded bottles were placed into trays, loaded onto a small trolley and wheeled over to the labelling machine for the large label to be struck on to the front of the bottles. 

Into the heat

Trolley over to the labelling machine

Labelling

Main front label going on to the bottle

Small 'Best Before' label

With the large label on the front of the bottle, a much smaller label, 'Best Before Dec 2018', was manually stuck on to the back of the bottle. Fifteen bottles were placed into each box and sealed shut with tape. The juice will be on sale to the students, staff and alumni during the last three weeks of the current Michaelmas term.

Labelling and ready for boxing

A full box of 15 bottles

Ready for storage