History the coffee cream covers

This history arranges the formation and development of the Coffee Covers until into the collective scene of the present-day days since the beginnings.

Like many of our up-to-date inventions, also the Coffee Covers come from America. The trend to Portionspackets following, originated in the little pail portions deep-drawn 60er years, with Alu and system foils welds and hermetically taciturn. On the basis of the visual, not language-tied statement, one printed the cover Eli instead of with decay data with subjects, so that with course of the durability one for all more visible subject variation took place.

Hardly anyone knows today how the Coffee Covers were created. These brilliant portionspackets are included a product of quite primary needs. How also so many others, the idea comes from America. First, was milk and cream there - both in the late fifties badly conservable and only narrowly durable. But a big demand for portionspackets, that had to be equipped with a durability stamp in the consequence, there was in the USA at that time. However, wide circles of the population become heed illiterates and small print at that time. Therefore, one got the idea instead of printing data illustrations and subjects on the portionspackets. So everyone knew, it also was up gross written in the Shoppingcentern, if a subject shifted on the hole cream portions, also the durability was there. A classic example of the visual, not language-tied statement. So the Coffee Covers then were born in the principle, one needed to only "still" solve the whole one technically. The still made ready big difficulties, however, because no corresponding package machines still were on the market world-wide at that time and no one, which was invented elsewhere, knew on the different continents.

Beginnings in Europe

Through the development in the USA and the trend to portionspackets, one began to develop portions also in Europe. The deep-drawn little pail portions, that welds thermo-plastic with Alu and system foils and is locked, were created from it. This cover Eli now offered a conspicuous and effective decoration surface, that was printed with subjects and figures in the course of the time.

The Coffee Covers came to us in the middle of the sixties. Isolated milk processing businesses began, that to bottle filled cream and coffee cream portions wisely in bottles until now. Especially, that was continuously small becoming households a concern the gastronomy and it. So, the company BURRA was a pioneer business in Zurich in matters of development of portionspackets for the Swiss milk economy, for example. From this company, also the famous "Blick-covers-Serie" from the year 1978 comes incidentally.

With much inventor spirit, patience and relapses, went above all with big capital use and high risk, however, one into the attempt phase for the moment and had constructed a corresponding bottling installation. The discovery of before fabricated plastic cups for different food gave the team the idea to fill also coffee cream in portions. One left portions cup and produces matching Alu cover to it, everything in the former triangle form.

The milk processors were crucial for the further development of the Coffee Covers. Although the milk utilization is organized strongly cartel-similarly in Switzerland until today, is tried to increase the own market share through Product-Management and package formation. With this development, the Coffee Covers- Collectors were called on the Tapet simultaneously of course; a development of quite different type, whose exit is not foreseeable until today. So, a small fan community, that looked after "deck-Eli-collecting" and was called " Collectors " lovingly under something comparable, originated at the beginning of the seventies. The series coming again on the market were registered via photocopies and were spread further. In these years, the Distributionswege of the Coffee Covers were even little known and one concentrated on those copies, which were offered to Switzerland in the different geographical regions, when collecting. With more or less luck for the individual collectors went the approximately 15 year until approximately 1985 so further. The "- collectors- community "stieg however in the meantime on ca.30'000 members at.



 





 




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