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Maker's Mark Partners with Zalkin and ProMach Brands

Since 1953, Maker's Mark, located in Loretto, Kentucky (USA), has been upholding its expertise and traditions. By partnering with ProMach group brands, including Zalkin, the company has been able to increase its productivity while maintaining a low total cost of ownership for its equipment.

This collaboration allows Maker's Mark to preserve the quality and authenticity behind its reputation, while benefiting from high-performing, reliable packaging solutions tailored to its production needs.

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0:033 seconds - Well maker's mark was started by the samuels family and really the maker's mark recipes has only been around since the 50s

0:1111 seconds - i've always said maker's mark is the real deal our story is real our product is real our heritage is real so we still make

0:1919 seconds - our own labels we hand dip every bottle we do a one batch process where we make one mash we

0:2727 seconds - ferment it in one fermenter and we have right now 62 separate fermenters so that we can keep that one batch process

0:3636 seconds - it's just a beautiful place it's almost like coming to disney world for bourbon

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0:5151 seconds - I've had a long history with fog their machines are reliable well built and within three days of installing the

0:5959 secondsfiller we were back up to running prior efficiency standards and we were hitting our established efficiency standards in

1:081 minute, 8 seconds - less than a week it's been in my experience the cost of ownership has been much lower than other brands and anytime i've needed parts or
1:151 minute, 15 seconds - service they've literally bent over backwards to take care of us i've always appreciated that from fog

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1:261 minute, 26 seconds - pe has a long history with maker's mark they can do just about anything anything's possible with these newer labels

1:341 minute, 34 seconds - the tear tape which is underneath the wax that you tear off to open the cap is a ps label application

1:431 minute, 43 seconds - our face label is what we call a wet glue or cobalt application and then the back label is a psl or ps label so

1:511 minute, 51 seconds - we have all three on every bottle and these new labelers allow us to do that and a lot more

1:591 minute, 59 seconds - zalkin's capping quality is excellent zalkin is arguably one of the best cappers available really robust machine

2:082 minutes, 8 seconds - flexibility is one thing that always kind of puts zalkin in a class of their own in our world we have to be able to put

2:162 minutes, 16 seconds - on corks as well as plastic caps and in some cases ropp that's generally why zalkin is

2:242 minutes, 24 seconds - chosen over some other cappers that don't have that flexibility

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2:302 minutes, 30 seconds - on our future bottling projects i wouldn't hesitate to go with fog zulkin and pe all three work together well

2:382 minutes, 38 seconds - and i would recommend those choices to anybody that's looking to upgrade or put in a new bottling line at

2:452 minutes, 45 seconds - their facility

2:582 minutes, 58 seconds - you