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stantly growing fame enjoyed by its products in France and abroad.
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The most stringent cleanliness, the most perfect order
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reign everywhere and when in the evening the vast distilling |
coppers are resplendent under the rays of the electrical |
lighting, the effect is truly magnificent. If, after visiting the |
distillery, we make our way right or left, we enter two large |
well-lit rooms, the clamor of which contrasts with the calm |
laboratory where two workmen are sufficient to monitor the |
distillation and control the equipment. These are the workshops |
for preparing and shipping bottles. |
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The rinsing machines, manned by eight workers, make |
the bottles turn between fixed brushes, under hot water jets;
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they come out perfectly clear, drain on pivoting draining racks |
and pass to the filling machines which fill them at a rate of 20 a |
minute; this machine, a little marvel, is special at the Pernod |
house; it is the work of the technical director, Mr. Arthur |
Borel, who with meticulous care occupies himself with the |
improvement of the equipment. |
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The filled bottles come from there to the corkers, who |
only have to place them under their machines, which, driven |
by an ingenious mechanism, insert the stopper automatically. |
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The bottles then pass to the hands of the labelers, who |
affix labels gummed on the rubber cylinders
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(Translated by "Artemis" for your pleasure.) |