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Article: Paper Sacks have alternative to wooden tea chests. (Paper Sacks Ltd., manufacturer of "Cadisac")
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- Tea & Coffee Trade Journal
- Article date:
- October 1, 1990
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Paper Sacks have alternative to wooden tea chests
Paper Sacks Ltd. of Northfleet, Gravesend in the county known as the Garden of England--Kent--had a very good idea a few years ago. The problem was that it came about 350 years too late.
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