Pullpop Technologies has announced the launch of its
cork-corkscrew, a device that might possibly spell the end of the
household corkscrew. The company believes that the product offers
greater convenience.
Travelling abroad is often exciting and rewarding, but there is
nothing worse than coming down with an acute bout of diarrhoea. An
incredible ten million people a year are afflicted.
Mad Cow, a milk-based energy drink to challenge market leader Red
Bull, has been launched in the USA. The product is manufactured by
New Jersey-based Liquid Billboards.
US-based TapTone has launched the T500-F, a high speed on-line
multiple sensor inspectionsystem for leak detection and fill level
verification of filled pressurised bottles and cans.
Tetra Pak has just launched the latest in its line of gable top
carton packaging systems, which has been specifically designed with
both hygiene and safety in mind.
The striking growth of the ready-to-drink tea sector in Japan is
currently contributing to the growth of Stora Enso Consumer Boards
and Nippon Paper-Pak.
Arca Systems, which develops products and systems for materials
handling, has developed a new packaging system for soft drink
products together with The Coca-Cola Company.
PepsiCo is to launch a vanilla-flavoured version of its cola brand
later this summer, almost a year after Vanilla Coke hit US shelves.
And Coca-Cola is not to be outdone, with the launch of Sprite Ice,
a mint version of the lemon-lime...
German company Natumi launches its So Well Tri-drink in the UK this
month. The new drink is fortified with calcium, is made from soya,
rice and oats and it is said to help prevent cardiovascular
disease.
Protient, the US-based protein producer, has begun production at
its new ultra-filtered soy protein isolate facility. The product
has numerous beverage applications.
British manufacturer of carbohydrate ingredients Tate & Lyle is
to expand the capacity of its krystar crystalline fructose plant in
Lafayette, Indiana by 20 per cent. Due to be completed by August
2003, the company said that no...
Carlsberg has resurrected one of its Semper Ardens range of
speciality beers. Criollo Stout contains both chocolate and
liquorice and will for the first time be available throughout
Denmark.
The Voridian division of Eastman Chemical Company, the world's
largest supplier of polyethylene terephthalate resins for
packaging, has announced the launch of Voridian PET 9921P in
Europe.
A Brazilian brewery has contracted Krones to provide a Taxomatic
labeller which is now operating with extended technology to apply
foil to can lids as hygienic protection.
War in the Gulf is hardly something to be welcomed, but for
Nautilus Mineral Waters of America it is just that - mainly because
it provides a great marketing opportunity for two of its products.
CUB, the Australian beer arm of Foster's, is to extend its
marketing partnership with Diageo to include the latter company's
premixed spirit brands for the first time. The deal should see the
rapid growth of the draught...
Posimat, the Spain-based provider of unscrambling and conveyor
logistics solutions, is about to launch its Posimaster Multichute
high-speed bottle line unscrambler at the Hispack show in Barcelona
on 31 March.
Artemis Wines International has launched a new service for large
wine purchasing businesses interested in importing wines directly
from American wineries.
The Swedish courts have ruled that Anheuser-Busch has the sole
rights to the Budweiser name in that country, and that Czech rival
Budejovicky Budvar has to pay nearly $100,000 in compensation to
the US group.
Wimm-Bill-Dann is to launch its own brand of bottled mineral water
in Moscow and St Petersburg, marking the company's entry into a
market with significant potential.
Australia's Gowrie Mountain Estate is preparing to release wine in
cans to the US, UK and Japan - not a new concept, but one that is
still deemed to be unusual.
Ball, Daiwa Can Company and Mitsui have entered into an exclusive
agreement for the sales and distribution of Daiwa's New Bottle Can
beverage container in North America.
Sidel is to preview five new machines for PET container production
at the upcoming international packaging fair, Hispack, to be held
in Barcelona from 31 March to 4 April.
The world's first fino wine made exclusively from organic grapes is
set to be launched this year by Spain's Bodegas Robles, one of the
country's leading producers of organic wines.
In an effort to give a boost to the stagnant beverage can market,
SIG Cantec has come up with several developments aimed at producing
more innovative and interesting shapes.
The UK's first strawberry vodka has been launched by Stolichnaya,
the Russian vodka brand at the centre of an ongoing trademark
dispute. Stoli Strasberi contains real strawberries, and is being
marketed as an excellent cocktail...
