Alcoa has announced that its Alcoa Closure Systems International
(CSI) business is set to expand further into the $100 million dairy
packaging business.
Sidel will be featuring its latest technological innovations in the blow moulding sector, which will include the Actis treated PET beer bottle for the German market, as well as highlighting its expanded international presence at the forthcoming BRAU trade...
Tetra Top, a packaging system provider within the Tetra Pak group,
has recently launched the Carton Bottle - a new packaging concept
that is said to be neither a carton packaging nor a plastic bottle.
Ilapak has completely redesigned its Astra inverted flow-wrapper to
offer what is claimed to be a more efficient method of packaging
irregularly shaped products.
Evergreen Packaging Equipment, a business unit of International
Paper, and AVE Industries of Spinea, Italy have developed a
long-term strategic agreement that will allow Evergreen to
manufacture, sell, and service rotary bottle filling...
Creo, the Canadian supplier of labelling solutions to the food and
beverage industry, will be demonstrating its Networked Graphic
Production solution at Labelexpo Europe 2003, taking place in
Brussels, Belgium on September 24-27.
Alcoa is to launch three new pieces of capping equipment at Pack
Expo Las Vegas, which will be held 13 to 15 October 2003. One
capping machine, one elevator sorter and two rotary cap sorters
have been added to the Alcoa CSI capping...
Just a few weeks after the launch of Franklin Estates' Australian
wine in cans in the UK, another Antipodean winery is taking a
similar stance and introducing its wine in a single serve Tetra
Prisma carton.
Finnish packaging provider Huhtamaki has supplied Unilever with a
line of innovative packaging for its Carte d'Or ice cream yoghurt,
recently launched in a number of European countries.
SWF Companies' Tisma Division has launched a high speed, small
centre TC 100 vertical cartoner, which is claimed to reach speeds
of up to 1000 cartons per minute and works well with a variety of
closing methods.
Gardner Technologies, a US-based wine technology company dedicated
to improving wine closure quality, has launched MetaCork, a
twist-to-uncork wine opener.
Owens-Illinois Plastics Group has launched a joint project with
Husky Injection Molding Systems in Ontario, Canada, to develop
higher cavitation multi-layer PET injection systems.
Ilapak has supplied McCormick Foodswith a Vegatronic 2000 vertical,
form, fill and seal machine designed to produce pyramid packs for
its new Shotz range of seasonings.
Rovema has unveiled its Vertical Intermittent Pouch Machine
(VVI-200), a new vertical form, fill, seal machine designed for
applications typically associated with horizontal machines.
Sidel will showcase a PET blowing system at the forthcoming NPE in
Chicago, US that is said to be the fastest machinery of its kind -
beating two previous records.
One of Europe's leading suppliers of plastic packaging, Superfos,
has redesigned its hot and cold filled food container in an effort
to harmonise shelf displays and increase warehouse utilisation.
Developed for Pati Prestige, French Group Mecaplastic has launched
a new packaging concept for ultra fresh traditional pastry under
modified atmosphere.
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.
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.
Although nearly two thirds of the world's beer continues to be
distributed in refillable glass bottles, the real dynamism in the
drinks packaging market as a whole is coming from PET, claims a new
report from beverage analysts...
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.
Amcor is building a second glass furnace on its existing wine
bottle facility in Gawler, South Australia, in a move that will
double its current production capacity.
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.
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.
Foss, the Danish based quality assurance equipment provider, has
announced the relaunch of its Winescan sampling and testing system
with an improved quality assurance module.
Belgian brewer Interbrew has introduced a new innovative beer
packaging, Pivopack. The launch marks the first monolayer barrier
enhanced PET bottle worldwide and will be making its debut on the
Russian market.
Carlsberg's head of supply chain, Jette Knudsen, is to leave the
group in December after a disastrous summer season which saw the
company recall millions of cans of sour-tasting beer from the
domestic market.
Despite the concern that it can cause TCA - the mouldy smell
attributed to bad wine - natural cork is the preferred closure for
most US winemakers, according to a survey carried out on behalf of
the Amorim cork group.