A new infeed monitor is engineered to eliminate line jams by
distributing product from a nested position to multiple lanes at
speeds up to 2,000 bottles per minute, its manufacturer claims.
Diageo's Guinness brand received a boost yesterday as its attempt
to go green paid off amidst growing uncertainty over the future of
the beverage and its famous Dublin-based production plant.
Coca-Cola is launching a lighter-weight bottle for its major brands
in the UK, fulfilling a pledge to reduce the amount of
packaging used for its products, the company said today.
Britvic announced Friday that it will commit to a UK-based scheme
designed to cut packaging waste from its products as part of an
agreement with the Waste & Resource Action Programme (WRAP).
Top brands, bottle manufacturers, retailers and technology experts
have teamed up under a UK-government programme to cut 20,000 tonnes
of glass from beer, cider and spirit packaging.
Coca-Cola today pledged to overhaul how it uses water
throughout its operations and bottling franchises in a drive for
greater environmental sustainability.
A best practice for recycling plastic milk bottles
- found to perform identically to those made from virgin resin
- could reduce packaging waste sent to landfill sites,
according to a government-funded recycling agency trial.
Consumer trends for health and indulgence are expected to drive
"significant" growth in premium soft drinks over the next
five years, the marketing head of Britvic has said.
In a bid to hold down greenhouse gas emissions under the bloc's
carbon dioxide trading scheme the European Commission yesterday
ordered Belgium and Holland to cap allowances below what their
governments had allocated to industry.
New wide mouth heads for robots are designed to gently pick up
bottles by neck from the top, and attach and release in
milliseconds, the manufacturer claims.
International packaging group Rexam will look to sell its PET
bottle facilities in Central and Eastern Europe as part of its
plans to focus on more globally recognised products like plastic
food packaging.
Buying practices of the world's biggest coffee companies have come
under renewed public scrutiny from a new film which explores the
journey of coffee beans from plantation to cup. BeverageDaily.com
took an early peek.
A portable, vision-guided robotic packer can orient and pack molded
bottles, jars, and caps, allowing smaller processors an affordable
means of automating their lines.
In answer to demands from beverage manufacturers to keep costs down
and to meet tough EU waste legislation, Portuguese packaging
company Logoplaste is expanding a new line of PET pre-forms claimed
to be the lightest packaging in its...
A rectangular polyethylene terephthalate (PET) container for hot
fill beverages offers increased strength and packs at a greater
density, claims its manufacturer.
A UK mineral water company has launched the first corn-based
biodegradable bottle in that country's market, linking its fund
raising activities with environmentalism.
A machine for applying barrier treatment to PET containers can
handle up to 40,000 bottles per hour, making it the fastest of its
kind in the world, its manufacturer claims.
A new barrier coating for polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and
polypropylene (PP) offers a better method of extending the shelf
life of beverages than is currently available according to the
inventors of the technology.
If you can't beat them then you have to join them. One of the
world's largest providers of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) has
announced it is investigating the potential for a new line of
biodegradable bottles for the...
A new type of plastic bottling technology allows companies to
package hot-fill products in containers with smooth rather than
ribbed or panelled walls.
Customers of Alcan's plastic bottle business have been put on
notice that the company plans to sell the unit as part of an
ongoing restructuring of its food packaging operations.
Soft drinks makers looking to replace sugar with sweeteners to
reach health-conscious consumers could save time and money with an
award-winning new technology from UK supplier Pursuit Dynamics,
reports Chris Mercer.
Turkey's Anadolu Cam group will get a €26.5m loan to build a new
bottling plant in central Russia, yet the firm's biggest challenge
will be to address declines in glass packaging reports Chris
Mercer.
Teamsters unions at seven Coca-Cola bottling anddistribution
facilities in Connecticut and the Los Angeles area in US plan to
continue their strike today over wages and health care benefits,
reports Ahmed ElAmin.
Milliken Chemical has installed a Sidel, Series 2, SBO4 machine at
its R&D centre in support of its research into injection
stretch blow moulded clarified polypropylene (ISBM cPP).
A new environmentally friendly form of insulation for packaging and
freezing applications provides between five and seven times the
insulation capacity over current technologies, writes Anthony
Fletcher.
Russian natural sauce producer Sostra believes a high quality
production technique called 'hot bottling' has led directly to the
success of its expanded premium product range, yet high pricing may
still deter consumers,...