Archives for August 6, 2007

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Weather rains on Scottish & Newcastle's performance

By  Neil Merrett

Eastern Europe continues to boost the fortunes of brewer Scottish & Newcastle, driving comparable sales growth of 7.8 per cent to £2.1bn (€3bn) for the first half of the year as the company moved to offset increased input and production costs.

Monitor designed to eliminate bottling line jams

By  Ahmed ElAmin

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.

RFID standard to be incorporated in cargo seals

By  Ahmed ElAmin

Six companies will incorporate a new international standard for shipping seals that use radio frequency identification (RFID) to warn when a cargo's contents have been breached.