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Krones ups PET speed

Krones ups PET speed

Krones has
upped the output of its Contiform S series of stretch blow-moulding
machines to 1,800 containers per cavity and hour, at the same time,
an optimisation package is said to have significantly downsized the
compressed...

Cadcam in food packaging

Cadcam in food packaging

Cadcam developer Delcam has reported that sales for the year to
31st December 2003 were £20.5 million, an increase of 8.5 per cent
on the previous best annual sales of £18.9 million. Food and
beverage packaging has increasingly become...

Longer-life packaging

Longer-life packaging

Constar International, a leading producer of polyethylene
terephthalate (PET) plastic containers, has successfully packaged
Smirnoff Ice in high performance Starshield barrier PET bottles.
The company claims that the material extends...

Aseptic developments

Aseptic developments

Italian equipment expert SIG Simonazzi has supplied a €20 million
aseptic bottling line for Spumador. The system, which has been
installed at the company's Sant'Andrea Bagni facility in the
province of Parma, has been designed...

Amcor consolidates

Amcor consolidates

Packaging giant Amcor continues to consolidate and diversify its
global business with a recent acquisition in Mexico. As they say,
if you want to stay at the top, you've got to keep on moving.

Dutch courage

Dutch courage

Grolsch is approaching a milestone on what it claims will be the
most efficient brewery in Europe.