Having now reached 180 million bottles per year, Belgian brewer
Martens claims that surging demand from the German market means
that its production of beer in barrier PET has now entered the
realms of mass consumption.
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...
Strong volume growth helped by bottled water acquisitions and
double-digit increases in EBITDA and net profits helped by tough
cost control marked the first half at Coca-Cola HBC.
Krones has supplied Germany's first dedicated PET line for beer and
beer-based mixed drinks - the 36,000-bph line at Holsten Brauerei
starts operations this month 2003.
UK retailer Marks & Spencer has re-launched its range of
chilled dressings using a new PET bottle supplied by the UK
division of Owens Illinois Plastics.
Allied Glass Containers has recently supplied UK-based beverage
manufacturer G & J Greenall with new 1-litre and 700ml ultra
lightweight spirit bottles. The new packaging will be used for the
firm's Selekt and Moskova ranges...
Torraspapel has extended its range of labelling solution in an
effort to muscle in on the ever-growing market for PET bottled
water. The company's new Creaset LWS paper range is said to offer
beverage manufacturers a harder wearing...
A small US water bottling company, Kolob, claims to have tripled
productivity and significantly reduced costs following investments
it has made in automation equipment sourced at last year's Pack
Expo in Las Vegas.
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.
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.
PET packaging is already the most popular format for soft drinks
and bottled water, but it is still a long way from replacing glass
as the preferred packaging format for beer, claims Canadean.
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...
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.
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.
Production of multi-layer containers has begun at RPC Verpackungen
Kutenholz, for a range of polypropylene condiment bottles
incorporating a waved shaping - a configuration that is
traditionally challenging to produce.
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.
German company Gneuss claims that its latest Rotary filtration
system, used to improve the quality of PET bottles, has made its
mark with manufacturers in Europe.
Trouble is brewing between Ontario's dominant beer retailer and a
small-city brewer over the use of 1970s-style "stubby" bottles,
following the launch of a nostalgia marketing campaign for its Red
Cap beer.
There is just one remaining bottle of The Macallan Scotch whisky
distilled in 1841, but after almost a year of work, the company has
released a replica of the whisky offering drinkers the chance to
taste the 160-year-old Scotch.
With increasing numbers of thefts each year from Spanish stores,
retailers are turning to modern technology to help to solve the
problem, and are asking the wine sector to play its part as well.
Having closed its Irish Glass Bottle Company with the loss of 375
jobs earlier this year, Ardagh has reported an operating profit
from its continuing operations of €14.6 million in the first half.
After a difficult few years of restructuring and debt reduction,
Brau und Brunnen has decided to combine its beer and soft drink
sales units to offer a broader range of products and to allow it to
react more quickly to consumer demand...
Declining consumption has prompted many observers to pronounce the
premature death of the German beer industry - with investment by
major foreign brewers seen as the only waty of resurrecting the
body. But is this really the case?...
A year after the formation of the Glenaird joint venture,
Glenmorangie's Broxburn plant is to begin bottling Drambuie Cream,
a new brand which has seen substantial growth since its UK launch.
Alcan, the Canadian-based beverage packaging provider, has signed a
letter of intent to sell its moulded glass operations in the US and
China to the US-based Glass Group.
In the US, Anheuser-Busch is launching new sloped shoulder bottles
and secondary packaging for the company's super-premium beers,
Michelob and Michelob Light.
Orlando Wyndham, the Australian bottling company, has commissioned
what is believed to be the fastest wine bottling/packing/despatch
system in the world.
Falling demand, an unstable economy and internal politics had left
Coca-Cola's German bottling interests in tatters. However, moves to
streamline the operations are now taking effect and the prospects
are starting to look up.
Expansion for its bottle making business into European markets is
the aim as Pechiney Plastic Packaging (PPP) continues to develop
its range of niche packaging operations with a new plant due to
open in the south of France soon.
The amount of glass recycled for packaging increased to 35 per cent
in 2001 according to figures released by Glasspac, the packaging
promotions arm of British Glass.
Soft drinks maker Coca-Cola Amatil has sold its plastic bottle
manufacturing operations in Australia and New Zealand to Visy
Industries for AUS$157 million (€90m), according to a report by
IndustrySearch.
Perrier Group of America has recently begun construction on a new
$60 million (€62.3m), 400,000 sq ft bottled water plant in Hawkins,
Texas - according to a report from Industrialinfo.com.
Neverfail Springwater, the Australian bottled water company, has
reduced costs and increased productivity after installing equipment
from CapSnap Water Group, part of USA-based Portola Packaging to
maintain its supplies.
US company Owens Brockway, a division of Owens Illinois Glass
Container has recently reopened a 96-year-old glass bottle plant in
Pennsylvania which had been idle since December 2000.
