Krones has signed an agreement to acquire 90% of Ampco Pumps Company LLC, a Wisconsin company supplying sanitary pumps and applied products like mixing and blending equipment to the food, beverage, dairy processing, personal care and pharmaceuticals markets.
Krones is celebrating after receiving its 100th order to install its ErgoBloc L. machine at FINE Bio for CSDs and still water, at its facility in Kirisan National Park, South Korea in 2016.
Krones explains that digital direct printing removes the need for labels and unlocks limitless bespoke bottle design opportunities, but admits ink costs are now a barrier to beverage uptake.
Krones USA has paid $125m to settle a legal dispute ongoing in the US since late 2008, linked to damages claims from third parties who alleged that the company was party to fraudulent practices committed by now defunct beverage firm Le-Nature’s.
Krones tells BeverageDaily.com that it plans to launch a heat-set version of its Contiform 3 stretch blow molder onto the market in 2013, as it revealed runaway sales since the machine's initial 2011 launch.
Krones has confirmed to BeverageDaily.com that it has struck a deal to commission its first sustainable closed-loop PET recycling line for a German beverage firm, the sixth such line worldwide.
German beverage machinery supplier Krones says that interest in premium juices and milk-based mixed drinks with natural fruit pieces is growing in key European markets, in the wake of its recent Twin-Flow concept launch.
Krones has warned that damages it may be forced to pay over its alleged involvement in a US fraud and racketeering scam could cut its profits by tens of millions of dollars. The company denies any wrongdoing.
Krones has launched what it describes as an ‘ultra compact’ single-end bottle washer designed specifically for beverage manufacturers with small to medium outputs.
Krones has unveiled a new strap handle at Interpack in Dusseldorf that wraps around PET containers so that bottles can be held together without shrink film.
Krones has revealed that it will be premiering “an entirely new packaging design” at Interpack that aims to offer an attractive alternative to shrink-pack for PET containers.
Krones claims to have achieved “turnaround” as orders start to flow in after a tough 2009; described by the company as the most difficult in its 59 year history.
Krones has acquired rights to the TripleS labelling technology – an unusually elastic stretch-sleeve film developed by CCL Industries for decorating contoured bottles.
Optimum labelling quality, accurate reproducibility and high efficiency are claimed for new labelling technology designed for bottlers with small outputs.
Krones has fallen into the red for the first time in nine years as demand in the packaging machinery market slumped worldwide by more than 25 per cent.
Krones is looking to target demand for complete beverage factory planning that the equipment supplier says is on the rise as in-house engineering capacity weakens.
Krones posted a €16m loss in the first half of 2009 as the continued global economic downturn triggered a slump in sales – compared to a €91m profit for the same period last year.
Krones has launched a newly developed buffer system that provides
an intermediate container storage system for a host of containers,
including PET, metal cans, cartons and shrink-wrap trays.
Krones, the world's biggest manufacturer of beverage bottling lines
and packaging machinery, is set to launch a series of new packaging
products at Interpack 2005.
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...
Packaging firm Krones has reported increased sales for the first
half of 2004, but the return on sales has been hit by the steep
increases in raw material prices.
Integrated bottling and packaging systems manufacturer Krones is
launching a number of new products including a PET-Asept system
featuring Isolator technology and a new VO-DM-PET volumetric
filling system for water.
Krones, the market leader for beverage filling and packaging
machinery, has reported increased order bookings, sales revenues
and profits for the first quarter of 2004 despite gloomy prognoses
for the German economy. This bodes well...
In order to ensure sustained improvement, packaging giant Krones
yesterday proposed the conversion of non-voting preference shares
into Krones ordinary shares. The company believes that the
liquidity of the Krones stock will be enormously...
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.
Krones, the German equipment provider, has said that since
launching its bottle pockets in 1992 it has produced some ten
million - of which the current design is now said to have maximised
homogeneity and efficiency.
