PETpla.net Insider 12 / 2016

NEWS 7 PET planet Insider Vol. 17 No. 12/16 www.petpla.net A NONCOLOUR TECHNOLOGY Cooperation between KHS and the Liquiform Group With immediate effect KHS is to cooperate with the Liquiform Group by contributing its own patents to the development of innovative moulding and filling manufacturing technology, a technique which combines two previously separate processes. The two companies have now signed a licence agreement to this effect. With their cooperation they hope to achieve a breakthrough for the new Liquiform moulding and filling manufacturing tech- nology which in the long term is to supersede the conventional stretch blow moulding process. The KHS Group has been doing its own research into this com- bined technology for many years now and will contribute some of its expertise to the project. At the time of writing, bever- age producers who wish to fill PET bottles first have to manu- facture bottles from preforms in a stretch blow moulding process using compressed air. The blown containers are then filled with beverage at a second stage in the proceedings. Liquiform technology permits bottles to be made and filled in one single operation. To this end, the liquid to be bottled is used during filling to shape the receptacle. The new technology is currently at an advanced stage in its development. www.khs.com This was BrauBeviale 2016 BrauBeviale has now closed and is entering its scheduled one-year break before returning in 2018. Almost 38,000 trade visitors, over 16,000 of them international, informed themselves at this year’s investment goods fair for the beverage industry. The trade visitors from abroad mainly came from Italy, the Czech Republic, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Russia, Poland and Great Britain. The 1,118 exhibitors included regular guests and newcom- ers, world market-leaders and small and medium-sized companies. 52 nations were represented on the exhibitors’ side, in particular companies from Germany, Italy, Great Britain, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland and Austria. They presented everything connected with the process chain: raw materials, technolo- gies, logistics and marketing. Creative beverage culture was the trend theme on the exhibition stands and in the supporting programme. This included the first Export Forum German Beer, PET@BrauBeviale with important impulses in the beverage packaging sector and the “Creative beverage culture” trend theme, tasting sessions in the Craft Beer Corner as well as the European Beer Star 2016 competition. While BrauBeviale, Nuremberg, will be taking its scheduled break next year, three Beviale family events abroad will be held on the following dates:  Beviale Moscow, February 28 - March 2, 2017, Moscow  Craft Beer China, May 17-19, 2017, Shanghai  Craft Beer Italy, November 22-23, 2017, Milan BrauBeviale in Nuremberg will open again from November 13-15, 2018. www.braubeviale.de