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In 2000, Austrian brewery “Mohrenbrauerei” introduced beer in PET bottles. Now the single-use container is being taken out of the product range. The main reason for this is the change in consumer behaviour due to the critical discussion about plastic packaging. The Mohren Brewery sells 97 per cent of its beverages
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Sidel’s art designers have created the NUUK bottle concept, drawing inspiration from the purity of ice and its formations. The NUUK brand takes its name from Greenland’s capital and the fjords that make it famous. The “Frozen, Authentic, Unique” slogan highlights the brand’s attributes, which are closely linked to water and
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A joint study by VDMA and the management consulting company McKinsey & Company investigates just how far product and service portfolio digitalisation has advanced in mechanical engineering. They state that the revenue share for digital platforms and value-added services is only around 0.7 percent (about 6 billion euros) of the total
Read moreLeading packaging suppliers like Amcor have the capabilities and expertise to shape, cultivate, and drive that change and deliver the milk bottle and flexible packaging of the future. As a keynote sponsor of the 2021 International Dairy Forum, Amcor will demonstrate how it’s reshaping dairy packaging by offering more sustainable solutions and
Read moreData Bridge Market Research released a report on the global liquid filling machines market. Liquid filling machines market will reach an estimated valuation of USD 6.66 billion by 2027, while registering this growth at a rate of 4.89% for the forecast period of 2020 to 2027. Liquid filling machines market report
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Steadily decreasing rainfall and rising temperatures have been causing devastating droughts and extreme famines since 2015, especially in the southern part of the subcontinent. Malawi, Zambia, Namibia, Zimbabwe and Botswana are among the countries affected but also South Africa – a country more associated with the lush green fruit and wine-growing
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The EU directive pertaining to tethered caps will come into effect in July 2024: it states that closures must be firmly attached to non-returnable PET bottles. The aim is to recycle the caps together with the bottles and thus avoid environmental pollution caused by loose closures. KHS will support customers in
Read moreCoca-Cola European Partners plc (CCEP) announces that it has made a non-binding proposal to acquire Coca-Cola Amatil Limited (CCL). The Board of Directors of CCEP: has made a non-binding offer to acquire 69.2% of the entire existing issued share capital of CCL, which is held by shareholders other than The Coca-Cola
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Firmenich, the world’s largest privately-owned Perfume and Taste company, announced the opening of its new biotechnology and naturals pilot plant and laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. Benefiting from the latest digital technology, the facility opens a new era for the development of ingredients and clean label solutions by providing faster speed-to-market and
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Following long years of contract-bottling, the smoothie and juice producer innocent has decided to build the very first bottling plant of its own. Krones won the order for four complete PET bottling lines and the corresponding IT landscape. The paramount consideration for “the blender”, as innocent has christened its greenfield project,
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In cooperation with Sidel, Spanish dairy company Andía Lácteos de Cantabria S.L. have modernised their plant in Renedo de Piélagos with the most modern, state-of-the-art aseptic PET bottling technology for ultra-high-temperature (UHT) milk for the Spanish dairy player. Andía Lácteos de Cantabriaare a part of the Iparlat Group, which originally were created
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