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Petainer has expanded its distribution and manufacturing footprint in the US, following its partnership with G3 Enterprises, who offers wine and spirits industry packaging and supply chain solutions across the US. The partnership leverages Petainer’s expanding customer base, and the growing popularity of wine-on-tap as a viable alternative to bottled wine
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With the KHS InnoPET Tri-Block the KHS Group has now launched a filling and packaging system for PET bottles to market which incorporates a stretch blow moulder, labeller and filler. With consistent neck handling KHS also enables lightweight PET to be processed. This means that a 0.5 litre bottle weighing notably
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UK-based Montgomery Waters has acquired an additional complete PET line from Sidel. The line is bottling still and sparkling water with the latest generation of Sidel Matrix equipment. The company from Wales has several spring and mineral water sources dedicated to the supply of still, sparkling, flavoured and vitamin-enriched water under
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Amsler Equipment Inc. has just completed and shipped its first next-generation single-cavity LM15X PET stretch blow moulding machine to R&D/Leverage in Lee’s Summit, Missouri. The requirement from R&D/Leverage for a machine to test and run moulds for various PET machines led to the development of the new series. The result is
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The Krones subsidiary Kosme S.r.l., Roverbella, has now, in the shape of the 3 Bloc, presented a block configuration available in two different variants, for PET and for HDPE containers. The 3 Bloc for PET comprises three concatenated machines: blow-moulder, filler and labeller. The particular version of the Flexa labeller can
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With its new KHS InnoPET Plasmax 20QS development, the KHS Group Company offers a coating machine designed to produce bottles with volumes ranging from 100 to 350ml. Beverage producers are able to process small format PET bottles particularly economically. The glass interior coating enables beverage producers to reduce material costs and
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Liese GmbH’s Brau Beviale 2015 stand hosted the public debut of its new Hygienic clamping unit, the latest addition to its Flexximal range. The German manufacturer, based in Walzbachtal, says that the unit is intended for use in fillers, infeed, discharge and transfer starwheels. In common with other products in the
Read moreTo meet the two-digit market growth from carbonated soft drinks consumers, Oman Refreshment Company (ORC), a franchisee of PepsiCo International, has recently acquired a new production line from Sidel, which will enable the Omani bottler to increase its production capacity. ORC operates in different categories of the food and beverage market
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After ten years the Contiflow series of mixers has received the thousandth order. The continuously operating Contiflow mixer is a harmonised blending system for the soft-drinks sector. It is used for continuous production of highly disparate beverages. New output ranges, a higher maximum output, stepless output regulation, maintenance-friendlier design thanks to
Read moreUS demand for beverage containers is expected to increase 1.9% per year to 283 billion units in 2019, valued at $31.5 billion. Proliferation of different package sizes, new product introductions, and increased consumption of healthier beverages such as bottled water, ready-to-drink (RTD) tea, and nondairy milk alternatives will drive increases despite
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Krones AG’s series of valves, produced by subsidiary Evoguard GmbH and unveiled at the recent BrauBeviale in Nuremberg, can be considered as a success. So far, more than 150,000 valves have been produced: disk valves, seat valves, double-seat valves, aseptic seat valves and aseptic double-seat valves. "The Evoguard series of valves
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