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The 2018/2019 edition of Birkner’s Beverage World has been released. This new updated edition provides in reliable manner professional company and trade information with regard to companies of the international beverage industry. In structured manner, 20.000 company profiles from 197 countries with more than 5.400 breweries, 5.500 producers of mineral water,
Read moreIndorama Ventures Public Company Limited and Loop Industries, Inc. announced a joint venture to manufacture and commercialise sustainable polyester resin to meet the growing global demand from beverage and consumer packaged goods companies. This partnership combines Indorama Ventures’ manufacturing and Loop’s recycling technology to become a leader in the ‘circular’ economy
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Arca Continental, one of the world’s largest Coca-Cola bottler and its company Coca-Cola Southwest Beverages, held the ground-breaking ceremony for its new production and distribution facility in Houston, Texas on September 25. Arca Continental and CCSWB leaders were joined by federal, state and local authorities to celebrate the beginning of the
Read moreAmcor, a global leader in high-quality flexible packaging solutions, has announced plans to invest more than $25 million to upgrade its Madison facilities starting in 2018 and into 2019 to expand capacity, improve quality and reduce waste while updating technology. The planned investment includes the acquisition of new machinery and updates
Read moreAccording to a newspaper article in the Rhein Neckar Zeitung (RNZ), the recycling machinery manufacturer Herbold Meckesheim, Germany, has been hit by a fire that broke out on the site on Monday night, September 10. Werner Herbold, one of the two managing directors, estimated the damage at five to ten million
Read moreUniversal Dynamics, Inc., a company of the Piovan Group, completed its move from Woodbridge to Fredericksburg Virginia, USA in July of 2018. The newly outfitted structure, which occupies 110,000 square feet (10,000 square meters), was designed with lean manufacturing practices in mind, and will allow the company to double its production
Read moreThe outlook for the blow moulded bottle market is positive with further output growth, increasing demand for added value products and for the use of recyclates shaping the landscape, according to a newly published report from industry consultants, Ami Consulting. Blow moulded bottle demand in Europe was 189 billion units in
Read moreIn July 2018, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) awarded GEA a letter of no objection (LONO) for its ABF 1.2 technology, an integrated blowing, filling and capping solution featuring a fully aseptic rotary blowing machine. It is the only system equipped with a 100% aseptic blower that is allowed
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Lorien Engineering Solutions, a division of GP Strategies, is working with soft drinks provider Britvic to help install new state-of-the-art production lines at Britvic, the largest supplier of branded still soft drinks in Great Britain and the number two supplier of branded carbonated soft drinks in GB. Britvic’s Leeds and Rugby
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PTT Global Chemical PLC (GC) and together with TOC Glycol Co., Ltd. (TOCGC), a subsidiary of GC Group, announced to sign joint venture agreements with Mitsui Chemicals Inc.(MCI), to cooperate in managing Siam Mitsui PTA Co., Ltd. (SMPC), a PTA producer, and Thai PET Resin Co., Ltd. (TPRC), a PET producer.
Read morePretium Packaging, a leading North American manufacturer of plastic containers and closures, has acquired Cox Container, LLC, located in Troy, Alabama. Cox specialises in extrusion blow moulding of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) containers for food, beverage, dairy and industrial applications. “We are pleased to welcome the Cox leadership team and employees to
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