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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Ringnes taps RFID
Norway’s largest brewery uses RFID to reduce bottlenecks for tracking large shipping containers and finds several unexpected benefits.
July 1, 2009
Beer: Page 26
Beverage
Canned water addresses global quality issues
Packaging plays a vital role in a program that aims to bring fresh water to children in desperate need in developing countries.
April 30, 2009
Recycling
New Belgium taps aluminum cans for wheat beer
Last summer this innovative brewer rolled out its Fat Tire brew in cans. Now it's Sunshine Wheat's turn.
April 27, 2009
Beverage
Carry handles
April 5, 2009
Cartoning
Gentle robotic handling for beverage packaging
Schubert Packaging Systems TLM (Top Loading Machine) Robotic Packaging system is seen in a beverage (beer) application in two of seven available modules; the first is the grouping or collating section, the second is the cartoning section where a 2-axis robot tracks the conveyor for gentle handling. The system includes bottle inspection.
February 6, 2009
Closures
Miller Lite launches in aluminum pint bottles
Miller Brewing Co., Milwaukee, WI, is serving up Miller Lite Beer in 16-oz Alumi-Tek® aluminum pint bottles supplied by Ball Corp. (www.ball.com).
February 1, 2009
Recycling
Glass container recycling Rate Climbs in U.S./California
New U.S. EPA data shows the glass recycling rate jumped to 28.1% in 2007, up three percentage points from 2006 (25.3%). An estimated 3.2 million tons were recovered compared to 2.9 million in 2006.
January 30, 2009
Feeding/inserting/unscrambling
Drying up moisture difficulties
Brewer installs high-speed blowers and air knives to cut capping and labeling problems.
January 8, 2009
Beverage
Beer 101
MillerCoors needed a way to engage the beer-buying public in-store, right at the shelf, while also educating them about the high-quality, slow-roasted, caramelized malts used to brew its George Killian’s Irish Red Lager.
January 6, 2009
Flexibles
Brewer taps high-end beer market with 750-mL bottles
. Brewer taps high-end beer market with 750-mL bottles Brooklyn Brewery, Brooklyn, NY, is marketing selected beers from its repertoire in private-mold 750-mL glass bottles supplied by United Bottles & Packaging (www.unitedbottles.com), the North American distributor for the glass producer Wiegand & Soehne GmbH & Co. KG of Germany (www.wiegand-glas.de).
January 6, 2009
Beverage
Hang tag promotes Killian's quality
Tri-fold tag engages consumers at the point of purchase.
December 15, 2008
Sustainability
Economic concerns battle convenience for supremacy
Escalating oil costs have an impact on both packagers and consumers, driving new food and beverage packaging trends. But convenience is still top-of-mind for many.
December 3, 2008
Beverage
Hawaiian brewer has multi-packs covered
During the Summer 2008, Maui Brewing Co., Lahaina, Maui, HI, began rolling out a new approach to multi-pack beer can packaging.
November 30, 2008
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Rotary Counter-pressure Filler
Pneumatic Scale Angelus introduces the CB100C rotary counter-pressure filler featuring a 12-head rotary filling turret design, coupled with a dual-station seamer, to allow craft beverage producers to increase their throughput to more than 100 cans/min.
Depalletizer for Breweries
Wide-Mouth To-Go Glass Bottle
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