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February 28, 2002

Beer: Page 46

Sustainable Packaging
Packagers share green thoughts
An exclusive Packworld.com survey reveals packagers’ thoughts and advice about environmentally friendly packaging.
February 28, 2002
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Beverage
Miller debuts Skyy Blue 'malternative'
Skyy Blue, a 12-oz malt-based alcoholic beverage, debuts this month in a cobalt blue glass bottle similar to the one that helped make Skyy Vodka a success.
January 31, 2002
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Beverage
Football stadiums may lose PET flavor
The future for plastic beer bottles, at least those marketed through sports venues, suffered a major setback after two mid-December bottle-throwing incidents at NFL football games in Cleveland and in New Orleans.
January 31, 2002
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'Tall blonde' bottle proves versatile
Southerners have a new beer option from Carolina Beer & Beverage, LLC, a regional craft brewer in Mooresville, NC: Tall blonde, a 16-oz longneck PET barrier bottle containing a light pilsner-style brew.
January 31, 2002
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Containers
New friction-top belt conveys success
A new friction-top belt conveyor replaces a belt-on-roller incline conveyor at Miller Brewing’s Irwindale, CA, facility. Less maintenance, no case slippage are the results.
January 31, 2002
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Conveying & accumulation
Krones, Inc.: Krones VKP-PET Filler for CSD
Happyland Company, Moscow, Russia 0.5 L, 1.5 L, and 0.48 L PET bottles; 300 cpm PET line Krones 2-channel Variojet rinser is BLOC-synchronized with fill-to-level VKP-PET filler.
December 31, 2001
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Pack Expo 2004: RoboBar robotic bartender
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Motoman is introducing its RoboBar robotic bartender to acclaim of happy customers at its booth, S-1495, at Pack Expo International 2004. Machine, built with traditional packaging-related robotic components, is programmed to mix and pour alcoholic drinks to specification. Dual-armed, high-speed robot is equipped with a color LCD display screen, a touch screen programmed to accept the customers order, a magnetic card reader (optional), stainless-steel bar with safety enclosure, a cup dispenser, beer tap tower, ice maker, and a soda and juice dispensing tower. Machine can be purchased, leased, or rented. Cheers!
December 31, 2001
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Conveying & accumulation
'Tall blonde' runs on modified line
Carolina Beer & Beverage, LLC, a regional craft brewer in Mooresville, NC, faced constraints in introducing its “Tall blonde” plastic bottle last year (see Feb. , p. 2) included costs.
December 31, 2001
Contract packaging
Outsourced packaging: Let the experts do it!
Exclusive survey reveals that manufacturers increasingly turned to contract packagers in 2001, and the growth continues this year.
December 31, 2001
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Conveying & accumulation
A line that's loaded with smarts
Latrobe Brewing Co.’s new line for 12-oz glass bottles of Rolling Rock beer is a textbook illustration of SCADA in action. Analysis of data is equally impressive.
November 30, 2001
A drawing of the line gives some idea of how many individual pieces of equipment must communicate with each other along the comm
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Abita tests pasteurizable beer in PET
Abita Brewery next year plans to commercialize beer in a one-way multilayer plastic bottle that’s pasteurizable. Until now, the plastic bottles typically used for beer didn’t have sufficient thermal resistance to withstand pasteurization, so brewers choosing to use plastic have had to rely on some form of cold filtering or flash pasteurization. But the availability of this new tunnel-pasteurizable bottle could make one-way plastic beer bottles a viable option for a lot more brewers. Abita Brewery, based in Abita Springs, LA, is a regional craft brewer.
October 31, 2001
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Beverage
Europe grows can shipments
Shipments of beverages in cans in Europe for the first half of 2001 showed 5% growth compared with a year earlier, according to Beverage Can Makers Europe.
October 31, 2001
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