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Sustainable Packaging
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Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
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
Beer: Page 46
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
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
Closures
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
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
Containers
Latrobe Brewing Co.: Automated truck unloading
At this Rolling Rock brewery, pallets of bulk glass are pulled automatically from trucks with no forklift intervention.
September 30, 2001
Secondary Packaging
Latrobe Brewing Co.: Depalletizing
At this Rolling Rock brewery, an automatic band cutter cuts eight bands before pallets are conveyed into the depalletizer. Once in the depalletizer, slip sheets are removed and stacked automatically.
September 30, 2001
Secondary Packaging
Latrobe Brewing Co.: Case erecting and loading
At this Rolling Rock brewery, at the infeed of a case erector from Pearson Packaging Systems, a robotic positioner picks bundles of 12-count corrugated shippers, orients the bundle, cuts the band, and feeds the band to a grinder.
September 30, 2001
Filling/capping, dry
Latrobe Brewing Co.: Filling and pasteurizing
At this Rolling Rock brewery, the line's two 108-valve fillers (from SIG Beverages) sit side-by-side. Shortly after filling and capping, bottles enter a double-deck pasteurizer, after which they pass through two down-bottle ejectors.
September 30, 2001
Secondary Packaging
Latrobe Brewing Co.: Laser-guided vehicles
At this Rolling Rock brewery, a laser-guided vehicle with a pallet load of corrugated trays maneuvers its way to a tray packer and trades its full pallet for an empty one.
September 30, 2001
Containers
Promotional graphics
To bolster its Grand Prix Formula One Sweepstakes, Stamford, CT-based Beck’s North America introduced a special, limited-edition 16-oz collector aluminum beer can and multipack racing packaging.
September 30, 2001
Conveying & accumulation
Three legs are better than one
Glass bottles of Rolling Rock beer run through paired fillers at 1길/min and then fan out to any one of three packaging legs. Eight operators ‘patrol’ the entire line. See in-plant video
September 30, 2001
Conveying & accumulation
Machinery brings the future to Latrobe
The front end of this glass line for 12-oz Rolling Rock beer is practically an operator-free zone. Laser-guided vehicles replenish packaging materials on demand. See in-plant video
September 30, 2001
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