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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
Beer: Page 47
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
Flexibles
Shrink label sales to double
Sales of shrink labels for bottles and other containers will double between 1999 and 2004, according to a new study from Keymark Associates. “Opportunities in Shrink Film Labels for Bottles” says milk, ready-to-drink tea, sports drinks, and beer will show growth of more than 30% annually, 20% for juice, and 15% for water, ready-to-drink coffee, and liquor.
August 31, 2001
Beverage
Oxygen absorber growth
Dollar and unit sales of oxygen absorbers used in packaging is forecast to increase nearly 20% per year through 2005 in North America. So reports “Oxygen Absorbers in Packaging—Hit or Hype?” a new report from BRG Townsend, Inc.
August 31, 2001
Beverage
Beer container growth
Market research firm The Freedonia Group announced that the world demand for beer containers will grow nearly 3% per year to 315 billion units in 2005. Latin America, Eastern Europe, and Asia will lead the demand.
July 31, 2001
Flexibles
Coors carton 'on the rocks'
Just in time for the summer picnic season, Golden, CO-based Coors released its Coors Cooler Box, a disposable cooler carton with a patented barrier that holds ice and water.
July 31, 2001
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