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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
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Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
Closures
Aluminum bottle wows Cannex
At Cannex 2000 in Brisbane, Australia, in May, The Canmaker magazine announced the results of its Cans of the Year 2000 competition. The overall winner was the “bottle can,” a reclosable two-piece aluminum bottle developed by Daiwa Can (Tokyo, Japan).
July 31, 2000
Beer: Page 50
Conveying & accumulation
Portland nixes reshippers
Portland Brewing cuts costs and gains flexibility by moving away from reshippers and into bulk glass. It now forms its own six-pack carriers and corrugated shippers.
July 31, 2000
Conveying & accumulation
Software brews line efficiency at Miller
Brewer sees quick payback on a multimillion-dollar investment in software that’s increasing output at six breweries nationwide. The software will be used for 57 lines, for cans, glass and plastic bottles.
May 31, 2000
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Labeled barrel can a natural fit for Killian's
Killian’s® Pub Barrel™ from Coors/Unibev, Golden, CO, brings label graphics to domestic beer cans.
April 30, 2000
Closures
German brewer second to launch in 'Glaskin'
The second brewery to announce a launch of beer in a Tetra Pak (Geneva, Switzerland) Glaskin™ plastic bottle is Bitburger of Bitburg, Germany. The Bitburger 38 Bigneck is scheduled to reach as many as 10ꯠ Lekkerland/Tobaccoland gas station outlets throughout Germany beginning this month.
April 30, 2000
Flexibles
LCP developments progressing
Superex Polymer pushes onward with development of liquid crystal polymers, which have potential application in multilayer beer bottles and stand-up pouches.
March 31, 2000
Sustainability
Miller launches, Bud in test
Citing “growing consumer and retailer demand” as its motivation, Milwaukee-based Miller Brewing Co. has announced the nationwide rollout of its plastic barrier bottles for Miller Genuine Draft, Miller Lite and Icehouse brands in both 16- and 20-oz sizes.
March 31, 2000
Flexibles
Net Purchasing: Not Ready for Prime Time
An exclusive survey of Packaging World purchasing readers indicates enthusiasm for buying via the Internet but little actual experience in packaging purchases thus far.
March 31, 2000
Sustainability
Plastic's beckoning to beer
Two European brewers are pushing ahead with barrier coatings on PET bottles while a third is expanding its use of coinjected multilayer technology.
March 31, 2000
Sustainability
Euro brewer debuts 'glass' inner-coated PET bottle
New technologies for beer in plastic are moving forward. Among the newsiest launches is in Sweden, where Spendrups Brewery of Stockholm in March introduced its Norrlands Guld beer in 500-mL (16.9 oz) high-barrier Glaskin bottles. Developed by Tetra Pak (Geneva, Switzerland), the proprietary Glaskin technology relies on a vacuum deposition process to coat the inside of blown PET bottles with a clear layer of silicon oxide.Spendrups is the first to use the technology on a commercial basis.
February 29, 2000
Converting equipment
French brewers say
oui
to plastic
Web exclusive: Brasseries Heineken puts another brand in 1/2-L plastic and introduces a 1-L plastic beer bottle, consisting of three materials in five layers and coinjection stretch/blow-molded by Continental PET Technologies (Florence, KY). Separately, Strasbourg, France-based Kronenbourg commits not only to the unusal step of self-manufacturing its own PET bottles, but to Actis (Amorphous Carbon Treatment on Internal Surface) coating process from Sidel (Norcross, GA).
February 29, 2000
Beer
PW launches new site
Auto Notification and QuickSearch technology make searching PW's site faster than ever.
November 30, 1999
Labels
Specialty drinks get old look
As the new year begins, Hansen's Beverage Co. looks to the past with its new line of "signature" sodas. They're packaged in brown glass bottles with crown closures and full-body shrink labels that evoke a feeling of simpler times.
November 30, 1999
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