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Sustainable Packaging
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Conveying & accumulation
Sapporo turns heads with 'Shot Bottle'
It’s part can and part bottle, and marketers at Sapporo Breweries believe this reclosable aluminum bottle will bring new excitement to a premium brand of beer.
September 30, 2000
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Closures
A clever strategy for plastic beer bottles (sidebar)
Meanwhile, at Miller Brewing
August 31, 2000
Filling/capping, liquid & viscous
A clever strategy for plastic beer bottles
Michigan Brewing sees great potential for beer in plastic when the target market is tightly focused. Custom-labeled bottles for a casino, for instance, have found a receptive audience.
August 31, 2000
Conveying & accumulation
Labatt drives toward networked bottling lines
Labatt Breweries upgrades bottling line conveyors with compact drives that smooth production, enhance network communications and simplify troubleshooting.
August 31, 2000
Contract Packaging
PW tours Japan
Executive editor Pat Reynolds recently took advantage of a unique opportunity to tour three packaging operations in Japan. Included on the itinerary: Sapporo Breweries, Ltd., Daiwa Can and Kose.
July 31, 2000
Closures
Miller unveils plastic cap
As television ads touting its plastic beer bottle begin to appear with some frequency, Miller has completed its development of an injection-molded plastic closure that replaces ROPP aluminum. Easier-to-recycle package is spotted in Chicago.
July 31, 2000
Converting equipment
Pasteurizable PET bottles
KoSa has developed a PET copolymer packaging resin that may make it possible to bottle and pasteurize beer in plastic.
July 31, 2000
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
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
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