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Packaging World’s beverage content focuses on beverage packaging and materials innovations, automation, machinery, and sustainability. Verticals within the scope of editorial coverage include: beer, coffee, dairy, drinks/non-alcoholic, juice, spirits/liquors, water, and wine.
Coding & Marking
CO2 Laser Coder for Beverages
Domino Printing Sciences
Domino Printing Sciences' Dx1060i enables manufacturers to code larger, more complex designs clearly and quickly on plastics, glass, and other challenging beverage substrates.
December 15, 2025
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Case/Tray Packing
New Line Runs Party Drinks and Pickle Potions
Specialty Blends runs three different PET bottle formats on a new line that culminates in a tray packing/shrink bundling system featuring the first application of single-point lane adjustment.
December 9, 2025
The new line is fully capable of handling three very different container formats.
Filling, Capping & Closing
Krones to Open North American Logistics Center, Expand Manufacturing
Krones, Inc.
Krones Inc. announces plans to open a 240,000‑sq‑ft Logistics Center in Franklin, Wisconsin to consolidate regional shipping and warehousing operations, support local manufacturing expansion, and enhance automated order fulfillment.
December 5, 2025
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Package Design
PatrĂłn Tequila Introduces First New Bottle Design in Over Three Decades
Tequila producer Patrón’s new bottle design adds new touches inspired by the agave piña while maintaining its bell-shaped silhouette.
December 3, 2025
Patrón's new bottle design retains the bell-shaped silhouette and ball-shaped cork of the legacy bottle, but makes updates in features including the bottle shape and elevated bee logo.
Controls & Machine Components
Linear Transport System Syncs 120 Axes for Ultra-Fast Capping
A new cap applicator from Tetra Pak uses the Beckhoff XTS linear servo transport system to deliver 25,000 precisely sealed cartons per hour, tripling output over conventional portion-package cappers that run at 9,000/hour, while combining digital control with flexible, high-speed motion.
November 12, 2025
Tetra Pak® test packs with plastic caps glued on.
Recycling
Recyclable Cup Coating for Hot Beverages
Michelman Inc.
Michelman's Michem Coat 9250 is a next-generation water-based coating for paper cups that enhances recyclability, heat-seal performance, and durability while reducing plastic use.
November 12, 2025
Michelman Michem Coat 9250 News Release Image
Case/tray packing
Round Bottle Caser
DCC Automation
DCC Automation’s Evolution Round Bottle Caser is a versatile, hygienic solution that handles bottles from 8 ounces to 1 gallon, delivering high-speed, servo-driven precision, quick changeovers, and a compact, washdown-ready design for a wide range of industries.
November 7, 2025
DCC Automation's Evolution Round Bottle Caser
Package Design
V8 Energy Gives its Package Design a Refreshing Boost
Campbell’s Company brand V8 Energy is highlighting its “better-for-you” positioning and aiming for greater shelf impact with its new design.
October 23, 2025
V8 Energy's new package design features simplified and focused fruit imagery and flavor-specific coloring.
Thermoform/fill/seal
Sealing Solution for PP and Aluminum Lids
Constantia Flexibles
Constantia Flexibles and watttron create a single system using ring-heating technology that reliably seals both PP and aluminum lids onto PP cups while cutting energy use up to 50%.
October 21, 2025
Constantia Flexibles X Watttron
Containers & Closures
No Glue Beverage Closure
Guala Closures
Guala Closures introduces “No Glue” closure systems, making spirits packaging more reliable and sustainable.
October 21, 2025
Guala Closures
Conveying & accumulation
Sanitary Tiltable Screw Conveyor
Automated Flexible Conveyor
Hygienic AFC SPIRALFEEDER fits through doors in sanitary processing facilities.
October 15, 2025
Afc Tiltable Spiralfeeder Down Lores
Robotics
Robot Floor Cleaner Helps Augment Sanitation Team
These robots can run lights out at facilities, clean up to 20,000 sq. ft. and can replace or augment sanitation departments to help clean high traffic areas.
October 1, 2025
Gvmu Luva 720
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Top Stories
Four of the five new packaging cells are dedicated to the 8.5-oz carton while one cell can do either 40-oz or 8.5-oz cartons.
Bagging & Pouching
Jiffy Mix Modernizes Packaging With Flexible, Compact Cells
Chelsea Milling Co. found a way to replace 18 filling lines with brand new equipment with no interruption in meeting consumer demand and without laying off any of its valued employees.
Pmmi Foundation
PMMI News
PMMI Foundation Awards More Than $160,000 in 2025 Scholarships to Emerging Leaders in Packaging & Processing
Said panelist Stu Shepherd during the webinar, “The ability to get started in automation is easier now than it’s ever been before. The ease of use and all this is such that you really don’t have to have PhDs and scholars of other types on your staff to operate these systems. The systems will run. You just have to get out there and deploy.”
Robotics
Automation Aligns Around Standards, AI, and Real-World Use
Through the Line: Packaging and Processing
Package Design
Through the Line Podcast: Top Episodes of 2025, #3: Tropicana Weathers Blowback from Package Redesign
Side-entry Liquid Mixer Improves Solids Suspension in Large Tanks
Sponsor Content
Side-entry Liquid Mixer Improves Solids Suspension in Large Tanks
Annual Outlook Report: Workforce
Hiring remains a major challenge in packaging, with 78% struggling to fill unskilled roles and 84% lacking experienced workers. As automation grows, companies must rethink hiring and training. Download the full report for key insights.
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Products
Raque Food Systems’ Pie Shell Stacking System
Automated Pie Shell Stacker
Designed for high-demand production lines, Raque Food Systems’ Pie Shell Stacking System stacks pie shells in user-defined batches at speeds up to 120 containers per minute.
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