Beverage

Admix Founder Lou Beaudette Announces Retirement

Mike Rizzo named chief executive officer

December 23, 2019

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Bulk handling/filling equipment

HP Hood Takes the Fast Track to Expansion

An idle cultured dairy products plant is converted into a technologically advanced plant that produces and packages fluid milk for extended shelf life dairy beverages by installing technologies to advance the facility’s food safety and control systems.

December 23, 2019

Sustainability

Counting Down the Top 10 articles of 2019 - #9: Carlsberg's Adhesive Dots

Based on our online clicks and unique page views, we're counting down the Top 10 articles of 2019. Join us as we look back at the best of 2019. At #9 is this article on Carlsberg's use of adhesive dots instead of shrink wrap.

December 23, 2019

Operational Excellence

Ease of Use, Recyclability Push Growth of Flexible Plastic and PET Bottles in Western Europe

In 2018, food packaging accounted for a 55% share of the market in the region, followed by 37% for beverage packaging. Both the food and beverage categories saw the demand for smaller, lighter, and easy to store and handle pack sizes.

December 16, 2019

Operational Excellence

Food Packaging Dominates China Market

According to “Global Packaging Trends,” a new report compiled by Euromonitor International for PMMI Business Intelligence, food packaging accounts for more than 50% of the total packaging market in China.

December 11, 2019

Operational Excellence

The Buzz on Canned Cocktails

The canned cocktails market is predicted to grow more than 20% from 2019 to 2029, driven by consumer convenience and by innovations in packaging and flavor variety, among other factors.

December 3, 2019

Closures

Two Exceptional Brands Each Gifted with 0.5M Free Closures

A medical food for chemo/radiation patients and a low-sugar, carb, and calorie cold-pressed almond juice impress judges of Silgan Closures’ first Free Closures for a Year competition.

November 2, 2019

Sustainable Packaging

Coca-Cola Sweden Moves to 100% rPET for All its Bottles

The move is set to eliminate the use of 3,500 tons of virgin plastic each year in Sweden, with a 25% reduction in CO2 emissions over pre-transition levels.

November 26, 2019

Containers

Rum Label Artwork Inspired by Mayan Legends

El Salvador’s only rum producer, Licoreras Cihuatán, invites consumers to satisfy their curiosity, with new bottle labels that use symbols of ancient Mayan legends.

November 26, 2019

Labels

Whisky Producer Makes All Bottles NFC-Enabled

After a successful test of NFC mobile marketing technology on hang tags for its scotch whisky, Kilchoman Distillery uses NFC-enabled bottle labels for all of its brands globally.

November 12, 2019

Sustainable Packaging

Chlorophyll Water’s Bottle Designed to be 100% Landfill Biodegradable

A proprietary organic additive integrated into the bottle mold accelerates the natural biodegradation of the bottle in biologically active landfills and anaerobic digesters

November 6, 2019

Operational Excellence

PET Leads Beverage Pack Type, but Sustainable Options Still a Growing North American Trend

Though bottled water’s continued growth in the North American beverage market boosts PET dominance in the region, manufacturers are looking at other, more sustainable pack types too.

November 20, 2019

Plastics/resins

PET Bottle for Beer

Amcor has adapted its technology to develop the first PET bottles for pasteurized beer in Brazil.

November 17, 2019