Controls & Machine Components

Improved Network Enables Higher-Volume Beer Production, Packaging Lines

Grupo Modelo’s Nava Brewery, now owned by Constellation Brands, updated the industrial network to include three separate industrial plant networks for brewing, packaging, and utilities.

October 15, 2019

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Containers

RTD cocktail and pack design follow the rule of thirds

RTD non-alcoholic negroni-style cocktail with three ingredients uses a label design that takes its three-bar color scheme from the palettes used on the packaging for each ingredient.

October 15, 2019

Labels

Booklet-style Beer Label Provides Comic Relief

Available in Italy, Comic Beer features three comic strips by acclaimed Spanish illustrator Alberto Madrigal that are secured to a trio of beers via a booklet-style accordion label.

October 14, 2019

Sustainability

Vegan Ice Cream Rebrands, Uses 100% Plant-based Packaging

New packaging for Coconut Bliss ice cream products uses graphics that reestablish the brand’s expertise in the category while pioneering a biopolymer-coated paperboard material.

October 13, 2019

Tamper-evident machinery

MMC Packaging Equipment: High-speed Closure Slitting, Band Folding Machine

The machine is engineered with Industry 4.0 attributes and features a six-camera vision inspection to meet quality objectives.

October 10, 2019

Tamper-evident machinery

MMC Packaging Equipment: High-speed Closure Slitting, Band Folding Machine

The machine is engineered with Industry 4.0 attributes and features a six-camera vision inspection to meet quality objectives.

October 10, 2019

Labels

Peel-back Labels Differentiate Each Wine in a Line

Wine's dual-layered labels are designed to be peeled back, unveiling an inside layer of colorful artwork that's unique to each wine.

October 5, 2019

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Three heads are better than one for Danish wine bottler

Bulk wine supplier Skanvin installs a triple-head automatic filling line to meet the bag-in-box requirements of customer Treasury Wine Estates.

October 5, 2019

Beverage

Cheers to cannabis: Big alcohol stakes a claim in the legal marijuana boom

Major beer companies are developing cannabis-infused beverages to tap into the nascent yet lucrative weed industry.

October 4, 2019

Beverage

Global Packaging Outlook: North America

In the United States, the convenience of smaller pack sizes continues to draw high demand, but sustainability also continues to be a major issue, driving innovative materials, new pack types and industry-driven reuse/recycle programs.

October 4, 2019

Robotics

‘Safe-tea’ palletizing of capsules at Nestlé

Manual palletizing at Nestle’s Swiss facility producing tea capsules is replaced with two user-friendly collaborative robot palletizers custom-designed to ensure pallet stability and worker safety.

October 4, 2019

Sustainability

Dasani Uncaps a Record Number of More-sustainable Packaging Options

Among them, a bottle using rPET with plant-based plastic, two new aluminum package formats, a lighter-weight PET bottle, and a package-less, customizable water dispensing system.

October 4, 2019

Sustainability

Carlsberg Replaces Shrink Wrap with Adhesive for Six-Packs

The radical new technology, which uses adhesive dots to hold multipacks of cans together, is expected to decrease the Danish brewer’s use of plastic by up to 13,000 tons/year.

October 4, 2019