E-commerce/D2C packaging

Consumer education is key for kids’ beverage marketer

In this First Person interview, Matt Swanson, Rethink Brands’ Co-Founder and CEO, discusses the company’s brand investment and the importance of reaching consumers in a product segment that’s been stagnant for years.

August 14, 2018

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Secondary Packaging

Case forming brings benefits

Case forming as opposed to case erecting plays a key role in the secondary packaging operation at a new bottling line at McManis Family Winery.

August 10, 2018

Beverage

Inspection systems central to wine bottling line

McManis Family Winery has grown rapidly over the past five years, so an upgrade in automation was inevitable, including in the area of automated inspection.

August 9, 2018

Bio-based

Nomadic’s Kefir package design conveys Middle East influence

Probiotic milk drink line employs dairy-influenced white bottles and closures with a striking blue label printed with an illustration of the Caucasus Mountains to stand out on shelves.

August 7, 2018

Containers

Craft brew label supports niche within niche

When Kingfisher Beer launched the world’s first craft beer innovation designed specifically for Indian restaurants, brewed as an accompaniment to Indian food, it needed a label to help restaurant-goers make the connection.

August 6, 2018

Containers

‘Cool’ redesign for sub-zero, submicron-distilled spirits

A new brand identity for Underground Spirits uses a stylized map of Canberra and a snowflake shape to reference the brand’s provenance and its ultra-cold purifying ‘cryofiltering’ process.

August 6, 2018

Secondary Packaging

A family winery grows into automation

‘We’re fully automated’ is how the Director of Packaging Operations at McManis Family Winery succinctly puts it when describing how this California winery has upgraded its end-of-line.

August 3, 2018

Beverage

Brewing more with less

Cabarrus Brewing Company taps into a cavitation technology that lets the craft brewery extract more flavor from its hops while ramping up efficiency and yield.

August 2, 2018

Secondary Packaging

Robotic case packer ‘revolutionizes’ production

Imitation cheese manufacturer switches from manual to robotic case packing for vacuum packs and flexible bags in multiple case sizes, using one system to handle product from four lines.

July 28, 2018

Sustainability

SaltWater Brewery opts for sustainable six-pack carrier ring

Company is reportedly the first to use the environmentally friendly E6PR ring. Made of barley and wheat ribbons used in the brewing process, it also provides the strength to hold cans through distribution.

July 24, 2018

Containers

Coffee creamer goes combidome

Building on the increasingly popular butter coffee creamer trend, Austin, TX-based Picnik has released its butter coffee creamer in convenient combidome 750-mL carton packs.

July 18, 2018

Containers

McEwan’s Ale: What is old shall be new again

A packaging redesign for Scottish brand McEwan’s Ale contemporizes the line for modern beer drinkers while maintaining the heritage of the product for its ‘heartland’ consumers.

July 13, 2018

Controls & Machine Components

ERP solution keeps cheesemaker lean

Züger, a Swiss supplier of mozzarella and other cream cheese specialities, began using an end-to-end software solution from industry IT and software company CSB-System to keep processing and packaging at its factory as lean as possible.

July 9, 2018