Filling and packaging systems manufacturer KHS is focusing its
efforts on developing new labelling, filtration, racking and crate
inspection technologies.
Duvel Moortgat, the Belgian brewing group, has sold its fruit juice
operation Freya's Deli Fruit to compatriot Konings for an
undisclosed sum, a move precipitated by the need for urgent
investment in the company.
Integrated bottling and packaging systems manufacturer Krones is
launching a number of new products including a PET-Asept system
featuring Isolator technology and a new VO-DM-PET volumetric
filling system for water.
Cadcam developer Delcam has reported that sales for the year to
31st December 2003 were £20.5 million, an increase of 8.5 per cent
on the previous best annual sales of £18.9 million. Food and
beverage packaging has increasingly become...
Constar International, a leading producer of polyethylene
terephthalate (PET) plastic containers, has successfully packaged
Smirnoff Ice in high performance Starshield barrier PET bottles.
The company claims that the material extends...
Dairy Crest, the largest dairy food company in the UK, has become
the latest company to choose Amcor FlexCan from Amcor Flexibles for
its new diced cheese product. Dairy Crest is using the patented
innovative flexible container for...
Sidel will be featuring its latest technological innovations in the blow moulding sector, which will include the Actis treated PET beer bottle for the German market, as well as highlighting its expanded international presence at the forthcoming BRAU trade...
Alcoa is to launch three new pieces of capping equipment at Pack
Expo Las Vegas, which will be held 13 to 15 October 2003. One
capping machine, one elevator sorter and two rotary cap sorters
have been added to the Alcoa CSI capping...
Although nearly two thirds of the world's beer continues to be
distributed in refillable glass bottles, the real dynamism in the
drinks packaging market as a whole is coming from PET, claims a new
report from beverage analysts...
In the US, Alcoa Closure Systems International has launched a
screw-on/screw-off dairy closure, which is said to provide extra
safe sealing ability for liquid dairy products.
Belgian brewer Interbrew has introduced a new innovative beer
packaging, Pivopack. The launch marks the first monolayer barrier
enhanced PET bottle worldwide and will be making its debut on the
Russian market.
Italian food group Parmalat has been busy this week. Not only has
it opened its first bottled water bottling plant in the Canadian
province of Quebec, it has also begun legal proceedings against
Agrinove over an alleged copyright...