Ceepackaging

Development in the beverage industry over the past decade or two has been remarkable. Single-serve portions which started out as a trend have become an established convenience in the daily routines of more and more people who demand maximum convenience and superior quality. The ever-expanding variety of hot and cold beverages and the increasing number of market players add to a very dynamic sector.

BERICAP will show a variety of new closure concepts at the INTERPACK for the food, beverage and chemical industry.

NOVA Chemicals today introduced the Altra cup line to the premium beverage market. Altra cups deliver a number of benefits to coffee-shop owners and their customers through unsurpassed insulation, increased safe handling and stunning graphic capabilities.

The population of the world is growing older. At the same time, the desire is growing to remain active and healthy even in old age. The beverage and food industries have responded to this increasing health trend with new product developments, and according to Andreas Steinle, CEO of the Future Institute at Kelkheim near Wiesbaden, they are making process profiling themselves as 'health providers'.

After two years working side by side, Mart Tiismann succeeded Gérard Stricher as president and CEO of Sidel on January 1, 2008.

Ball Corp , which makes plastic and metal packaging products, plans to build a $120 million beverage can plant in southern Russia.

KHS AG, internationally active manufacturer of filling and packaging equipment for the beverage, food, and non-food industries, has set up a new Technology Center at the company's headquarters in Dortmund. For KHS, this investment means investing both in the future of the company and also investing in the future of customers worldwide.

SMARTSEAL and CORVAGLIA signs agreement on unique no-spill beverage closures. The two companies signed an agreement that covers development, manufacturing and sales of the patented SmartSeal FLEX range of closures.

Rexam expanding European beverage can capacity to meet growing market demand

Eastman Chemical B.V. announced today the European availability of films made with Embrace LV, a new halogen-free copolyester resin for shrink film labels for packaged consumer goods. With better balanced shrinkage and physical characteristics previously unavailable in copolyester product offerings, Embrace LV is a single resin solution for shrink labels for the food, beverage and personal care markets.

Numerous breweries and mineral water bottlers are indirectly affected by higher world market prices for dairy products. Traditionally used labeling adhesives contain casein obtained from cow’s milk. The price of casein has recently risen dramatically and, in the opinion of raw materials experts, is unlikely to decrease shortly. As an alternative, Henkel supplies innovative casein-free adhesives that are significantly less expensive and perform equally.

No design is an island – truly successful results require successful cooperation. When Korsnäs started its current design project, its central thrust was to see how the meeting of different sets of skills and experiences would result in creative ideas and innovation.

How will packaging look in ten years? What are our consumption patterns, and what makes packaging sell? These are the questions Korsnäs asked young design students at the Packaging Impact Design Awards (PIDA). This year, concurrent competitions were held in Sweden, Germany and France. First out of the box was the Hochschule der Medien in Stuttgart. This year’s PIDA coincides with Korsnäs’ introduction of the new cartonboard Frövi White, and the contest assignment was to choose a luxury product in the beauty, beverage, confectionery, fashion, media or health & medical segment and design packaging for it using Frövi White These are the market segments for which Korsnäs introduced the new board, developed with focus on whiteness, smoothness and formability.

Sidel is paving the way for automatic, continuous quality control of blow molding. The Equinox™ system built into Sidel’s rotary blow molding machines ensures consistent, top quality PET bottle production for better overall bottling line efficiency.

Two years after their merger, Sidel and Simonazzi are fully integrated. The new group is adopting the Sidel brand name for all of its products. At the same time, Sidel is increasing proximity to its markets by means of a more decentralized organization.

At the Brau Beviale 2007, KHS AG, international manufacturer of filling and packaging systems for the beverage, food, and non-food sectors, will once again be living up to its reputation as a technological leader.

With a new KHS vacuum CIP system, cleaning of beverage tanks at medium temperatures of up to 50°C is even more efficient, faster, environmentally friendlier, and more flexible than ever.

Maspex Wadowice, Poland, chose a special promotion for their juice and nectar brand “Kubus”: more than 40 different Twist-Off closure designs are printed with all relevant characters of “Shrek” - just in time for the launch of the new movie.

International Paper and Green Mountain Coffee Roasters have been awarded a 2007 Sustainability Award from the Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA), the world's largest coffee trade association. The Sustainability Awards are given annually to those in the specialty coffee industry that have created innovative projects to expand and promote sustainability.

Finnish packager Stora Enso is to increase the capacity of its Polish corrugated packaging plant to meet growing demand for its products from the country's booming fruit juice market.

New Sun Nutrition, a developer and distributor of nutritional supplements, healthy snacks and beverages, today announced that FRS®, the company's patented Free Radical Scavenging (FRS) antioxidant health beverage, has been reformulated and repackaged in a new, eye-catching recyclable can. The breakthrough health drink flavors have been fine-tuned for a delicious, refreshing taste and packaged in a can for enhanced shelf life and flavor protection.

WALKI®PackMetalex is an ideal packaging material for cosmetics, alcoholic beverages and confectionery. The metal coating makes for a shining and luxurious impression, while cardboard gives the package stability.

Alcoa Closure Systems International (CSI) introduces the 28mm Xtra-Lok mini, a beverage closure that delivers maximum performance for soft drink bottlers, while returning to a more classic and easier opening profile design.

At Brau Beviale 2006, KHS AG, international manufacturer of filling and packaging systems for the beverage industry, will be presenting new products to meet the requirements of the market. As a complete supplier, KHS will be providing a comprehensive range of new products from widely differing areas. The focus of attention will be on aseptic cold filling, bottle washing, packaging technology, labeling equipment and keg technology.

At FachPack, GIKO will be focusing special attention on mono and composite films with full-surface or partial wax lamination as a speciality seldom found in Europe. There is a growing market for this type of packaging in the form of twist films with aluminium lamination for confectionery, stock cube wrapping, etc.