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People will always drink – a fact that has a calming effect on the beverage industry particularly when times are difficult. According to the German Association for Nutrition (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ernährung), the recommended daily consumption of fluids is 1.5 l, which may be as much as three litres or more in summer and in southern countries. Unfortunately, however, a large demand for body fluids does not as such mean smooth business in the European beverage industry. It is a matter of producers convincing consumers to consume a certain category of drinks and ultimately their own brand. In saturated markets like Western Europe, North America and Australia, 66 % of the required body fluids are covered by packaged drinks. On the other hand, packaged drinks account for just 22 % in maturing markets like Eastern Europe and Latin America, and only around 10 % in markets still to be developed, like Asia, the Middle East and Africa (Euromonitor International).

The Prevention Institute, a nonprofit health advocacy group out of California, studied 37 heavily marketed foods with pictures of fruit on the packaging. Fifty-one percent of the products contained absolutely no fruit, a few had minimal amounts! Yikes, you have to be vigilant on all of these fruit claims. Just take a stroll down the fruit juice isle and try to figure out which product is real 100% juice.

RPC Containers Llantrisant is supplying Tesco with a 1.5 litre PET bottle for the Tesco Finest Juice range.

The Thermic Juice bottle range produced by RPC is desighed for oxygen sensitive drink products such as fresh juices, smoothies or nutritional drinks to give products a good shelf-life when stored under ambient conditions. The tamper-evident cap and induction seal liner combine to give maximum security. The Thermic Ribs® and multilayer material structure of the bottles have been specifically designed to allow the bottles to withstand high temperature processing, even sterilisation.

Tetra Pak has announced the global availability of Tetra Gemina™ Aseptic, the world's first roll-fed gable top shaped package with full aseptic performance for the packaging of both juice and milk-based products.

The strong relationship between The Big Squeeze Fresh Juice Co. and RPC Containers Corby has been underlined by its continuing use of recyclable bottles from the site for its Twisted juice brand.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved expanded use of Constar International's (NASDAQ: CNST) DiamondClear™ oxygen scavenging technology.

Following a successful trial with Marks & Spencer, RPC Containers Llantrisant is now producing standard PET juice bottles containing 30% post consumer recycled (PCR) content.

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.

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.

Britvic's J2O premium juice drink is now able to reach new on-premise venues where glass is prohibited, such as vending, sports arenas, outdoor events, and airlines. This is thanks to the protection, unbreakability, and light weight of the novel PET bottle and closure supplied by Constar International Inc. (NASDAQ:CNST), a leading manufacturer of PET (Polyethylene terephthalate) bottles.