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Enduser industry
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Global themes
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Eckes-Granini Group GmbH
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Nieder-Olm
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Germany
Sustainability
Eckes-Granini introduces new sustainable juice label and plans to increase rPET content
One year ago, the Eckes-Granini Group signed the “Sustainable Juice Covenant” (SJC) drafted by the “Sustainable Trade Initiative” (IDH). In doing so, Europe’s leading fruit juice producer committed itself to the goal of offering only juices and smoothies made from fruit grown and processed in…
CSD
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Beverages
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Coca-Cola European Partners Deutschland GmbH
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Berlin
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Germany
Installation
At the heart of the new production line at Coca-Cola in Halle/Germany
The heavyweight centerpiece of the new production line reached the Coca-Cola site in Halle: the blower-filler block, consisting of the 50-tonne blowing machine and the 16-tonne filler. Disassembled into 12 individual parts, the plant manufacturer Krones had both sent by low-loader on the…
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Labels
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CCL
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Framingham, MA
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United States
Labelling technology
Rivella uses labels from CCL for new brand concept
Rivella, an iconic cult brand from Switzerland, aims to explore new possibilities and concepts within the soft drink sector by launching niche products through their newly established innovation platform called “cin cin”.
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Sustainability
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Coca-Cola European Partners
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United Kingdom
Sustainability
Reducing packaging footprints with microchipped bottles
Find out how Coca-Cola European Partners are partnering with the University of Reading to reduce packaging waste by taking refillable bottles to the next level….
In an innovative scheme to reduce soft drink packaging, Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP) are excited to announce a trial of new…
In an innovative scheme to reduce soft drink packaging, Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP) are excited to announce a trial of new…
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End-user industry
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Coca Cola
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Atlanta
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United States
Coca-Cola launches crowdsourcing challenges to find next-generation sweetener innovations
Coca-Cola is expanding its pursuit of all-natural low- or no-calorie sugar alternatives with the launch of two sweetener challenges on the HeroX crowdsourcing platform. And the company is sweetening the pot in both competitions by putting up potential prize money.
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Markets
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Coca-Cola European Partners
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Uxbridge
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United Kingdom
New GB sustainable packaging strategy
Coca-Cola European Partners Great Britain unveils new sustainable packaging strategy
Coca-Cola European Partners has today unveiled its new GB sustainable packaging strategy – setting out an ambition for its GB business unit to work with local and national partners to recover all its packaging so that more is recycled and none ends up as litter. At present, only 70% of the cans1 and…
MINERAL WATER
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Bottle design
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Evian
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Évian-les-Bains
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France
rPET innovation
Evian launches evian® (re)new – an in-home natural mineral water appliance featuring “breakthrough” sustainable design
- New generation design thinking with a 5L evian® “bubble” made from 100% recycled plastic (rPET) bringing a significant reduction in plastic packaging
- Initial launch starting in May 2019 with Virgil Abloh and early adopters across Paris and London
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Mineral water
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Vöslauer Mineralwasser GmbH
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Vöslau
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Austria
Recycling Initiative
Vöslauer is starting out the new year with 100% rePET in Germany
100% recycled material and equally low consumption of materials for all PET bottles
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Beverages
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Nestlé Waters North America
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Stamford
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United States
Nestlé Waters North America unleashing sparkling water potential of spring water brands
Company believes new Regional Spring Water Sparkling portfolio that offers new flavors and package options will delight consumers and lead to explosive growth in the category.
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Markets & Management
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Nestlé Waters
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Stamford
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United States
Nestlé Waters North America names Tom Smith as President of Customer Development and Sales Operations
Nestlé Waters North America (NWNA) announced today that Tom Smith has been named President, Customer Development and Sales Operations, effective Monday, January 15, 2018.
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Mineral water
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Linx Printing Technologies Ltd
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St. Yves
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United Kingdom
Printing Technologies
Coding quality and reliability a clear winner for mineral water company
Printed code quality and machine reliability are the major benefits of two Linx 8920 Continuous Ink Jet (CIJ) printers installed at Decantae Mineral Water, one of the UK’s leading suppliers of premium bottled waters.
Using specialist Linx Black bottling ink 1058, the Linx 8920s print batch and…
Using specialist Linx Black bottling ink 1058, the Linx 8920s print batch and…
DAIRY PRODUCTS
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Beverages
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Sidel
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Italy
Dairy packaging
How to switch dairies to PET packaging with Sidel
At the Global Dairy Innovation Summit 2018, leading industry professionals discussed key innovation practices, designed to overcome challenges in today’s dairy sector. Here Sidel highlighted the good reasons to switch liquid dairies’ production to PET bottles for marketing, cost-effective and…
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Beverages
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Sacmi Imola S.C.
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Imola
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Italy
Sacmi CBF wins the FBE Award in Shanghai
Versatility and weight reduction - which means greater competitiveness, quality and process repeatability - have made this technology a true winner. And with a complete solution just supplied to a major player on the local dairy market, the positive feedback keeps on coming.
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Milk
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Gea Group
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Duesseldorf
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Germany
Milk filling
Keeping the bugs out of ESL milk during bottling
Extended Shelf Life (ESL) milk has been a part of everyone’s lives for some years. It means that milk lasts longer on the supermarket shelves and in the fridge at home, reducing waste and increasing convenience for consumers. Here, Marco Bruno, GEA’s Senior Product Manager for Blow Filling and…
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Filling technology
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Serac Asia Sdn Bhd
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Klang, Selangor
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Malaysia
Filling lines
Serac accelerates the speed of its rotary cup filling lines
The latest version of the cup filling machine Neo designed by Nova, a company of Serac Group with 80 years of experience in dosing and cup filling, is today able to fill cups up to 12 000 cph just as efficiently and reliably as any other lower output. With this increased output, Serac is offering a…
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Milk
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Sidel
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Parma
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Italy
Milk in PET
UHT milk bottles in PET on a Sidel Aseptic Combi Predis – A first for Italy
Centrale del Latte di Brescia has doubled its aseptic production of UHT milk in PET bottles and in doing so is benefitting from a simple, safe and sustainable packaging line. The project saw this innovation-driven company become the first producer in Italy to invest in Sidel’s aseptic and…
BEER
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Beverages
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Carlsberg Group
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Copenhagen
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Denmark
Bottle Development
Carlsberg issues latest Green Fibre Bottle update
During the C40 World Mayors Summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, the Carlsberg Group today issued an update on its journey to create the Green Fibre Bottle, the world’s first "paper bottle" for beer.
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Beverages
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W. Amsler Equipment Inc.
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Bolton, ON
Container Development
W. Amsler announces first commercial application for 64oz PET barrier growler for craft beer markets
W. Amsler Equipment Inc., a leading supplier of all-electric linear PET stretch blow molders, has announced the first commercial sale of 64-oz polyethylene terephthalate (PET) growler jugs to Arch Brewing Co., an independently owned craft brewery in Newmarket, Ontario. The beer container mimics the…
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Beer
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Krones AG
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Neutraubling
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Germany
Beer bottle filled in just 0.5 seconds
Innovative beer filling system: Dynafill
Beverage bottlers’ requirements are proverbially exacting: achieving progressively higher outputs while consuming less CO2 and nonetheless upgrading the filling quality – and all this in a sturdy system that’s ideally designed for cleaning. For beer filling, these are precisely the criteria Krones…
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End-user industry
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Sacmi
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Imola
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Italy
Planet beer, the world leader chooses Sacmi labelling
Two Opera labellers - selected on account of their proven reliability, productivity and efficiency - supplied to an industry multinational with plants in the USA for use on the bottling lines of a well-known international brand
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Beverages
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Petainer
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United Kingdom
Petainer partners with leading craft breweries for Mikkeller Celebration
Two of Taiwan’s most exciting and innovative craft brewers have partnered with Petainer to use its market-leading one-way petainerKeg™ for the world-famous Mikkeller Beer Celebration taking place in Copenhagen, Denmark. Both Taihu and Sunmai will use petainerKeg™ to ship and showcase their draught…
FRUIT JUICES
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Global themes
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Eckes-Granini Group GmbH
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Nieder-Olm
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Germany
Sustainability
Eckes-Granini introduces new sustainable juice label and plans to increase rPET content
One year ago, the Eckes-Granini Group signed the “Sustainable Juice Covenant” (SJC) drafted by the “Sustainable Trade Initiative” (IDH). In doing so, Europe’s leading fruit juice producer committed itself to the goal of offering only juices and smoothies made from fruit grown and processed in…
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Global themes
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KHS GmbH
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Hamburg
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Germany
rPET Application
Beyond Juice: KHS presents the first recyclable juice bottle made of 100% rPET
- Bottle concept provides maximum product protection for sensitive beverages
- Bottle fully recyclable thanks to FreshSafe PET® technology
- Renowned environmental service provider issues quality seal with top marks
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Markets
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KHS GmbH
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Dortmund
The world's first company to promote the innovative KHS Plasmax technology to consumers
Based in Adana in the southern part of the country, Doganay Gida is one of the leading manufacturers of fruit and vegetable drinks in Turkey. Doganay Gida just recently ordered three KHS aseptic lines at once. Two of the three lines are already running production and the third will go into…
FOOD
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Business function
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Nestlé
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Vevey
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Switzerland
Sustainability Initiative
Nestlé inaugurates packaging research institute, first-of-its-kind in the food industry
On 12th September Nestlé officially inaugurated the Institute of Packaging Sciences, the first-of-its-kind in the food industry. The new Institute enables Nestlé to accelerate its efforts to bring functional, safe and environmentally friendly packaging solutions to the market and to address the…
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End-user industry
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GEA
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Düsseldorf
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Germany
GEA extends portfolio with extrusion and milling technology
With the concluded acquisition of the Italian Pavan Group end of November 2017 the Düsseldorf engineering group GEA purchased a leading supplier of extrusion and milling technology for processing all kinds of fresh and dried pasta, pelleted snack products and breakfast cereals. The acquisition is an…
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Food
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Cascades Inc.
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Drummondville, QC
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Canada
Packaging Production
Cascades invests $21M to increase its production of innovative and environmentally friendly packaging for fresh foods
Cascades Inc. (TSX: CAS), a leader in the recovery and manufacturing of green packaging and tissue products, announced today a $21-million investment in its Cascades Inopak ( Drummondville ) and Plastiques Cascades (Kingsey Falls) plants in order to acquire equipment enabling it to increase its…
NON FOOD
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Management
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P&G
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Cincinnati
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United States
No. 6 among nearly 700 companies
P&G named one of the most effectively managed companies in America
In the inaugural ranking of the Most Effectively Managed Companies released by the Drucker Institute, The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE:PG) was ranked sixth among hundreds of Fortune 500, S&P 500 and other large-cap companies evaluated on overall corporate effectiveness. Other top ranked companies…
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Non-Food
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Weener Plastics
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Ede
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Netherlands
Caps & Closures
Multiple awards for Nivea packaging with Weener Dispensing Closure
Nivea Hand Care's alluring packaging isn't just pleasing to look at. Picking it up is almost irresistible – and delivers a pleasant consumer experience. That is why the appealing packaging has received several awards in 2017, such as the Red Dot Design Award for Communication Design and the German…
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Sustainability
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Procter & Gamble
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Malta (Our Ocean Conference)
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Malta
Circular economy
Procter & Gamble launches new Fairy Ocean Plastic bottle made from 100% recycled plastic and ocean plastic
The Procter & Gamble Company today launched the Fairy Ocean Plastic bottle made completely from post-consumer recycled (PCR) plastic and ocean plastic. The launch of the bottle aims to raise awareness of the issue of ocean plastic and what can be done to prevent plastic waste from reaching the…
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