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BevOps covers advances in packaging machinery
Conference covers the technology revolution in beverage packaging machinery introduced at 3 recent trade shows.
October 31, 2005
Beverage: Page 190
Beverage
3-D printed prototypes
The Spectrum Z510 Full Color System from Z Corp. produces high-definition prototypes quickly and affordably. Ink-jet printing technology creates parts with crisply defined features, enhanced accuracy, and precise color for evaluating physical models of design concepts in their nearly finished state.
October 31, 2005
Beverage
Barrier resin suitability
Invista has announced that its PolyShield™ MXD6 barrier resin is suited for use in food pkg. applications in the European Union in contact with all food types, except for fatty foods and foods with an alcohol content greater than 10%.
October 31, 2005
Beverage
Big Sky brews ink-jet upgrade
To better track product freshness and quality throughout distribution and eventual sale at retail outlets, Big Sky Brewery of Missoula, MT, recently began date-coding individual bottles of its unique beers, including Moose Drool, Scape Goat, and Powder Hound ales.
October 31, 2005
Beverage
Robotics improve brewery efficiencies
Medium-size brewery Pyraser Bier GmbH & Co. KG, Thalmassing, Germany, manufactures and markets several types of beer as well as carbonated beverages, juices, and other nonalcoholic drinks.
October 31, 2005
Beverage
PET TO LEAD EUROPEAN BEER PACKAGING
The annual growth of European beer packaging will be led by PET/PEN bottles, according to Schönwald Consulting. Through 2008, growth of beer in PET-based bottles is projected to reach 12% per year, to 70 million hectoliters by 2008.
October 31, 2005
Beverage
Counterfeiting drugs: Growing, global problem
The problem of counterfeit drugs is definitely a global issue, says Jim Kouri, a vice president of the National Assn. of Police Chiefs and a security consultant and author.
October 31, 2005
Beverage
Coping with change
At independent Pepsi bottler Browning Harvey Ltd. in St. Johns, Newfoundland, plant manager Gary Williams recently eliminated the hassle of inventorying returnable plastic shells for PET bottles. (This story will run in an upcoming issue.) Here Gary talks about the challenge of change in the overall packaging landscape.
October 31, 2005
Dairy
'Virtual' mechanical devices are mere graphical software elements
Rack-based, multi-processor control system makes carton filler easier and less costly to build, install, and operate.
October 31, 2005
Beverage
Swanky card packs nearly triple wine merchant's gift sales
Sherry-Lehmann, a New York wine merchant, faced this marketing challenge: Develop a new service to increase sales, and make the tone seamlessly complement the chic of its Manhattan store.
October 31, 2005
Beverage
The power of the 'aesthetic imperative' (sidebar)
The benefits of ethnography
October 31, 2005
Dairy
Prepress progress through new and old technologies
CPG companies want color accuracy that is dead-on, but they also want to squeeze out more efficiency from the package printing process. Prepress is where it all has to happen.
October 31, 2005
Dairy
Packaging made from renewable resources gains traction
As petroleum-based materials edge upward in cost, packaging made from renewable resources grows more appealing. Says one water bottler, 'It’s the right thing.'
October 31, 2005
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