Beverage

FDA Issues Final Guidance for Packaged Foods Manufacturers

Clarifies serving sizes, dual-column labeling

January 7, 2020

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Coca-Cola Company Buys Remaining fairlife LLC Stake

Now company’s sole owner

January 6, 2020

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Danone Signs Renewable Energy Deal

Will receive energy from new Enel wind farm

January 5, 2020

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Borden Dairy Begins Reorganization Proceedings

Will continue operating as normal

January 2, 2020

Beverage

Admix Founder Lou Beaudette Announces Retirement

Mike Rizzo named chief executive officer

December 23, 2019

Processing Equipment

HP Hood Takes the Fast Track to Expansion

An idle cultured dairy products plant is converted into a technologically advanced plant that produces and packages fluid milk for extended shelf life dairy beverages by installing technologies to advance the facility’s food safety and control systems.

December 23, 2019

Beverage

Craft Breweries and Distilleries Machinery and Automation Trends

A review of the trends, machinery, and growing use of automation in the craft beer and craft spirits industry in the U.S.

December 20, 2019

Beverage

Ease of Use, Recyclability Push Growth of Flexible Plastic and PET Bottles in Western Europe

In 2018, food packaging accounted for a 55% share of the market in the region, followed by 37% for beverage packaging. Both the food and beverage categories saw the demand for smaller, lighter, and easy to store and handle pack sizes.

December 16, 2019

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Food Packaging Dominates China Market

According to “Global Packaging Trends,” a new report compiled by Euromonitor International for PMMI Business Intelligence, food packaging accounts for more than 50% of the total packaging market in China.

December 11, 2019

Beverage

PET Leads Beverage Pack Type, but Sustainable Options Still a Growing North American Trend

Though bottled water’s continued growth in the North American beverage market boosts PET dominance in the region, manufacturers are looking at other, more sustainable pack types too.

November 20, 2019

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PET Bottle for Beer

Amcor has adapted its technology to develop the first PET bottles for pasteurized beer in Brazil.

November 17, 2019

Beverage

Price and Returnability Increased Focus in Latin American Beer and Carbonate Packaging

PET is still growing in the bottled water and carbonate markets, as is metal cans for beer and carbonates, but large size returnable glass bottles are also a popular beverage pack type in Latin America.

November 11, 2019

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Lawmakers Propose Radical Legislation to Address Global Plastic Waste

Legislation would make plastic producers responsible for collection and recycling of materials, put a moratorium on new plastic facilities, and require nationwide container deposits.

November 6, 2019