Beverage

MMC Packaging Equipment: High-speed Closure Slitting, Band Folding Machine

The machine is engineered with Industry 4.0 attributes and features a six-camera vision inspection to meet quality objectives.

October 10, 2019

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Beverage

Peel-back Labels Differentiate Each Wine in a Line

Wine's dual-layered labels are designed to be peeled back, unveiling an inside layer of colorful artwork that's unique to each wine.

October 5, 2019

Beverage

Three heads are better than one for Danish wine bottler

Bulk wine supplier Skanvin installs a triple-head automatic filling line to meet the bag-in-box requirements of customer Treasury Wine Estates.

October 5, 2019

Beverage

Cheers to cannabis: Big alcohol stakes a claim in the legal marijuana boom

Major beer companies are developing cannabis-infused beverages to tap into the nascent yet lucrative weed industry.

October 4, 2019

Food Ingredients

Produce Company Sticks with Proven Metal Detectors for New Plant

Happy with the metal detectors at its first two plants, F&S Produce installs six additional ones at its new plant that provide dependability, washdown capability, and high sensitivity to metal contaminants.

October 4, 2019

Confection & Candy

Global Packaging Outlook: North America

In the United States, the convenience of smaller pack sizes continues to draw high demand, but sustainability also continues to be a major issue, driving innovative materials, new pack types and industry-driven reuse/recycle programs.

October 4, 2019

Robotics

‘Safe-tea’ palletizing of capsules at Nestlé

Manual palletizing at Nestle’s Swiss facility producing tea capsules is replaced with two user-friendly collaborative robot palletizers custom-designed to ensure pallet stability and worker safety.

October 4, 2019

Sustainability

Dasani Uncaps a Record Number of More-sustainable Packaging Options

Among them, a bottle using rPET with plant-based plastic, two new aluminum package formats, a lighter-weight PET bottle, and a package-less, customizable water dispensing system.

October 4, 2019

Beverage

Carlsberg Replaces Shrink Wrap with Adhesive for Six-Packs

The radical new technology, which uses adhesive dots to hold multipacks of cans together, is expected to decrease the Danish brewer’s use of plastic by up to 13,000 tons/year.

October 4, 2019

Beverage

Coca-Cola Unveils 25% Marine Plastic Recycled Bottle

Today, Coca-Cola unveiled its first ever sample bottle made using recovered and recycled marine plastics, demonstrating that one day, even ocean debris could be used in recycled packaging for food or drinks.

October 4, 2019

Beverage

Coca-Cola Unveils 25% Recycled Marine PET Bottle

On Oct. 3, Coca-Cola unveiled its first ever sample bottle made using recovered and recycled marine plastics, demonstrating that one day, even ocean debris could be used in recycled packaging for food or drinks.

October 3, 2019

Beverage

Digital Brand Protection: Fingerprinting for Serialized and Non-Serialized Products

Systech’s next-generation platform is a brand protection suite that integrates fool-proof product authentication with serialization, traceability and insight.

October 2, 2019

Beverage

Paperboard Can Carrier System Scales from Craft to Volume

The new KeelClip can carrier system offers an environmentally friendly alternative to polymer can handles.

September 25, 2019