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Beverage
Texas’s Oldest Craft Brewer Finds New Ways to Manage Aluminum Can Waste
As demand for Saint Arnold’s beer grew, so did the need for sustainable solutions to manage excess waste. The Weima E.200 drainage press provided an easy way to dispose of underfilled or damaged cans.
November 17, 2023
Saint Arnold, Texas’s oldest craft brewer, creates beer sold in distinctive, colorful cans.
Business Intelligence
Beverage Industry Purchasing Index Grows in 2023
The beverage industry purchasing index shows expansion in every metric after contractions in 2022.
June 15, 2023
The 2023 beverage industry purchasing index is growing in 2023, albeit at a slightly slower pace than the overall market.
Sustainability
Reusable Rubber Bands Save Drake's Brewing Miles of Shrink Wrap
Drake’s Brewing was looking for a more environmentally friendly way to move its kegs from location to location. It found it in rubber pallet bands from Aero Rubber.
May 28, 2023
Rubber pallet bands gave Drake’s Brewing an alternative to shrink-wrapping its empty kegs to move them around the facility, saving the brewery 565 lb of plastic waste in the first year of use.
Robotics
Kuka Robotics Rolls Out Labor-Saving Print-A-Drink Application at Automate 2023
Company debuts what it calls the world’s first 3D printing technology for drinkable liquids, expanding the category of additive manufacturing.
May 26, 2023
3D Printed Cocktail Kuka Print-a-Drink
Beverage
Beverage Industry Grapples With Carbon Dioxide Shortages
It’s used for the bubbles in many of our drinks—and so much more. With environmental incentives favoring sequester over reuse, the industry will need to rethink CO2 sourcing.
May 21, 2023
Bob Yeoman speaks to attendees of BevTech 2023 about the impact of carbon dioxide reductions.
Beverage
Live at the Craft Brewers Conference: Brewers Need to Find New Ways to Innovate and Grow
We can no longer blame COVID for continued stagnation in the craft brew industry. To appeal to the younger generation—and female and BIPOC drinkers, in particular—breweries will need to take a hard look at what they’re doing.
May 10, 2023
Bart Watson, the Brewers Association's chief economist, explains to craft brewers why they need to come up with new ideas to get out of a period of slow to no growth.
Manufacturing Innovation Award
Top 10 Articles of 2022 – No. 2: Mark Anthony Brewing Goes for the Gold Standard
Join us as we look back at ProFood World’s most popular articles of 2022. At No. 2 is our first Manufacturing Innovation Award winner, a greenfield facility making White Claw Hard Seltzer, Mike’s Hard Lemonade, and other brews.
December 29, 2022
Mikes Bottles
Sustainability
Top 10 Articles of 2022 – No. 6: Coca-Cola Targets Sustainability From Every Angle
Join us as we look back at ProFood World’s most popular articles of 2022. No. 6 features a presentation from Coca-Cola’s Cloeann Durham about the beverage giant’s sustainability initiatives at ISBT’s annual BevTech meeting.
December 23, 2022
Bev Tech Cloeann Durham
IIoT
Top 10 Articles of 2022 – No. 7: Amway’s Energy Drink Meets Skyrocketing Demand Through Digital Thread
Join us as we look back at ProFood World’s most popular articles of 2022. At No. 7 is a case study about how Amway was able to apply one control and information system across all processes to improve capacity and product quality, save energy and raw mater
December 22, 2022
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Beverage
A Few Book Suggestions: On Puns and Bourbon
No, not puns about bourbon, thankfully, but a few different books for possible gifting this holiday season.
November 30, 2022
3 Books
Automation
Automation Shines at Sugarlands Distilling
Automated processes provide operational efficiency for the growth experienced by this producer of moonshine and other alcoholic beverages. The greenfield project contains the country’s largest distilling pot and wins a Manufacturing Innovation Award.
November 1, 2022
Lead Distiller Andrew Holt and Distiller Matthew Sauer oversee the mash process on one of the four fermenters used to make moonshine.
PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2023
Pressco Highlights Vision Inspection Solutions at PACK EXPO International
High-speed, end-to-end inspection system is ideal for beverage filling lines.
October 26, 2022
Beverage inspection system Pressco
Beverage
International Depalletizer Handles 6 Different Pallet Types
Ska Fabricating’s International Microbus empty-can depalletizer addresses the needs of the European market. Like the original Microbus launched earlier this year in the U.S. and Canada, it’s optimized for small spaces.
October 24, 2022
On display at PACK EXPO International, the International Microbus is a semi-automatic empty can depalletizer that can handle six different types of pallets.
Beverage
Cannabis Drinks Expo 2022: Growing the Category
Second-annual event highlights trending topics in this budding CPG segment.
August 15, 2022
Cannabis drinks syrup cans CPG
Beverage
Cann-Do: Successful Strategies for CPG Startups
Cannabis beverage brand Cann offers operating tips for attendees at the 2022 Cannabis Drinks Expo.
August 8, 2022
Cann cannabis microdose beverage
Manufacturing Innovation Award
Mark Anthony Brewing Goes for the Gold Standard
The largest and most technologically advanced brewery built in the U.S. in the past 28 years, a 1.3 million-sq-ft highly automated, fast-track greenfield facility wins a Manufacturing Innovation Award from ProFood World.
June 1, 2022
MAB’s new facility makes Mike’s Hard Lemonade, White Claw Hard Seltzer, and other ready to drink brands and will provide increased capacity to keep up with consumer demand in the eastern U.S.
Process Equipment
Live at the Craft Brew Conference: Is the Pint Glass Half Full or Half Empty?
Pandemic-related channel shifts subsided in 2021, and on-premise sales bounced back, but there are both encouraging and concerning signs for the craft brew industry. Brewers Association's Bart Watson captures the landscape in his State of the Industry.
May 4, 2022
The Brewing Association's Economist Bart Watson delivers the good news and the bad news in Minneapolis.
Sustainability
Coca-Cola, Suntory Cross the 100% Plant-Based Bottle Finish Line
After more than a decade of rigorous R&D work and significant investments with their respective partners, Coca-Cola and Suntory each unveil first-of-their-kind beverage bottle prototypes made from 100% bio-based PET, ready for commercial scale-up.
April 25, 2022
Coca-Cola has produced 900 prototype bottles made from 100% plant-based content.
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