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Business Intelligence
Standing Out with Sustainable Strategies in Craft Beer and Spirits
Craft beer and spirits producers can connect with eco-conscious consumers through sustainability strategies including material switches, better labeling, and lightweighting.
April 4, 2024
Material switches are one way craft producers can connect with sustainability-focused consumers.
Beverage
How to Get Your Operations Past CO2 Supply Uncertainties
Carbon dioxide is used in a long list of food and beverage production—from the fizz in your drinks to freezing and chilling to cleaning and beyond. Here are some innovative ways users are overcoming supply issues.
April 1, 2024
Looking for a way to improve the reliability of its CO2 supply, Maine Beer installed a system to capture the CO2 produced in its fermentation process.
Business Intelligence
E-Commerce Challenges and Opportunities for Craft Producers
As the e-commerce channel grows for craft beer and spirits, producers need to work through legal and logistical challenges to successfully deliver products to consumers’ doorsteps.
March 28, 2024
As more consumers purchase alcohol online, craft beer and spirits producers need to ensure their packaging can withstand the rough handling of e-commerce distribution.
Business Intelligence
Craft Producers Investing in Label Premiumization
As craft producers explore label premiumization strategies like tactile and smart features, OEMs should be ready to successfully accommodate such changes.
March 21, 2024
Craft producers can use unique visual or tactile features to help draw customers in and communicate a feeling of luxury.
Business Intelligence
Non-Alcoholic Beer and Spirits Buzzing in the Craft Market
Trends like Dry January and Sober October are fueling growth in non-alcoholic beer and spirits, and craft producers are adding these products to their portfolios in response.
March 15, 2024
Non-alcoholic beverages can generally be packaged in the same format as their boozy counterparts, making it easier for craft producers to add an N/A option to their portfolios.
Business Intelligence
Craft Market Success Comes in Many Packages
Craft producers can build greater brand awareness by focusing on factors like primary packaging variety, multipacks, and specialty releases.
March 8, 2024
Various packaging sizes, multipack options, and specialty releases can help craft producers stand out from the crowd and grow brand loyalty.
Dry Processing
The Artistry of Making THC Powders
Le Herbe has spent nine years mastering the art and science of nanoemulsions to create ready-to-mix cannabis powders. Help with scaling has come from specialized spray drying and mixing equipment.
February 14, 2024
Le Herbe THC drink packets easily dissolve in hot or cold liquids.
Industry News
Chobani Purchases Coffee Maker La Colombe for $900M
The deal takes the Greek-yogurt maker deeper into the coffee market, particularly the fast-growing ready-to-drink space.
December 18, 2023
Chobani La Colombe Products
Industry News
Constellation Brands Looks to Drive Performance With New Leadership Appointments
The maker of such popular Mexican beers as Modelo, Corona, and Pacifico is expanding responsibilities for corporate leaders throughout the organization.
December 11, 2023
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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.
Beverage
Cap & Closure Star in The Glenlivet's Twist, Mix, and Pour RTD Cocktail
Pernod Ricard Chivas Brothers’ whisky brand The Glenlivet unveils a pair of instant mix, ready-to-serve cocktails that consumers prepare simply by opening the bottle. A twist of the aluminum shell cap releases pressurized cocktail mix ingredients.
October 31, 2023
As the cap moves up while being opened, it’s pushing one portion of the closure up while the other portion stays in place due to the friction on the inner bore of the glass. This opens the nitrogen-pressurized cartridge tank containing the ingredient mix.
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
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