Beverage

The aim of the partnership is to offer a reference network to companies in the packaging branch and related processing industries. The partners now have signed respective agreements defining the details of their partnership, first announced at interpack 2017.

In mid-June 2017, the EU court of justice ruled in case C-422/16 that, for the purposes of promotion and marketing, the term “milk” is only permissible for animal products (EU regulations had previously allowed certain exceptions).

The Thermo Scientific Versa checkweigher controller now offers an optional filler valve monitoring capability that monitors the behavior of up to 16-filler heads and determines if any individual head is not performing correctly.

PET processing equipment and technology specialist SIPA will point the spotlight at its Pellet to Pallet expertise at Drinktec (Hall A5 - Stand 303), the beverage and liquid food industry exhibition taking place in Munich on September 11 to 15.

Six months ago, DuPont and a number of partners launched a ground-breaking pilot project in South Africa on nutrition, food waste, packaging and the circular economy called “the Virtuous Circle”. The challenge? Developing a “best practice” of multilayer plastic packaging that keeps food safe for longer, reduces waste, and is recyclable.  

Albis Plastic is presenting “Active Packaging” solutions for flexible film applications, such as bag-in-box (BIB) wine packaging, at this year’s Interpack trade fair (Hall 7, Level 1, Stand A08).

Eye-catching, practical and sustainable: consumers and consumer goods manufacturers have a range of expectations when it comes to our packaging solutions. To meet those expectations as precisely as possible, packaging has to above all be one thing: as individual as the consumers themselves.

Equipment and process technology specialist SIPA will point the spotlight at its expertise in specialty PET containers at Interpack 2017 (Hall 13, Stand B73). For the first time, as a world preview, SIPA will present a new model  of its best in class linear blowmolding systems, the SFL 6/8 EVO.

WaveGrip, the first genuine alternative to current beverage multi-packing solutions, and the WorldStar-winning Twist Cup with screw lid, the latest in a long line of award-winning packs, are just two of the highlights of the RPC Group stand (Hall 10, Stand D21) at this year’s Interpack.

VOLPAK strives to innovate and respond to the continuous growth in flexible packaging and, to this end, is committed to expand the successful range of SI Series machines by developing the new SI-440 model, which will be officially presented during 2017.

At FachPack 2016 (Hall 1, Stand 1-221), MULTIVAC Marking & Inspection will be demonstrating the capabilities of its labelling solutions, and how they can be integrated into lines, among these a R 245 thermoforming packaging line and a T 600 L traysealer line. In addition to these, the focus will be on reliable stand-alone solutions, such as the L 310 conveyor belt labeller, and the…

The Ecovà lightweight glass bottle a boost to Verallia’s exports. The company accelerates on technology and recycling, and proposes a “reform” in the collection of used containers.

Facts and figures of the latest edition of Simei-Enovitis, and an initial review of the products seen at the show.

From EnoPE to LunaPlus, or that is the evolved alternative to cork in recent developments of synthetic wine “corks”, but also with guarantee of SQM certification, the new frontiers of sustainability and style, a special logistics service. Enoplastic makes a new leap forward and for next year promises new features at all degrees regarding its own technologies.

Between tastings, technology and much business, drinktec 2013 (the beverage and liquid food industry show organized by Messe München) not only exceeded expectations, but can also be registered as the turning point in the relaunch of the entire bottling and beverage segment. Technological notes of what was seen at the fair, with preview snippets.

Focus on KHS for the direct UV printing of the container: speed 36,000 bph, maximum customisation, format change in just a few minutes.

Ocme offers beverage operators DryBlock®, a labeling, shrink wrapping, wrap-around, cartoning and palletizing monoblock, which can boast superior performance and efficiency. It offers the great advantage of eliminating internal transport, assembly, wiring and programming, as well as enabling cost saving (36% energy saving alone).

A new method of sterilisation based on electron-beam technology, that only treats the preform instead of the complete bottle, significantly reducing, , the costs of the operation and the size of the system while offering the same results.

The latest Irpalst new feature for labeling is called Micron19TM and it is a PP label of only 19 microns (against an average of 30-35), already adopted by different large bottling concerns.

The Sacmi Group has developed a compact labeling machine, able to perform the loading and unloading of the material completely automatically at the maximum operating speed (up to 60,000 b/h). Innovative too the management of the waste liner.