Bottling, Canning & Cartoning
Africa: Coca-Cola fills beverages with fruit with KHS lines
Coca-Cola Canners in South Africa has opted for a high-performance hot filling line from KHS for its juice and sports beverages.
It was decided to...
Europe: Krones buys German company
Krones has purchased 100% of the stock in HST Maschinenbau GmbH, a German company located in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania that designs and manufactures homogenizers and...
Americas: Tetra Pak to offer full color digital printed cartons
Tetra Pak is to become the first company in the food and beverage carton industry to offer full-color digital printing on its carton packages,...
Europe: Baby food range packed in convenient pots
Lovemade has chosen RPC Superfos’s injection molded SuperLock polypropylene pots for its new range of readymade organic baby foods in Sweden.
The eight varieties in...
Americas: Lidding film for cold dairy foods
Toray Plastics (America) releases LumiLid XL7W film, a white, easy-to-peel polyethylene terephthalate (PET) lidding film for use with refrigerated and frozen dairy foods that...
Americas: Winery to be the first to use plant-based cork closure
Avalon Winery is the first US winery to use the new plant-based Select Bio, a zero carbon footprint wine closure, says wine closure producer...
Americas: Brazilian dairy company Sabe opts for filling technology from SIG Combibloc
Brazilian dairy company Sabe Alimentos Ltda is opting for the filling technology from SIG Combibloc with two filling machines operating at its Muribeca factory...
Americas: Husky to exhibit at NPE 2015
Husky Injection Molding Systems will at NPE 2015 (March 23 – 27, Orlando, Florida) showcase a HyPET HPP5 system – a fully integrated injection...
Asia Pacific: Vietnam sells state-owned beer companies, report
The Vietnamese government’s sale of a majority share in the two largest state-run breweries offers foreign brewers to take a stake in the country's...
Europe: Authority review BPA effects on the immune system
The European Food Standards Agency (EFSA) is setting up a working group of international experts to evaluate new scientific evidence on the potential effects...