Tag: bottles
Americas: Amcor designs PET beer bottles
Amcor has designed New Age’s Salzburg craft beer PET bottles with a crown metal cap, replicating the standard glass bottle.
The PET containers are...
Europe: Packaging craft spirits in pharma bottles
Originally designed as pharmaceutical containers for medicines and tonics, Beatson Clark’s apothecary range of bottles are giving craft spirits brand a distinctive, retro appearance.
BrewDog...
Middle East: Water bottler uses Sidel technology, saves 25% more
Emirates Refreshments Company (ERC) has carried out a short-neck conversion on its polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottling line. ERC, brand owners of Jeema Mineral Water...
Europe: BASF, Avantium to start JV on packaging material
BASF and Avantium are working to establish a joint venture (JV) for the production and marketing of furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA), as well as marketing...
Europe: Dairy plant installs two Kliklok shrink-wrapping machines
Kliklok has won a contract to supply and install two QSSF600 shrink-wrapping machines at Gloucestershire-based Cotteswold Dairy site in Tewkesbury, UK.
The dairy plant had...
Europe: Carlsberg embarks on three-year project with partners to create wood-fiber...
In its participation in a panel on Wasteless Supply at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Carlsberg announced a ground-breaking agreement to develop...
Americas: Verallia invests US$82M on greenfield plant in Brazil
Glass packaging company Verallia will construct a greenfield plant in the Northeastern part (Nordeste), Brazil.
The company has just signed a tentative agreement with the...
World: MENA packaging market to grow to US$52.4 million by 2019,...
The packaging market in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is valued at approximately US$41.1 billion in 2014 and is forecast to grow...
Americas: Crown Holdings to acquire Mexican EMPAQUE from Heineken
Crown Holdings has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire EMPAQUE, a Mexican manufacturer of aluminum cans and ends, bottle caps and glass bottles...
Americas: Plastic bottles remains as a popular packaging, finds study
The beverage packaging industry in North America is expected to reach US$26.3 billion in 2015, with plastic bottles leading the way in popularity, according...