Polar Beverages, a US-based soft drinks company, has selected Closure Systems International's (CSI) lightweight Omni mini XP 28mm linerless closures for its carbonated beverage lines. The closures are said to reduce total cost of ...
Tags: Packaging, Drink Packaging
The FDA has approved the sweetener advantame for use in the US The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced the new food additive, advantame, is safe for use as a general-purpose sweetener and flavour enhancer in food, ...
Tags: High-Intensity Sweetener, FDA
As part of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency's (CFIA) routine testing of various food products, a survey released today reported that all of the canned foods tested for Bisphenol A (BPA) were safe to consume. BPA was not detected in 98.5 ...
Tags: Canned Food, Bisphenol
Even a world leader in packaging and PET plastics machinery cannot stop improving its products. Sipa knows that. Last year, it began to wonder if its fillers could fill a wider range of needs: "We decided to look at our existing range of ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, PET plastics machinery
Major Western Australian dairy processor and fruit juice manufacturer Harvey Fresh has been sold to Italian dairy group Parmalat for about $117 million. Parmalat's Australian subsidiary is one of Australia's major manufacturers of dairy ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, dairy products, milk, yoghurt
In the last five years, the proportion of Australians drinking soft drinks such as colas and lemonades in an average seven days has declined from 56 per cent to 49 per cent, but could it be that more consumers are simply starting to enjoy a ...
Tags: Soft Drinks, Agriculture, Food, beverage
"Lighter, more attractive, consumer-friendlier packages." Has Krones got your attention? How about, "energy-economical, eco-friendly and affordable production operations"? These are the vital advantages that Krones will be putting on ...
Austrian manufacturer of plastic products Borealis and UAE-based Borouge have jointly launched a new grade of BorPure high density polyethylene (HDPE) family for caps and closures. Made with Borealis' Borstar polyethylene (PE) ...
Tags: Borealis, HDPE Grade, Caps, Closures
The installation was for a new company set up to serve the whole southeastern region of Asia. When Thai businessman, Pongsakorn Pongsak established the General Beverage Company Limited in his home country, he was entering the beverage ...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has begun public consultation on its draft guidelines on sugar intake, which recommends that sugars should be less than 10 per cent of total energy intake per day, but that reduction to below 5 per cent ...
STetra Pak is the engine room of Australia's dairy drive in Asia. It is getting drink manufacturers into better shape in an increasingly cluttered market. And it is giving the good old milk bottle a long life run for its money. Now it ...
Tags: Tetra Pak, drink manufacturers, better shape
In Australia, Strongbow is owned by CUB and is the number 1 cider. Its fresh new look packaging underpins the from-the-earth, farm qualities built into its advertising. Pack design here is the result of creativity at The Collective, and ...
Food packaging serves multiple purposes. It protects the foodstuff from moisture, dust, microbes, and other contaminants, it facilitates easy handling during transit and storage, guards against any physical or chemical damage and at stores ...
US-based energy drink producer Hiball Energy is planning to launch four new flavors of sparkling energy water, alongside two flavors of organic energy drinks. The proposed sparkling energy water and energy drink flavors will be ...
Tags: Hiball Energy, Energy Water, energy drink
CDR Pumps have teamed up with Ashton Pumps, an Diaphragm Pump sepcialists, to offer the FDA Hygenic pump ranges. The range consists of FDA Compliant and CFR Title 21 approved pumps, pumping systems, drum unloaders and stick pumps designed ...