American softdrink company Dr Pepper Snapple (DPS) has acquired Davis Beverage Group and Davis Bottling for an undisclosed amount. The transaction provides DPS with a 42-county distribution territory in eastern Pennsylvania, excluding ...
Tags: Davis Beverage, Davis Bottling, Agriculture
PPG Industries' packaging coatings business has announced that INNOVEL HPS coatings, the next generation of internal protective spray lacquers for the beverage can industry, has been approved for use on aluminum and steel beverage cans. ...
Tags: Packaging Coatings, PPG, HPS Coatings
Global beverage can manufacturer Rexam has collaborated with brewing company SABMiller to manufacture a new range of innovative can designs for the non-alcoholic beer brand, Birell. The cans will feature Rexam's value added thermochromic ...
Coca-Cola Amatil is not only one of the biggest beverage companies in this market, but its move into blowfill production now makes it a significant packaging player in the Australasian region, with the sustainability commitment to match. ...
Slim cans in a 250ml size have been hugely popular overseas since mid 2013. Now, Coca-Cola South Pacific has launched its small portion (250ml) can into Australia, for COCA-COLA, COKE ZERO, DIET COKE, COKE with Vanilla, FANTA, LIFT and ...
The Can Makers, the industry trade body representing the UK manufacturers of drinks cans, said there was a 7.1% increase across the UK drinks can markets, as the economy rose together with a warm spring and a summer of sport, particularly ...
Tags: Drinks Can, Packaging, Printing
Nestle Pure Life, the 1 bottled water brand in the U.S. by volume, today announced the expansion of its product portfolio with the introduction of Nestle Pure Life Exotics Sparkling Water, a line of unsweetened sparkling water with unique, ...
Tags: Nestle Pure Life, sparkling water, Food
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
Sidel, a global provider of liquid packaging solutions, has announced that it was awarded a major project in Ikeja, Nigeria, by the Nigerian Bottling Company, a member of the Coca-Cola HBC, one of the world’s largest bottlers of ...
Tags: Sidel, Coca-Cola Contracts
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
The global PET packaging market is worth $48.1 billion in 2014, amounting to almost 16 million tonnes according to a new market report from Smithers Pira. Demand for PET packaging is expected to increase by an average of 4.6% annually ...
Tags: Packaging Material, PET packaging
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
Feedstock issues and supply tightness have driven up North American prices for suspension PVC and solid polystyrene resin since Feb. 1. But a different feedstock and lower demand served to send regional prices for PET bottle resin down in ...
Tags: PVC, Polystyrene, vinyl chloride
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
Cargill has unveiled ViaTech, a new stevia-based sweeteners line, designed for food and beverage manufacturers. The new sweeteners are claimed to allow F&B producers to achieve optimal sweetness and significant sugar reduction. They ...
Tags: Cargill, Sweeteners Range