Australian-owned Coopers Brewery has released a new ale, ‘2015 Extra Strong Vintage’. The new beer is the latest in Coopers vintage line which sees a different beverage ‘vintage’ introduced to the market each year. ...
Jungbunzlauer, a Swiss producer of biodegradable ingredients of natural origin, has agreed to acquire Ingredion's manufacturing facility in Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada. Upon completion of the acquisition, the Ingredion plant will be ...
Tags: Ingredion's manufacturing, gluconates, special salts food
As the packaging industry is moving from the Australian Packaging Covenant into the next generation of Government/Industry agreement, the Packaging Council of Australia (PCA) is working on behalf of its membership to negotiate the best way ...
Tags: innovative packaging, packaging machine, Packaging Design Awards
Craft beer is hot right now globally. With little money for traditional advertising, niche brewers are relying on striking packaging designs to win friends and influence beer (and wine) drinkers. The number of craft breweries in the US ...
Tags: beer packaging, new beer design, beverage
Latvia’s largest alcoholic beverages wholesaler SPI Distribution (Latvia) has changed its name and from July will work under the name Amber Distribution Latvia. According to Seymour Ferreira, Board Chairman of Amber Beverage Group ( ...
Fragrance and flavor company Givaudan has opened its CHF50m ($53.1m) savory flavors manufacturing facility in Nantong, China. With the new facility, Givaudan's existing production capacity will be more than doubled to cater to the ...
Tags: Givaudan, CHF50m, food manufacture, savory flavor
Rigid plastic container manufacturer Plastipak Packaging, an arm of Plastipak Holdings, will pump in $9m for raising output capacity at its manufacturing unit in Pineville, Louisiana, in the US. The company, which makes rigid plastic ...
Milk, sugar of cream? Grande, Vente? Those are words never uttered at a Chinese teahouse. At Starbucks, yes. Food and beverage chains all rely on add-ons to get the consumer hooked one way or the other. And of course, speed of delivery. ...
Tags: Tea, sugar of cream, Starbucks, Milk
Kazakhstan’s food and beverage producer RG Brands will receive $49.2m in loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to enhance its product offerings. The investment is in line with EBRD's strategy to ...
Hinoman has launched a vegetable whole-protein ingredient known as Mankai for food and beverage applications at IFT in Chicago. Mankai is an aquacultured source of vegetable protein, which is enriched with vitamins A and E, the B ...
China’s One Belt, One Road initiative is a comprehensive framework for organising multinational economic development and trade, which has inspired the creation of China Trade Week (CTW) and it is coming to Kenya. For the first ...
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Carton giant Tetra Pak has launched new electron beam sterilisation technology for its filling machines. The Tetra Pak E3's Ebeam technology focuses a controlled beam of electrons onto the surface of packaging material as it runs through ...
Tags: Carton giant, Tetra Pak, Packaging
Plastic packaging giant RPC Group is surging ahead with more acquisitions to boost growth. Speaking at a media event in central London this week, chief executive Pim Vervaat said that the company was becoming a leader in plastic products ...
Tags: Plastic packaging, RPC Group, plastic products, packaging
Food packaging company Sealed Air has begun the construction of its new headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina, US. The company will move to the new campus at LakePointe Corporate Center in early 2017, and is expected to employ around ...
Tags: Sealed Air Company, Food packaging, food
Crowd-sourced brands are the 'hot young things' of industry. PKN spoke to Nexba's Drew Bilbe and Troy Douglas about a line of iced teas based on the feedback of Facebook fans, friends and street artists. The idea for a brand of ice ...
Tags: iced teas, stand-out packaging