MARTENS Brewery is leveraging their Direct Print industrial scale digital printing technology from KHS to renovate the look and feel of their own brand, MARTENS Pils, by eliminating labels altogether resulting in a visually appealing, ...
Tags: MARTENS Brewery, Direct Print, KHS, PET Package
Spectra Packaging will be appearing at next month’s Packaging Innovations Show in Birmingham. For the sixth year in succession, Spectra will be exhibiting at the prestigious UK packaging event to premier their very latest innovative ...
US demand for food containers is projected to increase 2.8% per year to more than $31bn in 2020. Major trends include a general shift from rigid packaging formats to flexible containers, efforts to improve both the reality and optics of ...
The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) is calling on the Federal Government to apply heavier taxes to cheap alcohol including wine sold in casks. Although the wine cask was invented in South Australia in the 1960s, the RACP ...
Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council (HPRC), in collaboration with SPI: The Plastics Industry Trade Association (SPI), have launched a multi-hospital plastics recycling project in Chicago. Focused on non-infectious plastic packaging and ...
China is introducing a new tax which will impact Australian food companies that rely on selling their products online. Details of the tax are not yet clear however it is expected that online purchases from outside of China will be ...
Tags: Tax, Australian Products, Online Sales, Online Sales Tax
South Wine Company (SWC) has selected SIG Combibloc's packaging and filling technology to pack its Odyssey brand wines. The selection is a part of SWC's plan to move from glass bottles to a 1,000ml combiblocSlimline carton pack for ...
Tags: South Wine Company, SWC, SIG Combibloc's packaging, Odyssey brand wines
A Belgian brewery has announced it will do away with labels for its PET bottles. Martens Brewery, which became known for its digitally printed PET bottles late last year, is again leveraging Direct Print industrial-scale digital printing ...
Tags: Brewery, PET bottles, Labels
An election promise made by Premier Mike Baird, the container deposit scheme will reward the public with 10c each container they return and recycle. Similar programs were established in South Australia and the Northern Territory in the ...
Tags: AFGC, Recycling System, NSW
US-based brewing company Stone Brewing has expanded its product portfolio with the launch of new 2016 Stone Imperial Russian stout. The new stout is available in 22-ounce bottles, as well as on draft at bars, retailers and restaurants ...
In celebration of World Water Day, Bacardi has launched an in-house initiative to remove straws and stirrers in cocktails at company events. Starting in its North America regional headquarters office in Coral Gables, Fla., and its Bombay ...
Dutch brewer Heineken has introduced a limited edition lager H41, the first drink in its lager exploration series, which has been brewed using rare ‘mother’ yeast discovered in Patagonia. The new lager features fuller ...
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Greencroft Bottling has invested £3m in filling lines and labelers at its manufacturing facility in County Durham, UK. With the investment, the firm has increased the capacity of the wine and spirit bottling facility by 25%, ...
Rigid plastics, flexibles, and board, metal and glass packaging will drive industry expansion across the next five years. In global researcher Smithers Pira's report, called The Future of Global Packaging to 2020, it states that the $839 ...
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A mineral water bottling plant in Warburg, Germany will start using the InnoPET Blomax stretch blow-moulder from packaging systems manufacturer KHS this month. The bottler, Germete, fills in and sells over 340 million litres of mineral ...
Tags: Packaging, Stretch Blow-Moulder, KHS, Pet Bottling Line, InnoPET