Since 2015, Paulaner’s production facility and management offices have been in different locations. The beer is brewed in Munich's Langwied area, whereas the management is based in the city's Au district. In order to save commuting time and still ensure efficient communication between the two sites, the brewery’s management decided to deploy a video conferencing solution. "Our staff would have wasted far too much time in Munich traffic travelling between the two sites," explains Nikola Parlov, System and Applications Developer at Paulaner. "A video conferencing solution seemed to be an ideal alternative." A second, important reason was communication with distribution companies in the USA, China and Italy.

Mitteleuropäische Brautechnische Analysenkommission MEBAK® [EV]: Microbreweries – From Project Planning to Quality Assurance, 2017, 555 pages, ISBN: 978-3-9815960-6-9.

One quarter of a million and counting: Evoguard GmbH, a subsidiary of Krones AG, has manufactured 250,000 valves since 2010. “The high quality assured by the 'Made in Germany' production process, the energy savings achievable, the rigorous compliance with safety requirements in the development stage and in the process, have proved thoroughly persuasive to the decision-makers responsible in the food and beverage industries, and at dairy firms as well,” explains Martin Zierer, Managing Director of Evoguard GmbH, adding that “the more than 1,000 users in over 100 different countries also evidence the widespread acceptance of these valves on the market”.

The merger between the two Danish consulting companies Alectia and Niras creates a new global player in the process engineering industry that now offers all services under one roof.

With the new version of its automation software systems, zenon 7.60 and zenon Analyzer 3.10, Copa-Data is presenting further milestones for ergonomic working for project engineers and operators in manufacturing companies.

Krones released its 2016 annual report. The company continued its stable, profitable growth and intends to give shareholders an appropriate share in its success.

AB InBev announced on 28 March 2017 a commitment to secure 100 per cent of the company’s purchased electricity from renewable sources by 2025. This would be a great step forward given that the amount the brewery group purchases today is seven per cent. In total, this will shift six terawatt-hours of electricity annually to renewable sources in the markets where AB InBev operates and will help transform the energy industry in countries like Argentina, Brazil, India and Africa.

The Brewers of Europe welcomes the European Commission’s call of 13 March 2017 for alcoholic drinks to list ingredients and nutrition information, matching the requirement for non-alcoholic beverages that came into force in December 2016. EU rules oblige producers of beverages below 1.2 per cent ABV to list ingredients and provide the seven nutritional values per 100 ml. The EU Regulation also requires companies voluntarily providing ingredients and calorie information for alcoholic beverages above 1.2 per cent ABV to do so per 100 ml.

Tracking Staling Components in Beer

Sensitive analyses are required for assessing beer ageing because beer contains only low concentrations of relevant compounds. It is possible to identify these compounds: following extraction from beer, thermal desorption-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry is used in the subsequent analysis.

Pentair plc (NYSE: PNR) announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Union Engineering A/S, headquartered in Fredericia, Denmark. Union Engineering specializes in sustainable technologies for capturing, recovering and purification of carbon dioxide.