A new dimension of cold-aseptics: the Darguner Brewery is setting tougher yardsticks with its new PET-Asept line. It serves as a multifunctional line, alone handling four different product categories, several container sizes and a total of up to 30 different stock-keeping units. An experiment that’s succeeded. Despite frequent change-overs, sterility is always assured. Krones supplied the filling and packaging technology, the process section and the line documentation system as a turnkey job.

REAL MEN don’t eat Quiche, they don’t wear pyjama trousers in bed and they certainly don’t drink beer out of a glass. That’s what longneck bottles are there for. Ms Manners may have been offended by the sight of REAL MAN glugging his beer straight from the bottle, but since the two hardly ever move in the same circles, REAL MAN tended to get away with his less than posh nosh table manners. Not for much longer, apparently. South African Breweries is spending good money on TV commercials that have only one message: Eh dude, drink your Peroni out of a glass!

A “little bit of aseptics” or a “floating concept involving normal operation, cold preservation or UltraClean” cannot assure sustained compliance with the necessary standards that have to be met by microbiological processes, as well as with hygiene and aseptic requirements in aseptic cold filling. As the diversity of beverages is forcing up the standards applicable in hygienic and aseptic filling, it is necessary to revise acceptance criteria accordingly for the filling equipment involved.

You don’t anger the powers-that-be with impunity. Not in Georgia. Remember Prometheus? He stole the sacred fire from the god Zeus and gave it to mortals.

The “First Obermurtaler Brewing Cooperative” is one of the last well-known Austrian private breweries. The rapid growth the brewery has experienced over the past years (+ 52 percent since 1995) can be attributed, in part, to the packaging in cardboard 6 and 4 packs beloved all over the “Alpine Republic”. A new repacking system has led to growth and increased sales for the brewery.

Operational success is highly dependent on the quality and comprehensiveness of information that is available for the decision-making process. This applies all the more when company structure and the environment are subject to rapid change.

The first part of this article provides an overview of state-of-the-art of CO2 recovery. In the second part, a newly developed process is compared to established pro­cesses. Results from research and development of the new recovery pro­cess are presented. Pointers to assist in decisions relating to new investments are given.

The primary functions of belt lubricants are to reduce the friction between the packaging containers and the conveyer belt as well as to sufficiently reduce the impact pressure on the containers accumulated along the conveyer belt. The dry belt lubricant system introduced below features numerous advantages.

Boon Rawd is once again on the crest of a wave. This Thai brewery group, drawing inspiration from its corporate traditions, is now back on level pegging with its competitors. After having been the undisputed market leader in this country’s beer market for about 65 years, enjoying something of a monopoly, Boon Rawd had lost substantial market shares to its competitors over the past ten years. But luckily, times change. With single-minded purposefulness, the group has invested in its chosen market and new state-of-the-art technology, thus catching up with what is meanwhile the second large brewery group in Thailand. In that same period, Boon Rawd managed to increase its output by far more than half in an expanding market.

On July 6, 2007, Hacklberg Brewery of Passau/Germany officially commissioned the new

The Romanian Bere Mures brewery, part of the Heineken Group, commissioned its first canning line in the context of extensive modernisation projects. The complete plant was designed and installed by Vipoll, specialists from Slovenia.