Special requirements when filling beer in polyester bottles

About one year ago, no adequate technological values could be guaranteed for beer in PET bottles and taste stabilities achieved ranged from a few weeks to a number of months. With the advent of multi-layer and physical bottle treatment processes, technological values very similar to those of "glass packaging" are just around the corner.

In view of the expected improvement of taste stability expected of beers filled in PET bottles and a preference for ever lighter containers on the part of the beverage industry and consumers, DIS decided to avail of these market opportunities and develop in-house know-how in the "PET beer sector", in addition to available PET know-how in the soft drinks sector. The plant has a capacity of 30,000 bottles/h, either 33 or 50 cl. 60 °C.
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Baltika: biggest eastern European brewery and soon Europe’s largest

Only ten years old, not yet grown out of infancy, and already the largest brewery plant in eastern Europe. The incredible success story of the Russian showpiece brewery Baltika, St. Petersburg was sired by many.

Baltika was established as a state-owned brewery in 1990 and in 1991 started with an output of 270,000 hl. Privatization of the company began in 1992 when the Scandinavian Baltic Beverages Holding (BBH) - a group comprised of Pripps and Hartwall - acquired the con-trolling interest. By 1997 Baltika reached an output of 3 million hectoliters; 12% of the total Russian beer market. During the same year, Baltika acquired the majority interest in the southwest Russian Donpivo Brewery in Rostov-na-Donu.9 million hl. Planning includes 6. 1" through "Baltika No. 6) with 7....