Sidel technology in use at Nongfu Spring, China

Dry preform sterilization | Nongfu Spring’s latest additions to its beverage portfolio required a hyper-flexible and safe aseptic solution, able to process high- and low-acid, still and carbonated products in PET, while enabling impactful bottle designs. With four decades of supporting sensitive beverage producers worldwide, Sidel recently engineered and installed a complete aseptic packaging line, integrating the Versatile Aseptic Combi Predis™. The line helped the leading Chinese beverage player launch a breakthrough in the domestic market: sparkling Ready-to-Drink (RTD) products, aseptically bottled in PET.

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New rPET water bottle concept inspired by Greenland

100% rPET | Sidel’s art designers have created the Nuuk bottle concept, drawing inspiration from the purity of ice and its formations. Produced from clear, 100% recycled PET (rPET), Nuuk is a container designed for high-quality, fjord-sourced premium water brands.

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High-precision laboratory measurement system for plastic containers

Gawis 4D | Agr International, Inc., Butler, USA has unveiled their latest development, the Gawis 4D™, an all-in-one measurement system for plastic containers and preforms.

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Sidel’s accumulation solution Gebo AQFlex improves performance and agility

Sidel | Installed for the very first time in its largest size at Orangina Suntory France’s plant in Meyzieu, Sidel’s conveying and accumulation solution Gebo AQFlex® increases the uptime of their PET packaging line for soft drinks by offering a high level of flexibility to address a much diversified production range of nine bottle formats with different shapes.

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PET Bottle Performance improved

Agr International, Inc | Automated Blowmolder Control systems take the guesswork out of the blowing process.

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New reseller in Spain

Growing network | OneCircle, global supplier of PET kegs, is expanding its European footprint with the appointment of a new official reseller of KeyKeg and UniKeg in Spain – Bruni Glass Iberia.

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German environmental NGO accuses Coke of greenwashing

Germany | The NGO German Environmental Aid (DUH) has criticised Coca-Cola for blatant greenwashing, after the beverage giant announced plans to produce beverage containers which contain 25 percent of salvaged marine plastic.

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Stainless steel kegs as single-use containers for beverages

Draft beer market | The market for beverage containers in gastronomy has been in transition for a number of years. Changing consumer habits and new innovative beverages require a different perspective and a departure from the old ways of thinking, especially on the part of established beverage producers. WorldKeg stands for no-deposit, single-use stainless steel kegs – a new alternative to conventional beverage containers.

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Crop and market update & hop crop 2019 estimate

Hop market | The crop estimate for the Hallertau was announced on August 21st, meaning that crop 2019 estimates have now been submitted for all German hop growing areas.

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Beer sales turned around in 2018 after eleven years of decline

Russia | The Russian brewer Baltika, which is owned by Carlsberg, estimates that after eleven years of steady declines, the beer market grew 3 percent in 2018. In the previous year, beer consumption dropped between 4 percent and 5 percent.

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Hohe Recyclingquote für PET-Flaschen

Das am 1. Januar 2019 in Kraft getretene Verpackungsgesetz stellt höhere Anforderungen an das Recycling und soll die nachhaltige Kreislaufwirtschaft stärken. Das Recycling von PET-Flaschen in Deutschland bewegt sich bereits auf einem hohem Niveau: Mehr als 93 Prozent aller PET-Flaschen finden nach dem Gebrauch ein neues Einsatzfeld.

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Krones kauft MHT

Die Krones AG, Neutraubling,  hat die MHT Holding AG (MHT) übernommen, wie am 8. November 2018 bekannt gegeben wurde. Die MHT mit Sitz in Hochheim am Main liefert zusammen mit ihren Tochtergesellschaften Spritzgießwerkzeuge und Dienstleistungen für die PET-Industrie. Das Unternehmen erwirtschaftet mit 125 Mitarbeitern einen Umsatz von rund 25 Mio EUR.

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Celtic Pure invests in Sidel PET complete line

The water company has invested in state-of-the-art technology to cater to increased demand for their products from both Ireland and the UK markets. This choice gave them both the flexibility to tackle strong market growth and the ability to handle new product launches.

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Increased presence in South America

Petainer, a global leader in one-way kegs, is partnering with Blue Pet in Brazil to start manufacturing petainerKeg^TM – its global family of keg products which are increasingly being used by breweries for draught beer.

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Nanjing Ziquan installs second complete hot fill pet line

Nanjing Ziquan, one of China’s leading co-packers, has turned again to to the Switzerland-based company to increase its hot fill production capacity of Mizone, a functional drink brand particularly popular in China and packaged in PET, for which consumption is growing. The new line – running at a speed of 36,000 bottles per hour (bph) – follows positive feedback on a similar complete hot fill PET line installed in 2013. It brings the total number of hot fill lines installed in the Nanjing plant to three. The Chinese co-packer were looking for a solution which was respecting the highest hygienic standards required by its customer, while paying close attention to cost-efficiency so to keep the positive trajectory of its profitability.

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Three new distributors in Europe

The PET packaging supplier has appointed three new distributors in Europe, expanding its footprint in the region. The new distributors are Ice Techic in Bulgaria, BrewTec Europe in France and Scangothia in Sweden.

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Kleingebinde

Gerolsteiner bietet seine drei Mineralwasser-Sorten Sprudel, Medium und Naturell ab sofort auch in einer 0,33-l-PET-Einwegflasche an.

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Preform-Verarbeitung

Weniger Lärm, verbesserte Qualität: Die KHS Corpoplast GmbH entwickelt ein neues Verfahren zur Preform-Bearbeitung. Mit dem InnoPET Silent TipTainer sollen die PET-Rohlinge besonders schonend in die Sortiereinheit eingebracht werden. Im direkten Zusammenhang damit stehe eine deutliche Geräuschreduzierung im Bereich des Kippers, heißt es in der Pressemeldung vom 4. April 2017.

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Weißbier für unterwegs

Bier aus der Flasche zu trinken ist nicht jedermanns Sache. Aber wer will schon immer ein schweres Glas mitbringen? Gerade bei Weißbier ist das für die meisten Konsumenten ein großes Problem. Das Start-up vendl will dafür die Lösung bieten. Vendl ist im Prinzip Trinkglas und Flasche in einem. Die erste Version von vendl entspricht einem Weißbierglas. Laut der beiden Erfinder, Simon Nüesch und Dominique Felsch, ist die Form ist für jedes kohlensäurehaltige Getränk adaptierbar. Vor dem Öffnen wird vendl um 180 ° gedreht.