With its 0.5-liter PET bottle with a screw cap for highly carbonated beverages KHS is setting new standards in lightweighting. The bottle weighs just 10.9 grams which on an international scale makes it the lightest PET container for heavily carbonated beverages of its kind and size currently on the market.

The potential of novel biobased polymers in beverage packaging

Use of renewable natural resources in industrial applications reduces dependence on oil and diminishes the carbon footprint associated with manufacture and use of consumer products. A particular area of emphasis has been on materials for packaging applications. Approximately 40 percent of all plastics are used in packaging. This puts pressure on the packaging industry to adopt biobased materials solutions [1].

Private brewery Mo ritz Fiege invests in new filler

Top-quality beer from the Ruhr region for the Ruhr region is what private brewery Moritz Fiege in Bochum, Germany, undertakes to produce. Says Hugo Fiege, who now owns the brewery in its fourth generation together with his brother Jürgen Fiege, “Private brewery Moritz Fiege sees itself as a home-brew company equipped with outstanding plant technology.” This statement is underlined by the brewery’s latest investment in a new KHS filling system for glass bottles.

For many years there have been misperceptions around beer in PET, regarding, for instance, temperature and taste. Now international packaging producer Sidel wants to help change these misperceptions by creating a PET bottle that utilises a "champagne" base and also supports crown closures, which are both more traditionally found on glass beer bottles.

An investment in the future

D.G. Yuengling & Son, the oldest brewery in America, was founded in 1829. Yuengling’s most recent investment in innovative engineering was to purchase a KHS keg line for the brewery facilities in Tampa, Florida. In 2005 the brewery had procured a KHS keg system for their site in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. Then Richard (Dick) Yuengling, fifth-generation

Worldwide in Use

After several years of growth the export of German beers saw a slight stagnation in 2012. Viewed in terms of target countries, exports still showed considerable growth rates in some areas, particularly to distant locations such as China or the Russian Federation, where a growing affluent middle class enjoys drinking German beer.

Rexam PLC, a leading global beverage can maker, announces that it has taken an equity stake in Magnaparva Packaging (MP Packaging) to help develop new technologies for its beverage can making process. MP Packaging is part of Magna Parva, a UK based advanced engineering and research and development company.

As an international manufacturer of filling and packaging equipment for the beverage, food, and non-food sectors, KHS pursues its vision of being ’First Choice in Technology and Service’. Anke Fischer, head of Finance, Human Resources, and IT at KHS: "Because highly qualified employees are essential in being and remaining the first choice for our customers around the globe, we pay special attention to developing young talent."

VLB Berlin merges the Research Institute for Engineering and Packaging (FMV) and the Department of Brewing and Beverage Science & Applications (BBSA) to the new Research Institute for Beer and Beverage Production (FBGP). The new institute will be headed by Dr. Roland Pahl.

Kaiserdom Specialitäten Brauerei invests in new equipment

The Kaiserdom Specialitäten Brauerei (Kaiserdom Specialty Brewery) based in the Franconian city of Bamberg operates differently than other German breweries in many sectors and with great success. It was recognized at an extremely early stage that an increase in the volume of beer sales on the German market was highly unlikely, so export activities started as early as 1978. Today, Kaiserdom products are available in more than 50 countries worldwide. The company’s most recent investment is in the electronically controlled Innofill DVD volumetric can filler and the Innokeg Till PETBoy F 2 Petainer keg racking system by KHS, Dortmund, Germany.