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Beverage packaging has to be economically and ecologically feasible. Sustainability, flavor stability and consistent product quality are key to success in times of increasingly fierce competition. This applies to the entire process chain in brewing – right down to “the last mile” to the customer.
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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.
Filling
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].
Fermentation/Maturation
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.
Packaging
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.
Fermentation/Maturation
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
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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.
Packaging
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.
Filling
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."
Packaging
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.
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