Sidel | Producing a great diversity of bottles from 0,5 L to 1,5 L on a single packaging line for PET, Pearlwater Mineralquellen AG, Termen, Switzerland, was determined to enhance the efficiency of its production line as well as bottle quality by upgrading its PalKombi Gripping palletiser’s performance, installed by Sidel in 2011. Trusting in its OEM, Pearlwater were able to increase the palletiser’s reliability and flexibility for the handling of various pack sizes and improved overall line efficiency by 5% with better pack and pallet stability. 

Krones | On 25th August, the German Packaging Institute announced Krones AG and its subsidiary, Dekron, as winners of the German Packaging Award 2020 in the category “sustainability”. The prize-winning entry involves a beverage bottle, the design and lifecycle of which were comprehensively created in accordance with sustainability criteria.

Ardagh | The global supplier of metal and glass packaging has committed to set science-based targets through the Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi), a project that aims to encourage corporate climate action for a low-carbon economy.

New Development | The KHS Group, Dortmund, Germany, has added a further environmentally-friendly system to its portfolio. With its tried-and-tested Innopack Kisters tray packers the systems supplier now enables cans to be wrapped in paper.

4.0 technology | Sacmi Imola S.C., Imola, Italy, is leading the re-opening of international markets by providing customers with close support worldwide. Remote factory acceptance tests and the ability to provide a true remote start-up service (SAT – site acceptance test), ensuring customers maximise the opportunities provided by 4.0 technology.

Sidel | The M version of Sidel’s CoboAccess™_Pal answers growing cobotic palletising needs.

EOL | Pursuing its Buy & Build strategy, EOL Packaging Experts GmbH, Kirchlengern, Germany has made a second add‐on acquisition by investing in BMS Maschinenfabrik GmbH in Pfatter, Germany.

A big deal

An exemplary plant | Heineken and KHS are setting standards with the newest and one of the biggest breweries in Mexico on all counts: besides its impressive proportions the plant is also a shining example when it comes to ecological and economic sustainability.

Delivering the circular economy

Cradle to cradle | Businesses around the world are under pressure to operate as sustainably as possible and the global brewing industry is no exception. Understandably, the use of packaging is under the spotlight in terms of supply chain benefits, product protection and with the rise in consumer environmental awareness the packaging end of life and re-use. Reduction in the use of plastics, recycling, was the aim a few years ago but now business models need to move towards a full circular evidenced lifecycle solution.

Optima | Optima do Brasil has entered into a partnership with the Brazilian mechanical engineering company Quality Machines based in Campinas.