Water suitable for human consumption has to meet microbiological requirements and must not exceed limit values regarding chemical substances that have a negative influence on drinking water. For compliance with these guidelines various treatment procedures for drinking water are admitted, which are discussed below.

Unless agreed otherwise,

Franke Beverage Containers expands its North American operations by acquiring the beer keg production activities of Spartanburg Stainless Products, Inc., South Carolina, USA. For many years the North American keg market has been successfully served by Franke Beverage Containers through its sales office in California with keg deliveries from its European production facility in Kreuztal, Germany.

Separation of contaminating material such as labels, adhesives, sand, etc. represents an important task in the recycling of PET bottles. B+B Anlagenbau GmbH offers an innovative and highly efficient plant concept based on dry grinding with separation of contaminants by downstream dry mechanical separation and subsequent continuous hot washing.

The multitude of bottle and crate types and the large number of widely differing beverage containers and secondary packaging in the beverage industry is steadily increasing worldwide. Hardly any company today is prepared to forgo an individual brand presentation both in the returnable and non-returnable sector. For the processing of

The complete production process of alcohol free beverages, ready-to-drink teas or alcoholic mixed drinks will in the future be part of the competence of Krones. Already today the company offers engineering and fabrication of entire syrup rooms and mixing systems. A series of projects has recently been brought to a successful conclusion.

The Czechs’ love of beer – it not only manifests itself in the highest per-capita beer consumption in the world, but also in the fact that the first Pilsner was brewed here, in Pilsen. A new can filler in the internationally firmly established Plzensky Prazdroj brewery meets the performance required. Described in the following are its advantages and flexibility – two preconditions for further development as planned.

High increases | The Russian Efes succers story started in the early 90s. The high quality Efes Pilsener was exported into Russia, which made this country in an extremely very short time the most important export market for the Turkish brewery Group Efes. The logical decision was to invest in 1999, Efes Pilsener was one of the first beer brands to be brewed in Russia under licence. Today, the brewery group invests in modern packaging from KHS filling technology to meet the trend towards.

Cold Aseptic Filling (CAF) requires a filling plant that operates aseptically, with complete absence of germs in the filled containers and plant peripherals ahead of the filling plant that render the product to be filled completely germ-free thermally and keeps it such for a long period of time, before passing it on – cooled down again – to the filling plant. This is the only way of reliably achieving the increasingly long shelf lives of soft drinks, combined with the convenience of light plastic packaging, without addition of preservatives.

Beer drinking enjoyment depends on temperature and appearance, as well as on good taste. Dispensing from kegs has become established practice but damaged kegs or those handled incorrectly during transport can considerably diminish enjoyment of beer and lead to complaints and claims. This report is meant to show up weak points and describe possibilities of integrating a well functioning maintenance and control system in the plant.