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Label printers, packaging designers and marketing specialists have, in recent months, entered the best examples of their handiwork in an international label competition, the Golden Label Award. Of the more than 700 submissions, an international expert jury, consisting of printing experts, marketing specialists and packaging designers, made a pre-selection of those paper labels that achieved the highest points in all evaluation criteria.
The four criteria being evaluated related to promotional effect, creative design and emotional impression, printing technique and finishing standard as well as its implementation and innovative or special applications in conjunction with material, metallic colours, halftone processes etc. ...
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More attention is now being paid to Quality Control as problems due to inadequately cleaned beer and beverage containers, bottles and kegs have been occurring more and more frequently in recent years. For example, residues can have an effect on the taste and lead to microbiological problems. Monitoring of the cleanliness of the packaging is becoming an indispensable measure in order to avoid adversely affecting the product and expensive recall campaigns.
Today’s technologies make it possible to carefully monitor the cleaning process of bottles and kegs/casks. As part of its comprehensive range of quality and monitoring instruments for laboratories, and for process monitoring in the brewing and beverage industry, Haffmans B.V. ...
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Side impact sensitivity is an important quality criterion of bottle closures, especially for carbonated beverages. Bottle closures together with the materials they are made from may differ substantially in terms of side impact sensitivity. Warsteiner Brauerei Haus Cramer KG, Warstein, has developed a new test method for measuring this important parameter in the packaging area.
Lateral impact sensitivity of closures may cause leakages when bottles topple over during transport in the filling process or at customers’ premises, e.g. when being transported horizontally in cool bags or when placing them in ice boxes and refrigerators. Up to that time, no generally valid, reproducible test method existed.g. beech).g. beech) (closure pointing downwards). ...
Filling
Aseptic cold bottling plants are being increasingly installed in non-alcoholic beverage operations. This can be attributed to more stringent hygiene requirements due to the multiplicity of new beverage brands and associated new, innovative, microbiologically sensitive products and the move away from cold sterilisation agents. Furthermore, quality specifications that have to be met despite dropping hot filling and increased use of PET and PEN bottles or suitable alternatives have provided added impetus.
Commercial flash pasteurisation plants have already been covered in an earlier article in Brauwelt International (4/04, 236 - 241). This part, dealing with plant configuration, describes the theoretical background and concepts and also details the various production areas. 1). 2)..
Cleaning/Disinfection
The main conveyor is the most critical mechanical component of the tunnel pasteuriser. In view of this, and the fact that approx. 80 - 85% of total pasteuriser downtime is related to conveyor belt problems, it is evident that conventional conveyor solutions have not been optimal. Additionally, the integrity of the conveyor belt is critical for an optimum PU control because the control system relies on input on the exact position of the products in the pasteuriser. Belt elongations will disturb input and are therefore damaging to product quality. Temperatures in pasteurisers may vary between 3 °C and 85 °C.
The tunnel pasteuriser conveyor must, at the same time, be very flexible, i.e. able to handle a wide number of product and container types.e. 1:50.000. ...
Packaging
The Fraunhofer Gesellschaft (Fraunhofer Society FhG) coordinates applied research. It was not a great surprise that many participants from Fraunhofer sister institutes were present at this year’s annual meeting of the Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging (IVV) held in Freising on May 4th and 5th and that there was reference to successful research cooperation between the various institutes.
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Plastics, the real focal point of the annual meeting, are ideal packaging materials for food. In view of the wide spectrum of different substances with quality determining characteristics being filled, the packaging has to fulfil a wide range of specifications. Plastic bottles for beverages are making advances. ...
Packaging
At Brau, Metallocraft, which has been developing precision engineered draught beer dispense products since 1972, will be launched under its new name, TRUpour.
As TRUpour, the company aims at becoming an industry leader with its three core product platforms: "FOBs, FONTs, FAUCETs".
The first FOB detector was patented in 1980. TRUpour, the world leader now in stainless steel FOBs with 100% market penetration in the mature Irish draught beer market, aims at continued growth in its export markets.
The company designed their first FONT in 2000, incorporating and patenting the unique "COOLit" tap chilling function which guarantees to eliminate warm beer taps..
Filling
KHS AG, an international manufacturer of filling and packaging systems for the beverage trade, will be presenting a wide variety of innovative engineering concepts at the Brau Beviale 2004. The focus of attention will be on the fields of labeling, filtration, keg racking technologies, and crate inspection.
With its new Innoket APL pressure-sensitive labeling station, KHS introduces an innovation to the market that, apart from including a wide range of advantages, can be integrated in the proven Innoket KL 2000 generation of labelers. The new pressure-sensitive labeling station is characterized by an exceptionally slender design that makes station redundancy possible and eliminates machine downtime. Whether glass or plastic bottles, cylindrical or contour containers - all are doable.
Packaging
The unveiling of several high profile beer brands in PET bottles and a focus on the many recycling possibilities for PET will be two key highlights of the Amcor PET Packaging stand at this year’s Brau exhibition. In addition, the company will show some of its latest bottle design innovations across its key market sectors such as CSDs, water, juices, dairy and alcoholic drinks.
The new beer bottles on show will include a 330ml AmGuard multi-layer bottle for InBev’s (previously Interbrew) Beck’s Gold brand. The bottle is being introduced into the German market, sold singly and in six packs, and is aimed at the special events sector.
Other major brands on show packed in new PET bottles will include 1 litre Tuborg bottles for Carlsberg Turkey and Croatia and a 0. ...
Packaging
The second part of this article contains extracts from the most important results of various investigations in the context of the above project carried out at the Faculty of Brewery Plant and Food Packaging Equipment in cooperation with companies mentioned below.
The first part of the article dealt with results of investigations into gas permeability, migration characteristics, physical and chemical stability, as well as results of investigations into the influence of cleaning frequency on gas permeability of plastic bottles. This part of the article addresses the possibility of using technological factors to influence taste stability of beer filled in plastic bottles. Among other things, addition of various antioxidants as well as the influence of untreated grain was tested...
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