Modern human-machine interfaces place efficient completion of working processes, an attractive visual design and an optimized usage experience at the forefront of human-machine interaction. KHS, one of the worldwide market leaders in the filling and packaging industry, has developed a new solution for the operation and control of production lines and machines in the drinks industry, on the basis of zenon HMI/SCADA software. It has already received many awards.

This 8th edition of Pentawards®, the first worldwide competition devoted exclusively to Packaging Design, chaired by Gérard Caron, received over 1500 entries from 5 continents and 53 countries. Despite the global economic crisis and the widespread cost reduction that goes with it, the Pentawards show an increase of nearly 7% in enrollment over the previous year. The international jury announced its 2014 winners at the Trophy Ceremony in October in Tokyo.

Heineken N.V. has signed a binding agreement with Crown Holdings Inc, Philadelphia/USA, a dedicated, global leader in consumer packaging, for the sale of its Mexican packaging business Empaque, Monterrey. Empaque, which was acquired by Heineken in 2010 as part of the Femsa Cerveza acquisition, produces metal beverage cans, crown corks, aluminium closures and glass bottles.

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.

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.

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].

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.

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

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.