Filling- and Packaging-Industry News
Written by Steven on 17 June 2010
Bericap, one of the leading companies for plastic caps and plastic closures
has redisigned the 38mm plastic closure in order to cut weight, thus saving
material and reducing cost per cap, a benefit mainly targeting the beverage
industry.
With the new cap design from Bericap, the beverage industry now can save
weight not only on the PET plastic bottles themselves,
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Written by Steven on 14 June 2010
As recently published by a leading trade association, European beverage can
recycling rate has been increased to 63 per cent. According to the
statistics, Germany with it’s long discussed can recycling regulations is
leading world wide beverage can recycling by about 96 percent of collected
and recycled cans in total.
But beverage can recycling rates, especially for aluminium cans has
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Written by Steven on 09 June 2010
> Bosch has just introduced a new integrated flexible sachet packaging
> system. The new packaging machine can handle up to 1.000 sachets per
> minute and reliably produces high quality pouches, according to a company
> statement.
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> Compared to previous flexible packaging machines, the new RNx Bosch
> flexible packer has a compact design and a smaller footprint.
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Written by Packaging News on 26 April 2010
Norland International Inc. is a filling and packaging machine supplier that delivers and partially manufactures equipment for the beverage industry. The main focus is given to the water filling industry by means of Norland’s range of bottles water equipment.
Within the Norland International product range for bottled water equipment one can find bottle washers and water
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Written by Steven on 09 June 2010
Bosch has just introduced a new integrated flexible sachet packaging system.
The new packaging machine can handle up to 1.000 sachets per minute and
reliably produces high quality pouches, according to a company statement.
Compared to previous flexible packaging machines, the new RNx Bosch flexible
packer has a compact design and a smaller footprint. Within the new system,
various packaging
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Written by Steven on 09 June 2010
Bosch has just introduced a new flexible integrated packaging system. The
increased demand for integrated and flexible packaging systems had been the
major trigger for developing the new flexible packaging system, the company
announced.
Bosch Packaging Technology is a well recognized supplier for flexible and
integrated packaging solutions not only to the food and beverage industries.
Developed by Bosch Packaging Technology
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Written by Steven on 20 May 2010
KHS AG, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of can and bottle filling
machines as well as complete packaging lines has been participating at
Fispal Technologia in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Fispal Technologia has developed to
an important international Trade Show for Packaging, Processing and
Logistics for both, the Food and the Beverage Industries.
KHS AG with it’s extreme focus to
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Written by Steven on 11 May 2010
KHS PET Packaging Technology has reached the next level. Since the purchase
of formerly SIG owned German blow moulding machine manufacturer Corpoplast
GmbH in Hamburg, the new evolved KHS Corpoplast has penetrated deeper into
the market and has also developed a range of new PET blow moulding and PET
barrier-coating technolgies.
The new KHS Corpoplast InnoPET Blomax IV Series, has
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Written by Steven on 10 May 2010
The Innofill NV system is a most advanced, computer controlled filling
system that has been designed to fill non-carbonated products, such as
juices, milk or non carbonated mineral water into PET-bottles.
The Innofill NV is manufactured by the well-known Germany based filling and
packaging machine producer KHS AG. Meanwhile this modern machine type is
produced by KHS factories in Brazil
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Written by Jane on 08 May 2010
US based Inline Filling Systems Inc. is offering a wide range of automatic bottle filling machines, especially when it comes to small and medium sized operations.
If you are looking for equipment to suit your nes 60.000 bottles per hour filling line, “Inline Filling Systems Inc.” may not be the right place to go. But for
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Written by Steven on 07 May 2010
Despite other arguments within the packaging industry as well as various
packaging manufacturers, Euromonitor still sees potential for further
package lightweighting in order to enable package material savings. Whilst
many within the packaging industry sector say, that package lightweighting
such as PET bottle lightweighting or beverage can lightweighting for example
will soon be on their limits in regards to physical
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Written by Steven on 06 May 2010
REXAM PLC Consumer Packaging: Interim Management Statement
Rexam PLC, the global consumer packaging company has today published the
interim management statement as from 1st January 2010.
Summarizing the report, Rexam stated that results for the first quarter of
the year had beenn better than expectations. Especially the Rexam business
fields for beverage cans as well as plastic packaging have shown
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Written by Steven on 05 May 2010
Crisis Management Training for the Food and Beverage Industry
Over the past years the food and beverage industry had to manage lots of
high profile crises as well as serious product recalls.
Such incidents do bear high risk of serious damage and losses to companies
doing business within the industrial food and beverage sector.
UK based Leatherhead Food Research is
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Written by Steven on 05 May 2010
Eastman may sell PET business due to poor demand
PET Packaging material company Eastman is considering to sell it’s PET
business as a result to weak demand from the beverage industry. According to
the company, the beverage packaging demand is far from having tremendous
growth figures so far.
Also there seem to be PET lightweighting limits. Eastman says, that limits
on
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Written by Steven on 28 April 2010
ADVANTAGES OF HEIGHT-ADJUSTABLE KEG FITTING TIGHTENER
Height adjustable tightening units ensure fast, low-maintenance, and
gentle-to-materials operation. Thus, only the minimum amount of travel
required for the format part to grasp the fitting needs to be set once for
each individual tightening process.
The height adjustment by motor-driven spindles and manual adjustment of the
side keg clamps also ensures fast and automatic
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Written by Jane on 27 April 2010
US based Accutek company is well known for offering small and medium performance filling and packaging machines as well as complete filling and packaging turnkey lines.
One example for the performance of Accutek machines are the automatic form, fill and seal machines offered by the company. Accutek is offering automatic Form, Fill and Seal equipment that
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Written by Jane on 27 April 2010
Accutek Packaging is a US based company offering a wide range of state to
the art filling and packaging machines and equipment. Being a leading
developer and manufacturer of complete turnkey solutions for the filling and
packaging industry, Accutek Packaging is able to offer filling machines,
capping machines and turrets, labeling machines, equipment for marking and
coding as well as
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Written by Packaging News on 27 April 2010
KHS AG, one of the world’s leading suppliers for filling and packaging
machines as well as complete lines is aiming for holistic solutions in order
to assure quality right down the line.
The company procides appropriate technologies and services that are tailor
made for various sectors within the beverage industry and packaging industry
as well.
Complete filling lines, intralogistics and beverage
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Written by Packaging News on 26 April 2010
Alexander’s Machinery is offering shrink wrapping machines and other
packaging industry equipement as a packaging industry supplier.
Amongst the range of packaging equipment and packaging machines supplied are
- blister packers
- carton erectors
- shrink wrapping machines
- flow wrapping machines
- conveyors and conveying systems
- mailing machines
- pallet stretch wrappers
and other machines as well.
http://alexanders-machinery.co.uk
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Written by Packaging News on 26 April 2010
Norland International Inc. is a well known supplier for the bottled water
industry. The Norland water filling and bottle washing machine TritonLine is
offering a series of automated machines, to wash, fill and seal bottles with
caps on a filling and capping speed of up to 450 bottles per hour.
The filling machine combination can handle multiple bottle sizes
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Written by Packaging News on 26 April 2010
Norland International Inc. is a filling and packaging machine supplier that delivers and partially manufactures equipment for the beverage industry. The main focus is given to the water filling industry by means of Norland’s range of bottles water equipment.
Within the Norland International product range for bottled water equipment one can find bottle washers and water
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