The Beverage Packaging Market's Expected Worth Is More Than $125 billion

Driven by shifting preferences and the on-going hunt for alternative packaging methods and materials, the beverage packaging market is expected to show healthy growth in the coming years and into 2018

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  Coca-Cola Breaks Ground On $100 Million Green Plant In China
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  Smart Labels Give Small Wine Producers A Leg Up
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  Cargill Boosts Nutritional Benefits With Its New Omega-3 Oil Blend

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  Beer Brewers Raise A Glass To Approval Process Changes

  Recent changes made to the approval process for new products will reduce the time for new beers to arrive at market. Brewing companies will have more freedom to experiment and will be able to better adapt to new market trends

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  Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Pom Wonderful In Battle Against Coca-Cola

  In a unanimous decision, justices rule that POM Wonderful is able to proceed with its lawsuit alleging Coca-Cola took business from the juice maker with false and misleading juice labels.

FEATURED BEVERAGE CONTENT

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  Dispensing Equipment And Global Regulatory Compliance

  How the right tubing solution can help brand owners stay ahead of regulatory changes and ensure a consistently positive consumer experience with dispensed products.

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  Inline Beverage Analysis: Cobrix 5

  Cobrix 5 is a measuring system specially designed for the beverage and beer industry, measuring all relevant parameters.

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  Measurement Of Dissolved CO2 And O2 In Beverages - Multi-Parameter Beverage Analysis Systems

  Built to work in a team: Which beverage parameters do you need to determine? Combine a CarboQC module with a wide range of Anton Paar instruments to get the beverage analysis you need in one measuring cycle, with minimal sample preparation required. This range of different combined systems saves space in the lab and efficiently measures up to 7 parameters in one go. Watch this video for an overview of your options for complete customized beverage analysis.

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  Deaeration System Eliminates Need For Maintenance And Cuts Cost For Paulaner Brewery

  High oxygen levels in beer will cause organoleptic problems in the final product, so breweries aim to achieve oxygen-free water. Since Paulaner Brewery installed a modular, water deaeration system that uses hydrophobic hollow fiber membranes to remove dissolved gasses, the unit has operated maintenance-free. This tech brief outlines the unit’s design, operation, and the resulting reduction of energy consumption costs.

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  Japanese Breweries Use Chemical-Free Approach To Remove Oxygen, Carbon Dixiode

  For companies in the food and beverage space, alternatives to chemical usage are becomingly increasingly common due to environmental considerations. Kirin Beer successfully uses membrane contactors for carbon dioxide and oxygen removal in their Okayama, Hokuriku, and Kobe, Japan facilities to prevent corrosion of pipes that feed the boiler — without the need for high volumes of neutralizing amine chemicals. In this tech brief, find out how these degassing systems operate.

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  Carbo 520 Optical Video

  The Carbo 520 Optical from Anton Paar is an entirely maintenance-free process CO2 sensor for beverages easily installed inline.

• M & B Products Achieves Accurate, Live Inventory Visibility With Software Solution

  M&B Products, Inc. is a premier supplier of juice and milk related products to the food service industry including schools, nursing homes, hospitals and prisons. M&B is located in Tampa, Florida and was founded in 1987 with one customer and one truck.

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  MIOX Biofilm Removal | Water Treatment Technology

  MIOX Mixed Oxidant Solution (MOS) is a safe, user-friendly and viable chemical treatment method for biofilm removal, microbiological control, and water disinfection.  MOS chemistry has shown in multiple applications and third-party research to have a significant impact on industries that utilize water treatment chemicals - including municipal water treatment, cooling tower water treatment, industrial water treatment, and aquatics water.

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  Virtual Tour Of MIOX On-Site Chemical Generators

  MIOX on-site disinfectant generator systems are very easy to operate and designed for high efficiency, low lifecycle cost, and reliability. Take the virtual tour to view key elements and scalable options. 

• Preparing To Meet The Requirements Of The Food Safety Modernization Act

  The Food Safety Modernization Act of 2011 places the responsibility for food safety squarely on food producers, with requirements that will come into force as finalized and funded. Food processors and manufacturers should begin now to prepare their operations to meet these requirements, rather than waiting for them to come into full force. This paper recommends actions that food processors can take now to prepare for the full implementation of the law, including reviewing the effectiveness of their existing product inspection systems and their ability to provide the reporting data FSMA requires.

FEATURED SUPPLIERS

Evoqua Water Technologies

Evoqua Water Technologies, formerly Siemens Water Technologies, is a leader in water and wastewater treatment products, systems and services for industrial and municipal customers. We offer a wide range of proven product brands and advanced water and wastewater treatment technologies, mobile and emergency water supply solutions and service contract options.

Membrana

Liqui-Cel® Membrane Contactors have a broad range of applications in the beverage industry. They have been used for over 20 years to add and remove gasses from a variety of liquids, including alcohol, juices, soft drinks and many others.

BEVERAGE NEWS

• Measure The Alcohol In All Types Of Beverages

  Up to now, measuring the quality parameters of very different alcoholic beverages required a number of measuring instruments to cover each range. There was no single instrument which could measure beers, wines and spirits.

• RS Components Reinforces Support For Electrical Installers And Maintenance Engineers With Extensive Portfolio Of Phoenix Contact Products Now In Stock

  RS Components (RS), the trading brand of Electrocomponents plc, the global distributor for engineers, is significantly ramping up its levels of support for electrical equipment installers and maintenance engineers in electrical systems and automation markets with in-stock availability of many thousands of new product lines from leading manufacturer Phoenix Contact

• Introducing New Davinci Gourmet® Invigorators™—Fruit Flavored Beverage Concentrates With A Hint Of Green Coffee Extract

  To satisfy customers who increasingly expect a variety of drink offerings throughout the day⁽¹⁾, DaVinci Gourmet® has launched a new line of energizing fruit flavored beverage concentrates called Invigorators™

• Festo Introduces A New Generation Closed Loop Position Controller For Quarter Turn Actuators - The CMSX

  Festo introduces the CMSX, the first in a new generation of process industry closed loop position controllers for quarter turn actuators. The new CMSX delivers high functionality at a price significantly less than that of typical closed loop position solutions

• Exact Launches New ERP Software Solution For Small And Mid-Sized Manufacturing And Distribution Organizations

  Exact, a leading provider of ERP business software solutions for small-to medium-sized businesses (SMB), recently announced general availability of Exact Macola 10, the next evolution in ERP software designed specifically to increase the speed and accuracy of doing business in today’s complex manufacturing environment

• Acro Associates Extends Its Pinch Valve Product Line With Versagrip

  Acro Associates, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Bimba Manufacturing, recently announced the launch of Versagrip Solenoid Pinch Valves, a next generation solenoid (electric) product line designed to provide greater flexibility for a wide array of fluidic control system applications

• Ampco Pumps Company Introduces The ZP3 Pump

  Ampco Pumps Company announces the debut of the new ZP3 positive displacement pump. The patent pending ZP3 is a true innovation to the sanitary pump market.

• GE Capital Finances New Chicago Brewery For Lagunitas

  GE Capital, Corporate Finance recently announced it is providing Lagunitas Brewery with a $20 million credit facility to equip the company’s new Chicago brewery. The GE Capital and Lagunitas team celebrate the opening of the Lagunitas facility June 17th

• AFCO C&S, LLC, A Portfolio Company Of Larsen MacColl Partners, Divests Mossberg Sanitation, Inc. & Midwest Sanitation Co., Inc.

  AFCO C&S, LLC (“AFCO”), announced recently that on May 12, 2014 it sold its wholly owned subsidiaries, Mossberg Sanitation, Inc. and Midwest Sanitation Co., Inc (collectively, “Mossberg”), toa strategic acquirer. While terms of the sale were not disclosed, AFCO realized proceeds in excess of three times its invested capital

• Chevron Phillips Chemical Announces Mechanical Completion And Start-Up Of World’s Largest 1-Hexene Plant

  Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP (Chevron Phillips Chemical) announced recently the successful commissioning and start-up of the world’s largest on-purpose 1-hexene plant. With worldwide supply capabilities