Which Beverage Will Be The Most-Consumed Packaged Drink By 2016?

As consumers become increasingly concerned with health and convenience, consumption of bottled water has steadily grown and is expected to outdistance all other packaged beverages by 2016/

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  Food Inspection: New Technologies Are Ensuring Better Detection
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  Why Permeable Packaging Can Be Very Problematic
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  5 Drivers Of Packaging In 2015

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  EPA Is Now Questioning BPA

  Bisphenol A, a synthetic compound sometimes used in food and beverage packaging, is now on the list of chemicals being evaluated by the Environmental Protection Agency

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  Beverage Makers Are Finding Opportunities In The Aging Population

  As the global population ages, the demand for products designed for older consumers is increasing, and beverage manufacturers are developing functional beverages and easy-use packaging to meet these growing needs

FEATURED BEVERAGE CONTENT

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  Using Six Sigma And The Right Instruments To Reduce Variation In Ingredients

  Manufacturing foods and beverages that consistently meet consumers’ expectations begins with the raw ingredients. Variations in even one ingredient can significantly disrupt the appearance, texture, or taste of the final manufactured product.

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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. 

FEATURED SUPPLIERS

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.

Anton Paar USA

Anton Paar is the world leader in several areas of scientific instrumentation. Density measurement, rheology, viscometry, and microwave synthesis are the main areas of our business.

BEVERAGE NEWS

• M.G. Newell Now Offers Scott Laboratories Filtration Media

  M.G. Newell is a leader in providing sanitary processing and material handling equipment into food, beverage, dairy, pharmaceutical and personal care products across North America

• CRC’s EZ Cross App Update Offers Enhanced Search Capability!

  CRC Industries is pleased to announce significant updates to our EZ Cross App. Introduced in 2014, this cross reference app has received rave reviews from Distributor Sellers and End Users looking to standardize their MRO product offering.

• FEIGE FILLING With New Weighing Technology

  For customers from the food and beverage industry, this offers many advantages: The ready-for-connection equipment was extended by a pump filter unit and with that is not only able to handle the filling process, but also the former's pre-stage

• AccelFoods Signs Six Breakout Startups

  AccelFoods solidifies its role as the curator of food and beverage innovation with recently announcement of the incoming class of new companies

• Perlick’s 650SS Forward Sealing Flow Control Faucet Earns Internationally Acclaimed GOOD DESIGN Award

  Perlick, a leader in total package bar equipment and beverage dispensing systems, today announced that its new 650SS Forward Sealing Flow Control faucet has earned the 2014 GOOD DESIGN® Award

• ASCC Plans New Product Launch Designed To Take Spirits Far Beyond The Bar

  The all-new product offering from the Aristocrat Group Corp. will feature creative new packaging that will allow consumers to take their favorite spirit anywhere—even the beach. In a bold effort to create an entirely new market segment within the U.S. spirits industry, ASCC is working to unveil its innovative new product offering this spring

• Del Papa Gives New Meaning To Beer Run: Distribution Company Embraces Cisco’s Internet Of Everything Solutions To Improve Shipping, Service And Security

  Del Papa Distributing, a family-owned beer distribution company that delivers more than 10 million cases of beer annually from 30 suppliers, is embracing the Internet of Everything (IoE) to simplify operations and create a more streamlined system for deliveries at their new 27-acre headquarters in Texas.

• IFF Opens New Flavors Facility In Chicago Area

  International Flavors & Fragrances Inc., a leading global creator of flavors and fragrances for consumer products, today announced the opening of a new flavors facility in the U.S. near Chicago, IL

• Drum Handling Equipment With Quick Release Drum Lifting Attachment

  New to Packline Materials Handling, the double grip quick release drum lifting attachment is designed to handle drums by their rim, to prevent damage and crushing to the fragile walls of the drums

• Sligro Food Group Builds Software Defined Datacenter With Nutanix Hyper-Converged Infrastructure

  Nutanix, the Web-scale converged infrastructure company, has recently announced that Sligro Food Group, has chosen Nutanix to migrate and expand its existing legacy desktop and datacenter infrastructure into the new era of web-scale IT