Sustainability

Beverage Industry Voices: ‘What do you do?’

Beverage Industry Voices: ‘What do you do?’

By Ben BOUCKLEY

We’re in the business of telling stories, in the best possible sense. So if you have one to tell us about your job in the beverage industry – please get in touch with BeverageDaily.com!

Stephen Daniells and Shane Starling from FoodNavigator and NutraIngredients

Key Insights from Food Vision

Food Vision 2014: Bridge knowledge gaps, overcome change and work sustainably

By Kacey Culliney

What is the future of food? Simple communication of complex advances will be crucial, as well as picking up the pace amid a global population boom to feed the world nutritiously and sustainably, according to FoodNavigator and NutraIngredients senior editors.

Beverage Bauhaus: Could home design revolution spur recycling?

COCA-COLA ENTERPRISES CROWDSOURCES RECYCLING IDEAS

Beverage Bauhaus: Could home design revolution spur recycling?

By Ben BOUCKLEY

A Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) funded study insists that design principles in the home are as important as behavioural change in encouraging European consumers to recycle more.

McDonald’s is looking at putting the How2Recycle Label on Happy Meal boxes.

McDonald’s USA joins How2Recycle

By Jenny Eagle

GreenBlue’s Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC) has announced McDonald’s USA has joined its How2Recycle program.

Waste date beans- from eco coffee alternative to beyond

By Annie Harrison-Dunn

An Israeli company that has released a range of coffee alternatives made from roasted date kernel, says the waste material has potential as a sustainable food and drink ingredient stretching far beyond this initial creation.

Ardagh has started an excess heat initiative in Denmark.

Ardagh Glass reheats Denmark homes

By Jenny Eagle

Ardagh glass melting operation has partnered with SE Big Blue Danish energy group to capture excess heat from its factory and use it to warm more than 1,000 homes in the area.

Beverage & Dairy Treatment 2014: Free Online Event!

GEA PROCOMAC, AVURE, COCA-COLA HELLENIC, REFRESCO-GERBER

Beverage & Dairy Treatment 2014: Free Online Event!

By Ben BOUCKLEY

Join us on March 20 for a free online event devoted to filling technologies including aseptic, ESL and high pressure processing (HPP) that also teases out their packaging and branding implications

Coke thrashes out EPA deal after $278,000 ammonia fine threat

EPA ALLEGED 27 RISK MANAGEMENT FAILINGS AT MICHIGAN MINUTE MAID PLANT

Coke thrashes out EPA deal after $278,000 ammonia fine threat

By Ben BOUCKLEY

Coke is brokering a settlement with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) after it threatened a $278,000 fine for alleged violations of the Clean Air Act at a Minute Maid plant in Michigan.

SweetWater beers in Ball cans

Craft brewer opts for Ball cans

By Joseph James Whitworth

SweetWater Brewing Company will launch two beers in 12- and 16-ounce aluminum cans from Ball Corporation.

Should RTD teas pounce on pouches? Analyst says ‘Yes!’

FLEXIBLE PACKAGING 2014: TRANSPARENCY BREAKTHROUGH, CLOSURE ADVANCES

Should RTD teas pounce on pouches? Analyst says ‘Yes!’

By Ben BOUCKLEY

RTD teas provide undeveloped opportunities for flexible packaging, but brand owners must look long term rather than expect short-term penetration, one analyst believes.

Analyst warns pouches face fight to grab US beer throat share

FLEXIBLE PACKAGING 2014: FREEDONIA NOTES CRAFT BEER POUCH INTEREST

Analyst warns pouches face fight to grab US beer throat share

By Ben BOUCKLEY

Stand-up pouches face a fight to wrest beer market share from traditional formats like bottles and cans that are ‘ingrained in the consumer’s mind’ but could carve out their own niche.

Angry TATA instructs lawyers over Tetley tea slavery allegations

WORLD BANK INVESTMENT ARM 'TROUBLED' BY REPORTS OF CHILD TRAFFICKING ON PLANTATIONS

Angry TATA Global Beverages instructs lawyers over Tetley tea slavery allegations

By Ben BOUCKLEY

TATA Global Beverages is instructing defamation lawyers after a video documentary in The Guardian online claimed its Tetley tea brand is supplied by a plantation paying such pitiful wages that girls are driven into slavery.

Slimline beer bottle tops tempt brewers with cost savings

OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY MONTH

Slimline beer bottle tops tempt brewers with cost savings

By Ben BOUCKLEY

German company Actega DS believes that breweries and soft drinks makers are only now becoming aware of the potential material savings that low gauge ‘crown corks’ or bottle tops can bring.

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Operational Efficiency Month

EFSA gives OK to three PET recycling processes

By Joseph James Whitworth

Three processes for recycling post-consumer polyethylene terephthalate (PET) into food contact materials have been approved by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).

Siemens claims automation takes angst out of craft brewing

OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY MONTH

Siemens claims automation takes angst out of craft brewing

By Ben BOUCKLEY

Siemens says process automation in breweries cuts out human error and boost product quality, especially in the craft sector and emerging markets where semi-skilled staff are common.

Rip that top off your Tetra Pak!

Rip that top off your Tetra Pak!

By Ben BOUCKLEY

Tetra Pak has launched its Tetra Top with Separable Top globally after successful trials in Scandinavia but admits its consumer reception will vary according to the local recycling culture.

Ardagh Group to make ongoing furnace repairs

'Sustainability has only recently become a critical area of focus'

Ardagh Group to make furnace repairs

By Jenny Eagle

Ardagh Group has released its Sustainability Report for 2013 but claims it will make ongoing improvements for the year ahead including furnace repairs and operational excellence programmes.

5 Booms to Shake the Beverage Room in 2014!

5 Booms to Shake the Beverage Room in 2014!

By Ben BOUCKLEY

Here are five global beverage trends that could shake up everything from soda to smoothies in 2014, as tea goes glam and consumers grow more cynical and health conscious.

Turning over a new leaf in 2013: The year tea turned hot...

PROF JEFFREY BLUMBERG NOTES 'SIGNIFICANT ADVANCE' IN TEA SCIENCE

Turning over a new leaf in 2013: The year tea turned hot...

By Ben BOUCKLEY

In 2013 Unilever called tea the 'hottest beverage in the world' and recent research on its health benefits presents opportunities for industry innovation, with drinks like Lipton Natural Energy already reaping rewards.

A new recycling plant will feed content to Owens-Illinois' Portland plant, which makes 1m containers a day.

O-I recycling plant fuels 1m bottles daily

By Jenni Spinner

Glass packaging giant Owens-Illinois has flipped the switch on a recycled processing facility to transform discarded containers into new jars and bottles.

‘Perrier knows no limits’: Vergèze factory manager

EXCLUSIVE: 150TH ANNIVERSARY FACTORY VISIT

‘Perrier knows no limits’: Vergèze factory manager

By Ben BOUCKLEY

Perrier site manager Bernard Rouger insists that there are no supply limitations as Nestle Waters’ iconic French sparkling water brand breaks the 1.1bn unit barrier in 2013.

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