Thiele Technologies buys Symach in global expansion
Thiele Technologies has acquired Symach palletizers in The Netherlands.
Archives for March 6, 2014
Tetra Pak: 43bn cartons recycled in 2013
Packaging giant Tetra Pak is making progress toward hitting its 2020 targets on creating sustainable progress, boosting recycling, and reducing its environmental footprint.
WHO recommends halving sugar intake advice
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has advised halving sugar intake advice from 10% of total calories to 5% of total calories in a new dietary guideline proposal.
FLEXIBLE PACKAGING 2014: FREEDONIA NOTES CRAFT BEER POUCH INTEREST
Analyst warns pouches face fight to grab US beer throat share
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.
Top 5 Packaging Trends 2014
‘Brand owners are constantly innovating to keep up with the changing demands and requirements of consumers, as well as to stand out in an increasingly competitive environment.
‘Drink Craft, Not Crafty!’ iPhone app debunks big beer masquerade
Spytap Industries has developed an iPhone app that allows users to scan beer barcodes to separate true craft beers from ‘assembly line multinational macrobrewed imposters’.
‘Ho, ho, ho and a bottle of rum-flavored beer!’ from AB InBev
Anheuser-Busch InBev believes its Cubanisto beer flavored with rum will prove a hit with ‘tech savvy trend setters’ in the UK as sales of the spirit soar.
JACK DANIEL'S DISTILLER POSTS IMPRESSIVE RESULTS, WARNS OF ON-PREMISE WEAKNESS
Social media ‘mobbing’ denting whiskey sales in US bars? Brown-Forman glosses Southern Comfort slide
Brown-Forman CEO Paul Varga says less affluent millennial drinkers may be shunning bars – where US whiskey brand Southern Comfort sales are falling – for social media ‘mobbing’ in the home.
P.E.T Engineering gives ‘imperatives’ for packaging firms
Low weight, mechanical properties and final quality of each container must be the imperative of every packaging company, according to P.E.T Engineering.