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Materials & Containers
Diageo & Bacardi's Circular Spirits Format Emerges by Land, Sea, & Casino
The big spirits brands and their channel partners seek to eliminate tons of single-use packaging waste in bars, casinos, and even cruise ships with the disruptive ecoTOTE and SmartPour reusable packaging format.
December 7, 2023
A bar or restaurant that serves a sufficient quantity of a certain spirit—say Smirnoff as a house vodka, or Bacardi Superior as a house rum—can simply swap out these large glass bottles into a dispensing device behind the bar, akin to a watercooler or beer tap.
Sustainability
Texas’s Oldest Craft Brewer Finds New Ways to Manage Aluminum Can Waste
As demand for Saint Arnold’s beer grew, so did the need for sustainable solutions to manage excess waste. The Weima E.200 drainage press provided an easy way to dispose of underfilled or damaged cans.
November 17, 2023
Saint Arnold, Texas’s oldest craft brewer, creates beer sold in distinctive, colorful cans.
PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2023
Aseptic Beverage Tools for Aluminum Cans and Additive Drinks
GEA showcases its UniBloc Flex system and multi-option dosing pistons for high-volume, hygienic beverage manufacturing at PACK EXPO Las Vegas.
September 15, 2023
GEA UniBloc Aluminum Aseptic Bottling
Business Intelligence
Beverage Industry Purchasing Index Grows in 2023
The beverage industry purchasing index shows expansion in every metric after contractions in 2022.
June 15, 2023
The 2023 beverage industry purchasing index is growing in 2023, albeit at a slightly slower pace than the overall market.
Beverage
Reusable Rubber Bands Save Drake's Brewing Miles of Shrink Wrap
Drake’s Brewing was looking for a more environmentally friendly way to move its kegs from location to location. It found it in rubber pallet bands from Aero Rubber.
May 28, 2023
Rubber pallet bands gave Drake’s Brewing an alternative to shrink-wrapping its empty kegs to move them around the facility, saving the brewery 565 lb of plastic waste in the first year of use.
Beverage
Live at the Craft Brewers Conference: Brewers Need to Find New Ways to Innovate and Grow
We can no longer blame COVID for continued stagnation in the craft brew industry. To appeal to the younger generation—and female and BIPOC drinkers, in particular—breweries will need to take a hard look at what they’re doing.
May 10, 2023
Bart Watson, the Brewers Association's chief economist, explains to craft brewers why they need to come up with new ideas to get out of a period of slow to no growth.
Package Design
Reflections on the Simply Tropical Lawsuit
A class-action lawsuit alleges that Simply Tropical juice drink contains synthetic chemicals.
March 11, 2023
Sterling Anthony
Primary Packaging
Filler, Seamer Lets Contract Brewer Keep D.O. Low
To contract craft brewer The Brutalist and its owner King State Beer, dissolved oxygen is four-letter word. A new filler and seamer combo keeps D.O. low and the beer quality high, while paperboard multipacks help to make an impact on the shelf.
March 10, 2023
From left, Aric Parker and Pete Lewis of King State and The Brutalist, Tegan Foster and Amanda King of Hawthorne Bottle Shoppe, and Vinny Giusto of King State and the Brutalist.
Sustainability
Estrella Galicia Replaces Paperboard with Adhesive-Only, 'No Pack' Multipacks
The No Pack uses a line of glue dots where one can abuts another in a 6-pack, obviating the legacy paperboard multipacks to minimize waste and carbon footprint.
January 7, 2023
Dots of adhesive at each joint between the six cans in a 6-pack obviate Estrella Galicia's legacy paperboard multipacks.
Package Design
Wild Tonic’s Packaging Goes from Boring to Bee-utiful
Unique Jun-style kombucha brand Wild Tonic updates its packaging graphics to focus on the heart of the brand: honey, bees, Sedona, and Jun in general.
January 6, 2023
Wild Tonic packaging AFTER the redesign.
Contract Manufacturing and Packaging
Co-man/Co-pack Rides the Wave of Adult Ice Pops, Pouched Alcohol
Adult beverage branding and marketing firm Iconic Brands merges with co-man/co-pack TopPop Packaging to address the rapidly growing market for RTD cocktails and RTF adult ice pops, as well as more healthy options for wine and spirits.
December 9, 2022
Among TopPop’s offerings are adult ice pops in flexible sachets and juice and water products in stand-up pouch packaging.
Materials & Containers
Scent-Flavored, Refillable Drinking System Comes to the U.S.
The Air Up hydration system combines a custom-engineered, reusable water bottle with scent-infused PP rings that transmit flavor through the consumers’ sense of smell.
November 22, 2022
Air Up Bottle System
Package Design
Amid Beer Sticker Craze, Can Labels Become the Sticker
A peel-off brewery sticker is affixed to every can, making each label a durable, collectible keepsake, and improving the cans' recyclability.
November 17, 2022
Whetstone Beer 2
Package Design
Starbucks Elevates Coffee Art with New Bag Graphics
In the first new packaging design for its core whole bean coffee roasts in a decade, Starbucks takes its storytelling strategy to new heights, with evocative artwork that richly conveys each variety’s heritage, distinctive flavor, and quality.
November 9, 2022
Starbucks redesigned the packaging for its five core whole-bean varieties with graphics that translate the people, moments, and experiences associated with each blend into art.
PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2023
Codi Manufacturing Debuts Semi-Automatic Carton Machine
The Codi Cartonizer uses a small footprint and is ideal for startup and scaling-up beverage companies.
November 2, 2022
Cartonizer Codi Manufacturing
Inspect/Vision/Testing/Checkweigh/X-Ray
Pressco Highlights Vision Inspection Solutions at PACK EXPO International
High-speed, end-to-end inspection system is ideal for beverage filling lines.
October 26, 2022
Beverage inspection system Pressco
PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2023
International Depalletizer Handles 6 Different Pallet Types
Ska Fabricating’s International Microbus empty-can depalletizer addresses the needs of the European market. Like the original Microbus launched earlier this year in the U.S. and Canada, it’s optimized for small spaces.
October 24, 2022
On display at PACK EXPO International, the International Microbus is a semi-automatic empty can depalletizer that can handle six different types of pallets.
Package Design
Interactive Can for RTC Cocktail Encourages Social Connections
New vodka-based canned cocktail Meet Your Destiny from 0.2 SIPS comes in a can sized for sharing that also allows consumers to share ‘deets’ directly on the package.
October 17, 2022
Meet Your Destiny comes in a 12-oz can, designed for sharing, that offers room on the back to connect with other consumers.
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