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May 8th, 2009

PET flat out

The PET worldwide market is undergoing a continuous growth.
This is maintained by the experts intervened to the Petnology Europe, which took place in Cologne, Germany, in March within the Anuga FoodTec event, providing the operators a wide angled panorama of the recent developments and innovations occurred in the beverage and PET bottles industries.
Experts estimate that the growth will be constant till 2025, with different growing indexes in the different countries.
Currently 85% of PET is utilized in the beverage industry, the remaining is utilized for medical-sanitary products and for food and no-food products.
The efforts of the companies operating in this field keep on targeting to perfectioning this material: even the smallest weight reduction allows considerable cost savings.
0.5L bottles weighing 9/10 grams can nowadays be found on the marketplace, half of the weight of the bottles produced until few years ago.
April 10th, 2009

A glass of good fruit juice

Enriched with vitamins, fibres of salts, fruit juices and fruit-based drinks are nowadays part of our everyday habits in terms of beverage.
In order to answer these new trends in beverage consumption, filling technologies have been introduced by the packaging operators to ensure high production outputand packages to guarantee cost reduction, by replacing glass or bricks with PET, PP or HDPE bottles.
Usually, these containers do not allow the pasteurization of the product or its hot filling. That’s the reason why the packaging operators have opted towards the cold aseptic preparation and filling.
Working in condition of cold aseptic filling means having to sterilize separately the product, as well as the container and its closure. The environment where this process is done must be hygienically protected.
Containers are sanitized, rinsed with sterile water, filled with thermo-stabilized product, closed: all this is achieved in a sterile environment.
At the end, the finished product is conveyed to the labelling and packing operations.
April 9th, 2009

Wine is in good health, at least in the United States

Woman, 35-years old, high salary.
This is the identity of the average wine consumer in USA, according to the data elaborated by the Centro Study Vinitaly of VeronaFiere in Italy  (www.vinitaly.com).
Regardless of the worldwide economic recession, wine in the USA does not sign out any sort of crisis. During 2008, the quantity of 3.6 billion bottles of wine have been consumed, fully aligned with the consumptions of the previous year.
This is a positive trend that, during the last ten years, has witnessed to a 30% growth of wine consumption, which ought to be stop-less.
As a matter of fact, it is foreseen that, in 2012, the per-person yearly consumption will be of 13,1 liters: this figure would claim the USA as the “biggest enologic place” in the world.
Consumers’ choices are dominated by red wine that, in the USA, represents the 44% share of the marketplace
April 1st, 2009

Consumption of bottled water decreases in USA and Europe, while grows up in Asia

According to Global Beverage Forecasts from Canadean, Basingstoke, UK, the growing rhythm of bottled water consumption on the US and EU markets will decrease of 1% per year in the upcoming five years, in absolute contra-tendency if compared to the two-figure growth registered during the period spanning from 2000 to 2008.
On the other side, the Asiatic markets mark, and forecasts confirm, a constant increase in the demand of bottled water.
March 26th, 2009

Packaging industry is dragged along by pet food

Growth of pet food industry does not encounters any crisis. During the past five years it has undergone a 5% average growth per year and the most recent surveys of the international institutes are recording just a slight slow-down in the recent months. It is estimated that in the most advanced European countries and in the USA, the 85% of pet holders usually feed their animals with ready-to-eat food.
Pet food industry is trying to diversify their products in terms of preparation and segmentation between largely wide-spread products and premium products, by utilizing the most advanced technological solutions both in terms of machinery and materials.