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Posts Tagged ‘beverage packaging’

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.
March 16th, 2009

Where is „drinking“ packaging going to ?

 

According to a survey carried out by the English Company Canadean  (Innovation in Beverage Packaging 2008), beverage industry is undergoing deep changes targeting the improvement of the packaging, the reduction of the effective costs and the raw material saving.
As a matter of fact, nowadays beverage tends towards the maximum reduction of weight and quantity of the employed materials for its production, by utilizing advanced technological processes to reach highest quality levels, however assuring functionality  and eco-compatibility as well.
The survey analyzes excellence cases pointing out the new tendency: from contrivances for the shape variation till the development of new production technology: the set-up of new capping systems reduced in weight and shape, so as to be easily adapted to different drinks, and the perfectioning of the decorative techniques applied to the surface.
March 12th, 2009

Billions of PET containers on the table, and not only!

350 billions units: this should bet he quantity of PET containers produced this year, according to Euromonitor, a London based company specialised in market researches. Out of these containers, many are utilized in the beverage industry, whereas PET confirms to bet he most used material in the world.
Side-by-side to the constant increase of the PET bottle utilisation, the importance of the factor of efficiency and profitability in the production of PET containers grows-up as well: this requirement is fully satisfied by the manufacturers of filling and packing machinery, which offers technologically advanced solutions allowing to save space and costs.
Among its features, it is a quite light material (40 grams approx per a 1.5L bottle), unbreakable and 100% recyclable.
For instance, the amount of companies utilizing bottles for cosmetics in recycled PET are in constant growth. In fact, the new technologies ensure the same mechanical properties of the raw PET and a similar brightness, without giving up to capturing packaging thanks to a wide possibilities of decorative subjects.

March 9th, 2009

Beverage: how much fruit juice do we drink?

Nowadays, 40 billions litres fruit juice are drunk on the planet, with an average pro-capita of about 6 litres per year. The record of the pro-capita consumption goes to Canada (fairly 50 litres per year) followed by Germany (40 litres) and USA (36 litres) This latter alone represents one-third of the world total consumption.

Orange juice is the top hit of the preferences; the largest worldwide producer is Brazil, exporting 99% of its production, followed by USA where the production is almost thoroughly absorbed by the domestic market.

Packaging for fruit juices and soft drinks represents a remarkable marketing attraction, more than for every other segment of the beverage industry, capable of addressing choices. The pre-conditioned industrial product has affirmed itself during the post-war period, thanks to the wide-spreading of the very first conditioning technologies assuring a good conservation to the product. Currently the most utilized material is PET prevailing in the formats of 1L and 1,5L; single-serve formats are enormously growing-up too.