Supermarket shoppers are all familiar with them: practical trays from which beverage bottles can be removed quickly and easily. They allow for efficient, space-saving, and safe transport of bottles and save supermarket employees the time-consuming task of putting them on the shelves. Taking a further step towards sustainability, Rauch Fruchtsäfte will in future be using beverage trays made of recycled material – the new trays are made of 70% recycled PET.

Unilever is expanding its refillable packaging trials across the UK, including its first ‘return on the go’ refill trial, in selected Asda supermarket and Co-op convenience stores using its well-known and loved brands.

Henkel and Plastic Bank have opened their first three plastic waste collection centers in Cairo. The project is part of Henkel’s successful and long-term partnership with the social enterprise. The partners share a joint vision: to avoid plastic waste in the environment while making a long-term social impact for the local population.

When drinktec 2017, the world’s leading trade fair for the beverage and liquid food industry, opens its doors for trade visitors from all over the world from September 11 to 15, 2017, then a packaging type will be almost omnipresent in the limelight: PET.

The global PET packaging market is worth $48.1 billion in 2014, amounting to almost 16 million tonnes according to a new market report from Smithers Pira. Demand for PET packaging is expected to increase by an average of 4.6% annually over the next five years, and will amount to 19.9 million tonnes worth $60 billion by 2019.

BERICAP, one of the leading global manufacturers of plastic and aluminium closures, has received the TOP 100 award as one of the most innovative small and medium-sized enterprises in Germany in 2022.

Sidel, the leading global provider of PET solutions for liquid packaging, has announced a new initiative aimed at reducing the amount of PET used in beverage bottles worldwide, thereby helping producers to save money and improve their environmental footprint at the same time.

The new facility operates as Sidel's South Hispanic hub in Latin America, serving its customers in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay and Bolivia.

As a world leader in plastics processing machinery and technology, the Austrian company Starlinger viscotec has received FDA approval for their deCON decontamination dryer to make food grade flakes from post-consumer recycled HDPE (High Density Polyethylene) milk bottles.

To be able to perfectly satisfy customer requirements at a local level, KHS Corpoplast recently opened a spare parts warehouse in China at its site in Shanghai.

The Petainer keg marketed by KHS and the Petainer company has recently been voted Packaging of the Year 2011 in the Czech Republic. The certificate was presented to Petainer Czech Holdings s.r.o. by syba, the Czech packaging association, which is a member of the World Packaging Organisation.

After several years in development, Rexam launched the Fusion aluminium bottle to substantial interest at Brau Beviale 2007.

Amcor PET Packaging commercializes the first custom application of its PowerFlex™ polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottle. Welch’s, Concord, Mass. recently launched six varieties of its 100% juice in Amcor’s 14-ounce custom PowerFlex™ bottle.

Finest Swiss spirits from Lateltin Lanz Ingold in PET bottles from kavo by greiner packaging

The companies of the SIG Beverages Division will once again be present at BRAU Beviale in Nuremberg from 14 to 16 November.