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Grupo Modelo de la C.V. brews nine beers in seven Mexican breweries. Modelo has a 58% share of the Mexican beer market. It has installed an $11.5-million can line in its Mexico City plant. The new line has deliberate overcapacity at the depalletizer, pasteurizer, tray packer, shrink wrapper and palletizers to allow continuous operation of the 2,000 can/minute 168-head filler. The equipment also triples canning capacity to 120,000 tray packs/day., Modelo's Mexico City brewery builds $11.5 million can line with deliberate overcapacity at the depalletizer, pasteurizer, tray packer, shrink wrapper and palletizers to assure that the 2,000 can/min 168-head filler [...]

German liquer producer Underberg AG installed Ostma Machinenbau GmbH's Ringtray system to improve its packaging and labelling operations. The system allows the company to pack 20 ml beer bottles into ten basic pack sizes to meet varying consumer needs. The machine wraps kraft paper in top and botto bands around the carton and sealed with a hot melt adhesive. Two envelope-type flaps are made from the large band from the base of the pack and sealed to ensure a tight package. The system allowed Underberg to reduce packaging material volume by 90% and cost of material from $0.17 to $4.3., New paper tray system for multipacking cartons of Underberg herbal digestives made in Berlin, Germany, can provide up to an 80 percent reduction in packaging materials, payback in less than [...]

In summers gone by, Anheuser-Busch has added a patriotic touch to the Budweiser packaging design with graphics rich in stars and stripes. This year, the brand owner took a new [...]

Anheuser-Busch bottling plant has improved labeling and packaging production lines. Description of new labels and labeling machine is given.

Technological breakthroughs in terms of materials, favorable resin prices, bottle design and machinery are enabling beer brewers to commercially bottle beer in plastic bottles. The plastics market for beer bottles is huge and highly lucrative but whether or not consumers will embrace the idea of beer in plastic bottles remains to be seen. Studies regarding this matter show that there is no clear consensus regarding consumer acceptance of plastic bottled beer.

Oskar Blues Brewery of Colorado and Sun King Brewing Co. of Indiana have partnered on Chaka, a limited-run handcrafted Belgian-style ale. Because the beer is one-of-a-kind, the two breweries decided [...]

Market Source, a fresh produce repacker and distributor headquartered in Milwaukee, WI, has launched a new 4-pack of limes, called Beer Lime, the ultimate combination of convenience, taste and long-lasting [...]

It's no coincidence that a beer can graces the cover of this month's Packaging Digest. January 2010 marks the 75th anniversary of the commerical use of cans as containers for [...]

For the first time since it began brewing beer 13 years ago, the Shipyard Brewing Co. has updated the packaging for its Shipyard Export beer, thanks to a clean new [...]

Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company Inc. is marketing a 12-bottle sample pack which consists of an E-fluted corrugated container resembling a woodhewn lodge. The packaging is a product of the combined efforts of Leinenkugel's graphics design department and Kell Specialty Packaging. The board, supplied by Menasha Corp., consists of 42# kraft liners and a 26# kraft medium to yield the 200# test, E-flute corrugated container., A 12-bottle beer sampler, made of E-flute corrugated flexo-printed in four colors and designed to look like a lodge, incorporates a strengthened handle for the 18-lb pack...discloses Senior Editor Rick [...]