The winners of the 2020 Global Water Drinks Awards were announced recently at an online awards ceremony during the virtual 17th Global Water Drinks Congress. Organised by global food and
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Britvic has reached agreement with PepsiCo for a new and exclusive 20-year franchise bottling agreement for the production, distribution, marketing and sales of its carbonated soft drink brands – including

The European Federation of Bottled Waters (EFBW), representing the interests of natural mineral and spring water producers in Europe, has elected Muriel Lienau, CEO of Nestlé Waters in Europe, Middle

A major investment of around £31 million is flowing into the Nestlé Waters factory at Buxton in England to increase capacity, improve distribution and reduce carbon emissions. This investment further

Coca-Cola in Western Europe has taken another important step on its journey to eliminating new virgin oil-based plastic as Coca-Cola in the Netherlands and Coca-Cola in Norway announce their transition

Buxton Natural Mineral Water, which is part of Nestlé Waters UK, has announced its whole range will be made from 100% recycled plastic (rPET), while remaining 100% recyclable, by 2021.

Coca-Cola Sweden has announced that, from 2020, it will make all of its plastic bottles from 100% recycled material, becoming the first country worldwide to do so. The transition will

Refresco, the world’s largest independent bottler of beverages for retailers and A-brands with production in Europe and North America, has announced the potential acquisition of Britvic’s three juice manufacturing facilities

The winners of the 2019 Global Bottled Water Awards were announced at an awards ceremony held at the iconic Burj Al Arab, during the 16th Global Bottled Water Congress in

Harrogate Water has joined the elite of the most ambitious and environmentally committed companies across the world. The awarding of the international standard ISO 14001:2015 for environmental management marks another major

Leading glass packaging company, Croxsons, recently came to the aid of start-up artisan gin distiller, the HMS Spirits Company, to fulfil an urgent packaging requirement. The distiller had found itself

Repacking is certainly not a new concept, but the technical innovations introduced by ACMI between 2015 and 2017 have opened new possibilities for repackaging, especially for soft drink makers. The

Beverage bottlers know the problem of flavour transfer all too well. If the wrong elastomer is used, a new batch can taste like the previous one, even though the facilities

Beverage bottlers’ requirements are extremely exacting: achieving progressively higher outputs while consuming less CO2 and nonetheless upgrading the filling quality – and all this in a sturdy system that’s ideally

Harrogate Water has announced another year of record sales with growth of 24 per cent – almost four times higher than market growth for bottled water. The company has seen

Findings that many bottled waters contain microplastics have recently hit the headlines. According to news sources, such as the BBC, researchers at State University of New York in Fredonia found

Spidex has announced that Highland Spring, a leading supplier of natural source bottled spring water, has selected Mainsaver CMMS to support best-practice maintenance at its plant in Blackford, Perthshire. The

In a landmark move towards achieving a circular economy, Harrogate Water, Britain’s oldest bottled water brand, has announced it has successfully secured sufficient availability of recycled PET (rPET), to ensure

Lete is an internationally recognised trademark, thanks to the peculiarity of the naturally sparkling water and also because it is the main sponsor of Napoli Calcio. The collaboration with ACMI

“Young gun” winemakers have been creating a stir among wine lovers and experts for some years. Resorting to old grape cultivation and wine making traditions, they like to jettison unnecessary

GEA has strengthened its market position as a total solutions provider in the beverage processing industry by finalising the acquisition of the Slovenian machine manufacturer VIPOLL in January 2018. VIPOLL

GEA has launched the latest generation of aseptic filling technology: the Fillstar CX EVO. This multi-functional system provides beverage industry customers with the capacity to seamlessly switch between different types of

Danone has opened a state-of-the-art production facility at Evian-les-Bains in the French Alps to support the future growth of evian,

The Queen has officially opened a new factory building for the UK’s top producer of bottled water. She was presented

Ferrarelle SpA, one of the most important Italian mineral water bottlers, confirmed its trust in Parma-based ACMI for the construction

Whyte & Mackay, the global drinks brand company, is working with leading software vendor Ideagen to improve quality, safety and

The Pott’s Brewery in Oelde, Westphalia, is synonymous with swing-stopper bottles and also demonstrates this expertise when it comes to

RPC Promens Consumer Llantrisant has provided a new custom-moulded 330ml bottle for London-based Plenish that will pack three flavours of

One of Russia’s most popular beer brands, Baltika 3, is set to get a facelift with a new bottle design

Coca-Cola HBC has published a series of seven targets to build on their initial sustainability commitments for 2020. One of

Luxembourg-based glass container manufacturer Ardagh Group has designed and produced a new limited edition bottle for vodka brand, Absolut. The

PepsiCo are set to face a lawsuit in the US relating to its marketing of its Naked Juice range. They
Italian company Sacmi is to provide its labelling solution to an undisclosed multinational bottler from the US. As part of the deal, Sacmi will
Serbia-based bottler Planinka has selected a complete polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottling line from Sidel for its Prolom Voda mineral water
In the beverage sector, the packaging industry has to kill two birds with one stone. Firstly, consumers expect individually designed
Luxembourg-based glass container manufacturer Ardagh Group has unveiled two new 500ml amber glass beer bottles. Made in the US, the
Herbal liqueur brand Jägermeister has unveiled a new range of limited edition bottles, which have been manufactured at Ardagh Group’s

The trend towards combining several units to form a single machine continues unbroken, for quite a simple reason – the

S.Pellegrino, the world’s leading sparkling mineral water, has decided to reshape its bottling plant in San Pellegrino Terme, Italy, where
E&J Gallo Winery has launched in the UK a new 35cl format of New Amsterdam vodka, a five-times distilled and triple-filtered
Artesian spring water product, Purely Sedona, has been launched in lightweight PET containers designed by ScorCreative, the structural design studio
ACMI has launched a new communication campaign to present the line of systems for multipacks: Easypack and Easymax. With the
South African-based beverage company Coca-Cola Sabco has opened a new bottling plant in Matola Gare, Mozambique, with an investment of
Funded by the Eurostars programme a project between Swiss company Climeworks and Danish Union Engineering is taking shape. The objective of

At the plant in Pratella, a few kilometers away from Caserta (Italy), Acqua Lete SpA, one of the most famous
NMP Systems partnered up with Danone Waters to roll out its Nature MultiPack technology across bottles of Evian in France
Beverage brand Schweppes is revamping its pack design in a bid to showcase its “premium credentials”. Schweppes 1 litre mixers will
Dr Pepper is to release hundreds of “one of a kind” label designs for its 20oz bottles, as it debuts a

Accolade Wines, the leading global new world wine company, has officially opened a £8.5 million bottling line at Accolade Park,
One of the UK’s leading producers of plastic packaging, Nampak recently concluded a lease on 6,100sqm of industrial space at
Purity Soft Drinks has undertaken a major update of its Juiceburst brand of drinks, with a new bottle design and
Bodega Matarromera has successfully completed the development of a new sustainable bottle for their wines. It is a packaging manufactured

Celtic Pure, the Irish mineral water company, has unveiled plans for a €5 million new bottling facility at its plant,
Branding and packaging design consultant Cartils has redesigned Dutch beer brand Grolsch’s primary and secondary packaging to bring its new