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Buzzwords in beverage marketing
Rising consumer interest in health and naturalness is being strongly reflected in new product activity in the global soft drinks market.
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Getting a cold beer at a sporting event
Getting a beer at major sporting venues around Australia is something most sports fans take for granted. From Sydney’s ANZ Stadium to the MCG, and Etihad Stadium in Melbourne to SunCorp Stadium in Brisbane, getting a cold beer quickly is an essential part of being at major events. But getting a constant flow of cold beer throughout the stadium takes some pretty sophisticated infrastructure.
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Reducing fruit juice decanting time
Cavitation and noise issues initially prompted industry-leading beverage giant Halewood International to seek an alternative to its existing centrifugal pumps when decanting sugars and fruit juice concentrates from tankers arriving at its UK headquarters in Merseyside. Installing three sinusoidal pumps proved successful in a number of ways, not least because unloading times for sugars have been halved and, for syrups, more than quartered.
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Schweppes control in the can
When Schweppes Australia wanted to consolidate the process and logic control system in its Huntingwood production facility syrup room, a sophisticated automation and control system was chosen, based on the PlantPAx process control solution from Rockwell Automation.
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Process technology for soft drinks
Things are looking good for the beverage industry with above average growth expected for new types of drinks. Improvements in processing technology will help processors realise this growth.
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Alfatek bottling lines
ABEVE has been appointed the Australian distributor for Italian bottling line manufacturer Alfatek.
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Quikstix beverage delivery device
Quikstix is a beverage delivery device which contains separate ingredients to make a quality, convenient plunger-style coffee or tea in any location. It is also suitable for any hot or cold beverage including chocolate, cordial, herbal infusions, isotonic drinks and soup.
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Alfa Laval separator platform for beverages
Alfa Laval has released a separator platform for beverages, illustrated by the separator system BREW 2001 eDrive.
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High acid ambient distribution still drinks
A Tetra Top packaging solution for high acid ambient distribution (HAAD) still drinks is now available. Tetra Top for HAAD is a flexible, attractive and cost-effective packaging solution that enables manufacturers to produce, distribute and sell high acid still drinks such as ice tea, fruit drinks and sports drinks without using the chilled chain. The ambient still drinks market stands at 100 million litres and is growing, providing producers with many new growth opportunities.
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Carbonator
The Carbofresh carbon dioxide dosing unit can be used to dose small quantities of carbon dioxide into wine to freshen the product, intensify the flavour, and give elegance, particularly to white wines.
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FSANZ recommends fluoride in bottled water
The lack of fluoride in the average New Zealand diet has led to a recommendation by Food Standards Australia New Zealand that bottled water companies be permitted to voluntarily add the mineral to selected brands.
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Beverage companies end RTD production
Lion Nathan Australia and Fosters Group have both announced that they would take immediate steps to cease production of ready to drinks (RTDs) with high alcohol content and energy additives.
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Corona producer installs CoMac complete keg line
Grupo Modelo has installed a complete keg line from CoMac, an established global supplier of kegging and bottling equipment, in its Piedra Negras brewery in Mexico.
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Europe’s biggest juice plant starts production
Zumos Valencianos del Mediterraneo SA (Zuvamesa), a consortium of 57 fresh citrus producers, has started production at one of the biggest and most modern not-from-concentrate (NFC) juice plants in Europe.
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Red Bull ups the tempo in China
Red Bull is currently upsizing its canning capacities at its two Chinese production facilities.
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Coca-Cola streamlines service and maintenance
Coca-Cola, in Northmead, NSW, was looking to improve its temperature and humidity monitoring processes during the maintenance and repair of vending machines, drink cabinets and chillers. Using portable thermometers, Coca-Cola’s staff currently check temperature regularly in the facilities; however, there was no monitoring system to record, print and analyse the data. If the limit values were breached during testing, no alarm would be issued unless the breach was found by manual spot check. Moreover, manually recording the temperature and humidity in the workshop was inefficient.
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