Drinks
Beyoncé to star on aluminium bottles
PepsiCo Beverages Italy is too feature pop-star Beyoncé on a limited run of Rexam’s Fusion aluminium bottle. The singer, who appears very pale on the bottle, and PepsiCo have partnered with each other for a series of adverts and on can promotions in 2013. But in Italy, where the aluminium bottle for the drinks is […]
UK can sales slide but warmer summer promises rise
Total can deliveries fell by 3% in the first half of 2013 reaching 4.56 billion across the UK, according to the latest figures. Research from the Can Makers, the body representing the UK manufacturers of beverage cans, covering the first six months of 2013 was released today (20 August). Nielsen, the agency who complied the […]
Rexam gets Big Wood deal
Controversial drinks maker Big Wood Brewery has launched four premium craft beers in Rexam cans. The brewer has launched four of its award-winning craft beers in cans. Jack Savage, Morning Wood, Bark Bite and Bad Axe are available now in Rexam 16oz cans. Jack Savage American Pale Ale is made from all American hops, while […]
ABA criticises move to ‘discourage’ sugary drinks
A recent study has claimed doctors should ‘discourage’ parents from giving children aged two to five sugary drinks. The study, which was published in the journal Pediatrics, reported that when social and environmental factors were taken into account drinking sugary soft drinks made kids fatter. Its report, entitled Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Weight Gain in 2- […]
Bavaria Radler – a drink for cyclists we can all enjoy
Dutch brewer Bavaria has launched two new beers, Bavaria Radler Lemon and Bavaria Radler Grapefruit, inspired by the sport of cycling. With a long history of quenching the thirst of cyclists across Germany, these shandy-style beers are expected to be a big hit with consumers in the UK; even those whose thirst has not grown […]
July/August 2013
This issue is packed with news, features, products and equipment. It contains a four page contains review of Euro CanTech (see page 14) and looks at how the three-piece can market, in particular, is under attack from plastic alternatives (see page 34). In the UK lager in a can is well established and the country […]
Crown unveils new can sizes for China
Crown Beverage Packaging is to introduce several new aluminum beverage can sizes for the Chinese market. The company has announced the 185ml, 300ml and 330ml sleek and 500ml will now be available as alternatives to the traditional 330ml size. “Expanding our product line reflects Crown’s commitment to helping customers stay in tune with changing consumer […]
Aluminium price “fix”
Well, if the general public didn’t have enough reasons to hate investment banks now there is another one. According to an investigation by the New York Times one investment bank’s ownership of warehouses in Detroit in the US, is allowing it to move aluminium around between its sites. The practice is not illegal but does […]
Indian drinks firm drop bottles for cans
India’s first fruit flavoured carbonated drink is to switch from glass bottles to cans. Rio Fusion Drinks has chosen to partner with Rexam Beverage Can in a deal that will see Rexam India produce the 330ml sleek can for the drink. Manufactured at Rexam’s Taloja plant, where a state-of-the-art aluminium line was opened in November […]
AG Barr ends Britvic interest … for now
The seemingly done deal to create Europe’s biggest soft drinks business has fallen through. Despite being agreed last year and clearing UK competition restrictions the deal is off after Britvic bosses rejected the terms of the take over. The £1.4 billion ($2.2.bn) merger of Britvic and Scottish rival AG Barr has been confirmed in late […]
Tripling of Schuler’s Chinese site
Increasing demand for metal packaging including beverage cans and aerosol containers was behind a huge investment in manufacturing facilities. The world’s largest press manufacturer, Schuler, has more than tripled its capacity at its production facility in Dalian, China. Its site has grown from 5,000 to 16,000 square meters in less than one year. The new […]
Beer in a can
The mainstream media, at least in the UK and the US, seems to have been packed with opinion pieces over the past few weeks praising canned beer. One columnist in the UK’s Independent newspaper said that anyone who believed beer out of a glass bottle was better than a can was a “snob.” In the […]
Ex-Navy Seal releases recovery drink
Billed as an alternative to energy drinks the Kill Cliff recovery beverage has been developed by a former Navy Seal. Originally developed as the Tasty with an orange flavour, following a 4 July online launch there is now Double Awesomeness red flavour available. Both flavours have only 15 calories, 25mg’s of caffeine, no sugar, are […]
Out of Africa
Managing director of Nampak Bevcan, Erik Smuts, tells CanTech International the company started up its new high speed aluminium can line at the beginning of May and plans to increase the operational speed to full production capacity in the third quarter of this year.