Category: Beverage
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Alamance Foods is expanding manufacturing capacity in Graham, North Carolina. The $36.6 million project adds a new production line and supports a move into refrigerated cultured beverages.
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Anheuser-Busch is investing $13 million in its Baldwinsville brewery operations. The programme upgrades can and bottle lines, adds Cutwater production capability, and expands technical skills training.
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Michigan has awarded grants supporting food-processing and production infrastructure projects. Funding will support bottling, fermentation, packaging, blast chilling, fish processing, dairy production, bakery capacity, and other tangible manufacturing assets.
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Krones has opened new bottling equipment capacity in southern India. The Rs315-crore Vemagal investment expands local manufacturing for beverage and liquid-food machinery as the group increases production closer to Asian customers.
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Diageo will reformulate several major Indian whisky and rum brands. The changes follow FSSAI action over added flavourings and will require recipe and labelling changes across affected production.
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Krones has opened a major bottling equipment plant in Karnataka. The 16,000m² facility will manufacture ErgoBloc systems and bottle-production machinery for India, adding local capacity for high-speed beverage and liquid-food lines.
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Cawston Press has acquired LA Brewery after an earlier investment. The deal follows LA Brewery’s factory closure and shift to outsourced production, adding fermented drinks to Cawston’s expanding non-alcoholic portfolio.
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Sazerac has agreed to acquire Swansea-founded premium brand Au Vodka. The deal adds flavoured spirits and a growing canned RTD range as the US group deepens its position in Britain.
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Beverage manufacturers face continued aluminium volatility through the year ahead. Tariffs, regional premiums, capacity constraints, and elevated prices are increasing the importance of supply flexibility and landed-cost analysis.
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Barfresh targets partial commissioning of its Defiance plant this year. The 44,000 sq ft facility is intended to improve manufacturing economics after productivity problems at the existing Arps Dairy operation.