Category: Beverage
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Sidel has launched a purpose-built returnable PET bottle for still water, offering a lighter format designed for reuse cycles, bottle-to-bottle recyclability, and compatibility with existing blow-moulding platforms.
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GEA and Siemens will use Hannover Messe to show how cloud connectivity, AI analytics, and modular automation can tighten beverage processing, reduce engineering effort, and speed plant changes from raw-material handling through filling integration.
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Harrogate Spring Water faces a decisive planning vote over its Harrogate bottling plant expansion, with critics arguing the loss of Rotary Wood sits uneasily beside Danone’s forest commitments and wider corporate nature claims.
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Prodalim has launched California operations for its Solos platform, adding aroma recovery and beverage innovation capacity in Hopland with an initial processing capability of 15 million litres a year.
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Sidel has launched a PET modelling tool for bottlers worldwide. The system lets users model material, cost, and emissions savings before committing to packaging or line changes.
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Malaysia is adding new plant-based beverage scale-up infrastructure this week. Pure Mylk’s Tetra Pak partnership adds processing, pilot, and packaging capability to its Selangor innovation hub.
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Harviestoun has started a new investment phase at its Alva brewery, adding warehouse and office space while continuing upgrades intended to lift efficiency, expand output, and support new product launches.
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WMF has added its new Cool Brewed function to the 1500 F filter coffee machine, extending the platform from high-speed hot service into cold beverage production.
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Constantia is advancing ComforLid as a lower-material format for beverage and dairy packs, pairing recyclability claims with compatibility on existing filling and sealing equipment.
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Southern Glazer’s is scaling autonomous drone counts across beverage warehouses. A wider Corvus Robotics rollout has lifted inventory validation frequency, improved throughput, and shifted labour away from manual cycle counts inside high-volume distribution operations.