BREAKING NEWS: Crown Freshens Pret-A-Manger's Juice Cans
CROWN Bevcan Europe & Middle East has used its Pictoris high quality printing technology to update the look of Pret A Manger's sparkling fresh juices. The new cans have detailed typography and stunning images of the cafe chain's food based characters. The detailed graphics emulate the textures of the fruits used in the juices to communicate flavours, which include Sparkling Orange, Apple, Elderflower & Grape, Ginger Beer and Yoga Bunny Detox.
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Ball's Alumi-Tek Gets A Protein Boost
ABB, based in Illinois, USA, has launched its Pure Pro 50 ready to drink shakes in Ball Corporation's Alumi-Tek aluminium bottles. The use of the lightweight, recloseable 16 ounce bottles is a first for the sports nutrition industry, according to Alan Yengoyan, General Manager, Growth Initiatives, ABB.
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Boxal Bottles For Fruit Syrups
Systeme U has used Boxal's 33cl aluminium bottles for its "Saveurs gourmands" premium range of fruit syrups. The bottles feature high definition (170 dpi) offset printing with photographic images on a silver background.
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Türk Tuborg Improves Can Drying
Türk Tuborg has installed five new can drying systems from Air Control Industries (ACI). The blower powered systems were retrofitted to replace compressed air jets and heated tunnels and are said to have produced cost savings.
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Sprizzerol Selects Rexam For Premium Drink
De Martin Sprizzerol GmbH has packaged its Sprizzerol Italian aperitif in a 25cl single serve can from Rexam. The company wanted to marry the product's glamorous image with consumer convenience, as well as find an easy way to transport, store and serve the drink.
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Mettler Toledo Improves X-Ray Inspection For Cans
Mettler-Toledo Safeline has released the InspireX R50S 400 AFD and InspireX R50SB 200 x-ray inspection solutions to improve detection on high speed can manufacturing lines. These systems can inspect cans spaced rim-to-rim, enabling them to detect contaminants at up to 1'500 cans per minute. The new technologies feature reduced focal length and improved beam angles.
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Dr Mark Gee from the NPL to lead at Metal Finishers Symposium
Dr Mark Gee of the UK's National Physics Laboratory (NPL) hopes to show how NPL can help canmakers when he speaks at the Institute of Metalfinishers seminar in Birmingham, UK in March 2010. The theme of the symposium will be 'Targeted Testing of surface coatings for cost reduction'. This special report by David Siddall is exclusive to Canmaking News.
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Happy Can-iversary!
Yes, we know it's cheesy, but there are some important beverage can anniversaries this year. Read on for a roundup... Sharon Hurley Hall from Canmaking News Reports.
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Business Spotlight on Alfons Haar
Alfons Haar is not just the name of a group; it's also the name of the man who founded the original company in 1949. Back then, the company was a specialist machinery design firm, starting by making cigarette machines. It soon became focused on two segments: equipment for the transport of fuels, chemicals and powders and machinery for the canmaking industry...
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