News in Brief
The Vice Wine unveils first luxury canned wines
Spring is here, and the demand for luxury canned wines has never been greater. The Vice Wine has announced their first two Napa Valley canned wines, the Bubbly Rosé “Vices” Can and the Casablanca Mojito “Vices” Can. Both of these wines are limited edition 2020 vintages that are available to purchase as 4pks, 8pks, 12pks and 24pks from TheViceWine.com. The…
Ardagh Group expands North Carolina manufacturing facility
Ardagh Group is to invest at least $195 million to expand its current beverage can metal manufacturing facility in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The investment will create 94 jobs in Forsyth County. With six production lines, the Winston-Salem site is the company’s largest can manufacturing facility in the United States. This latest expansion will include building improvements…
Emballator’s Innovation Center invests in new equipment
Emballator wants to lead the sustainable innovations within packaging and help customers to reach their sustainability goals. One step in that direction is to make further investments in Emballator Innovation Center. “Focus until now has been on materials for plastic injection moulding. With this new equipment we will evaluate new bio-based materials for extrusion of…
Deodorant brand joins growing roster of beauty companies looking for sustainable packaging
Grove Collaborative, have launched a new line of deodorants that fall under its own plastic-free band Peach. The new line of Peach deodorants come in refillable cylindrical aluminium tubes. “Plastic is everywhere. In order to solve that problem, we have to create better products for consumers one category at a time,” believes Stuart Landesberg, Co-Founder…
Bacardi expands canned cocktail range
With temperatures slowly rising, Bacardi is looking to help consumers over the legal drinking age quench their thirst. New from the brand is a new range of canned cocktails that are made with a base spirit of Bacardi Superior. “The launch of Bacardi Real Rum Canned Cocktails last year far exceeded our expectations, and with the popularity…
Blue Marble Productions expands to meet canning co-packing capacity needs
Blue Marble Productions, Inc based out of Indianapolis, IN is expanding again. Blue Marble is meeting the ever growing capacity needs for canning both alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages for some of the biggest companies in the world. Blue Marble has made significant investments and are paving new ground for accelerated growth. As the nation’s premier…
AB InBev expands Bud Light Seltzer offering with new variety packs
AB InBev is expanding its Bud Light Seltzer portfolio with the addition of a new Iced Tea Variety Pack and a limited-edition Mix Pack. Made with cane sugar and natural flavours, the four Iced Tea variants comprising the new Bud Light Seltzer variety 12-pack include: peach, raspberry, tangerine and apple. Meanwhile, the new limited-edition Mix Pack…
Westons Cider builds £3m canning line in house
Westons Cider has announced a £3m investment into a new production line at its Herefordshire mill. All the cans it produces will now be packaged at the site in Much Marcle. The canning line began packaging 440ml cans of Stowford Press earlier this month, processing 12,500 items an hour. “Over the past year it’s become…
Coca-Cola pulls energy drink from shelves in North America
Coca-Cola Co said on Friday it would discontinue its energy drink in North America, a product launched only last year as it attempted to push into new beverage categories. The decision comes as a part of the company’s move to streamline products and focus on its fast-moving beverages as consumers pick up more of its traditional…
Jimmy’s adds new sustainable ‘bottlecan’ format as RTD coffee sector soars
Jimmy’s Iced Coffee is launching its core duo into new hybrid ‘bottlecans’. According to the firm, the new packaging is “the next step in the brand’s pledge to do better for the environment”. The new 100% recyclable packs of its Original and Mocha iced coffees will launch in UK supermarket Tesco on 24 May. The…
