Supermarket shoppers are all familiar with them: practical trays from which beverage bottles can be removed quickly and easily. They allow for efficient, space-saving, and safe transport of bottles and save supermarket employees the time-consuming task of putting them on the shelves. Taking a further step towards sustainability, Rauch Fruchtsäfte will in future be using beverage trays made of recycled material – the new trays are made of 70% recycled PET.

Unilever is expanding its refillable packaging trials across the UK, including its first ‘return on the go’ refill trial, in selected Asda supermarket and Co-op convenience stores using its well-known and loved brands.

Henkel and Plastic Bank have opened their first three plastic waste collection centers in Cairo. The project is part of Henkel’s successful and long-term partnership with the social enterprise. The partners share a joint vision: to avoid plastic waste in the environment while making a long-term social impact for the local population.

When drinktec 2017, the world’s leading trade fair for the beverage and liquid food industry, opens its doors for trade visitors from all over the world from September 11 to 15, 2017, then a packaging type will be almost omnipresent in the limelight: PET.

The Coca-Cola System in Great Britain (Coca-Cola) has unveiled bold plans to recycle all colourless Coke and non-Coke branded PET plastic disposed of at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. This pledge forms one part of Coca-Cola's approach to achieving its most sustainable sponsorship activation to date.

Sidel, the leading global provider of PET solutions for liquid packaging, has announced a new initiative aimed at reducing the amount of PET used in beverage bottles worldwide, thereby helping producers to save money and improve their environmental footprint at the same time.

As a world leader in plastics processing machinery and technology, the Austrian company Starlinger viscotec has received FDA approval for their deCON decontamination dryer to make food grade flakes from post-consumer recycled HDPE (High Density Polyethylene) milk bottles.

To be able to perfectly satisfy customer requirements at a local level, KHS Corpoplast recently opened a spare parts warehouse in China at its site in Shanghai.

The Petainer keg marketed by KHS and the Petainer company has recently been voted Packaging of the Year 2011 in the Czech Republic. The certificate was presented to Petainer Czech Holdings s.r.o. by syba, the Czech packaging association, which is a member of the World Packaging Organisation.

Amcor PET Packaging commercializes the first custom application of its PowerFlex™ polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottle. Welch’s, Concord, Mass. recently launched six varieties of its 100% juice in Amcor’s 14-ounce custom PowerFlex™ bottle.

Finest Swiss spirits from Lateltin Lanz Ingold in PET bottles from kavo by greiner packaging

The companies of the SIG Beverages Division will once again be present at BRAU Beviale in Nuremberg from 14 to 16 November.