30 Oct Think carton! This food and drink packaging is better for us and the environment
Carton packaging for dairy, juice, and food is the healthy, sustainable option that meets the modern lifestyle needs of busy people, asserts Tetra Pak.
28 Aug Wine stopper turf wars
While screwcaps’ hold on the market seems to be loosening, new developments in natural cork, Diam (a cork stopper with the mechanical and organoleptic security of a screwcap) and synthetics mean that wine producers are spoilt for choice when it comes to wine stopper power.
15 Aug Drostdy Hof unveils revamped look for its range of wines
Distell's value wine brand, Drostdy Hof, has a sophisticated new look: with the new label design being "both respectful of the legacy and modern in expression, inviting consumers to 'share the moment' with Drostdy Hof".
25 Jul Functional and funky single-serve wine format
Alternative packaging formats are increasingly being used in Europe and the US to drive wine sales in the face of fierce competition - and here's news of an innovative single-serve pouch.
17 May An alternative to plastic: new range of edible straws
A UK-based disposables manufacturer has developed a novel range of edible straws, which consumers can eat – rather than discard – after use.
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24 Apr Labels, glues reduce recyclability of beverage bottles
A new study coming out of the US has confirmed what companies involved in food-bev packaging and recycling in SA have known for some time – despite the strides made in reducing the environmental impact of PET beverage bottles, the insensitive selection of other packaging...
24 Apr Distell releases 400 000 bespoke Amarula bottles
As part of an marketing initiative to boost its African elephant conservation efforts, Distell has launched an innovative Amarula “Name Them, Save Them” campaign – an ambitious effort to give a name to every surviving African elephant in the wild.
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20 Apr These tiny edible water bottles are almost completely pointless
Startups come in all shapes and sizes, but when your business model seeks to replace one of the most simple, ubiquitous products on the planets — in this case, plastic bottles — it really has to be unbelievably brilliant to have any chance at success.
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06 Apr The HELIX wine closure now available to SA market
Amorim’s HELIX cork concept is now available locally in its entirety, with Consol Glass reporting it is producing the bottles required for the novel closure.
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30 Mar Five consumer trends that can shape your drinks package
Today’s consumers are a demanding bunch and shelf impact is no longer enough to win them over. Tetra Pak has outlined five macro-trends that are having an impact on consumer behaviour and their interaction with brands and products.
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29 Mar At last, a drip-free wine bottle!
Wine lovers can rejoice! Thanks to inventor Daniel Perlamn, a biophysicist at Brandeis University (Waltham, Massachusetts) who’s also a wine enthusiast, a world with drip-free wine bottles could be within our grasp.
...10 Mar Keeping cork relevant in the screw-cap age
The advent of synthetic stoppers and screwcaps has challenged cork producers to improve their product and explore new sources of revenue.
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03 Mar Arch rivals team up to produce green plastic
More used to battling it out over mineral water and baby milk, Swiss group Nestlé and its smaller French rival Danone have joined forces to create a greener plastic bottle.
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10 Jan The science of better-tasting milk
A new study finds that fluorescent light can degrade the flavour of milk in supermarkets—and offers some solutions.
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08 Jan Behold, the world’s first flat wine bottle
Though different wine packages have their pros and cons, few of them can say they are as uniquely functional as a bottle developed by London’s Garcon Wines – a company which has unveiled a flat plastic wine bottle specially designed to slip through a mail...
23 Nov New decanter concept takes a bottoms-up approach to wine freshness
When trying to keep wine fresh after being opened, it's important to limit the wine's exposure to oxygen left inside the bottle.
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09 Nov What’s trending in wine packaging in SA and elsewhere?
Judy Brower, founder of www.wine.co.za, says that South African wine consumers, generally, are attracted to what is different and what tells a story. In a market with 8 000 SKUs, fitting that bill is a considerable challenge. This article looks at how packaging, here and...
31 Oct Woolworths launches SA’s first plant-based milk bottle
Woolworths has announced the launch of an innovative green milk bottle consisting of 30% plant-based plastic, a first for the dairy industry in South Africa.
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29 Sep Carlsberg’s Green Fibre Bottle now in prototype
Carlsberg has unveiled a protoype of its Green Fibre Bottle in what it hails as a ‘milestone’ breakthrough within an ‘ambitious’ three-year project.
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11 Aug Commercialisation of breakthrough LiquiForm technology
The LiquiForm Group has partnered with Krones to develop and commercialise its new liquid forming and filling process that's claimed to have the potential to be one of the most important breakthrough technologies in liquid packaging.
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