Krones and the label manufacturer CCL offer beverage companies the perfect tools for producing sleeve-labelled containers at a consistently high speed: the Sleevematic TS machine and the EcoFloat sleeve.

The Rittmayer Brewery located in the Upper Franconian community of Hallerndorf is growing its contract-filling operation with a low-output canning line featuring the Craftmate C filler from Krones.

Evoguard is going digital: Individual QR codes are now being printed on the identification plates of all new components. And with that, plant operators will have an even easier time of accessing the entire range of information about their Evoguard pumps or valves, at a glance, with a single scan.

Just ten years ago, plant-based drinks were still a niche product found mostly in organic grocery stores. Today, they’ve made their way into every supermarket, without exception – and they’re filling the shelves with an increasingly colourful array of products.

For most breweries, the residual materials from the brewing process are nowadays more of a bothersome disposal problem even though it has actually been possible to recycle this biomass for some time now. It also makes perfect sense to do so, because using it for energy recovery in a biogas plant, in particular, can substantially reduce a brewery’s dependence on fossil fuels.

Rising inflation has affected not only consumers but also businesses in the European Union the over the past several months. Prices for raw materials and energy keep climbing higher, and production is becoming increas-ingly expensive. This has a direct impact on revenue, since higher costs cannot always be passed entirely to consumers. When it comes to products like beer, ballooning food grocery bills may curtail consumption.

The Barifill Canto is the only filler offered by the Krones Group that can handle glass and PET bottles as well as cans on a single machine. Our Italian subsidiary Kosme is responsible for its development, construction, and installation.

The challenges associated with manufacturing PET containers are varied and complex. Process windows are short, and even the daily changes in ambient temperature and humidity in the production hall require regular manual adjustments to various process parameters to ensure the required level of container quality.

In Krones’ view, PET can help solve some of the pressing issues of our era. After all, this type of packaging can be sustainable – provided, of course, the process for producing the material is resource-economical and a closed cycle is maintained. Besides recyclability, plastics also have further major advantages compared to other types of packaging.

The fourth generation of Krones’ Contiform stretch blow molder is here. Its development involved special attention to environmental compatibility and to further improving efficiency and flexibility. The machine can even be equipped with artificial intelligence (AI).