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Heineken's French cuts continue
25.08.2009Plant transfer as Dutch brewer readies brewery closure...
AB InBev divests can plants to Ball Corp
02.07.2009A-B InBev’s sale of non-core assets continues. The world’s largest and most in-debt brewer is selling four beverage can manufacturing plants, part of what was ...
Manitowoc Beverage Systems is formed
29.06.2009Scotsman Beverage Systems has changed its name to reflect the acquisition of its parent company Enodis by Manitowoc last October, forming one of the world’s ...
Cara and Alectia in landmark yeast deal
18.05.2009British company Cara Technology has signed a deal giving it control of one of the largest repositories of commercial brewing yeast in the world. The ...
Kasztelan opts for unpasteurised
30.03.2009Carlsberg-owned Kasztelan Brewery in Poland has scrapped its pasteurizers in favour of a new sterile filtration system. Kasztelan, which claims ownership of 2% of the ...
ALECTIA taps Chinese talent
09.03.2009In recognition of improving and relatively inexpensive Chinese brewing technology, global consultancy ALECTIA Brew has begun recruiting experts from that country.The first four brewing engineers ...
Danisco quits UK for new Danish centre
05.02.2009Brewing process aids supplier Danisco is shutting up shop in the UK to combine its operations at a new multi million kroner project in Denmark. ...
Czech hop production returns to 'normal'
22.09.2008There’s good news emanating from the hop fields of the Czech Republic: according to the country’s Hop Growers Union, after two years of disastrous yields, ...
Ziemann Energy launched
18.08.2008German brewhouse supplier the Ziemann Group has set up a new subsidiary to address environmental, energy and efficiency issues affecting the industry. The foundation of ...
Lion Nathan partners with Infonic
14.08.2008A British IT firm is setting its sights on the powerhouses of the global brewing industry after winning a three-year contract with Australia’s second largest ...
Alectia-Penborn deal complete
04.08.2008Danish engineering consultancy Alectia has swallowed British firm Penborn Technical Services whole in a deal for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition is Alectia’s first international takeover. The ...
Ziemann bags Bangkok brewery deal
19.06.2008A German brewhouse supply giant has been commissioned to build what it claims will be Thailand’s “most modern brewery” – a plant that will eventually ...
Green supplier to fight plastic 'demonisation'
10.06.2008Mounting pressure on industry to green up its act has prompted a major supplier to the brewing world to name the man who will fill ...
Czechs hope for hop investment
20.05.2008An appeal for further investment in hop cultivation in the world’s biggest per capita beer-drinking nation was issued today. In a statement from the Hop ...
Production kicks off in Ardagh Euro 08 bottle deal
13.05.2008The sponsorship machine for the forthcoming UEFA Euro championships is now at full throttle with specially branded Carlsberg bottles flying from a Polish glass plant. ...
MeadWestvaco rebrands globally
27.03.2008Packaging solutions provider MeadWestvaco Corporation is adopting a new, pithier corporate identity. Henceforth the company is to be known simply as MWV with its slogan ...
Scotsman Beverage Systems acquires TRUpour
05.11.2007British cooling and dispense expert Scotsman Beverage Systems has acquired its Irish counterpart TRUpour Ltd, which boasts customers including InBev, SABMiller and Diageo.TRUpour recently developed ...
Danbrew to be rebranded as Alectia
24.10.2007Danbrew, a name familiar to brewers worldwide, is to disappear from view early next year. Danish engineering firm Birch & Krogboe, of which Danbrew has ...
Sidel taps Chinese market
19.10.2007French filling equipment specialist Sidel is investing £24 million in a new Beijing-based facility that will produce complete bottling lines for the Chinese market.Work began ...
