Supplier News

A German brewhouse supply giant has been commissioned to build what it claims will be Thailand’s “most modern brewery” – a plant that will eventually produce 6million hectolitres of beer each year.  In response to the booming beer market in ...

Mounting pressure on industry to green up its act has prompted a major supplier to the brewing world to name the man who will fill a new role spearheading environmental initiatives. Multinational beverage packaging supplier Sidel announced today that Luc ...

An 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 Growers Union of the Czech Republic, it was announced that acreage of the country’s primary ...

The sponsorship machine for the forthcoming UEFA Euro championships is now at full throttle with specially branded Carlsberg bottles flying from a Polish glass plant. Ardagh Glass has teamed up with the Danish multinational to produce premium 33cl and 50cl ...

Packaging solutions provider MeadWestvaco Corporation is adopting a new, pithier corporate identity. Henceforth the company is to be known simply as MWV with its slogan becoming “MWV: How brands take shape.”“The new MWV brand identity is part of our company’s ...

British 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 the latest Stella Artois font and is noted in the industry for stainless steel dispense ...

Danbrew, a name familiar to brewers worldwide, is to disappear from view early next year. Danish engineering firm Birch & Krogboe, of which Danbrew has been part of since mid-2005, is to rebrand its corporate identity and six divisions as ...

French 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 on the site in May, with Sidel scheduled to open the 40,000 square metre plant ...

Rexam is planning Denmark’s first D&I (drawn and ironed) beverage can plant with commissioning expected in the first half of 2009.The £78 million ($160m) facility will be built on a greenfield site in Fredericia, outside Copenhagen, enabling Rexam to ship ...