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Soft Drinks International – JULY 2009
Turkish facility
opened
CLOSURE manufacturer Silgan White Cap
Europe has opened a new dedicated sales
and service office to serve the Turkish and
surrounding export markets. Based in Istanbul
and headed by Bülent Samli, a key focus
for the operation will be reliability and flexibility
of supply. By being able to access the
full range of closures manufactured at the
company's factories throughout Europe, Silgan
White Cap Turkey says it will be able to
offer the widest choice of closure solutions
to meet different product specifications.
Turkish customers will also benefit from
Silgan White Cap Europe’s Total System
Solution customer service, including help and
advice on closure materials and capping and
sealing systems. All closures are manufactured
to European and International standards
– including BRC, HACCP and ISO
14001.
“We are combining local knowledge and
support with efficient international manufacturing
to ensure our Turkish customers can
access a huge choice of quality closures,
Wider platform for
point-of-use water
AT the recent AVEX show, the European
Vending Association announced a new
alliance with the European Point-of-use
Drinking Water Association (EPDWA).
The EPDWA, formed 10 years ago, has
more than 150 members whilst the European
Vending Association represents 58
companies and 19 national associations
from all aspects of the industry apart from
point-of-use machines. The EVA says it has a
proven track record of positively influencing
EU policies on behalf of the vending industry
and is offering the benefit of its experience
and lobbying networks in Brussels to
the EPDWA.
The EPDWA has been reviewing its
European strategy in an effort to utilise the
Energy investment
CZECH company Sweet Import, which distributes
the Hungarian energy drink Hell, is
investing over Ckr10million in a new 2,000
sq m logistics centre in the north Moravian
town of Koprivnice. Construction, according
to its spokesman Ondrej Kopecky, will take
two years.
Sweet Import (founded in 1993) sells in
the Czech Republic the classic version of
Hell which has an energy value of 194 kJ
and also a sugar-free one with 10 kJ. Both
drinks contain taurin, caffeine and various
vitamins and are supplied to the local retail
backed by the experience and technical
expertise of a market leader,” said Bülent
Samli (pictured).
successful formula that has been widely
adopted in the UK. It is believed that as
mains fed units start to proliferate through
the rest of Europe, the knowledge gained
by the association can be used as a benchmark
and template for other national governments,
suppliers, distributors, as well as
end users. The new partnership between
the two associations is seen as the starting
point for getting this message across
Europe.
James Anderton, Chairman of EPDWA
stated that “the overlap between the two
associations is simple; many vending solutions
include the utilisation of a mains water
source, connection and even filtration.
Therefore any future policy decision in
these areas would represent a similar issue
to mains fed coolers providers. This agreement
gives the EPDWA the platform to
access to a wider membership and importantly
to the Brussels policy makers.”
sector as well as to food service.
Hell energy drinks, as Gabriela Jankovská
from Sweet Import told Soft Drinks International,
are manufactured in various European
Union member states by a Hungarian company
of the same name. “Its biggest sales, as
far as I know, are in its home country plus in
Romania,” she added.
Nestlé funds
research
AS part of its commitment to sustainable
development and creating shared value,
Nestlé is co-funding a Chair in Bioplastics at
Ecole des Mines de Paris, which includes six
PhD theses. This research programme will
study the properties of polymers derived
from renewable resources, as well as their
industrial application.
Announcing the move Anne Roulin,
Nestlé's Head of Global Packaging said:
“We consider that this is the beginning of
a new era of Bioplastics.Today we are just at
the start of a long journey in research and
development, and a lot more scientific and
technical work is required before we have
materials that are truly adapted to food
packaging needs and can be used on a large
scale.”
In addition to a financial contribution of
€60,000 per year for five years, Nestlé will
also bring its experience in bioplastics and
knowledge of packaging to this partnership.
Nestlé says this new research programme
complements existing partnerships with
material suppliers.
In brief…
● Pepsi Americas has installed a new glass
bottling line for Toma Natura its table water
brand at the company's plant in Teplice nad
Metují. With this investment of almost
CKr100million, the US company has entered
a new segment of the local market as it
begins supplying the country’s hotels and
restaurants, said Randy Pankevicz, Vice-President
for Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia.
The line’s capacity is 75,000 litres of water
a day with 18,000 bottles filled each hour.
The Toma brand has been in Pepsi’s portfolio
since year 2000.
● Cargill has started production at its new
glycerine refinery in Frankfurt, Germany.
Construction of the new plant, located adjacent
to Cargill’s existing biodiesel production
facility in the Höchst Industrial Park, began in
September 2008 and was completed within
nine months.
The majority of the new refinery’s supply
of crude glycerine - a co-product of the
biodiesel production process - will come
from Cargill’s biodiesel plant. In recent years
there has been an increase in demand for
refined glycerine.
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