Checkmat label inspectors

In Murau, the sails were set fair for modernisation during the past twelve years – with the brewery investing an impressive 77 million euros in technology, vehicles and marketing. Following the brewhouse and the fermentation and storage cellar, Krones now also supplied the new bottling line for glass containers – and proactively minimised the time required for installation and commissioning.

A label with creases – a no-no, really, but at the Mozart Distillerie this imperfectionism is quite intentional. Because the shiny paper foil wrapped around the spherical liqueur bottles quite deliberately evokes the impression that it has been applied by hand. With manual labelling, the high production figures would long since have ceased to be feasible, but the old line, too, was gradually approaching the limits of its capacity, in terms of both output and technological standards. This is why Mozart has now invested in a new labeller, which Krones has meticulously customised to suit the liqueur producer’s wishes.

Niehoffs-Vaihinger Fruchtsaft GmbH remains unperturbed by the ongoing plastics debate: the company fills more than 80 per cent of its production volume in returnable glass bottles – this is a matter of principle, as Plant Manager Dr. Rainer Kressmann emphasises: “Deep down in our hearts, we’re a returnables company.” His colleague, Marketing Manager Sven Frisch, even goes one step further, by vigorously affirming: “We want nothing to do with plastic!”

Paradisiacal surroundings, a secluded spring and naturally pure water – for Biruk Haile Shemer the preconditions for a water company of his own could not have been better. And so he decided to build a bottling plant in Arbegona, enabling him to offer artesian water on the Ethiopian market in future.