Juice Niehoffs-Vaihinger uses returnables out of conviction 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!”
Water Pepsi Bottling Ventures is bringing water to life Pepsi Bottling Ventures (PBV) is the largest privately held bottler of PepsiCo products in North America. It is a joint venture owned by PepsiCo and Suntory. As Sabri Kundakcioglu, Vice President of Engineering, explains, the company’s membership in the Japanese Suntory Group means that it also follows the group’s philosophy: “Our corporate vision statement is ‘Mizu To Ikiru’, which literally translates to ‘bringing water to life’. It is meant to remind us that water is the source of all life on Earth. Water is also the most essential ingredient in all of our products, and therefore crucial to a successful, sustainable business.”
Juice, Soft drinks Bidco is now doing beverages as well with two complete lines from Krones In Kenya, demand for healthier products is set to rise in the near future. In order to responsively satisfy consumers’ changing wishes and needs while at the same time keeping the production process cost-efficient, Bidco has become the first beverage producer in Kenya to install a NitroHotfill line that meets both these requirements.
Water Combined water bottling line from Krones and Kosme 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.
Beer Rapid success for Skol Skol is one of the world’s biggest beer brands, and is produced and sold by various brewing conglomerates. In some countries of Africa, the Belgian family firm Unibra owns the brewing and marketing rights. When the demand for beer in Rwanda rose a few years ago, Unibra decided in 2010 to produce the purely malt-based beer locally too – and built a new brewing facility for the purpose: Skol Brewery Ltd. (SBL). And the decision itself, as well as the choice of what until then was an unknown type of beer in this country, turned out to be absolutely right: Skol Malt, the first beer ever on the Rwandan market to be brewed solely with malt, was a big hit, “although back then not a soul in Rwanda was familiar with the Skol brand,” explains Eustache Mpiko, Engineering Manager at SBL.
Beer Fast-tracked project at Kenya Breweries Right from the start, this project, internally code-named “Nafasi” (which translates as “opportunity”), involved a tremendous amount of work both for Kenya Breweries Ltd. (KBL) and for Krones as the turnkey vendor for the entire process technology. In order to coordinate the various job sections against a tight time schedule, more than 1.7 million working hours have been performed to date; at peak times, there were 840 workers on days and 50 working at night, 250 of them from Krones and its sub suppliers alone.
Juice, Soft drinks Four new PET lines for Britvic and a complete high-bay warehouse Clive Hooper, Chief Supply Chain Officer at Britvic, has a clearly defined goal: “Britvic is already one of the leading soft-drinks producers in Europe. We want to progress, and play in the premier league on the global stage as well.” In order to achieve this, about five years ago the company decided to optimise its distribution chain and at the same time invest in its production capabilities.
Beer Brewing capacities at Kursk quadrupled When a major international beer company closed its brewery in Kursk, Russia, around ten years ago, it created a sort of beer vacuum in the region. Then, in 2012, Oleg Nosov and his business partner Grigory Davidenko decided to open their own brewery: the Kursk Beer Company Ltd. They brought many years of experience in beer distribution to the table and knew the industry inside and out. They decided to buy empty premises in Kursk and start building their first brewing plant. And now, just five years later, they built a second brewery.
Beer A complete greenfield brewery for Tatspirtprom - Megaproject completed in record time There hadn’t been a brewery of this size built in Russia in over a decade. And this one, for Tatspirtprom for an annual capacity of two million hectoliters, was completed in record time: the first brew was mashed in just one year after the contract was awarded. The project marked Krones’ first turnkey brewery in Russia and the company’s fastest turnaround to date on a project of this magnitude.
Milk EkoNiva fills milk in PET containers The MosMedynagroprom plant in Medyn near Kaluga, Russia, was built ten years ago to supply schools in Moscow with UHT milk and cheese, but it never reached capacity. EkoNiva took over the plant in 2017 and has been updating its technology and hygiene to the latest state of the art. “The plant originally produced up to 90 percent of its output volume as UHT milk products. Now we are switching production over to a traditional range of pasteurized products: milk, fermented dairy products, cottage cheese, yoghurt smoothies,” explains Vadim Shevelev, project manager for EkoNiva.