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Culinary herbs add naturalness and, from an
aesthetic perspective, their delicacy catches the
eye in cheeses and savoury snacks, soft drinks
and cocktails. Sensient's carefully curated Herb
Collection comprises Garden Mint, Coriander
Leaves, Sage, Rosemary, Hops, Oregano,
Basil, Thyme, Lemongrass and Aloe Vera.
Tea is no longer a beverage to be had at a
certain time of the day. Exciting new offerings
have consumers reaching for tea in different
forms and flavours around the clock. It is
associated with sophistication and flair as well
as with naturality and health. The ability of tea
to offer rich, intricate profiles makes it the
perfect way to add flavour and depth to
everything from ice cream to chocolate and
alcoholic beverages. Sensient's Tea Collection
brings together an extraordinary exploration of
8 different tastes: Green Tea, Matcha Tea,
White Tea, Cascara Tea, Rooibos, Chai Tea,
Black Tea and Earl Grey.
Sidel partners Coca-Cola in
developing new design for fanta
bottle in pet
Sidel has collaborated in the new “spiral” PET
bottle project from The Coca-Cola Company
(TCCC), with the company's 40-year expertise
in PET packaging instrumental in the successful
rejuvenation of the Fanta brand and the
challenges involved in getting it right.
First appearing on shelves in the1940s,
Fanta is TCCC's biggest brand after Coke. Like
any great product, Fanta has evolved over the
years, with a number of bottle re-designs under
its belt. However, the popularity of the Fanta
Splash bottle shape had led to it becoming
something of a generic bottle for sparkling
beverages on the supermarket shelves of key
markets. Consequently, this diluted the Fanta
ownership of the bottle shape in what is the
second-largest brand outside the US and
therefore a very important product in the TCCC
range. That is why Coca-Cola started to design
and develop a new proprietary Fanta
packaging shape, applicable to both PET and
glass bottles, in order to provide a protectable
new global standard for the brand.
A similar bottle shape has been deployed for
the whole Fanta bottle family and it is now
available for 500 ml, 1L, 1.5L and 2L formats.
When it comes to the 1.5L and 2L bottles, the
Spiral design offers easier gripping and an
improved pouring experience for the consumer.
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Leveraging the successful cooperation with Sidel,
an alternate 500ml Spiral bottle has been
developed to ensure stability specifically for
gravity-fed inclined shelves which are typically
implemented in cold chain distribution. This
required specific design rules to be adopted,
with very precise bubble numbers and locations
around the ribs which constitute the spiral. A
consideration throughout the development of the
PET bottle was the capability to also transfer the
new shape to the glass bottle, an objective
which was also successfully achieved. Today, the
new Spiral Fanta bottle in PET is sold in Italy,
Poland, Malta, Serbia, Finland, Romania and
the UK, with plans for global roll-out over the
coming months.
Bühler builds the world's first
ultra-low-emission coffee
processing plant
Bühler is building the world's most advanced
coffee processing plant for the Norwegian
coffee producer Joh. Johannson. It combines
innovative roasting technology with record low
greenhouse gas emissions. The coffee roasting
biogas is close to carbon neutral, making the
processing plant with the lowest emissions
globally possible. “With Bühler, we have found
a solution partner that fully understands our
sustainability concerns and is capable of
putting them to practice,” says Espen Gjerde,
CEO of Joh. Johannson. “Together with our
customer Johannson, we are setting a new eco-
standard in the field of coffee production,” says
Stefan Schenker, Head of the Bühler Business
Unit Coffee Processing.
Coffee continues to be a growth market with
growth rates of about 3% worldwide. After the
considerable efforts of processors to achieve
sustainable sourcing of green coffee, the focus is
now being increasingly set on the manufacturing
process in the coffee factory. This is because this
process consumes a lot of energy: A factory with
an annual processing capacity of 10,000 tonnes
consumes roughly 870 kW - about as much as
100 Norwegian households.
Now the Norwegian coffee producer Joh.
Johannson has teamed up with Bühler to
reverse the trend: In June 2017, Bühler was
awarded the contract for building the world's
most efficient climate- and environmental-
friendly coffee processing plant.
For this low-carbon production plant, Bühler
will supply the complete process technology -
JANUARY - MARCH 2018