Handbook of Beverage Packaging - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1850759898 ISBN 13: 9781850759898

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 1999

Synopsis

The beverage industry uses very specific packaging for a wide variety of products, ranging from those requiring heat treatment (usually in the package) to those requiring the retention of carbonation for a specified shelf life. Packaging development moves on rapidly, and package manufacturers continue to find new solutions to old problems and to provide answers to the increasing number of environmental issues facing our industry. Despite the pace of development the nature of the problems remains relatively unchanged: how to provide more with less, how to reconcile the need for lighter-weight packages with the fact that distribution chains continue to get longer, how to achieve faster manufacturing operations - whether making a package or filling it, the challenge of providing capital . In practice, the successful package supports the brand through differentiation at the point of sale, is used by the consumer effortlessly and is then discarded - without the consumer giving the package a second thought!

This volume provides an overview of all the packaging formats of interest to the beverage packaging technologist. It also considers the interface between them and the packaging equipment. Authors of individual chapters come from major packaging organisations or major brand companies. As they are dealing with these industries on a day-to-day basis, their views and problems are current.

The volume is directed at packaging and beverage technologists who require a broad coverage of the present state of the art.

About this title

From the Back Cover

This practical handbook, written by a team of authors from major packaging organisations and major brand companies, provides a first-stop source of concentrated information on the wide range of packaging options available to the beverage processing and packaging technologist. It covers all the main beverage packaging formats and the interface between these formats and the packaging equipment. Primary packages and the packaging materials used in the beverage industry are discussed in detail, together with processing guidelines. Secondary and tertiary packaging are covered, where they have a major impact, and there is a chapter on environmental considerations.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1850759898
• ISBN 13: 9781850759898
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 416
• Editor: Giles Geoff A.