Oregon Fruit Products LLC has released its latest limited-edition Fruit for Fermentation puree: Key Lime. Fruit for Fermentation adds flavor, aroma and texture of real fruit to a variety of fermented beverages such as beer, cider, mead, spirits, wine and kombucha.

ree House Brewing Company, a world-renowned Massachusetts craft brewery known for their uncompromising and unrelenting commitment to the craft and their humble beginnings, and Cambrian Innovation®, a commercial provider of distributed wastewater treatment and resource recovery solutions, today announced plans to implement a cutting-edge on-site wastewater treatment system to treat effluent to industrial reuse quality ahead of discharge to the local Charlton municipality.

BeerBoard, the leader in real-time data, insights and consumer engagement for the hospitality industry, has released its 2019 Big Game Pour Report, a review of insights and performance data for draft beer on the day of America’s most popular sporting event (and associated activities).

White Labs has teamed up with Marañón Chocolate to isolate and produce a unique yeast from a rare cacao variety—Pure Nacional—that was once thought to be extinct in Peru. The strain, WLP546 Marañón Canyon Wild Cacao, has now been released to customers for brewing beer.

Antigo Sign & Display and Zeon Corporation, leading designers and manufacturers of retail point of purchase visual marketing solutions, have announced the merger of the two companies.

After months of development, Charlotte-based start-up, Ekos, adds significant enhancements for TTB reporting to their cider production software. Ekos Cidermaker’s tax reporting functionality gives users the ability to not only populate their numbers but also drill down into their data for the Report of Wine Premises Operations populating in Ekos, saving hours of time when doing taxes.

Diversey, the leading global hygiene and cleaning company, has launched its cloud-based Hygiene Academy training platform for food and beverage professionals. It enables managers to supervise and develop their own tailored training programs to improve the knowledge and skillsets of their manufacturing and processing staff.

Benson Hill Biosystems, a crop improvement company unlocking the natural diversity of plants, and Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev), the world’s leading brewer, announced a global partnership to develop improved barley varieties using Benson Hill’s computational platform Breed, powered by CropOS.

Australia’s largest hop grower, Hop Products Australia (HPA), has planted the first 50 hectares at their new farm in Victoria’s Buffalo River Valley. The $35 million expansion project aims to increase HPA’s total hop production by 50 percent over a period of six years, further increasing supply of their proprietary hop varieties to Australian and international brewers.

Atlas Holdings LLC announced that it has acquired Saxco International, LLC, the leading North American value-added distributor of rigid packaging to the wine, spirits, craft beer and food markets. 

The Hand Truck Company recently launched the Wheeler 360, a new version of its patented, multi-directional Hand Truck 360. The Wheeler 360 safely secures up to two kegs or several cases of beverages or boxes of food products for easy transport in a restaurant, warehouse and more.

Effective Jan. 3, 2019, Dave Hunter joined Stone Path Malt as Sales and Marketing Director, leading product, services and brand expansion for their locally crafted and imported malt, as well as Stone Path Malt’s on-premise tap room located in Wareham, Mass.

Brewery Direct in a partnership with SBS Foods Inc. is expanding into the Pacific Northwest, Montana and Alaska to supply malted grains, hops, yeast and specialty ingredients to breweries in the region. 

UNEX Manufacturing, Inc., the trusted industry leader in providing innovative order picking solutions, announces that Brian C. Neuwirth will be promoted to President of the company starting Jan. 1, 2019.