Supplier News

Hummingbird is the first packaging supplier in North America to provide 110-inch wide web capability for digital pre-print at lengths limited only by converting capability.

INSITE Packaging Automation (INSITE) designs and produces innovative case erecting and case sealing equipment through the elegant application of technology.

Smarty Pints™ is a team of Cicerone Level 1 Certified brand ambassadors and is the nation’s first program of its kind. The team is currently comprised of 15 Cicerone certified brand ambassadors across California, with plans to expand to new regions in 2018.

Feelfree US, LLC announced the launch of the Chilart “Cooltainer”, a rugged portable keg dispensing system that serves beer cold for up to three days without the use of power.

ow Packaging and Specialty Plastics, a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company, is collaborating with craft beer brewer Oskar Blues along with plastics converter Berry Global and Ampacet – a leader in color masterbatch technologies – to produce the industry’s first printed collation shrink packaging in the United States for the brewer’s 24-can variety cases.

UNEX Manufacturing, Inc., the trusted industry leader in providing innovative order picking solutions, introduces the UNEX Configurator, an easy-to-use design tool that generates a 3D image and bill of materials for users’ custom carton flow solutions.

Students in the Department of Food Science and Technology at UC Davis now have access to firsthand experience on a wide range of brewery technology through an innovative collaboration with Pentair, a leading solution provider to the brewing industry.

The Perfect Purée of Napa Valley is exhibiting for the first time at the Craft Brewers Conference, April 30-May 3 in Nashville.

Festo introduces the VTEM Motion Terminal – the world’s first cyber-physical pneumatic automation platform – to attendees of BrewExpo America, May 1-3, at Music City Center in Nashville.

Constantia Flexibles Group is now the third largest flexible packaging company in India after successfully completing its acquisition of a majority shareholding in India’s Creative Polypack Limited after all conditions were fulfilled.

Hopsteiner’s booth will include a beer-tasting lounge featuring four unique beers that highlight Hopsteiner’s flavorful and aromatic experimental and proprietary hop varieties. 

This year, SLG highlights their newest management solution, KegFleet, which attendees can learn about at a new trade booth (#1634) featuring a keg wall with a built-in screen premiering their “See What Our Partners Have to Say” brewery film series.

Petainer, the leader in plastic container innovation, has unveiled its new petainerKeg Hybrid as part of its global keg family of products at this year’s Brewers Association Craft Brewers Conference in Nashville.

UPM Raflatac announces that its craft beverage experts will be at booth 1352 in Hall B at Craft Brewers Conference in Nashville, TN from April 30-May 3 to help breweries with finding the right labels for their bottles or cans.