Around 7,000 people met at herCAREER, Europe's leading career and networking event for women - and Krones was there too!
Circular Food Solutions turns residual materials from the brewing process into basic ingredients for vegan meat substitutes by upcycling brewer’s grains.
Hermann Kronseder would have been 100 years old on 3 October 2024 - a look back at the life of the inventor, visionary and founder of Krones.
A retrospective on his life’s work as the founder of Krones
Krones runs its own talent development programme aimed at developing staff who show potential for a leadership role.
Krones Brazil is training potential applicants in a one-year program that serves as a precursor to the company’s in-house trainee program.
Thatchers has once again put its trust in solutions from the Krones Group, ordering an intralogistics concept with a high-bay warehouse that’s digitally interlinked to its existing production facilities and a new canning line.
In late 2021, Krones established the Diversity Board in order to foster diversity and translate it into everyday reality. Several of its members give us some insight into their work in this article.
The British water bottler has once again opted for a line featuring block technology. Their second ErgoBloc L also boasts an hourly output of 60,000 PET containers.
On all its global construction sites, Krones prioritises the sustainable reuse of materials, ranging from wooden pallets and copper cables right through to any surplus parts.
The Chinese Beijing Yanjing Brewery upgrades its filling operation with a new Krones canning line, rated at 120,000 cans per hour.
Krones attaches great importance to sustainability at events – from construction of the stand through selection and coordination of the exhibits all the way to catering.
An aseptic line for tea and coffee marks the beginning of a new era for Krones and Suntory: It is the first time the two companies are collaborating on a project in Japan, Suntory’s home country.
An optimized process for direct heating and a holistic energy concept make for more sustainable production of oat and dairy drinks.
The Krones Group and Food Brewer have joined forces, working on a concept for producing alternative foods based on cell cultures. At the heart of the project is the Steinecker bioreactor.
At the Process Technology Center in Neutraubling, companies can develop and test recipes for beverages and liquid food products.
For the first time, Krones will deliver a turnkey aseptic line to Mongolia – to MCS Coca-Cola.
The Bavarian State Brewery Weihenstephan is the first customer to use the new kieselguhr-free filtration process developed by Steinecker and Erbslöh.
Since early 2023, Krones has been running a pilot project entitled “leadership tandem”. In it, two women share a single leadership role, each working part time.
The first module of Phoenix BMC, a concept for upcycling residual materials from the brewing process and using them for energy recovery, has been successfully put into operation at Ustersbacher Brewery.
Drawing on its brewing technology expertise, Steinecker has developed a bioreactor for biomass production that can be used to make alternative foods.
This October, Krones ran a breast cancer awareness campaign featuring several events aimed at fostering prevention and education.
Kosme offers various models of stretch blow moulders and fillers for large-sized PET containers – both as stand-alone machines and in block solutions.
Contiloop AI detects even the slightest variations in material distribution in the production of PET containers and automatically adjusts key stretch-blow-molding parameters in real time.
The Dynafill’s revolutionary filling and crowning technology makes it possible to take an entirely fresh approach to line layout and implement concepts for reducing energy consumption.
The direct-heating module, which can be seamlessly integrated into the VarioAsept UHT system, makes for even gentler heating of sensitive products.
Thanks to the MultiGuide Base, lengthy format change-over times for glass fillers and closers have been consigned to history.
The Mountain Culture Beer Co. craft brewery is investing in a new canning line – and keen to include the small Craftmate C filler in its kit.
The Krones water sommeliers develop water formulas perfectly matched to the needs of packaged-water producers all over the world under the Water Design concept.
Krones has installed a new canning line for the Croatian brewery Zagrebacka Pivovara in a multi-storey building right in the centre of Zagreb.
ProPak Asia is Asia’s leading trade event for processing and packaging, and Krones, of course, participated as well.
The Krones showroom grants online access to machines and lines in the shape of 3D models and detailed videos, inviting you to experience all the many USPs close up.
Since space in the production hall is in short supply, the new water treatment system at Blends is simply being installed in the shipping container to the side of it.
Evoguard is continuously expanding its range of pumps, which includes not only single and multi-stage models but also self-priming centrifugal pumps.
The new module of the Evotube family effortlessly handles not only heating and cooling jobs but also CIP processes and can be integrated into any line.
Providing the energy required for cooling: The Krones VapoChill series designed on a modular principle is suitable for use not only in the food and beverage industry but in chemical and pharmaceutical plants as well.
Depending on the ingredient base and the type of equipment used, there are different options for making oat drinks. Krones offers customers three process variants.
Around the world, plant-based alternatives to dairy milk are becoming more and more popular.
Seven years filled with a lot of experiences and fascinating colleagues in a great many different countries.
Obtaining proteins and energy from spent grains and yeast: Steinecker Phoenix BMC is paving the way towards a carbon neutral, energy-self-sufficient brewery.
To accomplish that goal, they’ve opted for an updated SAP infrastructure and an upgraded, integrated package of Krones software solutions across all production lines.
Händlmaier has now for the first time put its trust in a turnkey glass line from Krones for producing its mustards, sauces and dressings.
The craft brewers at Fuerst Wiacek have invested in the first brewery they can call their own – and they’ve chosen a Steinecker brewhouse and a canning line from Kosme.
Meat and other refrigerated products: System Logistics offers the optimal logistics concept for the Tosano supermarket chain.
Woman power in a male-dominated field: Premwadee Mongkolnam is the only woman to serve as a site manager at Krones – and she masters her job with great success.
Sustainability in the brewing process is one of the most topical issues in the sector. Here EquiTherm scores in terms of customer feedback and impressive results.
Grupo Petrópolis awarded a turnkey project to Krones in 2018, including an 8-million-hectolitre Steinecker brewery and four lines for glass and cans.
After a coronavirus infection, three colleagues had to be brought back home from their business travel in Ethiopia under special protective measures.
Steinecker is now launching the new software release 4.0 for the Botec F1 process control system, which boasts numerous improvements.
The mineral water bottler VILSA-BRUNNEN will in future produce natural mineral water and spritzers on a wet-aseptic line from Krones. The company’s new high-bay warehouse will be erected by System Logistics.
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Alongside the Barifill Canto, Kosme is presenting another innovation: the Canto can filler.
Up to 80 per cent less water consumption, thanks to wastewater recycling
At FATs, the customer inspects his machine on site with us before it sets off. Now a digital alternative was required.
Two of Krones’ fastest can filling lines in Europe are at Hell Energy in Szikszó, Hungary.
With Rapid Parts on Demand, it is possible for clients to produce spare parts on their own 3D printer.
Dynafill – filling and crowning on a single unit, in just five seconds. Krones has now upgraded a prototype.
An electrodeionization within a water treatment system further reduces the TDS considerably, to less than 0.1 milligrams per liter.
The new HLI series of HST homogenizers offers many advantages in terms of energy and media efficiency.
Krones celcare is a compressible, cellulose-based filter aid for beer clarification.
Makkah Water is modernising its main plant and has ordered an ErgoBloc L, two complete high-speed lines and a new water treatment system from Krones.
Phoebus is Krones’ solution for cross-flow membrane filtration in beer production.
With the Accuflow Pro, containers can be spaced out and buffered gently.
Borsodi Brewery in Hungary is the Molson Coors Brewing Company’s strategic production hub for Central Europe. A new canning line from Krones has them ready for the future.
Barifill Canto is the first multipurpose filler for glass bottles, PET containers, and cans – not only from Kosme but within the entire House of Krones.
With Evotube, Evoguard is now selling Krones’ field-proven heat exchangers as individual modules as well.
The Störtebeker Braumanufaktur has been getting ready to meet the steadily rising demand for its beers: by investing in bottling technology from Krones, a high-bay warehouse from System Logistics and matching IT solutions from Syskron.
During the first wave of coronavirus, Krones and its customers successfully shifted the majority of their communication to the virtual world.
Crises like the coronavirus call for support across all sectors and Krones was able to help in regard to disinfectants and their packaging.
Efficient virtual communication enables our machines to be delivered and serviced despite travel and contact restrictions.
Thanks to LitePac, Akvavita saves 90 per cent of plastic for the packaging and 40 per cent of energy during the production process.
The Modulfill Bloc FS-C for cans scores highly not only in terms of hygiene, but of footprint as well.
Time for some new investment: Kaiserdom has replaced its 50-year-old Steinecker brewhouse by a new, energy-efficient brewing system from Krones.
Six new lines in five years: the Molkerei Gropper dairy has a clear commitment to bottling milk and juices in PET.
Krones’ subsidiary Milkron has completed its largest project to date: planning and engineering a new dairy for TINE. The project also integrates expertise from Krones, Evoguard, HST, and Syskron.
Numerous new design features enhance the crowner’s hygiene levels still further.
The coronavirus called for changes in the everyday work at Krones in Germany such as strict hygienic measures or remote work.
A Contipure AseptBloc DN ensures that Spitz can supply the Austrian supermarkets with juices and ice tea to even better effect.
Mozart Distillerie has opted for spherical glass bottles with paper foil and labels. Krones developed a rather special customised labeller for this client.
With a canning line from Krones, Vanhonsebrouck is making an emphatic statement on Belgium’s specialty beer market.
At Nera Kritis’ new facility in the north of Greece one of the first ErgoBloc LM in the smallest size category is up and running.
A new glass line from Krones has marked the completion of Murau brewery’s investment thrust.
Pepsi Bottling Ventures has been running a brand new line for bottling water at its WOW plant since early 2019.
Leading soft-drinks producer Britvic is gearing up for the future – and has accordingly installed four Krones lines and a high-bay warehouse from System Logistics at its at its Rugby plant in United Kingdom.
From baled post-consumer plastic to new packaging – rPlanet Earth has built a vertically integrated recycling and production plant in Vernon, California, with Krones as one of its general contractors.
Six ErgoBloc systems within two and a half short years – you can safely say that those responsible at Fine Bio are genuine fans of Krones’ block solutions.
The Taihu Brewery brews about 150 different beers a year – using a MicroCube and a CombiCube B from Steinecker.
The generously dimensioned halls at Yanbian Nongshim accommodate three Krones lines equipped to the latest state of the art. They are almost identical in their layout, and an ErgoBloc L constitutes the heart in each case.
Starzinger is the first company to use LineXpress L from Krones in its complete version, enabling the bottling operation to be changed over automatically to different products, types, formats and packs.
Krones delivered the complete equipment for a new craft brewery to London. Camden Town Brewery decided in favour of the EquiTherm Brew energy recovery system to save energy in its brewing process.
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