The new brewery on the outskirts of Bayreuth will be used exclusively for the production of ‘Bayreuther Hell’ and is designed for an annual capacity of 500,000 hectolitres.

The newly founded company takes over all activities relating to plastics recycling, but continues to utilise Krones' global production, sales and service network.

The new digital solution Shopfloor Guidance assists the operator team by monitoring factory processes.

Steinecker, the brewing technology expert within the Krones Group, has been busy ensuring that the EquiTherm energy recovery system is either integrated directly or can be retrofitted with ease in all its new brewhouses from the start of 2022.

The Botec process control system has been successfully used on the market for 27 years now. Originally conceived by the Steinecker company as a control and visualisation system for breweries, the system has been purposefully expanded in order to also meet the needs of other food and beverage makers. An approach validated by its success, as the steadily growing demand from dairies, water and soft-drinks producers goes to show. That is hardly surprising since it must be in every company’s vital interest to ensure that its lines deliver dependable service in keeping with their dimensioning at all times, that production sequences are simple, fast and transparent while also ensuring minimised consumption of raw materials and energy.

Statista, one of the leading vendors of market and consumer data, together with the business magazine Capital, examined the ratio between revenue growth and reduction in CO2 emissions at German companies in an independent survey, thus spotlighting the top 100 climate-conscious enterprises in Germany.

In late 2018, Krones set a benchmark in stretch blow-moulding technology for PET bottles with the introduction of its Contiform 3 Speed, boasting an hourly output so far unique in the sector: 2,750 containers per cavity.

Virtual interaction instead of in-person meetings: particularly during the current coronavirus pandemic, new forms of communication are increasingly gaining in perceived importance.

Anyone who works with empty bottle inspectors knows that not every bottle that the inspector rejects actually has a defect.

The Störtebeker Braumanufaktur is showing pioneering spirit – not only in regard to new types of beer and an extremely stringent marketing concept but also when it comes to expanding its production capacities: in its filling / packaging operation, and its IT and intralogistics, the brewery has now opted completely for the House of Krones, thus coping successfully with even highly complex production sequences.