Recent developments, some in Europe and some in the U.S., show the varied approach to packaging that craft brewers are taking these days. There's even a bag-in-box option. But let's begin with returnable glass bottles, which may have gone the way of the dodo bird in the U.S. but are alive and well in Europe. Take the Bavarian brewery Eder & Heyland of Ascheffenburg, Germany, for example. A regional family business built on craft brewing and top-quality beer, the firm recently moved its bottling operations from the town center to the outskirts of town. There it installed two glass bottling lines from KHS. When choosing the new equipment,a high degree of automation was a priority, including such things as recipe selection, automatic overnight heat-up of the bottle washers, and adequate head section disinfection. KHS technology, says Filling Center Project Manager Maximilian Weber, "was able to meet our high demands."
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