Chart’s Inaugural Webinar Tells Brewers to Lose the Widget
BALL GROUND, Ga., Feb. 2 2016 -- Chart Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ:GTLS), a leading diversified global manufacturer of highly engineered equipment for the industrial gas, energy and biomedical industries, will debut its webinar series featuring the company’s liquid nitrogen (LN2) dosing technology.
Having spent the last 30 years perfecting the LN2 dosing process, used for preserving, pressurizing and freezing in a wide variety of packaging applications in the food and beverage industries, Chart’s inaugural online event, entitled, No Widget? No Problem, will feature project manager Tyler Jones demonstrating Chart Industries UltraDoser©LN2 Dosing System. The UltraDoser© is the multi-purpose LN2 dosing system that dispenses a precise dose of LN2 into every container every time just before the can or bottle is sealed. Many of the most popular craft breweries in the county have implemented this technology on the production line.
“Chart’s NitroFresh Dosers are the most consistent and well-supported dosing systems in the world,” Jones said. “Whether the application is bottling, canning or another form of packaging, our NitroFresh Dosers can cut down on cost for breweries and extend the shelf-life of the product.”
LN2 dosing serves two main purposes. First off, when LN2 is introduced into the can following filling, oxygen, which is damaging to the beer, is removed from the headspace. This increases the shelf-life of the
Primarily there is need to find out how much ingredients brewery will need to produce 2 litre of lager, this amount give company a clue how much they will pay for one mashing of beer.
The packaging process occurs after the fermentation. The beer flows to the keg, canning, and bottling lines when it our of the government cellar. There are five canning lines, three bottling lines, and a keg line can be run in the Winston- Salem brewery. The capacity for can lines is 1300 cans per minute, for bottle lines is 900 bottles per minute, and for keg line is 340 half- barrels per hour. For the five can lines, all the brands of beer can be canned at the same time, or one brand of beer can be canned with two different types at the same time. For three bottle lines, different bottle shapes and sizes can be filled at the same time, and new bottles and returnable bottles can be separated when filling and packaging. The packaging process also can be divided into two steps: 1. filling and capping and 2. pasteurizing. The packaging will
The same study showed in preliminary results that 61.29 percent of consumers prefer bottled beer over canned beer (Barnett, Velasco, & Spence, 2016). From my experience, craft beer drinkers prefer draft beer over both bottles and cans. As a result, Empty Keg will be distributed in draft form in the tap room. Additionally, Empty keg will be distributed in ½ kegs or 15.5 gallons, ¼ kegs or 7.75 gallons, and 1/6 kegs or 5.2 gallons for personal or bar use of the product. Empty keg will be produced in phase two in bottled form as the product moved from tap room and bar use to being available in grocery and package stores. Understanding the brewery and capabilities is important as this will establish the foundation for product
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In one example of a companies attempt to save fuel by decreasing unit idle times, an ambulance service has three specialty care units which are Ford E350 Type 3 Mini-Mod ambulances equipped with refrigeration units. These units carried certain medications that required constant refrigeration. The service contacted the pharmaceutical companies for each medication and inquired about the shelf life of the medications without refrigeration, and the possibility of carrying the same medications, but in a form that didn’t require
Respirometers 1-3 were placed in the ice bath and 4-6 were placed in the room temperature bath. A sling was placed so that the pipette tip was not submerged in the
The issues in the article entitled “Benefits of Unit Dose Packaging” by Kate DeMutis discusses the problems that arise in regards to compliance of patient’s using medications and wound care supplies as ordered by their healthcare providers. It appears that with the “growing number of prescriptions in the United States it can be concluded that incorrect use of the medications or wound care supplies is impacting ones recovery in a timely fashion,” (DeMutis, 2015) and perhaps unit dosing may be the solution.
Following the repeal of Prohibition in 1933, the major breweries continued to use unmalted cereal grains to provide the full body and mouthfeel of a “real” beer while keeping the alcohol content low. The maturation tanks (they call them chip tanks) that Anheuser-Busch utilizes are horizontal and, as such, the yeast aggregates more quickly. Anheuser-Busch refers to this process as a secondary fermentation, with the idea being that the chips give the yeast more surface area to rest on. This is also combined with a procedure that re-introduces wort into the chip tank therefore activating the fermentation process again. By placing chips at the bottom of the tank, the yeast remains in suspension longer, giving it more time to reabsorb and process green beer flavors that Anheuser-Busch believes are off-flavors which detract from overall drinkability. As with most food products opinions differ regarding its taste. While some drinkers prefer the lightness of beers like Budweiser and consume it as refreshment, some beer writers consider it as being too bland. The beer is light-bodied with faint sweet notes and negligible bitterness, leading to reviews characterizing it as a “...beer of underwhelming blandness.” Despite these negative reviews, Budweiser has a 19.9 user share and accounts for 26% of sales volume in the regular domestic category,
In addition, they also offer their investigational research services to universities and research institutions. Their placebo medications come in a variety of forms. For oral medications, they offer capsules, pastes, powders and liquids. Their nasal options include sprays, drops, ointments and irrigations. In addition, they offer injection solutions, urethral gels, ophthalmic solutions, rectal suppositories, optic powders and topical creams.
The predominate overall generic strategy adopted by Narragansett is the differentiation strategy. They seek to create a higher value through for their customers through the original recipe and taste and unique packaging. This beer was a regional mainstay and the customers appreciate the nostalgia of it. The costs are low since Narragansett decided not to build a new factory and they went with online and social media marketing instead of print and television ads. The consumers would be willing to pay a higher price for the authenticity of the product, and this strategy ended up working well for Narragansett. In addition, the company decided to focus on a narrow part of the market in regard to scope of competition. Narragansett knew they couldn’t compete with larger brewers such as Anheuser-Bush, Miller, and Coors, so they decided to focus on a
The benefits of cans over bottles are unclear. Has NBB done the right thing by focusing more on canned beer? Should NBB continue to make a greater commitment to cans? What additional options can NBB explore in the future?
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I learned about “Max” during my retail clinical in the spring. Max labels, counts, sorts, and caps all medications being dispensed. When sorting, it drops the bottle in the first letter of the patient’s last name. If the largest bottle in Max will not hold the full amount, it knows to use multiple bottles. This product maximizes your efficiency, supports 188 NDC numbers and automates up to 60% of your total prescription volume. It requires little up keep and will keep processing when you are replenishing medication or vials. Max is 100% accurate for drug and dose. How? Each of the cells have a unique barcode, which is scanned during restocking to ensure it is correct. The bottle of medication is also scanned and the NDC numbers have to match. Max has locking cells, which was designed for safety and to prevent diversion. They lock automatically when closed and can only be unlocked when an authorized user verifies a barcode match between the cell and the stock bottle. (Parata Max, n.d.) I feel this product is cost saving and saves time. The other things that I found interesting was that it will let you know if the prescription was incomplete. On the touch screen you can see that, it was not completed due to an undercount (cell empty). Finally, once a prescription is complete and you go to remove it from Max you must scan the barcode, this will then take that prescription out of the completed
So whether you are going with the traditional bottling or trending toward the 16-ounce beer can, Chart’s dosing technology can deliver the right amount of LN2 to preserve and protect your product.
The system uses a flocculent yeast strain which settles quickly at the end of fermentation. From the fourth vessel the clarified beer flows to a warm Maturation Vessel where the flavour is refined by yeast action (from the small amount of residual yeast in the beer). The total residence time in these four vessels can be anything from 40 to 120 hours, depending on production requirements. At the time of printing, all DB brands except Mako are produced by this process1. All the different types of beer are produced on the same continuous process line, and their respective differences are produced after the maturation stage. DB has two continuous fermentation lines but usually, except in the lead-up to Christmas, only operates one at a time. Step 1 - The hold-up vessel (HUV) The incoming wort is oxygenated to stimulate yeast growth and a steady flow of yeast and beer from later in the fermentation process is mixed with the wort as it flows into this first small vessel. The introduction of yeast into wort can be somewhat stressful for the yeast because of the high nutrient levels; by mixing the wort with partially fermented beer the concentration of nutrients is reduced and this allows for a more rapid commencement of fermentation. The yeast recycled back to the hold-up vessel is still in an active fermentation state, so again there is no significant lag phase before the fermentation begins. The recycled partially