Flexible packaging enters beer segment: LG Elecronics and Muntons partner Rapak Europe to develop a flexible bag for a Homebrew machine

摘要

LG Electonics. Muntons Malt and Rapak Europe partnered to make craft beer brewing easier than ever Base beer ingredients for the new machine are supplied in innovative flexible bags designed by Rapak. part of DS Smith Plastics. When LG started working on their state-of-the-art home beer brewing machine, the company realized that one of the challenges was to find the right packaging for the beer ingredients. The consumer had to receive 4 components separately: malt, which is the base, yeast, flavoring and hops oil. After a lot of thinking, LG had a breakthrough idea of supplying malt in extra resistant flexible bags and the latter 3 ingredients in capsules, using a coffee machine principle. The next challenge was to find the right partner to design and manufacture a flexible bag that could withstand the beer fermentation process. LG selected DS Smith Plastics, Rapak, a leading global producer of Bag-in-Box flexible bags, as the reliable supplier with vast experience in liquids packaging and a proven track record in innovation.