DS Smith developed a fully recyclable corrugated cardboard display with Carlsberg Group for the German launch of Kronenbourg 1664 Blanc. The modular display features a contour-cut bottle silhouette and varnish finishing.
Carlsberg won the PepsiCo distribution contract for Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, effective 1 January 2026, and plans to invest about EUR 100 million ($110 million) in Kazakhstan including a production plant.
Carlsberg Group opened its 27th production base in China in Sanshui district of Foshan, Guangdong, on Wednesday after a 2.96 billion yuan investment. The brewery has two bottling lines and canning and kegging lines.
Avantium has agreed to supply polyethylene furanoate (PEF), a biobased polymer, to Carlsberg for packaging including beer bottles. Avantium also agreed to supply PEF to five yarn companies.
Carlsberg Group has signed a conditional offtake agreement with Avantium to secure a fixed volume of PEF polymer from Avantium's FDCA Flagship Plant, which is planned to start up in 2024. Carlsberg will use the resin in its Fibre Bottle packaging.
Carlsberg has begun using ExcelRise's R100 100% recycled plastic film for beer multipacks in Sweden, as part of its Together Towards ZERO sustainability program. The film contains at least 30% recycled content from Carlsberg's European breweries.
Ceisa Packaging, a subsidiary of ExcelRise, will produce R100, a 100% recycled plastic film, at its Bernay plant in Eure, France, for Carlsberg multipacks in Sweden. The Bernay plant is to produce 1,000 tonnes of R100.