At the Krones stand at BrauBeviale, Volker Kronseder handed over the reigns of the German engineering giant to Christop Klenk, who spoke to Claire Rowan about the future for beverage packing and filling.

At BrauBeviale Claire Rowan spoke with Damir Pilipovic sales manager LMF to find out how bottlers can save up to Euro 50,000 per year on the compressed air needed to power blow moulders.

Claire Rowan spoke to GEA director of corporate media Marc Poenitz at Brau Beviale to find out more about the restructuring at GEA and the company's new One GEA strategy, which brings together the Group's many company's firmly under the one GEA umbrella.

Anna Annerås marketing director of Ecolean spoke with Darren Wood about the company's new transparent packaging and their new aseptic filling machine.

Harry Norman of the OAL Group spoke with Darren Wood about the company's new 'April' robotic technology development. Harry explains how the idea came about when looking at the amount of labour used in getting raw materials in and out of processing. 

Dominique Floch of Tate and Lyle spoke with Darren Wood about their new splenda sucralose which is a zero-calorie sweetener that tastes like sugar aiming to reduce calories in juice drinks.

Darren Wood spoke with Yves Rebert general manager of Husky about their injection moulding systems, the company's areas they target and how important the Middle East region is for the country.

Darren Wood spoke with Mark Napier who is Director of exhibitions at the Dubai world trade centre about his thoughts on Gulfood Manufacturing 2015, which took place in October.

Mark also looked forward to Gulfood 2016, which takes place in February 2016.

Hamburg based Salied azami of Ethiconomy Services GmbH explains the cleverly named brand Bedda. The company produces a vegan magazine and is making dips, spreads and other foods from plant based sources such as the Lupin plant for instance. 'Make a bedda world' is their resounding slogan. 

Netherlands based Grozette produces a wide range of cheese products for the food industry, food service and retail including fresh and long life cheese powders and grated cheese. Claire Phoenix spoke with Mark Eversteijn on growth in this sector and the company's latest launches.

Claire Phoenix spoke to Italian designer Ui Kerbl about his innovative design for beverage packaging.

Eglė Vitkauskienė is export manager for Lithuanian Dairy Pieno žvaigždės. She spoke with Claire Phoenix about this substantial dairy company and its numerous lines in yogurt, cheese, desserts and snacks. One line in particular Svalya is a light cream cheese choc bar wrapped in metallic packaging breaking boundaries in a new move to savoury snacking – indulgence with nutrition.

In the final instalment of our three part series, Marie Stafford director of the Innovation Group Europe at J. Walter Thomson talks to Darren Wood about the growing trend of cannabis beverages.

Bill Bruce talks to Consumer Physics CEO Dror Sharon, about the company’s SCiO product – the world’s first molecular sensor that fits in the palm of the hand and works with a smartphone…

Described by the company as ‘Your sixth sense’, SCiO scans materials or physical objects, sending instant relevant information to a smartphone.

Isoline marketing and export director Marek Spalenka talks about the comprehensive range of drinks under the Isoline brand name.