Johann Angres (1); (1) Steinfurth, Inc., Alpharetta, GA, U.S.A.
Packaging (Bottles, Draft, and Cans)
Supplier Poster
The last couple of years have been characterized by dramatically
changing beverage packaging and its growing impact on beverage quality.
The rapidly transforming world of beverage packages has a wide range of
benefits for the bottler and consumer. It offers significant cost-saving
potential and increasing consumer-focused marketing opportunities, but
it is becoming at the same time more and more a critical impact factor
on consumer-tasted beverage quality. Standardized test methods and
procedures as designed and recommended by the ASBC and ISBT set today’s
global guidelines for modern quality control of beverages—with the
increasing demand for continuous adaptation of these. Growing price
pressure and cost competition for the packaging suppliers boost the
demand for adapted and new standardized test methods and integrated
quality checks on packaging material during development and evaluation
of new packages and bottling of beverages. Measurement of beverage
parameters in combination with the packaging evaluation, knowledge about
packaging performances and evaluation of packaging under environmental
conditions are just a few important steps in the evaluation of beverage
quality assuring continuous customer satisfaction. Steinfurth’s
presentation discusses the importance of the combined quality control of
beverages and beverage packages, looking at this important topic from
the view of an innovative instrument supplier continuously adapting its
testing equipment to changing testing procedures and strategies (with
the focus to keep increased testing activities at possibly economic
effort level).
Johann Angres is managing director at Steinfurth, with a main
focus on new business development. Steinfurth is a German-based
engineering company active in the area of quality control of beverages,
closures and containers. He received a bachelor of technology diploma in
electrical engineering from the Senior Technical College in Bochum,
Germany, in 1992. He began his career with Steinfurth in October 1992 as
a development and technical support engineer. Since 2005 he has been
president of Steinfurth Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Steinfurth in
Georgia. Johann is an ASBC and ISBT (active as co-chair of the Packaging
Committee) member.
