Back in March, Keurig announced plans to lock down its popular coffee pod system in an effort to make third-party pod makers pay for a license. But the company’s plans may be foiled. A press release last week from Mother Parkers Tea & Coffee suggests that the Keurig ...

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If you’re what many would consider a coffee “snob,” you might prefer to brew your elixir using the manual pour-over method for ultimate control. This Norwegian machine provides the convenience of automation with the quality of a pour-over in one pretty striking package. ...

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The aroma of Nespresso coffee is familiar in hotels, boardrooms and boutiques in upmarket malls but the product’s biggest economic impact here may be in the less refined surrounds of Changi Business Park. The park serves as the capsule- coffee brand’s regional command post, ho ...

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Last March, when we first reported that Keurig planned to require RFID-limited K-cup pods for its upcoming version 2.0 machines, we rhetorically asked “Will coffee drinkers be stupid enough to fall for this? Stay tuned.” Now it’s almost six months later, and the answer appears to ...

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Nestlé’s premium coffee brand Nespresso has announced plans to increase the recycling capacity for its aluminium capsules to 100 per cent globally. Currently, the capacity exists where 75 per cent of its customers worldwide can order a recycling bag to return the aluminium capsules when they or ...

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A metal separator supplied by S+S Separation and Sorting Technology GmbH has been used by a manufacturer of coffee roasting machines and plants, the company reports. Probat-Werke von Gimborn Maschinenfabrik GmbH uses the separator in the raw coffee line of its demonstrations and test facility ...

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LAKE PLACID – A malfunctioning coffee machine or a toaster was likely the cause of a fire that damaged the village of Lake Placid’s Water and Sewer Department’s maintenance garage early Saturday morning, Aug. 23, a fire investigator said. The fire started in the right corne ...

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If you’ve ever bought or sold the K-cup knockoffs known as Grove Square Coffee pods, you might have grounds for a class-action standing — at least if you live in Illinois’ Seventh District. Courthouse News Service reported that “misled coffee lovers get break on common claim ...

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It’s fair to say that Nescafé is the most recognised brand of instant coffee on the market, whether in its classic form, Gold Blend or whatever. It therefore comes as no surprise that Nestlé would apply its most famous of brands to its Dolce Gusto capsule-based coffee system. While Nespresso ...

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OfficeMax Grand & Toy has teamed with TerraCycle for a coffee pod recycling pilot project in southern Ontario. The pilot project focuses on Keurig’s K-Cup Packs, small plastic pods filled with ground coffee that enable the convenience of making one quick cup of coffee. Unt ...

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What do you do with your coffee waste? You may add the grounds to your compost bin, or put them directly onto your roses and other plants as a fertilizer. If you’re in the business of coffee processing, though, you’re dealing with much more waste… particularly wastewater. According to Dutch su ...

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Say what you like about their quality, taste and environmental inefficiency, but coffee pods are taking America by storm. And Wall Street is not immune to their charms, apparently. Keurig Green Mountain is, at the time of writing, the best-performing stock on the Standard & Poor’s 5 ...

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