Single-cup coffee is incredibly popular right now, but what happens to all of those single-use plastic pods? Does recycling K-cups make them less of an environmental problem? When I used to work in a conventional corporate office, the bosses got a Keurig machine for our break room, and people were ...

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Last week, Local 2 told you about Keurig’s new coffee maker that will only brew Keurig brand K-cups. The news had a lot of people upset. Some even returned their new Keurigs. Now businesses are creating products to trick the machine and allow it to brew cups from any coffee company. The Rogers ...

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The popularity of the single-serve coffee capsule has created quite a stir at Mother Parkers RealCup plant, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada-a 2014 Plant Engineering Top Plant winner. The company has maintained quality and safety while rapidly adding personnel, products, processes, procedures, and equip ...

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Keurig Green Mountain Inc. ( GMCR   ) is geared to popularize the single-cup brewing system in the U.S. and in this regard, has signed several strategic distribution agreements with well-known coffee brands to distribute their coffee in its portion packs. Closely following a manufacture and ...

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LONGUEUIL, QUE. — It’s become popular to grab a K-cup pack, throw it in the Keurig, make a cup of coffee and then throw it away. However, one company now intends to use recovered K-cup packs as an alternative fuel for a cement plant. Holcim Canada and Van Houtte Coffee Services Inc., a subsidiary of ...

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Is a piece of cellophane tape enough to bring Keurig Green Mountain (NASDAQ: GMCR  ) to its knees? The at-home coffee maker company invested a lot of money in the development and marketing of its new 2.0 coffee machine that is loaded with DRM-like technology to rebuild its patent protection moat. B ...

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MISSISSAUGA, ON, Dec. 15, 2014 /CNW/ – The RealCup™ brand solution for single-serve coffee and tea has a powerful new partner in office towers, tech companies and high-growth employee-focused offices throughout New York and New Jersey. Corporate Essentials drinkcoffee.com, is a leader in the ...

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Canadian companies are far from making the honour roll when it comes to eco-conscious practices – 60 per cent of Canadians gave them a ‘C’ or ‘D’ grade in a new Angus Reid Forum study, entitled, Canada’s Sustainability Report Card, commissioned by OneCoffee. 64 per cen ...

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A new mesh sleeve consumer pack designed to minimize onion skin flaking is now available from Owyhee Produce of Nyssa, OR. In describing the Sleeve Pack, which holds onions in a single column, Owyhee General Manager Shay Myers said the benefits are immediately apparent. “When it comes to keeping yo ...

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Giro Pack Inc. showed off mesh bags with new fashion film wraps at the Northwest Hort Expo, Kennewick. The window bag, for example, has a wrap cutout providing more visibility to the fruit inside, said Cari Wickersham of Giro Pack. The Girsac can be custom wrapped, such as one ordered by Borton Fr ...

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Toronto-based Club Coffee LP is launching a lawsuit against Keurig Green Mountain Inc., alleging the U.S. giant uses anti-competitive tactics and misleads retailers and consumers to maintain its grip on the fast-growing single-serve coffee market. Club Coffee says in a $600-million lawsuit ...

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A former Teesside chemical engineer has launched a business that is helping farmers he befriended in the Sumatran jungle. Emily Flanagan reports DAVID Beattie had been working as a Teesside chemical engineer when he decided to take a train from the Middlesbrough and travel around the world on the ...

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