Martin Orzinski supports VLB Berlin in the area of beverage packaging / BarthHaas Grants 2020 – Researchers in Munich and Berlin receive awards

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Martin Orzinski supports VLB Berlin in the area of beverage packaging

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Dr. Martin Orzinski will consult VLB Berlin in matters relating to beverage packaging

Since 1 May, Dr. Martin Orzinski supports VLB Berlin on the strategic development of its activities in the field of beverage packaging. The doctor in brewing engineering and soft drink specialist changed from VLB Berlin to Coca-Cola Erfrischungsgetränke in 2007. In 2010, he moved to Australia and joined Coca-Cola Amatil. Most recently (2018–2020), he was Director Operations in the Executive Team and in charge of manufacturing, planning, quality and engineering of the group’s five Australian production sites.

(oh) Packaging is and will remain a strategic success factor – especially for beer and beverages. In addition to functional requirements, it must meet legal requirements, publically focused in regards to its sustainability and, last but not least, it is a marketing instrument which plays a decisive role for consumers purchase decisions of consumer goods. VLB (Research & Teaching Institute for Brewing in Berlin) has been active in the field of beverage packaging for many decades and, with its Testing Laboratory for Packaging, for almost 50 years has been offering specialized tests for many types of packaging and packaging aids. Furthermore, VLB can look back on many years of experience in standardization, research and development. In order to further expand these activities, a strategic alliance with Dr. Martin Orzinski has been agreed. He supports VLB from his residence in Australia as a freelancing consultant. This new collaboration comprises two major fields of activity: On the one hand, Orzinski will be involved in the preparation and implementation of the International VLB Packaging Conference (VPC). This event will take place as an online event from 5 to 7 October 2021 on VLB’s Virtual Campus. On the other hand, he will support VLB’s packaging growth ambitions with focus on sustainability, international trends and practice-oriented research. “We are delighted that we were able to win Martin Orzinski, a former VLB student and research associate with a great international expertise, for us again. We are sure that this will be an enrichment for all stakeholders,” says VLB Managing Director Dr. Josef Fontaine.

BarthHaas Grants 2020 – Researchers in Munich and Berlin receive awards

Awarded with BarthHaas Grant 2020: Dr. Nils Rettberg is Head of the VLB Research Institute for Beer and Beverage Analysis

Are there ways to facilitate the product development of new, hop-intensive beers? How can dry hopping be optimized without causing undesirable changes in the hop aroma or flavor of the beer? Work on these two topics has now been awarded the BarthHaas Grants 2020.

(F.) 10000 € each will go to researchers at the Versuchs- und Lehranstalt für Brauerei in Berlin (VLB) and – together with the company BANKE process solutions – at the Weihenstephan Research Center. At the virtual award ceremony, Stephan Barth, managing partner of BarthHaas, together with Thomas Raiser, head of sales at BarthHaas, expressed great satisfaction with the results of the BarthHaas Grants so far: “Since 2007, we have been awarding grants annually to trendsetting research projects on hops

Photo: ew – and the results have always been fascinating.” In the case of the award winner Dr. Nils Rettberg from the Research Institute for Beer and Beverage Analysis (FIBGA) at VLB, the focus is on combining sensory analysis with chromatographic analysis. The substances that are decisive for certain areas of sensory analysis are being investigated. The other award winners are conducting research at the Weihenstephan Research Center. Under the direction of Dr. Martin Zarnkow and Prof. Fritz Jacob, a newly developed and optimized cold hopping process is being compared with a conventional dynamic cold hopping process. The focus is on sensor technology and analytically determined leading components.