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ISBT has just launched a new Student Membership program, offering at a reduced membership rate to people who are full-time students in an Associates program or higher, studying in a field of science, technology, or production related to soft drinks or non-alcoholic beverages. The price of a Student Membership is $50 per year.

Benefits of student membership include:

Interested students should send an email to the ISBT Office that includes a description of the degree program you are pursuing and proof of full-time enrollment. We will send you the link to join once we have reviewed these materials.

To correspond with our new Student Membership level and the eligibility of these members to apply for this scholarship, we have changed the timing for our Emeritus Scholarship process starting this year (see Timeline below). The objective of the ISBT scholarship program is to provide financial support to academically qualified students who have shown an interest in pursuing a career in the beverage industry, either by course work or through an internship with beverage companies or suppliers to the beverage industry.

For general information about ISBT's Scholarship Program, click here. For Eligibility Requirements and Application Details, click the button below.

Luuvan Hoang happened to inquire about a student membership in ISBT just as we launched this new membership level. He was eager to join, and ISBT is glad to have him as our first student member.

Luu is just starting graduate school at Chapman University to earn his Masters in Food Science; he is particularly interested in beverage R&D as well as production.

“My dream is to one day own my own Aseptic/CPG Co-Manufacturing Beverage Plant. I believe that being a part of your organization will help me achieve this goal. I look forward to joining this community and contributing anything that I can. If ISBT would like to organize any student events, I would love to help in any capacity . . . and I have a lot of experience organizing student-based events and know many students that would love to participate and help. Please let me know if I can contribute in any way!”

Chapman University’s Master of Science in Food Science will allow Luu to apply scientific principles to study the properties of food and beverages while developing innovative ways to process and package, resulting in safe, sustainable and nutritious choices.

PACK EXPO INTERNATIONAL will take place at the McCormick Center in Chicago, and ISBT will host an ISBT Packaging Technology Technical Committee Overview on Monday, October 24 from 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM. Learn about the ISBT and the Packaging Technology Technical Committee activities and work products; understand how this work directly impacts your own work life. Attendance will be open to everyone regardless of membership. Watch this newsletter for more information, and put this on your calendar now!

The main event will be held at the McCormick Center, October 23-26. Registration is open, and ISBT members and newsletter readers are invited to use comp code 61J49 to register for free.

Come see us in the Education / Association Pavilion in the North Building at booth number N-5702.

Register Now! The 2022 edition of the ISBT European regional meeting will be held in Munich, Germany at drinktec on Thursday, September 15, 2022.

Register Now for BevTech Canada™!

Our 2022 conference theme is “Flexible Operations — Meeting Market Demands in a Changing World.” BevTech Canada™ is a great place to present and learn more about the latest beverage industry technology. The Preliminary Program will be posted soon.

The Beverage Industry Resource Guide contains information from beverage industry supplier members from a promotional standpoint. It is for advertising purposes only and does not reflect the opinions or position of ISBT. 

If you have sponsored content (i.e., new products, case studies, white papers, etc.) that you would like to see mentioned in the ISBT Connection, please email Steve Guglielmo or upload to the Beverage Industry Resource Guide by August 29. 

Data Key Communications is proud to introduce its Supplier Catalog Library, a great resource for those in the beverage industry who want to see digital catalogs from ISBT suppliers collected in one spot!

If you're a supplier who would like to have your product catalog hosted online in the Catalog Library with a shareable and embeddable link, receive statistics about readership and clicks throughout the year, and be featured in the ISBT Connection, please contact Zach Raynsford for more information.

"Did You Know?" is a series of interesting events and changes to the ISBT and the beverage Industry. If you have an ISBT tidbit or "fun fact", send it to tom@isbt.com.  

Recognition: CNN Airport News recognized the ISBT as a good society and highlighted BevTech 2009.

Award: Former ISBT President Gary Robson and his Sure Purity team were honored with “The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise” in 2022.

The mission of the Beverage Operations & Processing Technical Committee is to share the basic / best practices of beverage operations, review new/traditional beverage processing techniques, and advise guidelines, best practices, and principles to benefit a successful beverage processing facility.

Beverage Operations and Processing Technical Committee Chair John Mojonnier, Mojonnier