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Small but mighty beer canning for craft brewers

Wild Goose Engineering may be new to the packaging machinery manufacturing game, but its MC-250 system for canning of craft brews is hitting on all cylinders.

the MC-250 system
the MC-250 system

Small by most standards and very new to designing and building packaging machinery of any kind, Wild Goose Canning recently launched a line of can filling/seaming systems aimed squarely at the smaller craft brewer. And how did this new machinery offering come about? “Our shop shared a wall with a craft brewer,” says WGC managing partner Jeff Aldred. “When they started talking about their needs, we realized we had the engineering resources to meet them. We built a prototype, tweaked it, and now have four basic models available.”


Even the fastest of these WGC systems, the MC-250, tops out at about 42 cans/min. But such speeds are all a craft brewer typically needs (see video at www.bit.ly/pwe00420).


While its speeds are modest and its footprint small, the linear style MC-250 has plenty of actuation going on. An intermittent-motion conveyor carries cans through a quad-head CO2 purge station, then to volumetric filling in a quad-head filling station, then to application of a can end, and then to one-up can seaming. All of this is done pneumatically by Festo components. In addition to multiple pneumatic cylinders and actuators, the system also has from Festo an MP series pneumatic valve manifold, a CPX CEC1 PLC controller, and a FED 770 HMI.

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