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Beverage
Room to Grow for Can Market
Even with the current addition of new plants and expanding production lines, there is plenty of room for growth in the market.
Secondary/end-of-line
Multipacker Helps Historic Brewery Juggle Multiplying SKUs
There’s a lot more than bock beer in Shiner, Texas. A new automated secondary packaging system allowed Spoetzl Brewery to expand its range of formats, automate variety packs, and ultimately, reach all new cohorts of beer drinkers.
Sustainability
Aluminum Cup to Debut at Sports Arena
Pilot program will produce a limited supply of aluminum cups through 2020 to meet current customer demand from major sports and entertainment venues seeking to replace plastic cups.
Primary packaging
Live from the Craft Brew Conference: Can-labeling trend strengthening
Lone Tree Brewing, a roughly 30-barrel brewery in Lone Tree, Colorado, provided today yet another data point illustrating the can-labeling trend sweeping craft brew.
Materials & containers
Ball Corp.: 360° aerosol can
Ball introduces its 360° aerosol can. The newly developed technology brings another dimension to can contouring, using a process that allows custom shaping, symmetrically or asymmetrically, up to the full circumference of the can, with graphics and embossing oriented to the recessed area for dynamic detail.
Primary packaging
Co-packer, brand owners toast success of wine in a can
Canned wine takes off for co-packer Free Flow Wines after it adds a canning line. Also getting a boost are customers Essentially Geared and Foley Family Wines.
Home
Laying the groundwork
A strong initial equipment foundation has this burgeoning Oklahoma brewery poised to take the next step.
Secondary/end-of-line
Depalletizing beer cans
An overhead depalletizer is the first piece of equipment in a brand new canning line at this Grand Rapids, MI, craft brewer.
Primary packaging
New line brings 750 cans/min capability to Michigan brewer
Operating for about a year now, the newest canning line at Founders Brewing Company is capable of producing 750 cans/min and features a cloud-based Warehouse Management System.
