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Twelve-head rotary filling is immediately followed by a three-head seamer for low oxygen pickup.
Beer
Market Garden Builds Long Runway for Growth into Tight Quarters
With a new rotary filler/rotary seamer at its heart, a nearly all-new packaging line is now humming along at 100 cans per minute. Future-proofing the line meant building in a lot more capacity than is needed—for now, at least.
February 21, 2025

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Beer
New Canning, In-house Shrink Sleeve Labeling, Distinguish Craft Brewer
The Shop Beer Co. decommissioned one canning line and replaced it with another. Also part of its manufacturing mix is an in-house shrink sleeve labeling operation just down the street.
February 18, 2025
The Shop Beer Co. Cartoner
Sustainable Packaging
AB InBev’s Four Peaks Takes the Guesswork Out of Recycling
The Arizona Craft Brewer is revamping its sustainability messaging alongside its package design with the addition of CIRT’s digital, location-based recycling tool.
May 6, 2024
Consumers can scan the CIRT QR code on the back of all Four Peaks packaging to access local recycling information.
Beer
How Can Craft Brewers Shape the Future of the Industry?
Craft brewers are nearing the end of the era of rapid adoption and must find ways to increase demand and create more occasions for American drinkers to choose craft.
May 2, 2024
Bart Watson, Chief Economist for the Brewers Association, gave his annual report on the state of the craft brewer industry.
Contract Packaging
Bullseye Packaging Services' Chilliwack Facility Celebrates 15 Years in Business
Bullseye Packaging Services
Focus on quality and client care has been critical to Bullseye's success, growth, and longevity.
March 22, 2024
Bullseye
Package Design
Craft Producers Investing in Label Premiumization
As craft producers explore label premiumization strategies like tactile and smart features, OEMs should be ready to successfully accommodate such changes.
March 21, 2024
Craft producers can use unique visual or tactile features to help draw customers in and communicate a feeling of luxury.
Beverage
Lazy Magnolia Blooms After Automation Influx
Lazy Magnolia Brewing Company’s recent front-of-line automation investments are supporting in-house and contract packing growth, with plans for secondary packaging investment to further quicken operations.
March 14, 2024
Lazy Magnolia's own brand canned beers currently use pressure-sensitive labels, but the brewery plans to switch to printed cans as soon as volume justifies the move.
Operational Excellence
Craft Market Success Comes in Many Packages
Craft producers can build greater brand awareness by focusing on factors like primary packaging variety, multipacks, and specialty releases.
March 8, 2024
Various packaging sizes, multipack options, and specialty releases can help craft producers stand out from the crowd and grow brand loyalty.
Case/Tray Packing
Gentle Case Packing Cures Broken Bottle Blues
The ascendancy of contract packaging means that once-neglected bottling lines are coming back strong. Here’s how Yards Brewing switched drop pack operations to pick and place, reducing scrap to the minimum, both for its own and its contract customers.
March 8, 2024
Celebrating its 30th year serving craft beer in Philadelphia, Yards Brewing Co. serves the Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, and Maryland area with 55,000 barrels/year in all sorts of packaging formats. With a 300,000-barrel capacity, it has room for further growth into the contract packaging space.
PMMI News
Packaging Fueling Growth of Craft Beer and Spirits Market
PMMI
PMMI Business Intelligence reveals consumer demands prompt a projected rise in overall unit sales and use of metal, glass, and liquid cartons.
March 7, 2024
Pack Expo East
Cartoning
Multipack Success at Maui Brewing Leads to New Line
Hawaii’s largest craft brewer installs a new high-speed canning line to complement new cartoning capabilities after a switch from plastic carriers to multipack cartons proves popular with consumers.
March 1, 2024
With its new cartoner, MBC is creating 12- and 24-ct variety packs, a format it learned early on was popular among tourists.
Operational Excellence
Craft Beer and Craft Spirits Compete for Market Space
Pre-mixed cocktails and consumer preferences away from beer and malt-based drinks are contributing to significant growth in craft spirits.
February 29, 2024
Brewers are looking for ways to reverse a contraction in sales, with strategies including diversifying product portfolios.
Beer
AB InBev Picks Active & Intelligent Packaging Tech Winners at AIPIA
AB InBev listened to a host of smart packaging tech pitches, but came away with these three winners as viable solutions to solve for on-pack 2D datamatrix challenges, semi-serialization for rewards programs, vision modeling, and more.
January 19, 2024
AlmaScience solves for AB InBev's desire for semi-serialization using datamatrix codes built right into Corona beer logos laser etched into the glass.
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