Pneumatic Scale Angelus, a Barry-Wehmiller Packaging Systems company, is using its virtual space at PACK EXPO Connects to demonstrate a filler and seamer with a growing beverage market in mind. To meet the growing demand for hard seltzers, Ready-to-Drink (RTD) cocktails, sparkling wine, and higher-carbonation beer, the CB50C counter-pressure canning line scales PSA’s long history of expertise in high-speed beverage applications for the needs of the Craft market.
Counter-pressure technology allows you to fill highly carbonated beverages – in excess of 2.7 vols of CO2 – by maintaining equivalent pressure in the can being filled and the product tank supplying the product. Maintaining this pressure prevents breakout, or excess foaming, that releases CO2 and ultimately lowers carbonation. True isobarometric filling, with the fill tank located above the fill heads, allows the product to be gravity-fed versus pumped upward, ensuring less product agitation for a quiet fill and lower CO2 loss.
