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Let’s make craft beer

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Fermentation

The US Brewers Association estimates that the average American lives within 15 kilometers of a craft brewery. Although small in scale, these breweries are big on quality and rely on advanced craft beer making equipment to perfect their unique methods. Beer-making has a proud history, and craft brewers dig deep into the tradition to bring innovative alternatives to the market.

Craft beer

As simple as its own ingredients, the grain-hops-yeast trifecta along with water are the big four ingredients for making beer. The beer-making process is known as brewing and involves several steps like milling, mashing, lautering, boiling, and fermentation.

Beer

Energy drinks have come a long way since the tangy, fizzy products popularized in the 1990s. The beverage category today is responding to wellness trends by reducing sugars and adding vitamins. But the basis for making energy drinks remains caffeine anhydrous, which acts as a stimulant. Unique recipes are finished with an array of ingredients, from herbal extracts to taurine to flavorings. Pasteurize the water-based mixture to eliminate microbial growth and extend the drink’s shelf-life.

Energy drinks

Mpac Group is an industry leader in packaging automation, cartoning, and case-packing technologies.

Small footprint (6.5’ L x 5.8’ W x 6’ H)

Corrosion-resistant frame and components

Quick changeover between formats

Accommodates different can profiles and packaging formats

Caster wheels allow portability

Cans have many advantages over bottles when it comes to packing, for example, your craft beer. Having a flexible automatic cartoning system for your different beer types and cases will significantly improve your process efficiency. Smaller scale manufacturers now also opt for an upgrade in their production line to efficiently erect, load and close their carton packaging.


<h2>Pack your craft beer cans into cartons automatically</h2>
The Switchback BRC-1, from Mpac Langen, is an automated carton packaging system for canned beverages such as beer, coffee, and energy drinks. The packing system has compact dimensions and is equipped with caster wheels for portability and leveling legs. A robotic arm gently handles the carton to open and close the packaging while a belted conveyor loads the cans via a pneumatic actuator. It can accommodate different can sizes, such as slim, sleek, or standard, and can pack them in 4, 6, 8, 9, or 12 formats with a maximum throughput of about 5 cartons per minute. The cartoner has a stainless steel frame and components for corrosion resistance and easy cleaning.

Horizontal Beverage Can Cartoner

Packaging

Food

Batch

Industrial canning is an important packaging step within the food processing industry for items such as beverages and tinned products. Automatic dosing and weighing systems portion out your product before distributing it into separate cans. A can seamer then folds the lid over the flange of the container, hermetically sealing the can. Some manufacturers opt for an additional plastic cap allowing consumers to re-close the can after the lid would have been peeled off.

Cartoning involves erecting a folded carton, filling it with the product, closing the flaps, or applying a lid and sealing with glue or adhesive tape. Choosing a cartoning solution involves, considering the type of primary packaging, the production volume, the size and count of the product in a carton, and the desired level of automation.

<span style="font-weight: 400">At last, you reached the final stage of processing your product - welcome to the packing world! Packing preserves and protects a product from damage, spoilage, and contamination while it makes its way from the production line to the consumer or further production. Depending on which industry your products belong to, the type of primary packaging equipment can change drastically. You need to pay careful attention to products with </span><span style="font-weight: 400">chemicals or hazardous substances since they can be potentially dangerous to human health. </span>

Packing

A beverage is any kind of liquid or drink, usually other than water, made for human consumption. Beverages are further classified into two categories: alcoholic beverages and non-alcoholic beverages. Alcoholic beverages refer to liquids that contain 1% to 75% of liquor and are produced by fermentation such as wine, beer, or distillation such as vodka, rum, tequila. Non-alcoholic beverages are drinks that don’t have any liquor such as tea, coffee, fruit juices, soft drinks, and carbonated beverages. They can be produced premix or postmix, depending on the setup of your production line.

Beverages

Our food chain starts in the soil, growing crops and livestock. But between the fields and the stores, there is a line of industrial food processing equipment. Processes may be as minimalistic as cleaning fruit and as complex as homogenizing milk alternatives made from pressed legumes. In each case, processing technology is an important link in the food production chain.

liquid

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The winemaking process starts with harvesting and crushing grapes, goes through fermentation, ageing and finishes with packaging. Winemaking supplies vary according to the desired wine and the production or plant size.

Wine

Mineral water is mother nature’s cocktail of dissolved solids. The concentration of essential chemicals in the water makes it an excellent source of nutrients and electrolytes. Although your bottled product retains most of the properties present at its natural condition, the water still needs some help before it can be safely consumed.

Mineral water

Originally developed as medicinal remedies, soft drinks quickly burst into a whole new category of non-alcoholic beverages. To make a soft drink, simply dissolve one part syrup into five parts water. For extra punch, add carbon dioxide to turn the mixture into a fizzy drink.

Soft drinks

Chinese legend has it that tea was created by accident over 2700 years BC. A servant boiled drinking water for his emperor when leaves from the Camellia sinensis tree fell into it – and the emperor decided to taste the drink. While to make tea nowadays on a medium to large-scale you need tea processing equipment like dryers instead of just a tree and wind blowing it, mythology adds a special flavor to the tea industry story.

Pineapples, oranges, passion fruit, you name it. A fruit juice process begins with selecting and cleaning the raw material of your choice and goes through steps like extraction and a filtration machine until it reaches market shelves in bottles. Juice processing equipment varies according to the amount of water in the fruit.

Fruit juice

Ft System is located in Italy and is specialized in producing inspection machines for food and beverages.

Automatic rejection of underfilled and overfilled containers

  It can be integrated with additional inspections (cap presence, label presence etc.)

Reduction of false rejections

Incorrectly filled beverage containers can bring damage to a manufacturer brand or create legal disputes concerning distribution of non-compliant products. To prevent such problems, x-ray is a widely used and inexpensive technology that automatically detects overfilled or underfilled containers and rejects them during the production process.


<h2>X-ray solution to detect fill level in containers</h2>
To detect the fill level in containers, the CL600-RX designed by FTsystem is a good solution to measure product volume in a controlled area. As the name RX suggests, X-ray technology is used in this machine, but depending on the characteristics of product and container, high frequency (HF) and infrared (IR) technologies can be used as well. During operation, cans pass one by one under the RX system in which the emitter generates a beam of x-rays, called a ‘blade’, that passes through the can and the product. The product inside of it attenuates the range of the beam blocking it. The receiver detects the variation of X-rays, which allows the measurement of filling level. Unlike glass containers where the receiver can only detect the minimum level, in cans the x-ray ‘blade’ system can detect a maximum and minimum for an acceptable level. Foam cannot be detected neither in the glass container nor in cans. The RX technology can be applied to several types of containers such as glass, PET, HDPE, cans or Tetra Pak which can contain a wide range of products like oil, sauces, detergents, powders, water, soft drinks, juices, tea, beer, wines, spirits and more.

Inspection machine for canned beverages

Chemical

Continuous

Industrial inspection equipment is used for checking compliance with health, safety, and quality control standards. For that reason, inspection systems are most commonly utilized in the food and pharmaceutical industry but, they are also used in other industries too. Inspection solutions are often integrated into a production process or production line. Visual inspection systems perform checks to detect variation in size, shape, and color and ensure the presence of labels and closures. Check-weigh systems help ensure that product packages are not under or over-filled. Metal detection systems can help guard against the presence of foreign objects in product containers and X-ray inspection equipment is used to detect physical defects and to ensure high quality package seal integrity.

Inspection

Industrial measurement equipment is used as a crucial step before products leave the production line. These measuring instruments check for correct dosage and standards. Equipment for measurement and control employs a wide range of technologies to detect inconsistencies in volumes, sizes, weights, and fill levels as well as to inspect goods for quality against a set of criteria. Specialized measuring tools allow you to minimize the probability for error to its lowest possible, ensuring that both products and packaging meet your benchmarks.

Measurement &amp; Control

Due to their potential hazardous nature, chemicals are classified for proper identification and safety during production. Chemical classification depends on their properties, structures and functions. In the chemical industry, you can regard them as basic chemicals such as acids, chemical products to produce plastic materials and finished chemicals for use in cosmetology. As a manufacturer or engineer, you want to know their reactivity when using chemical processing equipment.

Chemicals

Detergents are cleaning agents that help remove dirt and grease from porous and non-porous surfaces. Industrial production of detergents began after World War I. Still, it was after the 1950s and 1960s that the detergent industry grew exponentially due in part to the development of new detergent manufacturing equipment.

Detergents

Liquid

The building blocks of matter have driven the imagination of philosophers, scientists, and artists for millennia. But, for manufacturers, these elements have a more concrete existence as powders. Powder processing technology conditions these primary materials to create a vast range of products, from chemicals and foods to pharmaceuticals and ceramics.

Powder

Sauces bring personality to a dish. From a spicy, dense Zhoug to a tangy, runny Suero, sauces add an extra dimension of flavor, texture, and mouthfeel. But developing recipes into industrial products with long shelf lives and consistent tastes is a complex process. Specialized sauce making equipment prepares and combines the ingredients into delicious, high-quality foods. The result is a sauce ready to elevate meals.

Sauce

solid

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Kombucha is a fermented drink made out of sweetened black or green tea. This slightly fizzy, sweet, and sour beverage has recently gained popularity for its health benefits. The main step in the kombucha making process is fermentation. Add the symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast known as SCOBY at the base of the sweetened black or green tea to set off this reaction. The rest is up to your creativity. Enhance your kombucha with artificial or natural additives depending on the flavor you want to achieve.

Kombucha

Lower chances of damage of product container

Reduction of the costs because the laser technology does not need mechanical maintenance

Automatic rejection for over pressure or for under pressure

Detection not affected by physiological aspects of the closure or container itself

To ensure product safety, many beverage manufacturers invest in an inspection system to detect leaks and measure the total pressure. Preventing damage to glass or plastic containers is important when measuring pressure of carbonated products. Laser spectroscopy technology is a fitting option for this, with this technology, the machine does not need to touch the product during inspection.


<h2>Laser technology to detect internal pressure and leakages</h2>
FTsystem PCS700_CO2 is an inspection system designed to measure pressure in all type of containers, independent of their colour and closure, filled with products like water, juices, carbonated soft drinks, beer, or sparkling wines. The system is provided with laser spectroscopy technology that analyses the gas in the headspace of the filled and sealed containers. When the container passes through a sensor, the laser emits a beam, and the receiver measures this beam after it has passed through the headspace of the container. Based on the variation of the laser beam caused by the interference from the molecules, it is possible to measure the pressure. Containers that have an internal pressure that is above or under target limits are rejected. An important feature of TDLAS technology (Tunable Diode Laser Absorption Spectroscopy) is that detection is not affected by the closure or the container shape or colours; there is no colour limitation, even the transparent and semi-transparent containers can be inspected (only 5% of transparency is required). Furthermore, it is also possible to detect a defect in the cap when it is already applied to the bottle.

Inspection machine for carbonated drinks

Leak Detection Systems

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Nut oil

Mayonnaise is created by blending oil with eggs, and then flavoring with vinegar, mustard, herbs, and spices. The eggs are a natural emulsifier that creates a uniform mixture. Ingredients are pumped into mayonnaise manufacturing equipment. First, a dynamic mixer maintains the desired level of emulsification of the mixture, which then moves on to packaging and bottling once reaching a satisfactory consistency.

Mayonnaise 

Chocolate milk is a beverage containing milk flavored with chocolate powder or chocolate syrup. Cocoa powder, sweetener, sugar, and carrageenan are mixed with the milk and then pasteurized. As cocoa powder has a higher density than milk, carrageenan is used as a thickening agent to prevent cocoa powder from settling to the bottom.

Chocolate milk

Although the first association with almond milk might be the modern plant-based lifestyle trend, it is dated even back to the Middle Ages when it was used as an alternative to cow milk during Catholic fasting. Once harvested, almonds undergo a series of treatments in almond milk manufacturing equipment, such as bleaching, peeling, and grinding, to get the delicious final product for breakfast and desserts.

Almond milk

Tomato sauce is a popular ingredient for adding a sweet, slightly acidic touch of flavor to food and recipes. Sauce production involves cooking the tomatoes, removing the seeds and stems with a strainer, using a grinder or milling machine, and then further cooking to the desired consistency. Tomato sauce making equipment is used in industrial production to speed up the various preparation steps while maintaining the quality of the sauce.

Tomato sauce

Toast spread, oatmeal topping or salad dressing - nut butter can be used in various ways. Although in a culinary sense classified as such, peanuts, almonds, cashews and pecans, the popular choices for nut butter are, botanically speaking, not nuts. They are processed in a series of nut butter processing equipment to get the creamy, rich product ready for consumption.

Nut butter

Electrolyte drinks

Chili sauce is produced worldwide, but each is augmented by the cultural elements of where it is made. Most chili sauces consist primarily of chilis, though some preparations include tomato as the primary ingredient. Vinegar, sugar, and salt are added to the chili sauce making machinery, and the mixture is thickened mainly by cooking.

Chili sauce

Automatic rejection for overfilled or underfilled containers

  Reduction of false rejections thanks to foam detection

It can be integrated with additional inspections (cap presence, label presence etc.)

Remote technical assistance

For brand protection and to prevent legal disputes due to distribution of non-compliant products when it comes to fill level for beverages, an inspection machine allows to detect the final fill level in a container even in the presence of foam. With the rise of digital world and increased consumer awareness about standards that a product must have when it arrives on the market, even in the beverage industry the brand image is just a click away.


<h2>Inspection system for detecting fill level with high frequency technology</h2>
CL700-HF is a machine produced by FTsystem, that allows to detect the fill level of glass or plastic containers using high frequency technology. Water, soft drinks, juices, tea, beer, wines, spirits, milk and other conductive products are some of the products that CL700-HF can analyse, but according to the characteristics of product and container, x-ray (RX) and infrared (IR) technologies can be used as well. As the container passes through the sensor, the emitter generates a high frequency signal that the receiver detects. The signal goes through the liquid and the latter modifies the frequency of the signal. This frequency variation allows for the measurement of the filling level. Compared to x-ray technology, an advantage of high frequency is that it can detect the quantity of foam, measuring therefore the true filling level (after foam dissolving), it will not generate a false reject. The system measures the liquid level and the quantity of foam separately and after processing these two measures, the real filling level will be determined.

Inline fill-level control for beverages

Fill level inspection ensures that each container is filled with exactly the desired volume of the product during a liquid filling operation. While transparent containers can utilize optical sensors for level detection, difficult to see through containers, such as cans or cartons lined with aluminum, must be scanned using X-rays. When choosing fill level inspection equipment, the size, shape, and opacity of the container must be considered. The production speed, the desired accuracy, and the amount of foaming on the liquid surface are also important parameters to consider. Fill level inspection systems are used to comply with quality control standards.

Fill level inspection systems

Filling lines are used extensively in all industries, such as food, pharmaceutical, chemical, and cosmetics, to accurately package different products into a container suitable for that product. Although the filling process is at the very end of the production line, it is no less important than the earlier steps. Last but not least, the idiom that dates back to 1382 when John Wyclif wrote the firste the laste, and the laste the firste, indicates just that the last things on a list are just as valuable as the previous ones. In this case, this idiom fits perfectly.

Filling

Milk can be consumed as a stand-alone product (whole, low-fat or skim) or can be the starting point for food industry products such as cheese, butter, yogurt, condensed milk, and ice cream. In order to process milk and other dairy products, you need specialized dairy production equipment which then encapsulates different processes such as pasteurization, homogenization, and fermentation.

Dairy

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Ketchup processing begins with tons of tomato paste that is mixed and heated together with sugar, vinegar, and spices in a cooking kettle. After cooking, any remaining fibers and particles are filtered out. Once it reaches the right viscosity, your tomato ketchup production process is finished and ready for packaging and transport.

Ketchup

Salad dressing has found its way onto dinner plates for millennia as a quick way to liven up leafy dishes. Experimentation with oil, vinegar, wine, salt, and other ingredients developed into the broad selection of dressings we enjoy today. Through a process of emulsifying the basic formula, adding additional elements, and then bottling and labeling the final mixture, consumers have easy access to reliable tastes on demand.

Salad dressing

Made from bananas, apples, strawberries and other tasty fruits, fruit purees are beloved by both children and adults around the world. Fruits that make it into the puree go through a strict selection process. Fruit puree processing line incorporates all machinery used for selecting, washing, cleaning, crushing and sieving the fruit which ensures the quality of the fruit puree.

Fruit puree

First commercially sold baby food was created by Henri Nestlé when he combined cow milk with sugar and grains. Baby food industry has since grown to offer everything from whole wheat infant cereals to ramen-flavored baby food. From infant formula to fruit puree, choosing the baby food processing equipment is related to the type of baby food you want to make.

Baby Food

Petek Proces is specialized in designing and engineering processing equipment for the food and beverage industry.

Promises long lasting operations

Maintains high hygiene and sanitation standards

The machine is pre-assembled

  Maintains product quality

Pasteurization of craft beers in breweries is very important to ensure the maintenance of taste and extended shelf life. If you are a small scale manufacturer or starting your own brewery, you need a pasteurizer that is efficient yet economical for working with small batches.


<h2>Efficient, small scale pasteurizer for packaged beverages</h2>
Petek Proces’s Pasteurizer is a small but well-furnished machine equipped with very similar configuration like its bigger counterparts. It has an active Pasteurizing Unit which allows gentle pasteurization of your beer in all circumstances. Including during the production process and even during stoppages. It is equipped with additional hardware and software. Ensuring that your beer will never be over-pasteurized. And, will always retain its taste, aroma and perfect colour.

The machine also comes with an optimized nozzle system which ensures a perfect combination of flow and pressure. Thus, enabling extremely good heat exchange between hot water, malts and yeast. Its tunnel technology is equipped with Programmable Logic Controller. As well as operator panel for full automatic operation of machine. This allows automatic regulation of temperature set points, speed of the conveyors, water level correction and temperature regulation.

Apart from beer, it can also be applied during the pasteurization of soft drinks, juices, milk, fruit puree, sugar syrups, etc.

Craft Beer Pasteurizer

Process

<span style="font-weight: 400">The heating process is a step of raising the temperature of food, pharma, cosmetics, and many other types of products. You may employ different heating solutions for this process, depending on the type of product you intend to manufacture. Selecting the appropriate heater machine for your product is quite important since various products require different ranges of temperatures and different ways of heat transfer using exchangers. Industrial heating equipment varies in two ways - the type of material it can process and the reaction you want to achieve.</span>

Heating

The Pasteurization process is the method of subjecting liquids to mild heat at a specific temperature and time, and quickly cooling them down again in order to destroy pathogens in your fermented or semi-fermented products. Thus, increasing the shelf life of the manufactured products. Untreated microorganisms may lead to diseases, spoilage, or unwanted fermentation. Most pasteurization equipment operate in a continuous method using plate heat exchangers to keep a uniform level of high efficiency sterilization.

Pasteurizing

Industrial sterilization processes are employed in different industries to completely eliminate all living microorganisms from the final product. For instance, in food processing, sterilization equipment is used to produce a stable product with a long shelf-life by eradicating harmful bio-contaminants. Instead, in the medical field, sterilization technologies aim to prevent the transmission of microbes to patients by sterilizing all the tools and medical devices that come in contact with the patient. Most sterilization equipment, such as autoclaves, employs high-temperature pressurized steam to destroy bacteria and disinfect surfaces from spores. Other methods include radiation sterilization or using chemicals such as hydrogen peroxide for disinfection.

Sterilization

Fruit pulp is a mass of pressed fresh fruit not meant for immediate consumption. Production of fruit pulp avoids wasting food and preserves the flavors and nutrient value of the fruit product. Processed fruit pulp is an ingredient in beverages, sauces, baby foods, jellies, smoothies, and bakery products.

Tradition and manufacturing procedures dictate the distinction between fruit juice, puree, and pulp. Still, naming and labeling are complex and depend on regulations, type of fruit, texture, consistency, preservation methods, and sugar or solid content (measured in Degrees Brix). Depending on your desired output, there are various fruit pulper machines for different stages of production that make the process quicker and more efficient.

Fruit pulp

With the right processing machines, almonds, cashews, pine nuts, hemp, coconut, oat and soy can be processed into healthy plant-based milk. To produce it, grind the raw materials, screen, soak and mix them till you obtain a milky white liquid.

Plant-based milk

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The kitchen toaster may be the first appliance that a jam jar brings to mind. But turning fruit into the classic spreadable involves an entire line of jam processing equipment. The meticulous preparation for high-capacity jam manufacturing puts paid to the old idiom 'money for jam'.

Originally created to supply US soldiers with vitamin C in World War II, fruit concentrate has found many other uses. Whether you want to drink soda or eat gummy bears, you need fruit concentrate for the color and flavor. The fruit concentrate processing line involves fruit peelers, conveyor belts, filters, and evaporators that help producers make fruit concentrate with all of the fruit’s original aroma.

Fruit concentrate

Designed to enable optimal energy usage

Uses Programmable Logic Controller for pasteurization and sanitation procedures

Retains quality and taste of beer

Can be operated and supervised from a control room

The food and beverage industry are faced with constant challenges. Contamination and cross infection by microorganism pose to be a big risk during production. A hygienic, energy efficient pasteurisation system can negate these risks while maintaining the quality of taste of the end product especially useful for beer production.


<h2>Efficient and high capacity pasteurizer retaining beverage quality</h2>
Petek Proces’s Pastuerizing unit is available as an individual block version which allows quick displacement and in-line assemblage with other bottling equipment. It is flexible and can cover a wide range of products and capacities, which also provides a quick and easy connection to the energy source. It provides you with wide capacity range, constant process parameters and dynamic pasteurizing units.

This flash pasteurizer provides thermic treatment to your liquid product by using plate or tube heat exchangers which have suitable number of sections. It provides to you, options for a hot outlet, cold outlet, or even both for treating products with varying viscosity. It also provides automatic temperature control with registration and synoptic records on pasteurization and cooling temperatures.

The flash pasteurizer for beer allows you to control the flow with an electronic flow meter and a frequency-controlled pump. It ensures that your product is never over-pasteurized which results in good taste, aroma and colour of your product. Apart from beer, its applications also include, manufacturing of soft drinks (carbonated or non-carbonated), juices, milk, fruit puree, sugar syrup, sauces, jams and liquid foods.

Flash pasteurizer for beer

Spreads

Bottling equipment draws a measured quantity of your drink, food, or formulation from a holding tank and fills it into bottles. These bottles usually need to be checked, capped, labeled, and sealed for distribution. Bottling solutions differ in product metering system, sterilization level, and bottle type and sealing system depending on your production scale and product format and regulations. Bottling systems are utilized in a variety of industries. For example, in the food and beverage industry as well as in cosmetics and pharma.

When looking for capping equipment, it is crucial to know first which type of capper your product requires. Do you want screw caps, twist-off caps, hand pumps, or push-pull caps on your bottle or container? If you require different cap types for format changeover times can be time-consuming. The bottle cap seals the top opening of a bottle to guard the product against leakage and spoilage and sterility and filling requirements depend on the nature of your product.

The fermentation process stimulates enzymatic activity in organic substrates to transform their chemical composition. Fermentation is aided by storying the biomaterials in anaerobic environments, allowing the microorganisms to decompose their nutrient structures. The process is integral to some of the most popular products throughout time such as wine, beer, cheese, and kimchi. But besides the food sector, fermentation is also an important stage in the industrial manufacturing of chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and biofuels.

A sealed can of beer is the ultimate satisfaction for a craft brewer. But what’s better than a can of beer? A full case ready for the retail shelf. It marks the beginning of a brewing success story, and when cartoning reaches 40 cans per minute, you know you’ve reached your tipping point.

However, as beer packs increase, so do the cartoning challenges. Growing capacity means bringing more hands on deck or investing in an automated system.

Manual operation may have a lower initial cost, but labor costs quickly add up. Moreover, while direct human control allows closer monitoring, automatic cartoners ensure higher consistency. On the whole, machines bring a steady hand.

But automation has a cost too. Mechanical processes open the door to operational and maintenance issues that put the viability of 40 cpm threshold into question.


<h3>Growing by keeping it small</h3>
Small brewers would cheer for a system that combines the simplicity of manual operation with the accuracy of automated systems.

“This need is peculiar to craft brewers,” says Dave Shepherd, president of Mpac Switchback. “Like all businesses, breweries want to expand, but production typically remains around 3,000 barrels a year.”

Backed by decades of experience in beer can cartoning, Dave’s team went on to innovate a solution that achieves both. The Mpac system provides the precision of a machine but without its mechanical complexities.
<h3>A robotic arm lends a hand</h3>
Conventional technology designed for higher speeds involves separate units for erecting, filling, and closing boxes, apart from the intricate tracks connecting them. The Mpac engineers went back to the drawing board and rebuilt a system around a robotic arm that guides the carton every step of the way.

The platform simplifies the cartoning process while perfectly matching the volume requirements of small breweries. Dave explains how the robotic arm eliminates a layer of complexity: “We managed to replace a whole series of electromechanical tools with a single, low-maintenance device.”

40 cpm is a significant breakthrough, but brewers do not need to complicate their line just to keep up with the cartoning demands. The helpful robotic arm takes your production from tipping point to sipping point without mechanical hangovers.

Advantage craft breweries: robots take the frothiness out of cartoning

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