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Craft Brewery

machines are often used for bottle-conditioned canning on its own schedule. They also said addi-
beers. Also, isobaric manual beer bottling machines tional upstream and downstream equipment, such
come in different configurations for rinsing bottles as an accumulating table or palletizer, can be pur-
and sorting them. chased and phased in later as desired.

Popular Can Filling Machines

From Pneumatic Scale Angelus, a Barry-Wehmiller
Packaging Company, Mike Davis, Global Product
Line Leader of can filling, and Mark Pirog, Director
of Seamer Sales, told Beverage Master Magazine
about several can filling machines commonly used
by craft breweries. Pneumatic Scale Angelus is
one of nine operating companies within the Barry-
Wehmiller family, a form/fill/seal technologies and
services leader that has served various industries
for over 100 years.

The CB50F is an open-air – known as atmospheric
– integrated filler/seamer for production speeds up The company’s CB100F model (shown above) is an
to 50 cans per minute. open-air integrated filler/seamer canning line for
production speeds up to 100 CPM.
Davis and Pirog said that this canning line is ideal
for craft brewers entering into packaging cans or “This machine is designed for the craft brewer
who have been mobile canning and are ready to looking to expand production from the entry-lev-
invest in a canning line that offers the autonomy of el, or who has been mobile canning on a regular

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