Like a car being made in an automotive assembly plant, the technology and equipment used to make and fill aluminum cans has been perfected with time. In response to a proliferation of SKUs and for craft brewers to package their products in aluminum cans, beverage plants are innovating with can filling and seaming equipment that can run multiple products and multiple SKUs with shorter changeover times, experts note.
Several trends are impacting the can filling and seaming industry, they add. These include small- and mid-size beverage companies canning a wider variety of products, a decrease in the size of the traditional 12-ounce can to slim cans and multi-sizes, and a proliferation of microbreweries packaging their craft beers in aluminum cans.