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Cask’s Revolutionary New Micro-ACS Handles Multiple Can Sizes and Beverages

February 28, 2018 by Dow Scoggins

(Calgary, Alberta, Canada) – Cask Global Canning Solutions – the inventors of micro-canning equipment for craft brewers – has released a uniquely versatile canning line.

Cask’s new Micro-Automated Canning System (mACS) packages both carbonated and uncarbonated beverages. The mACS also fill cans of varying heights and diameters — from 5.5 ounces (163 mL) to 19.2 ounces (568 mL) in volume — and the changeover between cans can be done in less than 30 minutes.

“The mACS,” says Cask founder Peter Love, “gives brewers the ability to create new revenue streams and beverages. They can quickly shift to new can sizes for current products, or jump from beer and cider to soft drinks and uncarbonated beverages such as cold brew coffee, wine and energy drinks.”

Dead Armadillo Craft Brewing (Tulsa, Oklahoma) is now using the mACS to can its beer and a new product.

“When you add a liquid nitrogen doser to the mACS,” says Todd Phillips, Dead Armadillo’s Director of Operations, “you can use it to can coffee. So after many months of R&D, we’re entering the nitro cold-brewed coffee market with some friends at a local coffee roaster. It’s a brave new world for us that wouldn’t have been possible without Cask.”

“The mACS supports a larger array of can sizes than any line we have ever seen,” Phillips adds, “and we can change from can sizes, lid formats, and product types with minimal effort.” See the brewery’s mACS in action: http://www.cask.com/2018/02/dead-armadillo-takes-beer-macs/

The mACS has electric cam-driven seamers, three CO2 pre-purge heads, three fill heads,

and a post-fill rinser and dryer. It measures just 7 by 2.5 feet and has a very small footprint of 17.5 square feet. It has a recipe memory feature that automatically sets the fill settings for speedy transition between different beverages.

The mACS conveyor belt can feeder (as found on Cask’s larger ACS machine) allows for adding such automated pre- and post-packaging components as a depalletizer, inline date coder, nitrogen doser, pressure-sensitive labeler, shrink sleever and other components.

“Since it can be equipped with an array of automated components,” Love says, “the mACS also enables our customers to scale up the automation of their canning process as they grow and diversify.”

The machine’s unique filler technology combines fill-level sensors with proprietary foam-control valves. Those features produce filled cans with extremely low dissolved oxygen pickup of just 5-20 parts per billion — better or comparable to large-scale and much more expensive canning and bottling lines.

The mACS fills 20+ cans per minute and 50+ cases per hour with just one operator.

Get more details and see the mACS package cold-brewed coffee at http://www.cask.com/2017/12/meet-macs-micro-cannings-most-flexible-system/

Members of the media looking for more information can contact Marty Jones at marty@martyjones.com or 720-289-9345.

About Cask Global Canning Solutions
Cask has provided small-scale brewers with inventive, efficient and affordable brewing and packaging solutions since 1983. In 1999 Cask invented the micro-canning concept with a tabletop machine that seamed one can at a time.

Today Cask’s affordable and small-footprint manual, semi-automated and automated canning systems are used by nearly 850 small breweries, wineries, cider makers and drinks manufacturers in 46 nations around the globe.

Cask’s micro-canning effort has dramatically changed the packaging of craft beverages around the world. Thanks to Cask and its rule-breaking customers, the once-maligned aluminum can has been transformed into the premium craft beverage package of choice for its freshness-keeping, fuel-saving, portability and environmental benefits.

For more details on Cask’s canning systems and trailblazing history visit .

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