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Vobev, a Utah-based can manufacturing company established in 2019, has announced details about its new 1.2 million sq. ft. facility that is due to open by the end of this year in Salt Lake City, Utah. The new production plant is expected to help provide some relief for the ongoing can shortage that has impacted the beverage industry.
Read more...Demand for cans was unprecedented in 2020 — and it hasn’t slowed in 2021.
Read more...A Korean-based microbrewery with a production plant in northwest California has ceased production and will auction off all of the brewing equipment.
Read more...A legislative bill in Minnesota to allow larger breweries to sell growlers has died.
Read more...Domestic beer in cans grew 11.4% to 12.7 million barrels in 2020, according to Beer Marketer’s Insights. Cans now make up 74% of total volume share, up from 58 share 10 years ago. Not surprisingly in the pandemic year, draft fell by 7.9 million barrels and bottles dropped almost 3.6 million barrels.
Read more...Silent Pool Distillers, a UK-based distiller has introduced the first worlds first spirit in a paper bottle.
Read more...Beer drinkers in Australia are being warned to check their cans after a recall was issued for one product over fears of ‘exploding’ cans and higher alcohol content than stated due to secondary fermentation.
Read more...MicroStar Logistics, the largest independent owner of beer kegs in the world, announced that it has acquired the keg rental company Kegstar. The acquisition will grow Denver-based MicroStar’s international business by taking on Kegstar’s clients which include breweries in Australia, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the U.S.
Read more...Cans now make up 44% of all packaged craft beer sales according to an annual packaging study done by Bart Watson, economist at the Brewers Association. The study compared the sales of cans versus bottles in different pack configurations, including 4-pack, 6-pack, 12-pack and loose.
Read more...Craft brewers have always been artful and innovative in label and package design. And in a beer set, where the consumer faces a wall of color and art, it is hard to stand out.
Read more...A pilot program in Northern California will collect and wash beer bottles to be returned back to the brewery for reuse.
Read more...Can carriers have improved in recent years towards more recyclable options, including what has become the popular overwrap carton for cans. But cans in a box don’t allow consumers to read “canned-on” dates or other info that may be on the can and not the carrier. A new innovation has just been introduced that is a fully recyclable paper can carrier that functions in the same way as the plastic carrier.
Read more...While the explosive growth of hard seltzer and craft beer in cans has had a significant impact on the shortage of cans to the beverage business, small changes in trends for mainstream beer can have an even bigger impact, according to a report on the can shortage by First Key Consulting.
Read more...Ball Corp. announced that they are purchasing a 1.1 million square foot building in Pittston, Pennsylvania that will help to stem the concern over a shortage of cans in the beverage industry.
Read more...The supply of CO2 may get worse before it gets better.
Read more...Everyone in the industry knows that aluminum beverage cans have been in high demand, even before the virus crisis. With the growing popularity of canned wine and cocktails, combined with booming sales of hard seltzer, the pressure has been on the can manufacturers to increase supply. But when the COVID-19 crisis forced beer out of kegs due to the closure of the on-premise business, most breweries, large and small, pivoted to canning more beer than before to sell into the off-premise.
Read more...With brewery tasting rooms shut down in most states since mid-March, those breweries which depend on their on-premise sales for most if not all of their revenue have struggled the most. With no outlets to sell kegged beer to, mobile canning companies have come to the rescue.
Read more...When the on-premise business shut down, many small brewers who rely on draft sales were faced with a dilemma. How to get beer into bottles or cans quickly to sell beer to-go, direct ship or sell into the still-open off-premise accounts. The Can Van, a mobile canning company servicing Northern California is just one example of how a quick pivot made the difference for some craft brewers to stay in business during the pandemic.
Read more...Although import beer makes up about 20% of the U.S. beer market, almost none of it is packaged here. Instead, the expensive task of shipping bottles, cans and kegs continues to be the norm. But with thousands of kegs “stuck” at closed on-premise businesses, the idea of shipping beer from other countries in bulk and then packaging here in the U.S. may be a trend in the future.
Read more...Members of our Discussion Board have been discussing methods for making hand sanitizer. Here’s one option, the World Health Organization published a guide to local production of hand sanitizer. It provides a standard recipe for both ethanol and isopropyl alcohol based hand sanitizers. Here’s the standard recipe for ethanol based hand sanitizer:
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