both spirits and carbonated beverages, it
eliminates the need to have a different line
for each product.
“That is a huge cost advantage for us,”
he said. “It truly is an innovation. It’s kind
of an engineering marvel and I think it will
really revolutionize packaging at small- and
medium-sized operations.”
Merlo stresses that the machine’s ver-satility
isn’t limited to container types.
“For closures, it can do multiple can
sizes. It can do crimp crowns, plastic caps
and ROPP/aluminum closures (including
Amcor Stelvin and Stelvin-Lux). There’s no
machine that could do both cans and bot-tles,’”
he said. “It’s really driven by market
need. Other producers who are aware of
our machine have backed up our belief that
the need is there.”
Cost advantage
One of those producers is David Farran,
owner of Eau Claire Distillery, a craft
distillery business situated 60 kilo-metres
south of Calgary in the Rocky
Mountain foothills.
Farran has been watching the devel-opment
of AM Jade Co.’s Multi-Container
Packaging Centre with keen interest – so
much so that he is buying the first com-mercial
model and plans to install it in his
distillery later this year.
Farran says his decision wasn’t a dif-ficult
one to make.
“It’s a pretty exciting thing to be
involved in because it is a revolution-ary
packaging system and it’s perfect
for a distillery that does both carbon-ated
products as well as alcohol spirits,”
he said.
Farran says that because the Multi-
Container Packaging Centre can be used for
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