Counter-Pressure Integrated Craft Beer/Beverage Canning Line

Pneumatic Scale Angelus, a Barry-Wehmiller Packaging Systems company, is using its virtual space at PACK EXPO Connects to demonstrate a filler and seamer with a growing beverage market in mind. To meet the growing demand for hard seltzers, Ready-to-Drink (RTD) cocktails, sparkling wine, and higher-carbonation beer, the CB50C counter-pressure canning line scales PSA’s long history of expertise in high-speed beverage applications for the needs of the Craft market.

Counter-pressure technology allows you to fill highly carbonated beverages – in excess of 2.7 vols of CO₂ – by maintaining equivalent pressure in the can being filled and the product tank supplying the product.  Maintaining this pressure prevents breakout, or excess foaming, that releases CO₂ and ultimately lowers carbonation. True isobarometric filling, with the fill tank located above the fill heads, allows the product to be gravity-fed versus pumped upward, ensuring less product agitation for a quiet fill and lower CO₂ loss.