Multi-Conveyor LLC recently designed, built and installed a new stainless-steel, washdown table-top conveyor line that will pick up empty bottles after rinsing and then convey them to either the existing bottler or to a canning machine.

This tunnel is designed to meet the challenges of shrink sleeve applications such as highly shaped containers, including tall or hourglass shapes, long neck wine or beer bottles, or twin packs, the company says.

The Brewers Association, Boulder, Colo., welcomed approximately 14,000 attendees to the Craft Brewers Conference (CBC) & BrewExpo America, which took place April 8-11 in Denver.

With a variety of ink types and colors available, the VIAjet L-Series thermal inkjet printer is a clean, fast and cost-effective alternative to thermal transfer and adhesive labels.

Designed with a rapid format change system, the monobloc, composed of a rinser and a filler, is designed to handle either bottles or cans, followed by a capper for bottles and a standard seamer for cans.

The machine enables craft and microbreweries to shrink sleeve beer cans while avoiding the large minimum quantities required to print aluminum cans, and to purchase and label smaller quantities as needed.

Fast, simple tape threading Dekka, a product brand of ProMach, introduced the re-engineered Dekka SE tape head for case formers, case erectors and case sealers.

Organized as the “House of Krones,” the manufacturer highlighted solutions for process technology, bottling and packaging equipment, intralogistics, digitalization and the entire lifecycle services of products.

The system creates and applies high-quality labels for a wide variety of beverage types and bottle formats, the company says.

The mid-run digital label printer brings efficiency and flexibility to in-house labels as it can directly print on inkjet-printable, die-cut labels and tag stock.