The next thing brewers consider is the business side of going with cans. Cans are 15 times lighter than glass bottles and they save you on shipping. It also keeps your beer fresher because aluminum keeps out UV rays and oxygen.” But no one ever said mobile canning was easy, Stamcos explained. “It’s extremely fun at times of course, but when our crew is out there battling with the trials and tribulations of being mobile it can be another story.” Everything from difficult product specifications, sanitation and quality assurance, and heavy-equip- ment – not to mention Ontario snow storms and Toronto traffic – makes Stamcos’s mantra of being present that much more vital to Northern Canning’s continuing growth. “It’s important to us that we handle every situation. The owners of the company are the main point of contact for our clients. We take these aspects very seriously. There is no one better to do it than the people who care the most about our company. We know and understand that the clients’ product is every- thing and we need to know we can get it into a can safely and efficiently. Quality assurance rules all.” We initially launched the company based on the craft beer industry’s growing demand for getting their product into a can Quality assurance includes rigorous cleaning pro- cedures and seam checking as well as carbonation and dissolved oxygen testing. Northern Canning’s technicians use our ATP (adenosine triphosphate) meters to swab their machinery and your cans to ensure the highest sanitation standards are met. “We also have an Anton Paar CBox to check CO2 volumes as well as DO [dissolved oxygen] levels pre and post fill,” Stamcos said. “You could also say that we have a slight obsession when it comes to checking seams.” “We absolutely love what we do, but the process can be very trying if the site specifications are not on point,” she continued. “Being mobile means our equipment moves around a lot. Screws some- times come loose during transport after a job and not everyone has the same fittings and accesso-
ment. It is our entire mission.”
When you read testimonials like this one from Stefan Riedelsheimer of Caledon Hills Brewing Company Inc, we know that we are delivering on that mission. “Our family operated brewery, Caledon Hills Brewing Company, was struggling all summer long keeping up fulfilling our can orders with our Cask manual 2 head can filler doing about 4 cans per minute. It seemed, that we did nothing else in our brewery besides canning beer. It was a real nightmare. Our whole family started to deeply hate it. Northern Canning helped us to get out of this slump. Not only does their fully automated can filling machine race through close to 40 (!) cans per minute but also provide lots of man power (included in the price!) to reduce our canning time fromdays into a few short hours. Best of all, they are truly experts in what they are doing and we don’t have to worry about anything such as accurate fill levels, oxygen pick up, maintaining, operating, cleaning and sterilizing a machine. They come in, get the job done and leave in no time. Why didn’t we call them sooner!?! Duh!! Now we concentrate again on making great beer and selling it rather than spending all our precious time and human resources on canning it up. “ “We initially launched the company based on the craft beer industry’s growing demand for getting their product into a can,” Stamcos continued. “This is partly due to the positive impact on the environ- ment. Seventy-five percent of cans ever manufac- tured are still in circulation today and they contain three times the recycled content of glass bottles.
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