AUXILIARY CANNING COMPANY PLANS TO INVEST €10M BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR TO INCREASE ITS PRODUCTION CAPACITY

With an output of 800 cans per minute per can production line, the Molina-based Auxiliar Conservera manufactures more than 5 million cylindrical, oval and rectangular cans per day, as well as normal and easy-open lids.

The Murcian company began three years ago to modernize its facilities and to bet on the research of new products. Also as part of its development plan, Auxiliar Conservera has decided to expand one of its two centres in the Region of Murcia, specifically the centre located in Monteagudo, in order to increase its production capacity and strengthen the company’s competitive position, as well as to develop the range of high vacuum packaging, known as ‘Openvac’. In both projects, the packaging company plans to invest around ten million euros by the end of the year.

The high vacuum packaging system called ‘Openvac’ removes air from inside the can and requires less liquid to be used for product coverage. This system also distributes the heat evenly from the inside to the outside which added to its innovative design the consumer can heat the food without having to remove them from the container.

The Monteagudo plant, especially dedicated to the processing of tinplate, started three years ago a process of expansion and modernization of facilities that together with other projects in the other plants involved an investment of 30 million in several months.

Since the beginning of the year, through the Auxiliar Conservera – Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena chair, studies of new materials and thicknesses, 3D technology and automation processes and Industry 4.0 are being developed, with the aim of promoting integral and more sustainable solutions in the company’s industrial processes and products.

Since then, we have been studying the control and optimisation parameters of the various stages in the manufacture of a metal container: from the cutting of the tinplate, application of protective varnishes, welding of bodies, forming of containers and lids, resistance to the aggressiveness of the various preserves and packaging processes, etc.