AMERICAN CANNING EXPANDS WITH THE MANUFACTURE OF CANS

American Canning grows and announces new battery of operations. A large part of these improvements will focus on a new facility that will be joined by an environmentally friendly aluminum can manufacturing plant and a second shrink sleeve line.

Its new headquarters, which will be operational in the spring of 2022, is also a growth and change for U.S. craft beverage producers. Precisely, American Canning made beverage packaging supplies accessible to a wider market by introducing e-commerce in 2018, and helped producers pivot to packaged sales when the world closed in 2020.

The company has also announced that it is ready to bring new changes to the market, announcing plans to start manufacturing 12oz aluminum cans next year. In this regard, David Racino, co-founder and CEO of American Canning, points out that “large canmakers do what they do at scale by seeking efficiency. This requires their customers to have long-term forecasts, which means sophisticated supply chain operations. That’s something that not all small companies and beverage start-ups have. We want to build a more modern ecosystem that allows those brands and organizations to thrive.”

As such, American Canning will transition to its new facility exceeding 47,000 square meters in early 2022, which will give them three times more capacity for machine manufacturing and distribution of virgin aluminum can supplies, closures, PakTech® and crate trays. The new space will also allocate 1,066 square meters to a second shrink-wrapping line focused on specialty can sizes that will increase production to more than 1.5 million cans per week.

To complement shrink sleeve production, Racino adds that American Canning has planned to expand into smaller volume printed cans for several years. “Craft has experienced many changes in market dynamics, most recently with the shortage of cans. In 2020, we saw that the needs of artisanal producers would remain overwhelmingly unusable so it became clear that we needed to create our own supply. Many producers don’t need millions of cans at a time, so we want to offer some assurance around the availability of cans at low volume,” Racino stresses.

Initially, 12 oz aluminum cans will be manufactured, with plans to quickly add 16 oz cans, moving toward 300 million cans per year. This expansion will begin in early 2022, with the manufacture of cans, with manufacturing scheduled to start in August.