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Packaging your Craft Beverage

When it comes to canning, your craft beverage is only as good as how you package and distribute it. We offer a number of different canning line accessories to make packaging your craft product easier and more efficient.  Choose from labelers, depalletizers, date coders and other canning accessories that will improve efficiency and help your brand stand out from the craft beverage crowd.

Depalletizers

Can Pasteurizers

Can Rinsers

Bottle Rinsers & Spargers

Accumulation Tables

PakTech Applicator

Shrink Sleeve Labelers

Wrap Around  Labelers

Bottle Labelers

Date Coders

Liquid Nitrogen Dosers

Conveyance

Automated Depalletizer connected to beverage canning line

Depalletizers

Lotus sells an array of depalletizing options for our canning lines:

  • Automation options range from fully automated 100+ cans per minute to semi-automated
  • •The collapsible version of our can depalletizer is portable and can be folded and put away to save space or transport from site to site
  • Our fully-automated depalletizer’s twist rinse travels back across the space already consumed by the machine, saving up to 10 feet of precious floor space
  • Fully-automated depalletizer is designed for easy loading of pallets with a pallet jack and features a servo motor for lateral sweeping of cans
  • Our semi-automated depalletizer allows one person to easily and quickly unload a layer of cans off the pallet
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stainless steel Can Pasteurizer used in craft breweries

Can Pasteurizers

Beverage pasteurization is a heat treatment process aimed at destroying or markedly reducing microorganisms like bacteria, yeasts, and molds in liquids. This process is essential for enhancing the safety of beverages, prolonging their shelf life, and minimizing the occurrence of foodborne illnesses.  Read more about pasteurization >

  • Small footprint that is competitively priced and easy to maintain
  • Easy integrates with your existing canning system
  • As your production demand grows, your can pasteurization system can grow with you by adding sections to increase capacity.
  • Available in 25, 50, 75, 100, 150, 200 & 250 cans per minute
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Can twist rinser

Can Rinsers

Lotus sells twist rinsers to fit a variety of form factors for most can sizes:

  • Lotus sells options for standard, slim, and sleek cans
  • Some canning machines have on-board options to flip rinse cans, saving floorspace
  • We also offer ionized air rinsing options
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Bottle Rinsers and Spargers

Bottle Rinsers & Spargers

Time tested rinser and sparger design:

  • Rinser with 2 water jets as bottle rinser, water filter is included
  • Two sparger jets for compressed air or gas, includes gas regulator and set up
  • Stainless steel frame on low stand for easy working height
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conveyer belt for aluminum cans

Conveyance

Customize how you move cans between packaging stages:

  • Move your cans in bulk
  • Reliably transport cans and bottles from stage to stage
  • Customizable designs to fit your space or process
  • Lotus will help create a layout that may incorporate conveyance to better work with your space and needs
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Accumulation Table

Accumulation Tables

When your canning line is cranking out a high volume of cans, accumulation tables will ensure that the exit of the canning line is clear of finished cans which in turn allows the canner to run when nobody is packing out:

  • Rotary accumulation tables operate independently of your existing canning equipment
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Automated PakTek Applicator Machine

PakTech Applicator

Apply 4-pack or 6-pack Paktech handles to your cans:

  • Will handle 100+ cans/minute; it can keep up with any Lotus canner
  • Fully-automated design improves your team’s efficiency
  • Simple to switch between 4-packs and 6-packs on canning days
  • Configurable for standard or sleek can diameters
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Shrink Sleeve Labeler

Shrink Sleeve Labelers

Shrink sleeve labelers apply vibrant, eye-catching labels covering can into the top neck and rounded bottom so your cans stand out from the crowd:

  • Applies special shrink sleeves printed on a flexible shrink film. The cans then pass through a heat tunnel to tightly mold the label to the can
  • Labels can be applied before or after filling the cans.
  • Shrink sleeve labels can be made on pre-perforated stock to make them easy to remove prior to recycling
  • We offer a full line of shrink sleeve labeler applicators and heat tunnels
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Wrap around labeler for aluminum cans

Wrap Around Labelers

Shrink sleeve labelers create more vibrant, eye-catching labels so your cans stand out from the crowd:

  • Uses special labels printed on a flexible shrink film. The integrated heat is applicator
  • Shrink sleeve labels won’t stick to your cans, which makes them easier to remove during the recycling process
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Wraparound Bottle Labeler

Bottle Labelers

Makes labeling bottles with a front and back label easy.  It applies the front and back labels consistently with same gap between them every time:

  • Semi-automatic and manual options available
  • Set the guides for bottle label application
  • Place your beer, wine, or liquor bottle or class container in the machine
  • Press the foot switch to apply bottle labels
  • The AP-362 Label Applicator can apply labels to the front and back of any beer, liquor or wine bottle
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Keyence date coder

Date Coders

Lotus offers both ink-jet printed and pressure sensitive label date coders:

  • Lotus’ steady coder solves problems related to coding the bottom of cans
  • Many options available, designed to work with any budget or canning line configuration
  • CleanStart TM industrial stainless steel printheads ready to use in one minute
  • Features touchscreen
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Liquid nitrogen doser for aluminum cans

Liquid Nitrogen Dosers

Nitrogen dosers extend the shelf life of your product by removing air/oxygen from the headspace of the cans, thus preserving flavors:

  • Lotus uses an OEM kit version of the nitrogen doser to reduce cost and to provide better safety and operator-controlled dosing rates
  • Our nitrogen doser is lower cost and integrated directly into our canning lines
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