CoMac installs keg line for US craft brewer
Friday, 12 October, 2012
CoMac has recently installed a keg line for craft brewer Oskar Blues Brewery, located in Longmont, Colorado. In 2002, the brewery became the first craft brewery to brew and can its own beer products in the United States.
Since then, the brewery has expanded to brew around 60 different branded beers such as Dale’s Pale Ale in its 35,000 m2 production facility. Plans are afoot to expand and open an additional brewery in Brevard in North Carolina.
CoMac supplied the brewery with a keg line with a speed of 60 km/h, which consists of: a four-head keg washer/filler; caustic/acid, hot water and mixed water cleaning solution tanks; a full keg static weigher that detects over- and under-weight kegs; and inlet and outlet conveyors.
It also features an automatic keg turner/lowering machine suitable for turning full kegs in upright positions and lowering them from 900 to 250 mm from the ground to increase palletising access.
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