Calgary’s Cask Brewing Systems is offering a new canning line that doubles the speed of its fastest machine.

The Cask ACS X2 (Automatic Canning System X2) offers ten CO2 pre-purge heads, ten fill heads, and two can seamers. That is twice the pre-purge, filling and seaming features of Cask’s ACS machine, which has been popular with micro-canners since it debuted on the market in 2005.

The company’s new machine fills and seams 75+ cans/minute and 190+ cases/hour and requires just one operator.

It features a revamped seamer system and an improved operator interface, and can be adapted to various can sizes in just minutes. Other options for the ACS X2 include an improved automatic pallet dispenser and a can pre-rinse feature.

“Our customers around the world are experiencing huge demand for their canned craft beer and it’s creating production pressures for them.

“Many of them are faced with outgrowing our machines and having to make a four- or five-fold leap in price — and a giant leap in size — to buy the next level of canning gear,” explains Cask founder Peter Love.

He added: “We created this faster, more-advanced machine,” Love says, “to help our customers keep up with their growth in a fashion that saves them significant money and space.

“Our focus has always been smaller breweries, the ACS X2 allows us to greatly expand that focus.”

“All of our machines give small brewers an affordable, small-scale way to package their beer in the best package there is for beer.

“They allow craft brewers to easily adopt the super-portable, infinitely recyclable can and its ultimate protection from light and oxygen. Those benefits are hard for brewers to resist.”