Yes, the metal keg remains the industry standard. But it is not necessarily the most economical option for a growing craft brewer. The one-way plastic beer keg, aka the new kid on the block, has arrived with an arsenal of forward thinking bells-and-whistle advantages and an ambitious growth plan.
CoMac of Italy is helping that growth along too. The established global supplier of kegging, bottling and canning equipment has developed a compact, single head, semi-automatic, one-way keg filling system, the 1T-OW.
It is fully encased and suitable for filling one-way PET plastic kegs, with a nominal output of up to 40 kegs/hour with a keg capacity of 24 litres. Kegs are filled from the top in order to avoid the rollover operation and a side opening can be installed to support a conveyor belt.
Because the kegs are one-way, they do not require washing prior to filling so the machine is equipped with a single tank that is used to wash the fitting of the keg and to perform a wash cycle of the machine itself.
The same CoMac attention to functional detail is seen in its full range of kegging equipment.
- For microbreweries: Semi-automatic single or twin head internal cleaning/filling machines with integrated cleaning solutions and CIP tanks
- For medium outputs: Linear four, five or six head machines
- Fully automatic turnkey lines up to 1200 kph
- Line components including: External keg washers, pressure testers, automatic spear tightening, keg turners, check-weighers, leakage detectors, cappers, ink jet coders, keg labellers, traditional or robotic depalletising and palletising systems
- Flash pasteuriser integrated with the keg filing lines
CoMac is represented in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region by HBM Packaging Technologies
