Case Study
Ecocaps - Hygienic can protection without sacrificing speed
Ecocaps Hygienic can protection without sacrificing speed A unique solution allows the beverage industry to cover can tops with heat-sealed aluminum foil caps. The company which patented this solution, Ecocap’s, is now able to guarantee a high level of reliability even on high-speed bottling lines, thanks to automation solutions supplied by Omron. Several years ago the beverage industry discovered a new way of packaging products: cap-protected cans. It involves applying a heat-sealed aluminum foil disk to the tops of cans, and has become a fairly widespread solution which allows beverage multinationals to market products that are safer from a health and hygiene point of view. This specific capping process is based on technology named after its developer, Ecocap’s, headquartered