Two Western Michigan University graduates are launching Michigan Mobile Canning, the state’s first mobile canning line. They have invested more than $160,000 to replicate what is a successful business in Colorado. The Wild Goose Canning Technologies MC-250 modified system will be housed in a 16-foot box truck, with custom-made, sleeve-wrap labeled cans designed to can beers. Their aim will be to arrive when a brewery is ready to distribute beer, fill the cans under the brewer's direct supervision and then leave. The line will be able fill 2 to 2.5 million cans a year (approx.7,500 to 8,500 barrels).
The MMC are aiming to help small breweries who have never packaged before by helping to package for the first time, and help them get into the retail setting by going state-wide rather quickly. Many craft brewers have been seeing the benefits of cans, there’s less packaging weight and it stacks better for storage.
Michigan Mobile Canning's first client will be Right Brain Brewery in Traverse City, with more in line for the summer. The pricing will be pay-as-you go for interested brewers.
The first truck will be on the road in Michigan by June and they hope to expand to two trucks by 2014.
Michigan Mobile Canning www.michiganmobilecanning.com
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