Flexibility | For Carlow Brewing Company GEA Vipoll will install Ireland's first Visitron All-in-one line Looking for a multifunctional filling system the craft brewer chose GEA's combined rinser-filler-seamer block which offers brewers maximum production flexibility and reliability glass and even PET bottles with just one machine in the smallest possible space Manufacturers can switch between bottle and can formats without tools in just 20 to 30 minutes The family-owned brewery produces the O’Hara’s craft beer brand range Falling Apple cider plus a range of canned and bottled private labels for international customers To meet growing customer demand and interest in canned beer decided to invest in a fundamentally new facility no Irish contract packer could provide the required capacity Taking lean bottling solution in own hands “Taking canning into our own hands is a big step for us” “We only wanted to take this step with an experienced partner the track record of similar installations and an established local support Having already installed a GEA beer separator in the past the brewery was familiar with the technology group’s expertise in the market; and during the BrauBeviale exhibition in Nuremberg in 2019 became aware of the GEA Visitron Filler All-in-one which won the comparison with competing technologies “We reviewed the available technologies intensively construction quality and reference list of the filler clearly led us to GEA.” With a capacity of 6,000 containers per hour the new filler will enable the brewery to produce a wider range of products on one highly flexible line “We plan to use the All-in-one to add nitrogen widgets to cans in the future” These nitrogen widgets activate when the can is opened Carlow Brewing would be the first Irish craft brewer to use such a widget filling lines can fillers filling technology Newsletter archive and information