As the beverage industry sees growing consumer preference for recyclable aluminum cans over PET bottles, manufacturers are reevaluating coding systems to align with can production speeds and choosing coding technologies that meet their requirements for efficiency, supplies reduction, and code permanence.

Tonejet’s direct-to-can digital printer – Cyclone – with inbuilt Rockwell iTRAK transport system has been designed to remove barriers associated with small batch canning and includes features and capabilities adapted to the requirements of today’s print environment, to show at InPrint Munich, November 14-16.

Crown Holdings Inc. has opened a new beverage can manufacturing plant in Nichols, NY, which marks the industry’s first greenfield facility in the U.S. in more than 20 years,