When a brewery can no longer satisfy demand for thirsty customers, it’s time to make some big changes—and long-standing partnerships ease the upgrading task
Molson Coors subsidiary brewery, Apatinska Pivara Apatin—located in Serbia—found it was having difficulty in meeting demand for its glass bottle lines, but also saw an inexorable demand for its brews in cans. What to do? Fortunately, the brewery had already been working with KHS since the 1970s when it merged with its predecessor companies Holstein & Kappert and Seitz Enzinger Noll Maschinenbau AG (SEN), who in 1993 merged to form KHS.
The long and trusted partnership between the brewery and KHS gave Apatin a head start in the modernization process when it made conversions to two of the brewery’s glass lines and procured a KHS Innofill Can DVD can filler for a new can filling line. In the process, the glass lines were sped up considerably, and with the new can filler, the brewer benefitted from an all-around improvement in hygiene and efficiency.