High-Speed Aluminum & Tin Can Solutions | Precision Seaming & Hygienic Filling

TUYAO provides advanced turnkey solutions for canned beverages, including soft drinks, beer, energy drinks, and coffee. We offer integrated systems from depalletizing to final secondary packaging.

SOLUTION OVERVIEW

Engineered for Canned Beverage Packaging: Maximize Shelf Life & Minimize Product Loss

TUYAO delivers complete turnkey canned beverage solutions for aluminum, tinplate and PET cans. Our lines integrate high-precision filling systems, independent high-reliability sealing units and full food-grade hygienic construction to minimize oxygen pickup, ensure consistent airtight sealing, and significantly extend product shelf life.

Core Canning Capabilities:

•Precision Can Seaming: High-precision sealing technology tailored for aluminum, tinplate and PET cans, delivering consistent and reliable sealing performance.

•Versatile Filling Systems: Isobaric filling for carbonated drinks, gravity and piston filling options for still juices, cold brew coffee and other non-carbonated beverages.

•Hygienic Production Design: Constructed with food-grade materials and supporting automated cleaning processes, ensuring compliance with global food safety standards.

PROCESS FLOW

Automated Handling from Raw Can to Pallet

A standard TUYAO canning project includes professional CAD layout design focusing on smooth conveyor flow, efficient space utilization, and easy maintenance access for the depalletizer and filler-seamer group.

CAPACITY PLANNING

From Small Bussiness to Industrial Scale

TUYAO provides scalable platforms ranging from 1,500 CPH (Cans Per Hour) for premium niche brands to 36,000 CPH for large-scale beverage enterprises.

LINE EQUIPMENT

The Essential Modules of a Canned Drinks Filling Line

Water Treatment System

Our water treatment systems are fully custom-engineered to your raw water conditions. After reviewing your water analysis report, we design a tailored solution combining pre-filtration, reverse osmosis (RO), ultrafiltration (UF) and ozone/UV sterilization for deep purification — effectively removing contaminants, reducing hardness and ensuring compliance with drinking water standards.

Beverage Processing System

Our automated systems deliver full pre-filling preparation for juice and carbonated beverages, built with sanitary-grade components and customizable modules including extraction, blending, homogenization, degassing and UHT sterilization. Capacities range from 1T to 100T, scaled to your production needs.

Option 1: Juice Mixing

Process flows are engineered around your juice formula and product characteristics, ensuring consistent quality throughout preparation and sterilization.

Option 2: Carbonated Drink Mixing

Precisely blends water, syrup and CO₂. Treated water is vacuum-degassed, proportionally mixed with syrup, cooled via plate heat exchanger, then infused with CO₂ under controlled pressure for stable carbonation retention.

Empty Can Depalletizer

This machine is designed specifically for the unloading of empty can pallets. It efficiently lifts the empty cans stacked on the pallet layer by layer, starting from the bottom and moving upwards. Subsequently, it smoothly pushes these cans onto the top - mounted chain conveyor. The top chain conveyor then transports the cans to the filling machine. This makes it an essential and ideal piece of equipment for beverage manufacturers, streamlining their production processes.

Empty Can Rinser

Automated inverting: Empty cans are fed to the front-end mechanism via conveyor, automatically rotating from mouth-up to mouth-down with zero manual intervention for higher production efficiency.

Gravity-driven rinsing: Internal flushing nozzles deliver thorough interior cleaning with no blind spots. The unit’s adjustable incline lets cans roll horizontally by gravity, requiring no extra drive power — cutting energy use and simplifying maintenance.

Dual-channel flexibility: Dual channels support 330ml and 500ml cans, freely switchable to fit different production needs and diverse order requirements.

Can Filling and Sealing Machine

This 2-in-1 can filler and seamer leverages advanced international filling technology to deliver industry-leading performance for carbonated beverages in tin cans, including sparkling water, soda, carbonated juice and soft drinks. Operating on the isobaric filling principle, it is controlled by a PLC touchscreen system with variable frequency speed adjustment within its rated capacity range.

The seaming station uses high-hardness quenched alloy rollers with precision optical-ground seaming profiles for consistent, reliable seal quality. It is equipped with intelligent safeguards including no-can-no-cap feeding and cap shortage alarm. Full stainless steel construction fully complies with food safety and sanitation standards.

Spray Cooling & Warming Tunnel

This multi-function spray tunnel delivers controlled thermal processing for filled beverages, integrating warming, pasteurization and cooling to ensure optimal product quality, extended shelf life and consistent appearance.

It supports three core operating modes:

Warming mode: Gradually tempers products to eliminate thermal shock and eliminate breakage risk.

Pasteurization mode: Completes post-fill sterilization for production lines where the filling process cannot provide sufficient pasteurization time.

Cooling mode: Rapidly cools hot-filled and pasteurized products to preserve color, flavor, texture and visual appeal.

Bottle Packging System

Individual bottled water requires secondary packaging to withstand long-distance transportation and storage. We provide a range of end-of-line packaging solutions, including PE shrink wrapping, carton packing and film-with-tray packaging, each paired with purpose-built equipment.

PE shrink film packaging is the most common choice for bottled water plants due to its low material cost, while carton packaging is typically selected for premium bottled water or glass bottle lines.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions About Canned Drinks Filling Lines

1. What beverages can be produced on a canned drinks filling line?

A canned drinks filling line can be used for carbonated soft drinks, beer, energy drinks, sparkling water, juice, tea drinks, cold brew coffee, and other still or carbonated beverages. TUYAO can configure isobaric filling for carbonated products and gravity or piston filling options for non-carbonated drinks.

2. What is the key difference between can filling and bottle filling?

Can filling requires stable can handling, accurate filling, and high-quality seaming. Unlike bottle capping, cans rely on precision double-seam sealing to create an airtight package. The line also commonly includes depalletizing, can rinsing, filler-seamer monoblock, inspection, pasteurization or cooling, and secondary packaging.

3. Why is precision can seaming important for canned beverages?

Precision seaming is critical because poor sealing can cause leakage, contamination, low shelf life, or product spoilage. TUYAO canning lines use reliable seaming systems designed for aluminum, tinplate, or PET cans to help maintain airtight sealing and consistent production quality.

4. Can one canned drinks line handle both carbonated and non-carbonated beverages?

It depends on the machine configuration and product requirements. Carbonated drinks usually require isobaric filling to control foaming and CO2 loss, while still beverages may use gravity, piston, or other filling methods. TUYAO can design a suitable canning line based on your product categories and future expansion plan.

5. What is the capacity range of TUYAO canned drinks filling lines?

TUYAO canned drinks filling lines can be customized from around 1,500 CPH for craft beverage producers to around 36,000 CPH for larger beverage factories. The final speed depends on can size, filling method, number of filling valves, seaming heads, and downstream packaging capacity.

6. What equipment is included in a complete canned beverage production line?

A complete canning line can include empty can depalletizer, can rinser, filling machine, seamer, lid feeding system, inspection system, tunnel pasteurizer or warmer, date coder, shrink wrapper, carton packer, and palletizing system.

7. Does TUYAO provide layout planning for canned drinks production lines?

Yes. TUYAO can provide CAD layout planning for canned beverage projects, focusing on smooth can conveying, easy maintenance access, efficient workshop use, and proper connection between the depalletizer, filler-seamer, inspection, pasteurization, and packaging systems.