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Vessel’s expert canning technicians ensure the highest quality and consistency of packaged product.
Vessel Packaging's "one stop shop" allows Maverick to bring their canned cider to market with minimal effort and investment.
When Bertus Albertyn, owner and founder of Maverick Estate Winery in Oliver, was looking to launch his cider in a can, he needed to find a partner who could facilitate the process. "There is a lot more involved in canning a product, especially when our experience is with bottles. We
needed to find a way to bring our cider to market, without having to invest in the cost, space and expertise of canning ourselves". To Bertus, cans represented a market largely untapped, with much greater distribution potential than glass.
Albertyn was able to find this partner in Vancouver-based Vessel Packaging. "Vessel was able to work with me from concept through to execution. Their inhouse design team helped bring my vision to life, and flexible can solutions removed the high minimum orders of printed cans". Vessel stocks blank aluminum cans in a range of sizes, and their shrink sleeve and pressure sensitive label application services provide customers with significantly more flexibility than traditional direct printed cans. At minimum orders of 25 pallets and 150,000- 200,000 cans per SKU, printed cans are out of the reach of most craft scale businesses. Shrink sleeves offer the professional look of a printed can, with better print quality and much greater flexibility.
"Vessel will warehouse my shrink sleeves and apply to cans on demand for mobile canning. This allows me to eliminate both the cost and space required to inventory empty cans".
Albertyn also takes advantage of Vessel's mobile canning solution, available across Canada. "Their team of expert operators arrives at my space with everything needed for a packaging run, including the decorated cans, all other required packaging materials, their canning line and a variety of tools to ensure the highest quality of packaged product". Vessel performs testing at startup and various points during every run, to ensure can seams are in specification, and oxygen pickup is minimized. "I wouldn't have been able to bring this product to market without Vessel," says Albertyn. "Their flexibility and expertise allowed me to explore a whole new distribution channel that was previously inaccessible to a winery or cidery at my size."
Vessel has the capacity to work with wineries, cideries, breweries and most other beverage producers of any size, and offers fast turnarounds and flexibility. Booking a canning run can be done as little as 3-4 weeks from the desired packaging date, and an initial order from artwork submission to packaging can be done in as fast as 6-8 weeks.
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