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An overhead view of the dry-running conveying line installed at the new Mad Tree Brewing facility in Cincinnati by conveying systems experts from the Beloit Rexnord Corporation, enabling the craft brewer to boost its canning line output up to 250 cans per minute.
MAD ABOUT BEER Thriving midwestern craft brewer keeping the taps running at full speed with custom-designed, dry-running canning line
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ike most North American craft brewers, Cincinnati, Ohio-based MadTree Brewing started out pretty small back in 2013, with its original canning line’s running speed of 24 cans per minute hardly a contender for breaking any speed records in the industry. However, the speed with which the privately-owned brewer became one of the most popular and celebrated beer producers in the so-called Tri-State region in America’s mid-west is a compelling testament to the company’s remarkable natural knack for producing high-quality craft beer. With brisk growth in consumer demand vastly outpacing the original canning line’s capacity to keep up, MadTree quickly found itself in need of a new home to package its popular canned beer brands such as PSA Proper Session Ale, Lift, Psychopathy and Happy Amber.
With the help of local commercial real estate developer Al. Neyer, LLC, MadTree found what it was looking for just a couple of miles from its original location at a historic site once operated by former paper packaging products manufacturer RockTenn. As Al. Neyer proceeded to reconstruct the old paper mill site to suit the needs of the expanding brewery—including construction of a 10,000-square-foot outdoor beer garden, two private event spaces, a 64-tap taproom, and an on-site Catch-AFire Pizza café—MadTree knew it would also need to install a modern, high-performance canning line worthy of the renovated grand 50,000-square-foot facility. To get this done in the most efficient and expedient manner, MadTree contacted conveying systems specialists Regal Rexnord Corporation, having heard a lot of positive things about the company’s many system installations in the craft beer business from several other November 2021 · CANADIANPACKAGING
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