In today’s competitive packaging environment, every cent and second counts. Businesses must find ways to deliver products that meet customer expectations for sustainability and ease of use while navigating increasingly narrow margins.

Multipack carriers represent a critical area of potential for businesses. The right can carrier helps protect the product, enhances branding, saves money, and provides opportunities to showcase the company's values.

Unfortunately, where there’s opportunity, there’s a lot of room for inefficiencies, particularly when examining cost, materials and downtime. Choosing the right can carrier to align with your current system while ensuring maximum return on investment over time can feel complex.

Roberts PolyPro delivers ROI by outperforming the competition, offering smart, sustainable and cost-effective multipacking solutions. Our products are designed so you never have to sacrifice convenience and efficiency in pursuit of savings: the savings are an integral part of the product design.

Whatever your current needs or future ambitions, our innovative solutions meet you where you are to help you get to where you want to be.

The Hidden Costs of Sticking With Competitor Carriers

Sometimes the cost of change can seem insurmountable. Sticking with what you’re used to, even if it isn’t perfect, can feel like the safer option. But failure to innovate can come with its own costs, and it can significantly impact your bottom line over time.

Roberts PolyPro offers clients multiple opportunities to eliminate hidden costs associated with legacy carrier systems, all while providing best-in-industry customer support 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Purchase Price

Roberts PolyPro products offer overall purchase savings across the board. Our innovative products allow clients to choose both quality and savings, regardless of which of our versatile offerings they choose.

• Craft-Pak®: Mid-size breweries, streamline your packaging! Our Craft-Pak HDPE can integrate seamlessly with our innovative applicators. This powerful duo simplifies application and delivers big savings—typically up to 25% on four- and six-packs.

• Grip-Pak®: For mid-size breweries, Grip-Pak can rings provide a flexible LDPE multipack option designed for value. Achieve notable cost savings, averaging $0.05 per unit, simplifying your packaging process without compromise.

• Craft-Pak® Versa: Designed to easily integrate into existing canning lines, no new equipment required, Craft-Pak Versa can save our customers up to 25% on costs.

Material Costs

Roberts PolyPro products are designed with efficiency in mind, using significantly less material during manufacturing, which directly reduces costs. We pass those savings on to our customers, so they pay less without sacrificing performance.

For example, our Craft-Pak can carriers use up to 30% less plastic, while Craft-Pak Versa cuts material use by up to 50%, offering a more sustainable and cost-effective solution.

Labor Inefficiencies

One of the biggest money sinks in the can carrier business comes from lost time due to manual or unreliable application processes. Roberts PolyPro carriers apply easily and securely hold cans during multipacking, meaning they require reapplication less frequently.

Additionally, our applicators are designed with versatility in mind, making changeovers between different products and sizes simple. Our semi-automatic and fully automatic applicator systems offer clients optimum performance and operating efficiency regardless of which system they choose.

Smarter by Design: What Sets Roberts PolyPro Apart

At Roberts PolyPro, innovation isn’t accidental, it’s engineered. Every product we create is intentionally designed to solve the real-world challenges beverage companies face every day. From increasing sustainability to improving operational efficiency, our solutions deliver best-in-class performance where it matters most.

Our entire carrier lineup, including Craft-Pak, Craft-Pak Versa and Grip-Pak, features designs that prioritize both environmental responsibility and product integrity. Certified 100% biodegradable*, our carriers break down in just months, helping brands reduce their environmental impact while staying competitive.

Lightweight by design, our carriers use significantly less plastic, reducing material costs without compromising strength or reliability. That efficiency translates to real savings per unit while still delivering the protection your product deserves.

Thoughtful features like Craft-Pak’s patented T-tabs make can removal smooth and effortless, minimizing product disruption and enhancing the user experience. Ergonomic design also boosts shelf appeal and convenience, encouraging repeat purchases and building brand loyalty.

Beyond our carriers, Roberts PolyPro supports scalability through customized equipment integration. Our applicators are engineered to streamline operations, reducing changeover time, maximizing uptime and adapting easily to different can sizes and beverage types.

Whether you're launching new products or scaling production, our systems evolve with you, delivering versatility, speed and long-term value.

The ROI Breakdown: What You Save by Switching

Innovative products and processes can bring concrete benefits. Roberts PolyPro products save customers money and time across multiple metrics:

• Material Savings: Our Craft-Pak carriers save up to .05¢ per four- and six-pack. For a business moving 1 million units a year, that's a savings of $50,000 annually on materials costs alone.

• Operational Efficiency: Our carriers are designed for fast, seamless application. Craft-Pak systems apply up to 240 cans per minute, while Grip-Pak applicators handle up to 1,000, boosting throughput and keeping production moving.

• Maintenance & Downtime: Our equipment is reliable, ensuring fewer costly interruptions, reducing unscheduled downtime and saving clients money on costly repairs and lost productivity.

• Labor Efficiency: Semi- or fully automated solutions reduce manual handling and minimize opportunities for human error. Features like carrier detection and rejection systems and down can detectors help assure quality while boosting efficiency.

• Sustainability Gains: Not only are Craft-Pak, Craft-Pak Versa and Grip-Pak designed for material efficiency, but they’re also certified 100% biodegradable, helping clients meet sustainability goals.

Bonus Benefits: More Than Just Savings

Roberts PolyPro carriers also offer more subtle, yet equally important, strategic business advantages:

• Enhanced brand image through eco-friendly packaging that allows customers to interact with products guilt-free.

• Improved consumer perception with easy-to-carry designs that enhance shelf appeal and create lasting positive impressions.

• Versatile applicators that offer easier scaling as SKUs evolve and product offerings change or increase.

• World-class customer support with 24/7 access to Roberts PolyPro experts, including the service personnel, parts and training necessary to keep your equipment and business running smoothly.

Switch Smart, Save Big

Roberts PolyPro does more than provide top-quality carrier products. We’re committed to acting as a forward-thinking partner in your business, helping you find opportunities to save and innovate without sacrificing quality.

Our products and applicators help our clients reduce material costs, increase throughput and create sustainable value, enabling them to grow and meet their evolving needs.

Making the most of your business doesn’t mean using more. Roberts PolyPro helps clients do better with less. Want to see it in action? Discover how our solutions made a real impact for Mighty Squirrel Brewery.