Craft Beer

Craft beer is a major driver of the rising demand for canned beverages — a market projected to reach $49.75 billion by 2027. Brewers and owners like you have embraced multipacks as a way to fuel this growth and increase revenue. All you have to do is select the best can carrier packaging for your brewery.

Trusted Multipack Solutions for Craft Brewers

Multipacks are a great option for microbreweries, craft breweries, macro breweries, mobile canners, and co-packers alike.

Versatility

4-pack and 6-pack can handles for standard 211 beverage cans are the most popular among craft breweries. 202 slim cans and 204 sleek cans are also becoming more popular as ready-to-drink (RTD) beverages, such as canned cocktails, wines and hard seltzers, gain market share.

Roberts PolyPro offers can handles in both rigid injection-molded high-density polyethylene (HDPE) and flexible low-density polyethylene (LDPE).

Sustainability

The canned beer industry has long emphasized environmentally sustainable packaging solutions, and that trend is expected to continue. We are proud to offer three environmentally responsible multipacking product lines for cans:

Grip-Pak® LDPE, Craft-Pak® HDPE and Craft-Pak® Versa HDPE are 100% biodegradable* and made with considerably less plastic than competitor carriers.

Scalability

Your production needs will vary as your business grows and evolves. In order to drive profitability and remain competitive, it’s important that you have options for the various phases of your business. While a manual applicator is a low-cost solution for smaller runs, you can produce more, faster, at a lower price-per-can costpoint with automated inline applicator solutions.

Roberts PolyPro offers manual press-on applicators that are widely used by start-ups and small craft brewers.

For speeds over 60 cans per minute, breweries and canners can select from semi-automatic and fully automatic inline applicators. With models offering speeds up to 240 cans per minute, you can easily upgrade your application technology to meet your evolving production requirements.

What Makes Our Can Carriers a Great Choice for the Craft Beer Industry?

It starts with our customer-centric product design and responsive, friendly customer service. We design and improve our products with customer input. We understand rush orders. We honor our commitments. We understand the importance of on-time shipments. We do what we say we’re going to do when we say we’re going to do it.

Grip-Pak® Can Rings

Grip-Pak Rings
  • Sustainable: Grip-Pak ring carriers are certified as 100% biodegradable and can be discarded with peace of mind

  • Durable & Reliable: From application to transport to the final sale, our plastic rings are lightweight but strong and keep your beverages secure

  • Cost-Effective: Averaging only $0.05 per unit, these proven LDPE rings have been the go-to choice for multipacking canned beverages for over 30 years

  • Scalable: With applicators that run at speeds of up to 70 and 1,000 cans per minute, and can ring reels of 1,000 up to 4,300 and larger, the Grip-Pak product line suits operations of any size


Craft-Pak® Can Carriers

Craft-Pak Can Carriers
  • Up to 30% Less Plastic: Open-ring design uses less plastic than competitor can carriers

  • Sustainable: Manufactured from HDPE resin, Craft-Pak can carriers are certified 100% biodegradable, one of the first on the packaging products’ market to achieve this certification

  • Designed for Cost Savings: Pre-cut and supplied in nested stacks, saving space and dollars for freight and storage

  • Easy Can Removal: Patented t-tabs make can removal easy, without excessive force

  • Mold-Free Design: An open top prevents build-up of mold or mildew

  • Endless Color Options: Offered in industry standard colors with color matching available

  • Multiple Applicator Options: Manual and inline semi-automatic and fully automatic applicators designed, manufactured and supported by Roberts PolyPro

  • Available in All Popular Sizes (Lid x Body): Standard (202 x 211), Slim (200 x 202) and Sleek (202 x 204)


Craft-Pak® Versa Can Carriers

Craft Pak Versa
  • Versatile Design: Designed for use with most applicators

  • Seamless Startup: Switching to Craft-Pak Versa is easy; no capital investment needed

  • Cost-Conscious: Up to 25% in cost savings over competitor carriers

  • Up to 50% Less Plastic: Uses half the plastic of competitor carriers

  • Sustainable: Our newest can carrier is also certified 100% biodegradable*

  • Sleek Ergonomics: Minimalist design helps save space and cost of transport and storage

  • Mold-Free Design: An open top prevents build-up of mold or mildew

  • Endless Color Options: Offered in industry standard colors with color matching available

  • Available in All Popular Sizes (Lid x Body): Standard (202 x 211) and Sleek (202 x 204)

Browse Our Full Line of Can Carrier Solutions

Our Craft-Pak, Craft-Pak Versa and Grip-Pak can carriers are cost-effective, versatile, sustainable, and available in all popular can sizes (standard, slim and sleek). Pair your can carriers with a manual, semi-automatic or fully automatic inline applicator to increase the efficiency of your team and scale production.

*Following rigorous scientific tests, an independent agency demonstrated that our LDPE and HDPE products completely biodegraded, without any false-positives or false-negatives, within 28- and 56-weeks respectively.