What is brewery packaging automation?

Brewery packaging automation uses machinery to handle tasks such as depalletising empty containers, grouping cans, packing cases and stacking finished cases onto pallets. These processes can be automated individually or connected within an integrated line.

What packaging equipment suits a small craft brewery?

The right starting point depends on your production rate, labour requirements, packaging formats and floor space. A compact case packer, can carrier applicator or palletiser may address an immediate bottleneck without requiring a complete line replacement.

Can Fibre King integrate equipment with our existing canning line?

Yes. We assess your existing equipment, layout, controls and production requirements to determine how new automation can be integrated. This can include connecting case packing, conveying and palletising to an existing filler.

Can a brewery packaging system handle different cans and pack sizes?

Systems can be configured for multiple formats. Compatibility and changeover requirements depend on container dimensions, carrier style, case configuration and the equipment selected. We review your current and planned formats when specifying the solution.

How much does brewery packaging automation cost?

Cost depends on the equipment, throughput, packaging formats, layout and integration required. Sharing your line speed, labour inputs and site constraints allows us to develop an appropriate concept and indicative budget.

Is rental available for brewery packaging equipment?

Selected standard Fibre King packaging systems are available on three-year rental agreements in Australia. Contact our team to discuss equipment eligibility and suitability for your brewery.

Brewery Packaging Equipment & Automation

Compact machines. Integrated lines. More beer ready for dispatch.

Your Mates Brewing

Can Carrier Applicator, Little Packer and Conveyors.

Capital Brewing Co

Can Carrier Applicator, Little Packer, CMP Palletiser and conveyors.

Colonial Brewing

Turnkey Canning Line

Reduce manual packing, improve line flow and build capacity with brewery packaging equipment sized for your operation.

Fibre King designs and integrates case packers, palletisers, depalletisers, can carrier applicators and conveyors for craft breweries and larger producers. From your first step into automation to a complete turnkey canning line, we build the solution around your formats, production targets and available space.

Is Packaging Holding Back Your Brewery?

When packing cannot keep pace with filling, production slows and labour requirements grow. Adding more people can help meet today’s orders, but it also increases the cost of every case leaving the brewery.

The right automation helps you:

Reduce repetitive packing and lifting.
Keep finished cans and bottles moving through the line.
Improve packing consistency and presentation.
Match packaging capacity to your production targets.
Make better use of limited floor space.
Accommodate new products and pack formats.

Start with the bottleneck that has the greatest impact, then plan the next stage around your growth.

Compact Automation for Growing Craft Breweries

Moving beyond manual packing does not have to mean installing a large, high-speed system.

Our entry-level brewery automation range includes compact case packing and palletising options for lower production volumes. Equipment such as the Little Packer and Compact Modular Palletiser helps growing breweries automate labour-intensive tasks while working within space and budget constraints.

Whether you need one machine or a coordinated end-of-line system, we help you identify where automation can deliver the most practical value.

Brewery Packaging Machines Built Around Your Line

Can and Bottle Case Packers

Automate the transition from finished cans, bottles or multipacks into cases ready for distribution. Choose from compact Little Packer systems, wraparound case packers and RSC case packing solutions to suit your packaging format and required output.

Can Carrier Applicators

Group cans into retail multipacks before case packing. Our can carrier applicator supports PakTech and Ecogrip can holders and can be integrated with product conveying and downstream packing equipment.

Brewery Palletising Systems

Reduce repetitive case lifting and maintain consistent pallet stacking. Options include the Compact Modular Palletiser, mechanical palletisers and robotic systems selected around your case rate, pallet patterns and available space.

Can and Bottle Depalletisers

Automate the supply of empty containers to your packaging line. Depalletising options range from compact craft brewery equipment to mechanical and robotic systems for higher production requirements.

Conveyors and Accumulation

Connect individual machines into a coordinated packaging process. Product, case and pallet conveying, together with appropriately sized accumulation, helps manage transfers and interruptions between stages.

Turnkey Canning Line Integration

A successful canning line depends on how well every stage works together.

Fibre King combines our packaging machinery with specialist equipment from integration partners to deliver a complete line around your brewery’s requirements. The project scope can include depalletising, rinsing, filling and seaming, can carrier application, case packing, conveying and palletising. We coordinate layout, product transfers and controls integration so the equipment operates as one production system.

One partner for line design, integration, installation and ongoing support.

Brewery Automation Backed by Engineering and Service

Fibre King is Australian-owned, with 100 years of engineering experience and local engineering and service support across Australia and New Zealand. Our team brings together mechanical design, electrical engineering, controls and line integration. That means direct access to the people who understand your equipment, with servicing, spare parts, upgrades and performance optimisation available throughout its working life.

See Brewery Packaging Automation in Action

Explore brewery projects showing how individual machines and integrated systems work in production.

More Beer to Pack? Let’s Plan What Comes Next.

Tell us your can or bottle formats, target output, current packing challenges and available floor space. We’ll come back with a practical concept, indicative budget and delivery timeframe.

Button: Plan Your Brewery Automation

Rental Now Available

Selected craft brewery packaging systems from our standard range are now available on 3-year rental agreements. This gives growing breweries access to proven Fibre King equipment — including case packing, palletising and depalletising solutions — without the upfront capital investment. Each agreement includes machine use, maintenance and wearing parts, converting automation into a predictable monthly operating cost while reducing investment risk. - more info here.