3-PIECE CANMAKERS

Sencon offers a range of equipment specifically for 3-piece canmakers from quality assurance gauges and sensors that manage the line to oven loggers that monitor the curing process

Canline
Sensors

Sencon canline sensors are the most widely used in the world, designed for the challenges of beverage and food canmaking lines, ensuring long life, precise performance and less downtime.

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Can Count
Sensors

Precise monitoring of production and/or spoilage data with count accuracies of 30 per 1,000,000 or better. Unidirectional SMART sensing detects flow direction preventing miscounting.

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Linear Mass
Sensors

Unique and versatile sensors offering smooth, precise, self-correcting speed control right down the line. A revolution for canmaking line speed control.

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Area Mass
Sensors

Unique and versatile sensors offering smooth, precise, self-correcting speed control on mass belts.

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High performance
Sensors

These High Performance Sensors are ideal for highly demanding control applications in can making machines such as bodymakers, printers, spray machines, and neckers.

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High Speed
Solenoid Drivers

Capable of driving the most advanced spray guns available including the latest MEG™ guns. Reduces inaccuracies and waste in critical process control applications.

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Spray Timing
Systems

Reduces spray gun variation and ensures a more consistent lacquer film weight of internal coatings on beverage cans.

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SPRAY DETECTOR
INTERNAL SPRAY INSPECTION

The SC7050 Spray Detector (like its predecessors SC7000+ & SC7100) inspects wet lacquer inside beverage cans on the outfeed of the Lacquer Spray Machine (LSM).

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Semi-Automatic
Enamel Rater

The Sencon SI9200 semi-automatic enamel rater tests for metal exposure by checking the integrity of coatings or lacquer on metal packaging.

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Enamel Rating Stand
for 2-piece cans

Can Stands are used with the SI9200 Semi-automatic Enamel Rater Gauge to check the integrity of lacquer on 2 and 3 piece cans.

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Enamel Rating stand
for 3-piece cans

Can Stands are used with the SI9200 Semi-automatic Enamel Rater Gauge to check the integrity of laquer on 2 and 3 piece cans.

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SuperStand™
for outsize products

The Superstand is used with the SI9100 Semi-automatic Enamel Rater to check the integrity of coatings on metal packaging with narrow necks, large diameters or low profiles.

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Coatings Thickness
Gauge

The SI9600 Coatings Thickness Gauge, used with one of our coatings probes, measures internal and external coatings thickness (film thickness/film weight) on beverage cans or flat sheets.

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HoverProbe™
for flat sheets

The SI9651 Hoverprobe is used with the SI9600 Coatings thickness gauge to test coating thickness on flat sheets.

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3-PIECE CAN
MANUFACTURING

3-piece cans are produced from three main components; a can body, a can top/lid and a can bottom/end. While 2-piece cans have their sidewall and bottom pressed out of a single piece of material, 3-piece cans are made from a flat steel sheet (or blank sheet) which is cut, rolled and side-seamed to form a cylindrical shape. The side-seam is welded by “seam welding”, a type of electric resistance welding to form the cylindrical can body. The welding results in surface oxidization and degradation in corrosion resistance, so the welded side seam is repaired with OSS (outside side seam striping) coating on the outside to prevent rust, and with ISS (inside side seam striping) coating on the inside to protect the contents.

Sencon manufactures a range of products for makers of three-piece food can and ends - from fully automatic gauges to sensors that manage the line and oven loggers that monitor coating cure profiles. Sencon’s range of products for three-piece manufacturers has been developed over many years of experience within the three-piece canmaking industry.

PRODUCT NEWS

FLOW CONTROL PROBLEM SOLVERS

Maintaining the flow of a 2-piece canmaking production line requires precise coordination between machines and line controls to reduce backups and smooth out production flows.

MANAGING THE RISKS OF EQUIPMENT OBSOLESCENCE

Having a strategy for managing your equipment obsolesce is the key to ensuring your future uptime is protected, supported and assured. Now might be a good time to request a free system audit.

REDUCE YOUR CARBON FOOTPRINT WITH REGULAR OVEN LOGGING

Curing ovens and dryers are a major source of energy use in can making plants. Sencon's smart oven logger can help you to keep it under control.

WHY STANDARD PROXIMITY SENSORS JUST CAN'T COUNT

Production counting or effective spoilage analysis demands accurate can counting. Counting beverage cans presents particular challenges that standard proximity sensors are not capable of overcoming.

WORLDWIDE SERVICE AND SUPPORT YOU CAN TRUST

With service engineers based in North and South America, Europe and Asia, backed up by support from our experienced industry specialists at three technical support centers, you can trust Sencon for support, accredited calibration and after-sales service.