Each can reaches the consumer having gone through a filling process which uses advanced engineering and sophisticated technology. Hygiene is of paramount importance in this process and all equipment is designed to ensure minimal handling by staff at the filling plant.

Filling cans is a high precision process and this is illustrated in a simplified way below.

1.Finished can bodies are palletised and dispatched from the can manufacturing plant. Meanwhile packaging is returned to the can manufacturer and reused many times.
2.At the same time, the can ends are packaged in paper sleeves and palletised for shipment to the can filler.
3.Once they arrive, can bodies go through a depalletiser. The machine operator registers numbers/codes from pallets to ensure they can be traced back to source if needs be, at a later date.
4.Cans are then mass combined and sent to the filling machine at speed through the use of 'high-tech' air conveyors.
5.Cans are inverted through 180 degrees and go through an extensive cleaning process using high pressure air and water.
6.Once they are thoroughly cleaned, the cans are then inverted another 180 degrees, returning them to their upright position.
7.Cans are then immediately passed into a covered filler section, ensuring no further chance of contamination.
8.The newly washed cans pass through a gassing system where they are filled with CO2. This special process extracts all air from the can.
9.At this stage any low juice drinks will be flash pasteurised through heating and cooling the syrup immediately prior to filling.
10.Up to 2000 cans per minute are then filled with the beverage.
11.The cans leave the filler and pass directly into a seamer where the can ends are fed from a separate source.
12.All remaining air is displaced through a further injection of CO2 (or liquid nitrogen in the case of still drinks) and immediately mechanically sealed.
13.An interlocking seam is formed at high speed. Up to 2000 cans go through the process each minute.
14.Beer and high juice drinks will be pasteurised through an 'in-can' pasturiser using variable temperature water jets.
15.The can then passes from the line and through a detector where any incorrectly filled cans are rejected.
16.The filled cans then go through a coding process where details of the filling date and 'best before' date are printed on the can.
17.Subject to their use, cans are then put into multipack format or single tray.
18.Cans are then shrink wrapped, palletised and dispatched to the distributor or retailer.
19.Throughout the process it is estimated that the can will travel about one mile around the factory.