Cantec – Innovations for the canmaking industry
Tinplate cans are found everywhere in everyday life, daily and world-wide. Cantec, the global market leader for canmaking machinery, plays an important part in the development of innovative cans and equipment for the global canmaking industry.
The company was founded in 1959 as part of Krupp Maschinenfabriken when the owner of an East German company, Erdmann Kircheis, moved to the West. Although the first machines were still operated by hand, automation was introduced very soon. The range of products was expanded step by step: duplex and scroll cutters, seaming and soldering machinery for can bodies, automatic flangers, beaders and seamers, automatic stamping presses for can ends, curlers, etc.
Today, several thousand slitters and more than 600 CAN-O-MATs - a high-performance system for the production of 3-piece cans that combines all processes from welded body to finished can in a single machine - have been sold world-wide.
In addition, the END-O-MAT system was developed - a manufacturing line for the production of tops, rings and bottoms for endmaking, shells for easy-open ends or caps for jars, and deep-drawn cans. It is characterised by high performance, high rofitability, process reliability and modularity.
In 2000 the canmaking activities of Krupp Kunststofftechnik were taken over by SIG, a Swiss group with an exclusive focus on packaging technology, who established SIG Cantec as an independent company of their SIG Beverages division. In 2006 SIG Cantec was taken over by Soudronic AG, a Swiss company with an exclusive focus on metal packaging machinery, who integrated Cantec as an independent company in the Soudronic Group.

With a market share of up to 70 %, the wide range of products mentioned above and an export share of more than 95 %, Cantec can justifiably be called the global market leader.
Core competence
Today, the company's core competence is the development and production of high-performance systems for the production of 3-piece cans, deep-drawn cans, caps, ends and EOE-shells as well as the supply of complete can- and endmaking lines including the necessary process know-how and services.