Step by Step to Ever Greater Success:Kaon Brewery invests in innovative KHS keg technology

摘要

With an area of just under 29,000 square kilometers, Albania is almost the size of Belgium. However, with just three million inhabitants the population is about a third that of its Central European counterpart. In the north the Republic borders on Montenegro, in the northeast on Kosovo, in the east on Macedonia, and in the south on Greece. Its western boundary is formed by the coasts of the Adriatic and the Ionian Sea. Something else Albania and Belgium have in common is that the majority of its respective peoples are keen beer drinkers! With a current per capita consumption of 30 liters of beer per annum Albania only notches up a third of Belgium's consumption. The growth forecast is good, however, and is expected to be directly coupled with a risein the average income per person which presently lies at about ? 400 a month. There are five breweries in Albania at the time of writing. One of these is Kaon. The brewery is managed by three brothers, Alket, Artan, and Kastriot Stroka, who together have built up the company from a small craft brewery to its present size. Just recently the trio invested in its first fully automatic kegging line: a compact Innokeg Till CombiKeg from KHS. Kastriot Stroka, joint owner and engineering manager at Kaon, tells us more. "With this investment we're continuing our consistent strategy of producing only quality, guaranteeing consumers the best quality beer from the barrel. We're very pleased with the compactness, flexibility, and ease of operation of our new kegsystem. But this is what we expected; after all, we didn't opt for plant engineering from the world market leader for keg technology without good reason."