You'd eat up the savings in time and travel. But it takes a thorough knowledge of those details and time. Now you can work with them and clearly specify such components and every detail, and still save money which is what we do on our equipment. But a professional roofer needs more reliability and so will you as a professional brewer. If you were talking about a tool for a one time home project like a roofing nailer for a DIY shed, perfect time to save coin and get one from Harbor Freight.
Have them include an exhaustive spare parts supply. You'll have high maintenance costs in the future and struggle with uptime. If the savings are greater than that, expect that low grade (non-recognized local brand) bearings, slides, gears, motors, etc. Generally if you buy a machine here with specs and components up to par with US or EU expectations for reliability, you can save about 30%. And one for final sign off which should be assumed to be lengthened or repeated to accommodate corrections. At a minimum, I would say one to visit their facility, review their capabilities first hand, and discuss specification prior to placing an order.
The CPM will be lower, but unless you're going to be doing 10,000HL your first year, I don't think it's necessary.įrom the perspective of someone working in manufacturing in China, including purchasing machinery, factor in multiple trips to the vendor for a first hand review and approval. A pretty bare bones setup is fairly upgradeable and will get you going. The other thing is, most breweries aren't using the fully automated version of the cask system. Ultimately, with any big purchase, you need to go somewhere that has each of these systems and talk to people who are actually using them. Of course the plural of anecdote is not data, but I would want to touch these things in a working environment before making any decisions. Now, I am 100% NOT a "BUY AMERICAN BECUZZ AMURRICA **** YEAH" type guy, but I've also seen some pretty slipshod fermentors and brewing systems ::gasp:: made in China. I've never heard of any packaging device that can do that kind of speed. I would be incredibly dubious about the 500CPM claim. I cannot possibly imagine that any device (this goes for any equipment in any industry, not just canners) can be produced for one sixth the price of another could possibly function as well. That said, I'm also opening a brewery (although we won't be packaging for quite a while), I've seen Cask's stuff in operation as well as met their service folks. This site is pretty much just homebrewers, and a solid 0.00001% of them have priced out and compared automated canning systems. This is a question better suited to the Pro's over at.
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