Company

Can Man is a family-owned and -managed, medium-sized company that manufactures and sells equipment for the production of welded cans, pails and drums as well as for the HVAC – industry.

The product range includes solutions for blank cutting, feeding (transport), welding and curing, as well as upgrades and spare parts for canbody welders of other manufacturers.

Our products are characterized by highest flexibility for fastest format changes, simplicity for easiest operation and quality for most reliable production.


Management

Ruedi Umbricht

General Manager

Johnny Umbricht

Production Manager

Marianne Umbricht

Sales Manager

Company History

1991 Foundation of Can Man

by Ruedi Umbricht. Starting to upgrade welding bodymakers with simplified static frequency inverters and stronger wire profiling units for the WIMA – welding.

1993 Family Affair

As business was picking up, Johnny, Ruedi‘s brother, joined the company.

1994 Becoming a welder manufacturer

Due to the total absence of competition in the welding machine market, first ideas to design a fully automatic Can Man welder appeared.

1995 First Welder

CM18 with 4 tools and for a production speed of max. 40 can per minute was designed, built and put into production in Denmark.

1996 First Low to Medium Speed Welder

CM16 for 80 cans per minute, at the end of 1996, followed by a version for up to 180 cpm.

1997 Family Business

Marianne, the sister of Ruedi and Johnny, joined the company to support sales and administration.

1998 Re – Foundation of SABATEC

Rejecting an approach from the key persons of Sabatec to take over their company, but inspiring them to become equal partners and re-launch their business focussing on spare parts.

1999 Expansion

Moving from a 200 m2 workshop in Aarau to the 1500 m2 production site in Hallwil.

2000 Large Container Welder

CM15 (todays X5) a high speed welder for large formats entered the market.

2001 Semiautomatic WIMA Welder

CM21 the worlds first semiautomatic welder for WIMA-welds without a calibration crown.

2002 Upgrades 2.0

Another premier: The Pacemaker™, a new static frequency inverter, fully digital controlled and on a platform, that allows constant upgrades through software.

2003 CM16 redesigned

Our low to medium speed welder got upgraded to be able to run up to 300 cans per minute.

2003 Shareholding Company

The sole proprietorship is converted into a shareholder company.

2005 WeldCENTER‘s X1 & X8

In a „bombshell – like“ Introduction at the Meatpack2005 2 new welders have been introduced: A revolutionary high speed welder with several new features and a low speed welder replacing the aged CM18 – concept. Both welders came in today’s well known Can Man – design.

2007 SWISSCAN Network

Can Man initiates a network of the finest canmaking machinery suppliers providing turnkey 3-piece canproduction lines.

2008 Record – Breaking Year

Production peak with 35 welders delivered within one year!

2009 PowerCUT™

Filling the gap for a Swiss made, hyper-precise double slitter, optimized to handle thinnest sheets and providing best possible flexibility at highest speed

2009 PowerCURE™

Down the canbody production line, some innovation was required, so Can Man introduced the breakthrough in canbody induction curing unit with energy savings of 80% compared to conventional curing systems.

2010 Aftershock

For the first time Can Man suffers a lack of incoming orders after years of fantastic growth and is forced to re-organize the company with loosing 1/4 of the staff.

2011 CM16 Silentium

Medium-speed weldcenter with protection cover against noise and environmental influences.

2011 SmartCONTROL

Switching from PLC to a new generation of machine controls, based on powerful industrial PC’s.

2013 Workshop

Extending production depth and shortening production time by expanding the company’s own mechanical production in a separate near by facility.

2014 BIG 8

The latest addition to the top slitter are the monobloc cutting-heads for superfast height change.

2015 X4

Until introduction of the X4 drum welder, flexibility was unknown to such machines. Now, this highly automated drum welder allows a 10 minute – changeover within the entire format range.

2016 PowerFEED S

Versatile blank feeding system for all kind of layout – desires and even for double line feeding is available.

2016 Stronger than ever

It took 5 years to reach the turnover of the years before the crises, but now with the highest profitability ever in the Can Man history.

2017 PowerSTORE

A buffer that serves up to 60 minutes blank-stacks while the slitter is down and therefore shortens a complete format change of a Can Man line to less than 1 hour.

2017 X7

Radical optimized and largely simplified medium to high speed welder X7, targeted to be the perfect replacement for the hundreds of aging welders worldwide.

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Facts & Figures

Can Man manufactures and sells equipment for the production of welded cans, pails and drums.

The product range includes solutions for blank cutting, feeding (transport), welding and curing, as well as upgrades and spare parts for canbody welders of other manufacturers.

Our products are characterized by highest flexibility for fastest format changes, simplicity for easiest operation and quality for most reliable production.

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Manufacturing Location: Hallwil Switzerland

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Distribution Partners

3

Technical Backup Centers

> 400

Welders running

98%

Export Quota (Worldwide)

All Can Man content is now also available on the Soudronic Group website.
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