About Canlab®

Built for independent cafes

Canlab® was founded in Dublin with a simple idea: independent cafes should be able to can their own beverages, fresh, on demand, without outsourcing or minimum runs.

Canlab® is an on-demand canning platform that gives independent cafés everything they need to can their own beverages in-house: a compact, reliable PET canning machine together with a full range of consumables, including transparent PET cans in 250ml, 330ml and 500ml sizes, aluminium peel-off lids, and silver metal ring-pull lids. Instead of sending recipes to a contract packer and waiting weeks for shelf-stale cans, café owners can now seal fresh cold brew, kombucha, iced coffee and sparkling drinks on their own counter, in small batches, whenever they need them. The platform includes a full online shop with fast shipping across Ireland, secure checkout, and formal VAT invoicing, so ordering machines and restocking consumables takes minutes rather than days.

Canlab® is built and operated by Craftcup Limited, an Irish company based in Sandyford, Dublin. We design, assemble and support every machine ourselves, and we stand behind them with a 12-month warranty and ongoing technical support. Our mission is simple: put fresh, professional canning into the hands of independent café owners across Ireland and beyond, so they can sell their own branded canned beverages, fresh, every day.

Cafe lifestyle

Our story

We saw talented baristas making incredible cold brew and iced coffee, only to hand their recipes to a contract packer and wait weeks for cans that never tasted quite as fresh. So we built a machine that puts canning back on the counter.

Today, Canlab® machines are canning in cafes across Ireland, helping independent businesses sell their own branded canned beverages, fresh, every day.

What we believe

Fresh over fast

We believe canned beverages should taste freshly made, not shelf-stale. On-demand canning makes that possible.

Independent by design

We built Canlab® for independent cafes, not factories. Small footprint, small batches, big flavour.

Engineered for reliability

Every machine is built to run daily for years, with a 12-month warranty and ongoing support.

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