Can vending machines were originally developed from the bottle vending machines, which were already in fairly wide circulation in the united states by the 1940’s.

As the American forces spread around the world in ww2 they were followed by their soda vending machines In one of early scenes of the British film 1945 film “A Matter Of Life And Death” an American aircrew can be seen getting bottles of Soda from a vending machine.
The brightly coloured soda machines have become iconic symbols of the 1950s and are now collectors items

The can with its regular cylindrical form naturally lent its self to vending. The can’s could be stacked vertically inside columns and greater density of packing could be achieved than with bottles an oscillating mechanism would allow a single can to be released from a stack of cans once c sufficient credit had been put into the machine.

Considerable development went into the design and development of can vending machines .Major soft drink manufacture were quick to appreciate that a can vending machine served a dual function of selling products 24 hours a day while the large surface areas of the produced a powerful medium for advertising. The machines were for the most part built in the America and then exported around the world. One of the down sides of the can vending machine is that they are highly inefficient in their use of energy. The soft drinks company that marketed them did not have to pay for the electricity costs of operating the machines, there was little incentive to try and cut energy costs. The cost of providing electricity to run can vending machines when they are not required is in excess of 30,000 mega watts. In recent years some steps have been taken to try and reduce the high levels of energy wastage there is still considerable room for improvement.

Companies who allow vending machines to be installed on their premises need to put pressure on the equipment owners to reduce the amount of electricity that is used.

Pure Foods Systems Ltd how taken active steps to improve the performance of their machines and to dramatically reduce the amount of electricity being used. This has entailed installing environmental energy management systems to cut back on wasted electricity. generally vending machines are designed to run 24 hours a day.

However if the premises are only open 12 hours a day does the machine need to run at full throttle a 24 hours a day. What can be done to reduce the waste and improve the carbon footprint of can vending machines

Florescent lights can be replaced with LED lamps where there can be the same level of brightness but at only 1/5 of power consumed. If a vending machine is not being used at night there is no need to light it up and waste further electricity. Intelligent software can detect the presence of potential users and if there is nobody in the vicinity of the machine it can be switched to varies levels of stand by.

In addition the fast acting detectors will bring the machine back to its normal level of usage if needed. Pure Foods Systems are activity conducting tests to that the full level of savings can be measured. Two identical machines are placed side by side over 24 hour 7 day a week cycle. One is fitted with the full range of energy saving
Measures the other is a standard machine and the hourly energy consumption of both machines is recorded. In this way it is possible to quantity to full benefit of the system and payback time. For further information of reducing the energy usages and carbon footprints please contact Pure Foods Systems.