For a craft brewery or beverage brand, the can is the first thing a customer sees on the shelf. It carries your name, your story, and every reason someone should pick your product over the one beside it. Getting that can printed well, stored safely, and delivered on time usually means juggling a printer, a label applicator, a warehouse, and a trucking company.

Canvas Craft is Western Canada’s leader in digital can printing, and it has taken a different approach. Our production line runs inside the 18 Wheels Warehousing & Trucking Meadow facility in Burnaby, which means printing, storage, and transportation all happen in the same building.

Why Digital Can Printing Is Changing Beverage Branding

For years, beverage makers had two main ways to brand a can. Traditional offset or flexo printing needs costly printing plates and very large minimum orders, which puts it out of reach for most small and mid-sized brands. The alternative, shrink sleeves and plastic labels, adds material, adds steps, and adds another supplier to manage.

Digital can printing removes both problems. Artwork is printed directly onto the can with no plates, no labels, and no shrink film. You get full colour, sharp detail, and a clean finish, without committing to a run size that ties up your cash and your storage space for months.

What Canvas Craft Brings to Your Brand

Beverage makers who print with Canvas Craft get a combination of flexibility and quality that is hard to find elsewhere in Western Canada:

• Low minimums starting at one pallet, roughly 5,000 473 mL cans or 7,000 355 mL cans
• Artwork printed directly on the can, with no plates, sleeves, or labels
• Printing on 355 mL Sleek, 355 mL Standard, and 473 mL Standard cans
• Custom printed boxes and trays in 4, 6, 8, and 12 pack formats through our packaging line
• Runs that scale from a single pallet up to full truckloads

Getting started is simple. Your designer downloads our artwork templates for the can size you want, designs with any colour or finish, and sends the file back to us for production.

Built for Breweries, Growing Brands, and Seasonal Releases

Micro breweries and ready-to-drink startups use Canvas Craft to give their product professional branding from day one, without buying tens of thousands of cans they may not need. Growing beverage makers use us to cut lead times on new launches and get to market first. Larger manufacturers use digital printing for the jobs that traditional runs handle poorly: holiday editions, sponsorships, event cans, and limited promotions.

Because minimums are low, you can test a new flavour, run a one-off collaboration, or refresh your design without the financial risk of a massive print order.

A Cleaner Option for Your Cans and for Recycling

Shrink film makes cans harder to recycle, and provincial recycling programs do not always accept sleeved cans easily. Plastic packaging rules are tightening across Canada, with Quebec leading the way. Printing directly on aluminum keeps your can a single, recyclable material.

Digital printing also means less waste in production. You order only what you need, avoid excess packaging, and cut out the trucking between printers, applicators, and warehouses that a sleeved can usually requires. That last point is where our location makes the biggest difference.

Why Printing Inside a Logistics Facility Matters

Canvas Craft runs its 24/7 printing operation inside the 18 Wheels Meadow facility at 8335 Meadow Avenue in Burnaby. 18 Wheels Warehousing & Trucking is a national third-party logistics provider with more than 35 years of experience in warehousing, co-packing, and transportation, and a long track record with food and beverage brands.

Our partnership is straightforward. Canvas Craft focuses on what we do best, which is printing high-quality cans. 18 Wheels handles storage, distribution, and transportation. For our customers, that means one production location with a full supply chain built around it.

How a Can Moves From Blank to Delivered

Since everything happens in one building, a typical order follows a short and predictable path:

1. Blank cans arrive at the Meadow facility and are received into 18 Wheels storage.
2. Canvas Craft prints your artwork on our around-the-clock production line.
3. Printed cans are palletized and stored on site until you need them.
4. Brands that need packing can use 18 Wheels co-packing services for multi-packs, variety packs, and repacking.
5. 18 Wheels transportation delivers your cans to your brewery, filler, or distribution point.

No cans leave the building until they are ready to go to you. Every handoff that would normally involve a truck, a loading dock, and a separate invoice happens under the same roof.

What This Setup Means for Your Supply Chain

Fewer handoffs mean fewer chances for damage, delays, and miscommunication. Your printed cans are not sitting in a truck between suppliers or waiting at a warehouse across town. They move from the press to racking in the same facility.

Storage also becomes far more flexible. Instead of taking delivery of an entire run at once, you can keep printed inventory in 18 Wheels warehousing and release it as your canning schedule requires. That frees up space at your brewery and keeps your cans protected until they are needed.

For alcohol producers, 18 Wheels brings added capability. The company holds bonded and excise licences, is SQF certified, and handles both domestic and imported beverage alcohol. As your brand grows beyond BC, its network of warehouses across Canada gives you room to expand without changing partners.

Working with both companies is easy. You can contact either Canvas Craft or 18 Wheels with questions, and customers may be able to secure preferred logistics rates through the partnership.

Common Questions About Canvas Craft and 18 Wheels

Where is Canvas Craft located?

Canvas Craft operates its digital can printing line inside the 18 Wheels Warehousing & Trucking Meadow facility at 8335 Meadow Avenue, Burnaby, BC.

What is the minimum order for printed cans?

Our minimum starts at one pallet of cans, which is roughly 5,000 473 mL Standard cans or 7,000 355 mL Standard or Sleek cans. More details are available on our FAQ page.

Can my printed cans be stored after printing?

Yes. Printed cans can be stored on site in the 18 Wheels facility and shipped as you need them.

Who handles delivery?

18 Wheels Warehousing & Trucking handles transportation, from local deliveries around Metro Vancouver to shipments across Canada.

Start Your Next Can Run With Canvas Craft!

Whether you are launching your first beer, adding a seasonal release, or moving away from shrink sleeves, Canvas Craft gives you high-quality printed cans with low minimums and a supply chain already built around them.

Contact Canvas Craft today to get a quote on your next run.