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The Double Seam and the Machines That Make It

February 18, 2026

The American Can Company — *Canco* to the people who ran the machines — was incorporated in 1901 through the merger of 123 small can manufacturers. But the part of the story that matters to food processors isn't the corporate history. It's what happened inside one building in upstate New York.

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