It all started in Sweden’s oldest packaging plant, Plåt Manufaktur AB, PLM. With the knowledge of bottles, food and beverage can and lid production PLM needed to control the parameters of aluminum, steel cans, lids and ends. They needed quality assurance of their products. This was the birth of Metop. It started out as an equipment development department in order to quickly and accurately accomplish quality control. Even when Metop was still part of PLM, the production always stayed ahead and they managed to develop the revolutionary computerized double seam control station.

Three young engineers that wanted to change the way of metrology of cans took matters into their own hands, made Metop, developed a new way of thinking in the can industry and started a new era.