NOMOQ
NOMOQ is a Swiss-headquartered digital can printer that supplies custom-decorated aluminium beverage cans with no minimum order quantity to craft breweries, RTD producers, and sustainability-focused beverage brands across Europe, operating as a subsidiary of Ardagh Metal Packaging.
- Company typePrivate
- Founded2021
- HeadquartersKirchheimbolanden, Germany
- Headcount1–10
- GTM typeB2B
- OfferingHardware or Manufacturing
What NOMOQ does
NOMOQ AG is a Swiss-headquartered digital can printing company that produces custom-decorated aluminium beverage cans for small and medium-sized beverage brands, eliminating the traditional minimum-order barrier. The company's name reflects its core proposition: "NO Minimum Order Quantities." It serves primarily craft breweries, RTD producers, and sustainability-focused beverage brands across Europe, with named customers spanning micro-operators (e.g., a private cocktail bartender in Switzerland) through mid-market breweries (Kuehn Kunz Rosen, Liechtensteiner Brauhaus, Brasserie du Comté, Dutch Bargain).
The core technology is digital printing on aluminium cans — including photorealistic graphics, millions of colour options, metallic effects, and textured/selective finishes — sourced from parent company Ardagh Metal Packaging. Product formats span 250ml sleek line, 330ml, and 440ml cans to BPANI specification, with advanced capabilities including anaglyph 3D printing demonstrated at London Craft Beer Festival 2024. Supporting products include a Design Services add-on (artwork creation and pre-print support) and a self-serve web platform (app.nomoq.com) where customers upload artwork, request free samples, approve designs, and place orders.
The business model combines self-serve PLG with high-touch direct sales: pricing is unit-based with a small-batch surcharge (£220/EUR 250) for orders under 5,000 cans per design, payment is taken upfront, and delivery is FCA from the Kirchheimbolanden production facility. NOMOQ operates through three wholly-owned subsidiaries — NOMOQ AG (Switzerland HQ), NOMOQ GmbH (German production), and NOMOQ Ltd (UK operations) — and is itself a subsidiary of Ardagh Metal Packaging Holdings Sarl. The company raised over €5M in equity and debt financing in August 2022 to fund European expansion, and won the Canette d'Or 2025 Digital Print Award for the AURON range produced for Brasserie du Comté, MIXPOW, and Brasserie Caulier.
NOMOQ firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- NOMOQ
- Legal name
- NOMOQ AG
- Website
- https://nomoq.com
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 2021
- Operating status
- Operating
- Headcount range
- 1–10 employees
- Short description
- NOMOQ is a Swiss-headquartered digital can printer that supplies custom-decorated aluminium beverage cans with no minimum order quantity to craft breweries, RTD producers, and sustainability-focused beverage brands across Europe, operating as a subsidiary of Ardagh Metal Packaging.
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
NOMOQ industry classification
Industry- Product category
- Digital Printed Aluminium Cans
- NAICS
- Metal Can Manufacturing (332431)
- SIC
- Metal Cans (3411)
- akta.pro primary industry
- Beverage Cans (Aluminum & Steel) (IMALADAA)
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Where NOMOQ is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- Kirchheimbolanden
- HQ country
- Germany
- HQ region
- Europe
Offices3 records
Markets served
NOMOQ business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B
- Offering type
- Hardware or Manufacturing
- Cost components
- Technology or R&D, Personnel, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure
Revenue model
- Printed Beverage Cans: Primary revenue stream from digital printing on aluminium beverage cans. Customers upload artwork and order printed cans with no minimum quantity requirements. Pricing is quantity-based with a small batch surcharge for orders under 5000 cans per design.
- Design Services: NOMOQ offers design services to assist customers who need help creating artwork for their cans. Available as an additional service alongside can printing.
Pricing tiers
| Model | Billing | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Unit Pricing | Pay-as-you-go | Standard pricing for orders of 5000+ printed cans per design |
| Unit Pricing | Pay-as-you-go | Small batch orders under 5000 cans per design |
Go-to-market motion3 records
Distribution channels3 records
Marketing channels7 records
NOMOQ product offering
Product offeringCore offering
NOMOQ provides digital printing services on aluminium beverage cans, enabling craft beverage brands to order custom-decorated cans with no minimum order quantity (as low as a single can). The company operates production facilities in Germany and the UK, offers a self-serve online platform for artwork upload, sampling, and ordering, and provides add-on design services to help customers prepare can artwork.
Product overview
NOMOQ is a digital can printing technology company offering custom-printed aluminium beverage cans with no minimum order quantity, making '1' the new minimum order. The core product is digital can printing with high-quality finishes (full glossy, full matte, selective gloss) and photorealistic graphics. The product portfolio includes: the Digital Can Printing Service as the core offering, Aluminium Beverage Cans in 250ml, 330ml, and 440ml sizes, Design Services as an add-on for artwork creation and pre-print support, and a Sampling & Ordering Platform for managing the customer workflow from sample request through order fulfillment. All products are designed for small and medium-sized beverage companies seeking premium packaging without large volume commitments.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Products and services
- Digital Can Printing Service Core digital printing service on aluminium beverage cans with no minimum order quantity, allowing customers to order custom-printed cans in quantities as low as one. Offers photorealistic graphics, millions of colour options, metallic effects, and textured finishes.
- Aluminium Beverage Cans High-quality aluminium beverage cans in 250ml sleek line, 330ml, and 440ml formats with BPANI specification, available with full glossy, full matte, or selective gloss finishes and metallic colour printing.
- Design Services Professional artwork design assistance and pre-print expert services to help customers create and optimise their can designs for digital printing.
- Sampling and Ordering Platform Web-based self-serve platform (app.nomoq.com) enabling customers to upload artwork, request free samples, approve designs, place orders, and track order status.
Quantifiable outcome
- Canette d'Or 2025 Digital Print Award for AURON range
- +1 more outcomes
Companies that use NOMOQ
Customer profileNamed customers11 records
Segments4 records
Ideal customer profiles3 records
NOMOQ technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed Yes
API detail
- Has API
- No
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
Feature4 records
NOMOQ partnerships and signals
Strategic signalPartnerships
Six partnerships are on record, tiered core, flagship and minor.
- Contract Bottlers Glasgow (CBG)coreStrategic partnership offering canned beverage producers a special promotion from September 2024 to March 2025. CBG provides canning services with 50% discount for orders ranging from 3000L to 5000L with minimum 10,000 cans, complemented by complimentary artwork setup from NOMOQ. The partnership celebrated NOMOQ's first anniversary operating in the UK market.
- Goodness BrewingflagshipCollaborative artist-created can project for London Craft Beer Festival 2024. Goodness Brewing provided the creative engine, with head brewer Josh Billington creating the Tangled 4.5% grapefruit & pineapple radler. Artists Matt Martin and Benny Payne created unique can designs using advanced digital printing techniques including anaglyph 3D effects.
- London Craft Beer FestivalcoreOfficial drink partner for London Craft Beer Festival 2024. The festival serves as platform for showcasing NOMOQ's technology through artist collaborations and craft beverage partnerships. Co-Founder Greg Wells expressed pride in the partnership and celebratory launch.
- Matt MartinminorArtist designed can edition for Goodness Brewing/London Craft Beer Festival collaboration using anaglyph technique (3D effect achieved with red and cyan colour encoding).
- Benny PayneminorArtist created can edition for Goodness Brewing/London Craft Beer Festival collaboration, featuring signature fruit and bird motifs on a mirrored surface to represent the beer's flavour profile.
- CanableminorBerlin-based filling company that shared a stand with NOMOQ at Bar Convent Berlin 2024, representing a new player in the filling market in Berlin.
Scale indicators5 records
Recent moves8 records
Expansion highlights6 records
NOMOQ competitors and assessment
Company assessmentBroad incumbents
- Ardagh Metal Packaging: Global metal can manufacturer and NOMOQ's parent company. Produces beverage cans at massive scale globally; licenses digital printing technology to NOMOQ and remains the dominant traditional can supplier against whom NOMOQ competes in the small-batch segment.
- Crown Holdings: One of the world's largest metal packaging companies producing aluminium and steel beverage cans. Targets beverage brand owners across multiple geographies; offers digital printing pilots but primarily competes with NOMOQ through shrink-sleeve and traditional offset decoration at high volumes.
- Ball Corporation: Major global aluminium can manufacturer serving beverage brands with traditional printed cans and emerging digital capabilities. A relevant incumbent competitor in the broader beverage can printing space where NOMOQ operates at the small-batch premium end.
- CCL Container: North-American specialist aluminium can and closure manufacturer producing cans for beverage, personal care, and food brands. Competes with NOMOQ in the mid-volume premium beverage can segment and shares an emphasis on differentiated decoration.
- Can Pack Group: European-based global manufacturer of beverage cans including aluminium and steel formats with significant EU production footprint. Competes with NOMOQ for European beverage brands across craft and mass-market segments.
- Independent Can Company: US-based metal can manufacturer specialising in specialty and custom aluminium and tin containers serving craft beverage, personal care and specialty food customers. Comparable small-to-mid-volume can printing specialist with similar end-customer focus.
- Silgan Containers: Large metal food and beverage can manufacturer serving North American consumer goods brands. Operates at substantially higher volumes than NOMOQ but in the same metal beverage can printing category, competing for brand-owner wallet share.
Direct peers
- Wildpack Beverage Packaging: North-America-focused contract beverage packaging company providing mobile and fixed canning, decorating, and co-packing services to craft brands at low minimums - a direct functional analogue to NOMOQ's small-batch digital can printing model in a different geography.
- Bevcraft: UK craft beverage mobile canning and contract packaging specialist offering small-batch canning with branding services for breweries and craft brands. Closest direct functional peer to NOMOQ in Europe, operating in overlapping craft brewing target segment.
- Contract Bottlers Glasgow (CBG): Scottish craft beverage contract co-packer currently in a strategic partnership with NOMOQ offering canned beverage services in the UK market. Represents an adjacent co-packing competitor that could expand into decoration services itself, overlapping with NOMOQ's UK craft customer base.
Market position
Strengths5 records
Weaknesses5 records
Competitive moat4 records
Key risks6 records
Key highlights7 records
Customer concentration
NOMOQ social profiles
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NOMOQ leadership team
Management profileNumber of profiles
Profiles9 records
NOMOQ subsidiaries and ownership
Company hierarchySubsidiaries2 records
NOMOQ funding detail
Funding detailFunding overview
Funding rounds2 records
Investors
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NOMOQ M&A and investment
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Investments
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Frequently asked questions about NOMOQ
What does NOMOQ do?
NOMOQ provides digital printing services on aluminium beverage cans, enabling craft beverage brands to order custom-decorated cans with no minimum order quantity (as low as a single can). The company operates production facilities in Germany and the UK, offers a self-serve online platform for artwork upload, sampling, and ordering, and provides add-on design services to help customers prepare can artwork.
Is NOMOQ a public or private company?
NOMOQ is a private company. It is classified as corporate owned and is currently operating.
When was NOMOQ founded?
NOMOQ was founded in 2021. It employs 1 to 10 people.
Where is NOMOQ based?
NOMOQ is headquartered in Kirchheimbolanden, Germany, in the Europe region.
How does NOMOQ make money?
Two revenue lines are on record. Printed Beverage Cans are the primary driver. The others are design Services.
Who are NOMOQ's main competitors?
Broad incumbents on record are Ardagh Metal Packaging, Crown Holdings, Ball Corporation, CCL Container, Can Pack Group, Independent Can Company and Silgan Containers. Direct peers are Wildpack Beverage Packaging, Bevcraft and Contract Bottlers Glasgow (CBG).
Does NOMOQ have an API?
No public API is recorded for NOMOQ.
What industry is NOMOQ in?
NOMOQ's product category is Digital Printed Aluminium Cans. Its primary akta.pro industry code is IMALADAA, Beverage Cans (Aluminum & Steel). Its NAICS code is 332431 and its SIC code is 3411.