The NCS 45 Cask Family: an Updated Design Replaces an Old Design Lessons Learned during Design, Testing and Licensing

The NCS 45 cask family is intended to replace the cask types R52, TN6/1 and TN6/3. These packagings – country of origin France – were in operation worldwide since mid 1970. In the late nineties prolongations of the certificates of package approval became more and more difficult and time consuming. Finally only special arrangements for restricted contents were issued by the competent French authority which caused considerable problems when validations in other countries were applied for. To guarantee the availability of such a cask in the future for its customers NCS decided to replace the old casks by an updated design, the NCS 45 cask family.