Ball Corporation to build two new aluminium can plants in US

Colorado’s Ball Corporation will build two new speciality beverage aluminium can plants in the United States, announced the firm’s CEO John Hayes on Thursday, February 6. According to him, the continuous rise in using aluminium for beverage and food packaging is inspiring Ball to build can plants.

“With global customer and consumer demand for aluminium packaging solutions continuing to outpace existing supply, our previously announced aluminium beverage can and cup projects will add at least 8 billion units of capacity by the end of 2021,” Hayes said in a statement.

He added, “Three years ago, a third of all new products coming out was in cans, but today it’s 70%, and that’s a meaningful jump.”

One of the two plants will be constructed in Arizona, while the location of the other is to be determined somewhere in the northeast. Each plant will operate a pair of can lines, which will join the future can lines in Arizona, Georgia, and Texas later this year.

Ball’s added capacity, altogether, is expected to reach 6 billion units per annum, said the company’s Senior Vice President Daniel Fisher.

Ball is also building multi-line beverage can plants abroad. The new plant in Brazil will reportedly come online later this year. Even in South America, Ball is expanding its capacity to meet spiking demand for aluminium canned water, wine, and sparkling drinks.

European Ball plants will also see new beverage can lines installed this year. The firm, however, has not revealed anything specific.