Ball Corporation, a leading beverage can maker with production facilities around the globe, announced that they will cease production at its beverage packaging plant in Cuiabá, Brazil. The company will supply its products to its customer through other facilities in the country.

Carlos Pires, President, Ball Beverage Packaging South America, said: "Absorbing this one line can plant into Ball's remaining network of 13 plants in South America allows us to reduce our cost structure while continuing to effectively and efficiently supply our customers with the most sustainable package in the beverage supply chain."

The Cuiabá beverage packaging plant opened in 1998 and employs about 70 people, some of whom will transfer to other Ball locations.  

Last August, Ball Corporation announced it would stop production at its Birmingham, Alabama, Chatsworth, California, and Longview, Texas, beverage packaging plants in 2018.

The company announced in February it will construct a new beverage can manufacturing facility in Asunción, Paraguay. One-line facility is expected to start production in the fourth quarter of 2019. It also announced its plans to add capacity in its Buenos Aires, Argentina, facility.