Kalil Bottling Company experiences supply distress of aluminium beverage cans

Kalil Bottling Company, the leader in beverage distribution as well as a private bottler has been experiencing a major issue with their beverage cans supply. The distributing centre in El Paso, Texas revealed that it is becoming difficult for them to get aluminium for soft drinks cans in the past few months. 

According to John Kalil, the President of the company, “There’s a possibility that people will go shopping and not find what they want when they want it.”

Mr Kalil also added that along with the need for the aluminium cans, the price for the aluminium cans includes the shipping and the cost of the import have also surged considerably. He further stated that the ‘Work from Home’ structure or the fact that people are spending more time at home, has led to the increased need for aluminium cans. Compared to the pre-pandemic situation, the volume of soft drinks produced has also increased. He also added that, under the current situation, it has become a challenge for the company to keep products in stock. 

“It’s tremendously expensive to build a new can production facility and the overall volume in the United States was not trending up it was trending rather level or slightly down. So there wasn’t a lot of investment in new can manufacturing facilities, empty can,” added Kalil. 

“There’s a lot of out of stocks that our customers were not used to seeing before. We always would pride ourselves on making sure we had everything in stock everywhere all the time that was always the goal.”

"One of the best ways to help deal with the aluminium shortage can be the recycling of cans. The customers can help them by recycling cans, but that also won’t help deal with the crisis properly." 

"It looks like for the foreseeable future there will be continued shortages,” says Kalil.