Ball Corporation adds two manufacturing and finance leaders to board, supporting aluminium packaging growth
Ball Corporation, a global producer of sustainable aluminium packaging, has appointed Darlene J. Nicosia and Sherry L. Buck to its board of directors. The appointments bring additional experience in manufacturing, operations, procurement and finance to the board. Stuart A. Taylor II, Chairman of...
85% recycled aluminium: Recorp raises the bar for sustainable beverage cans
Aluminium cans are under the spotlight among consumers and beverage manufacturers looking for more recyclable packaging, with the material already holding a strong circularity position against plastic and glass. Recorp tunes it further with ReCan85, an aluminium beverage can containing 85 per cent...
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California’s Recycling Rate Drops After Closure of Around 500 Recycling Centers
<p>Beverage container recycling rates in California have fallen below 80 percent for the first time since 2008, according to new data released last week by CalRecycle, the state’s recycling agency. The reduced recycling rate means that two million additional containers are littered or...
Tri-Arrows to invest in aluminum cold rolling mill in Logan County, Kentucky
<p>Tri-Arrows Aluminum Inc., a supplier of rolled aluminum sheet for beverage cans and automotive uses, will invest $125 million to build a cold rolling mill at Logan Aluminum Inc. in Kentucky which is expected to create 60 jobs in the western part of The Blue Grass State. The project aims to cater...
Aluminium can recycling reaches 70% milestone, Alupro reports
<p>The European metal packaging sector reached a major milestone by hitting 70 per cent aluminium can recycling rate in 2016. In the UK alone, seven out of ten aluminium beverage cans were reportedly recycled in the past year, the Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation (Alupro) data showed.</p>...
Crown opens new facility to produce aluminium cans in US
<p>Crown Holdings Inc., a leading supplier of beverage packaging, food packaging, aerosol packaging, metal closures, and specialty packaging product, opened a new beverage can manufacturing plant in Nichols, New York. The facility will produce two-piece aluminium cans in a range of sizes. The...
Germany’s export of aluminium can drops year-over-year
<p>The world's beer and soda consumption uses about 200 billion aluminium cans every year. This accounts for 6,700 can consumption every second in the world.</p> <p><img style="vertical-align: middle; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"...
Hulamin chairman expects growth in FY 2017, driven by stronger aluminium prices and healthy demand
<p>Chairman of Aluminium producer Hulamin Mafika Mkwanazi has positive prospects for the company’s 2017 financial year. </p> <p><img style="vertical-align: middle;" src="http://www.alcircle.com/uploads/images/hulamin.jpg" alt="News" width="517" height="226" /></p> <p>He expects a...
Aluminium can caravans driving business for American craft brewers
<p>More and more beer drinkers in America are shifting to aluminium can from bottles because of its portability and convenience. Aluminium beer cans have slowly created a space among drinkers. Over and above providing ease of use, aluminium cans keep out suds-spoiling light. Aluminium cans...
Ball-Unilever partnership to bring a lighter weight aluminium aerosol can
<p>The world's leading aluminium cans manufacturer Ball Corporation and premiere consumer goods company Unilever have joined hands to present a more sustainable version of aluminium aerosol can in the market. Rexona will be using Ball's innovative ReAl™ technology for their new Rexona and...
Top five aluminium aerosol can manufacturers in the world
<p>As the world is moving forward to more modern, ahead of times and trend-setting aesthetics, aerosol cans craft from aluminium are reporting mounting growth rates all over the world. An aerosol can is produced by the impact extrusion process using 99.5 % pure aluminium sheet. These cans are...
Schuler Group collaborates with TMC for aluminium bottle production
<p>Schuler group, the world's largest press manufacturer, entered into a partnership agreement with Japan’s DWI Bottle Cans specialist TMC. The reason behind the move is the rising demand for Drawing and Wall Ironing (DWI) bottle cans.</p> <p><img style="vertical-align: middle; display:...
Drops Cycling Team to wave Every Can Counts flag to promote recycling at Belgian cycling race
<p>The British Drops Cycling Team will wave the flag of Every Can Counts at De Ronde Van Vlaanderen, the famous Belgian cycling race taking place on 1-2 April. They will encourage spectators to make their cans count and spread the news of the upcoming launch of Every Can Counts in Belgium during...
How about selling water in aluminium cans instead of plastic bottles
<p>As the world is stepping into the sustainable environment, plastic bottles remain a matter of concern to the environmentalists. The issue is attracting more and more attention from companies trying their best to come up with a solution.</p> <p>Keeping in view the issue, the three friends from...
Japan's Showa Denko inks agreement with Carabao Group for aluminium can plant
<p>Showa Aluminium Can Corporation (SAC), a consolidated subsidiary of Showa Denko (SDK) yesterday signed a partnership agreement with Carabao Group Public Company Limited (CBG), a beverage maker in Bangkok, with an investment of 700 million bahts to manufacture and sell aluminium cans in...
Constellium boosts aluminium recycling capabilities with new furnace at its Muscle Shoals facility
<p>Constellium N.V. today announced that it has installed a new aluminium recycling furnace at its Muscle Shoals, Ala. facility in an effort to expand recycling capabilities in North America. The now fully operational furnace is expected to increase the total recycling output by 170 million pounds,...
AEROBAL reports aluminium aerosol cans growth at record levels
<p>The International Organization of Aluminium Aerosol Container Manufacturers (AEROBAL) has announced its sales report of 2016 stating an increase in YoY growth of three per cent and production about 5.5 billion aluminium cans globally. Asian market has achieved the highest growth while North,...
How about recycling aluminium cans the Japanese style?
<p>Japan has many firsts to its credit. From art to technology to manufacturing, the archipelagic state has redefined many things in its own way setting benchmarks that other bigger countries follow now. In waste recycling too, the country has successfully developed a system that encompasses a...
Good news for aluminium as cans gain over bottles in American beer market
<p>Beer drinkers in America prefer to drink from a convenient aluminium can rather than twisting glass bottle caps. Canned beers represented 56.2% of the market in 2016, continuing the fifth straight annual increase in share and up from 50.3% eight years earlier. The statistics has been shared in...
A kilogramme of aluminium cans cost 9 Egyptian pounds
<p>People of Cairo in Egypt are receiving money in exchange of their recyclable material in order to cut down the landfill waste in the city and to clean the street. A price chart for the recyclable item have been written on the kiosks which states that one kilogramme of aluminium cans cost 9...
