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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NYC’s City of Dreams Pavilion 2017 to be made from recycled aluminium cans
<p>The Winning design team is set to construct the City of Dreams Pavilion from recycled aluminium cans for an annual arts festival on Governors Island in New York City for the 2017 summer season. The pavilion will be constructed using 300,000 aluminium cans.</p> <p><img...
Build your own “Earthship” using recyclable aluminium cans
<p>The Earthships are gaining popularity all around the world mostly in the United States. The Earthship movement refers to off-the-grid homes built from aluminium cans and other recycled materials and features solar panels, wind power and gray water systems.</p> <p><img style="vertical-align:...
Bermuda’s recycling facility resumes operation at full capacity
<p>Bermuda government has restarted operations at its Material Recovery Facility at Devon Springs in Bermuda. The facility recycles 50 tonnes of aluminium cans, tins cans and glass bottles through Bermuda’s blue bag recycling programme. The blue bag recycling programme focuses on all...
Rising aluminium prices drive Hulamin’s record sales volume and profit in 2016
<p>Hulamin, a leading aluminium product and beverage can maker released full year 2016 results on Monday and reported record sales volumes and double profit after tax. </p> <p><img style="vertical-align: middle; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"...
Delhi people can now get freebies through “We-Convert” initiative by recycling aluminium cans
<p>A team of innovators from Delhi University started an initiative named “We-Convert” to promote sustainable future and help people to save the environment from being polluted through landfills. “We-Convert” aims at recycling aluminium cans, glass scraps and plastic bottles...
EEG launches Can Collection Campaign for 2017
<p>The Emirates Environmental Group (EEG) is launching the 2017 edition of its Can Collection Campaign for the collection of aluminium cans for recycling purpose. This year, the overall target is to collect 28,000kg of aluminium cans.</p> <p><img style="vertical-align: middle; display: block;...
Ardagh Group to convert its UK beverage can plant from steel to aluminium
<p>Ardagh Group, a Luxembourg-based producer of glass and metal packaging products will invest in its Rugby manufacturing plant in the UK in order to convert its beverage can production capabilities from steel to aluminium.</p> <p><img style="vertical-align: middle; display: block;...
Showa Aluminum Can to expand its can production capacity in Vietnam
<p>Showa Aluminum Can Corporation (SAC), a subsidiary of Showa Denko Tokyo, will establish its second can production facility in Vietnam in order to expand its business in the country. This new facility would be located in Quang Nam Province of Vietnam.</p> <p><img style="vertical-align: middle;...
DRY Soda Co. launches Ginger DRY Sparkling in slim aluminium cans
<p>Aluminium beverage cans are the most sustainable package because of the higher recycling rate and more recycled content than competing package types. Beverage can market has been growing at a fast pace due to its easy portability and recyclability and more and more beverage makers are packaging...
Alupro to promote recycling of aluminium packaging through Drops Cycling Team
<p>The Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation (Alupro) an association for aluminium packaging producers, reprocessors and fillers in the UK, is sponsoring the Drops Cycling Team during 2017 in order to promote recycling of aluminium packaging that people use at work, at home and on the go.</p>...
Coors Company produced the first ever aluminium beer can in Colorado
<p>Colorado has one of the largest concentrations of beer lovers in the world. Interestingly, the state leader or the governor of Colorado John Hickenlooper himself was into beer production before beginning his political career. Colorado produces some of the tastiest and biggest names in beer,...
U.S. and Canada's aluminium can stock, sheet & plate shipments decline while foil exports grow YoY in Dec'16
<p>According to data provided by the Aluminum Association and the Aluminium Association of Canada, total aluminium can stock shipments by the domestic producers reached 315.3 million pounds during December 2016, down 8.8 per cent from 345.5 million pounds as recorded in the same period previous...
Ball to produce aluminium cans for Lervig Aktiebryggeri's select craft beer range
<p>Ball has collaborated with Norwegian craft brewer Lervig Aktiebryggeri, to produce packaging for selected expressions of its craft beer range.<br /><br />This sees Ball extending its cooperation with craft brewers, now manufacturing cans for craft beer in Norway in addition to the UK, Ireland,...
54 year old takes charity walk to deliver 40 pounds of aluminium can pull-tabs for recycling
<p>Phil Wright of Decatur, a 54-year-old year gentleman completed a charity walk of more than 26 miles to Dawson pulling a wagon filled with about 40 pounds of pull-tabs from aluminium cans amid freezing cold and sharp wind. He delivered the aluminium pull-tabs at Springfield's Ronald McDonald...
The global beverage cans market size to reach USD 60.92 billion by 2024
<p>According to a recently published market research report by Grand View Research Inc., the global beverage cans market size is expected to reach USD 60.92 billion by 2024. The growth is driven mostly by increasing demand for compact beverage packaging solutions worldwide.<br /><br />Over the...
Canada’s import of aluminium cans surges 54% in 2016
<p>The U.S. and Canada are two leading consumers of aluminium cans in the world. Due to the growing recognition of the aluminium can as one of the most recycled aluminium products in the world and as one of the most sustainable packaging solutions, the use of aluminium cans is growing around the...
Top five aluminium can manufacturers in the U.S.
Because of its attributes, the demand for aluminium can has skyrocketed around the world. The U.S., one of the largest manufacturers of aluminium cans, consumes an average of 380 types of beverages in aluminium cans every year. Aluminium can manufacturers invested over $1 billion in U.S....
Vietnam to import 3,32,266.5 tonnes of aluminium in 2016, up 19% YOY
<p>The Vietnamese aluminium market is expanding piggybacking the growth of major end user industries such as packaging. Latest studies reveal Asia will be the biggest consumer market of the light metal in 2017 and South-east Asian countries will drive the growth. The aluminium can market in...
