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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Remondis division opens aerosol can recycling facility in Bramsche, Germany
The German company Remondis has announced that its Respray division has opened an aerosol can recycling system at its industrial recycling centre in Bramsche, Germany. Remondis says the facility, known as Hazpak, is the most modern plant of its kind in Germany. It officially opened 1 July 2016. The...
Republic Services' recycling program to boost aluminium recycling in Missoula, Mont.
Republic Services in Missoula in the U.S. state of Montana, recently announced it is expanding its curbside recycling program. That should help the city boost its plastics, glass, tin, and aluminium can recycling rates. The “All-In-One” program was rolled out in May, and already roughly 400...
Supplier of packaging solutions AptarGroup resumes operations
The AptarGroup, a supplier of packaging solutions such as aluminium aerosol cans for the beauty and personal care industry, announced resumption of production flows at its factory in Annecy, France, after a fire broke out at one of its three anodization production units, on June 25. The fire caused...
Coca-Cola denies its limited edition UEFA Euro 2016 aluminium bottles contain alcohol
Coca-Cola Malaysia refuted allegations that its imported Coca-Cola UEFA Euro 2016 limited edition aluminium bottles sold in selected outlets in the country contain alcohol. It said although the limited edition aluminium bottles were not produced in Malaysia but imported from Europe, “the...
Ball Corp. becomes world's largest beverage can maker- finalizes Rexam acquisition
Ball Corp. on Thursday finalized its $6.1 billion acquisition of British competitor Rexam, making the Broomfield-based company the largest (aluminium and tinplate) beverage can maker in the world. Ball also assumed $2.4 billion of debt in the deal. The combined company accounts for 60 percent of...
Ardagh produces aluminium aerosol can for L’Oréal's Elnett
Glass and metal packaging company Ardagh Group has developed the new Elnett Crème de Mousse aluminium aerosol can for global beauty brand L’Oréal Paris. The 200ml can, in its familiar 'gold' coating, was produced by Ardagh at its specialist plant in Beaurepaire, France. Ardagh has produced Elnett...
FTC requires Ball Corp to divest 8 aluminium can plants to Ardagh
Ball Corporation has agreed to sell to Ardagh Group S.A. eight U.S. aluminium can plants and associated assets in order to settle FTC charges that its proposed acquisition of Rexam PLC – worth $8.4 billion when proposed in February 2015 – is likely anticompetitive. According to the complaint, the...
Showa Denko Group recycles 5.15 mln aluminium cans in FY2015
Showa Denko, its Group companies, and their cooperative companies continued to perform aluminium can recycling activity in fiscal 2015 (April 2015 - March 2016), collecting approximately 5.15 million cans: equivalent to about 83 tons of aluminium when converted at the rate of 16.2 grams of...
Global metal packaging market showing signs of revival as aluminium premiums soften
The global metal packaging industry has shown some signs of revivals as aluminium premium and tinplate prices have softened, though the market has still not been fully out of doldrums. Matured metal packaging markets exhibited stable growths at low levels, while emerging markets benefited from...
EU clears path for Ball, Rexam acquisition to proceed
The European Union on Monday, June 20, cleared packaging company Ardagh SA’s roughly $3.42 billion acquisition of assets belonging to Ball Corp. and Rexam PLC, clearing the way for the aluminium beverage can-makers’ merger. The European Commission, the bloc’s antitrust agency, said in a statement...
Reverse vending machines to be installed to encourage aluminium can recycling in Wyndham
Reverse vending machines will be installed across the municipality to help people go green, Wyndham Council, in Victoria, Australia says. The council said it will be first council to install the machines. The unusual approach will let Wyndham residents deposit plastic bottles and aluminium cans in...
Left Hand Brewing finally yields to the aluminium can
Left Hand Brewing Co. is finally cracking into aluminium beverage cans. In anticipation of releasing its first batch of canned beers this year, the venerable Longmont craft brewery has broken ground on a canning facility and has filed label art paperwork with the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade...
MetalMatters to showcase infinite recyclability of aluminium in Luton
In a bid to reduce the amount of metal packaging sent to landfill, MetalMatters campaign supported by Rexam targets 79,355 households. It includes a series of leaflets, online advertising, social media posts and posters have been developed carrying the ‘make your metals matter’ messaging to educate...
Vancouver to host its first ever aluminium-canned craft beer sampling event
The Burnaby-based West Coast Canning, who packages liqour in aluminium cans for some of the most talked-about craft breweries of Vancouver, has teamed up with Wet Ape Productions to organize CANcity, Vancouver’s first all-canned craft beer and cider sampling event. Wet Ape Productions is the same...
Luton Council in the UK urges residents to recycle more aluminium foils and cans
Luton Borough Council in the UK is encouraging residents to recycle more of the estimated 94 million aluminium cans, aerosols, aluminium foil trays and wrapping foil used in Luton every year. The ‘Make your Metals Matter’ campaign, jointly funded by MetalMatters, an industry partnership comprising...
Indiana winery decides to package their wine in aluminium cans
Going against the conventional wisdom of putting premium wines in bottles only, Indiana’s Mallow Run Winery has decided to launch a special edition wine in aluminium cans. The idea was conceived keeping this year’s one-hundredth running of the Indianapolis 500 in mind. Mallow Run Winery Marketing...
Indian Railways installs aluminium can/bottle recycling machine at a Mumbai station
Indian Railways is finally going green. Giving a major boost to PM Narendra Modi’s ‘Swachh Bharat’ scheme, Indian Railways has put up a ‘Swachh Bharat Recycle Machine’, which is a bottle/aluminium can recycling machine at the Churchgate railway station in Mumbai. With this initiative used plastic...
Brazil CADE approves Ball Corp's proposed Rexam plc acquisition
Ball Corporation confirms that Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica (CADE) has formally approved the buyer of the divested assets of its proposed acquisition of Rexam PLC, indicating that Ball may now proceed to close on the acquisition. Ball is working to obtain the remaining regulatory...
