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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Rexam supports Hobsons with move to aluminium beverage cans
Rexam, a leading global can maker, has partnered with British craft beer brand, Hobsons, to launch ‘The Hat Collection’, the brand’s first ever range of canned beers. Traditionally a cask and bottled brewer, Hobsons is moving to aluminium beverage cans with a range that includes The Skimmer (Straw...
Craft Beer: More small breweries are canning their beers
A growing number of craft brewers are canning their beer and there are definitely advantages to the aluminium packaging over bottles. Cans don't let any light in, keeping the beer fresher for longer, and are quicker to cool in the fridge. London-based FourPure were the first micro brewers in the UK...
Boyne Smelters Ltd. leads Aussie plants in re-using aluminium
Boyne Smelters Limited has reviewed its can recycling program and is proud to be able to say 'yes, we can' continue to be Australia's largest aluminium can recycling facility. Following the 2014 closure of Australia's main aluminium recycling plant in Yennora, New South Wales, most of the country's...
Aluminum can maintains position as most sustainable beverage container
A new report released today by the Aluminum Association and the Can Manufacturers Institute finds that aluminum beverage cans remain the best choice for environmentally-minded consumers. According to the new report -- “The Aluminum Can Advantage: Key Sustainability Performance Indicators 2016” --...
Ardagh produces world's lightest aluminium seafood can
Pioneering development work at Ardagh Group’s specialist aluminium can plant in Cuxhaven, north Germany has resulted in the production of the world’s lightest aluminium seafood can. The shaped seafood can, referred to in the industry as a “dingley”, has been designed with a conical wall thickness...
Africa still a success story for Nampak
The cooling of economic growth on the continent, mainly brought about by the commodities rout, has failed to dampen Nampak’s performance. Its operations on the continent excluding SA, now account for 47% of group trading profit, up from 38% last year. Nampak’s big beverage can production lines in...
Rexam collaborates with Hofjäger to can First Beer for Chinese market
Rexam, a leading global can maker, has partnered with German beer company Denninghoffs, owner of the brand Hofjäger, to can its Schwarzbier and Weizenbier ranges. The new canned format will launch for the first time in China in May 2016 before being rolled out globally. The iconic aluminium...
Detroit aluminium pile that rattled beer makers is vanishing
A mountain of aluminium that upset beer makers and drew the attention of the U.S. Senate is no more. Inventories held in London Metal Exchange-tracked warehouses in Detroit, where most U.S. metal is stored, were as large as 1.6 million metric tons two years ago. Now they’re a fraction of that...
Euro 2016 soccer may raise beverage cans demand, says Novelis CEO
Soccer's Euro 2016 could help raise demand for aluminium for beverage cans, as fans enjoy beer or soft drinks while watching their national teams, the head of Novelis, the world's largest rolled aluminium producer, said. Past major sporting events such as the 2014 soccer World Cup in Brazil did...
iRecyle in Pretoria to reward donors of recyclable aluminium cans and bottles
An initiative to encourage people to recycle will launch on June 6 in Pretoria, the administrative capital of South Africa. The project will be launched with the introduction of a recycling machine that rewards donors of recyclable bottles and aluminium cans. Mfundo Mkhize‚ project manager for...
NSW 'cash for cans' recycling scheme likely to dent soft beverage sales by 10%
A New South Wales government plan to reduce litter volume by imposing a small deposit on drinks could dent sales of soft drinks, fruit juice and bottled water by almost 10 per cent, observed market watchers. Under the container deposit scheme, which comes into effect in July 2017, commercial drink...
Global aluminium can stock market moving East
Global demand for beverage cans will grow~3-4 per cent in 2016 and a similar growth trend is expected up until the end of this decade. This growth is being driven largely by increased consumption in emerging markets. Together, the US and Canadian markets use approximately 94 billion aluminium cans...
Hydro starts new recycling line: 'Best place for used beverage cans'
The aluminium company Hydro commissioned a EUR 45 million facility today aiming to recycle up to 50,000 tonnes of used beverage cans per year at its Neuss plant in Germany. The facility is located in the heart of a growing can market, as Europeans now are using more than 30 billion cans a year....
Ball to sell US$3.42 bln of divestment assets to Ardagh
Colorado’s Ball Corporation announced last week that it and British-based American-owned Rexam PLC have come to terms with Luxembourg’s Ardagh Group over the sale of certain of Ball’s and Rexam’s assets in order to satisfy regulatory concerns involved in Ball’s purchase of Rexam. Ball and Rexam are...
Baosteel to put online 700 mln aluminium can project
Baosteel will put online its aluminium can project in Heilongjiang province next month and plans to more than double the capacity in the future, cnmn.com reported. The project will produce 700 million aluminium zip-top cans in the first phase. The company plans to expand total capacity of the...
The Coca-Cola Co relaunches Hi-C Ecto Cooler in aluminium cans
The Coca-Cola Co has said it has again listened to consumer demand as it brings back the 1980s fruit juice-flavoured drink Hi-C Ecto Cooler in freshly designed aluminium cans. The company said websites dedicated to 1980s and '90s nostalgia have name-checked the brand, and "a growing legion of...
Unique aluminium can recycling unit set up at AfrikaBurn festival in the Karoo, SA
AfrikaBurn festival 2016, which kicked off yesterday in Northern Cape Province of South Africa, is going to set new standards of excellence in terms of environmental sustainability. The organizers of the event this year have come up with a unique initiative which will see visitors making it to the...
Aluminium foil, sheet and can stock shipments increase in US and Canada, powder and paste shipments drop
According to an Aluminum Association report, estimated shipments of Aluminum Foil by U.S. and Canadian producers totaled 87.6 million pounds during March 2016, a rise of 1.7 per cent over the March 2015 total of 86.1 million pounds. Compared to the previous month, shipments increased 10.4 per cent...
