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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After Wall Street Banks exit controversial aluminum trade, prices return to normal
For the last five years, every beer guzzler in America paid a tiny surcharge to some of the nation’s largest banks. According to manufacturers, practices at warehouses owned by Goldman Sachs and other financial institutions inflated the price of aluminum used in beer cans and thousands of other...
Bespoke cans celebrate Pilsner Urquell’s sponsorship of Czech Republic´s national ice hockey team
Rexam has collaborated with Czech beer brand Pilsner Urquell, to create a range of limited edition eye-catching can designs. The cans celebrate Pilsner’s sponsorship of the Czech Republic´s national ice hockey team, due to take part in the World Championships in Prague later this year. The cans are...
Rexam awards suppliers for excellence
Rexam, a leading beverage can manufacturer, recently celebrated the award-winning achievements of six of its top U.S. suppliers. The Rexam Supplier Excellence Award program, now in its 12th year, acknowledges the suppliers that consistently ensure reliability, quality, innovation and cost...
1.1 million aluminum tabs collected for Ronald McDonald House fundraiser
Local schools and individuals collected more than 1.1 million aluminum tabs in the Pull Tab Pandemonium fundraiser for the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Mid-Missouri. The tabs will be sold to New World Recycling, which has drop-off sites in Columbia and Jefferson City. The price of aluminum...
Collect-a-Can helps realise recycling dreams
With the help of Collect-a-Can, Bisant Matsi has gone from waste collector to a prominent and successful recycling business owner in Burgersfort, Mpumalanga, inspiring his local community by showing them the value that exists in waste. Nineteen years ago, Matsi, started his recycling operation with...
Rexam sees volume growth in Europe, with energy drinks boosting beverage cans
Beverage can manufacturer Rexam has seen strong volume growth in Europe, including Russia, it said in a trading update this morning. Rexam is enjoying ‘pretty good’ growth in its Russian business – unlike other companies - but chief executive Graham Chipchase remains cautious about the ‘very, very...
Second Self Beer Company moves into cans with high-recycled content Novelis evercan™
Novelis, the world leader in aluminum rolling and recycling, and Atlanta brewery Second Self Beer Company today announced the launch of Second Self beer in aluminum cans, made from Novelis evercan™ – the world's first and only certified high-recycled content aluminum can sheet. The news was...
Call made for mobile recycling collection
A Rathdowney councillor has appealed to the council to be the first local authority to run a recycling collection pilot scheme using a special collection lorry which could call to estates or particular area’s around the county. As last week’s meeting of the Borris-in-Ossory/Mountmellick area...
Moscow Recycling aluminum can buy-back day .45 per pound
If you have any soda or beer cans lying around, Saturday's the day to recycle them. Right now recycling one pound of cans will fetch about 30-cents. But on Saturday, Moscow Recycling is offering 45-cents per pound. It only takes about 30 cans to make a pound. And every little bit helps because...
'Made for Seychelles' - Uniquely packaged Coke, Fanta and Sprite cans hit the market
Seychelles Breweries Ltd (SBL), the Indian Ocean island archipelago's only brewery, is for the first time making available canned versions of Coca-Cola, Sprite and Fanta, three of its lines of soft drinks bottled and sold locally. All three soft drink brands are produced under license from the...
Aluminium end-products cheaper to make as premiums ease
Car frames, soda cans and bicycles are becoming less expensive to produce as manufacturers pay the smallest premiums in almost three years to secure aluminum. The surcharge added to the cost of metal for immediate delivery on the London Metal Exchange will probably fall as much as 46 percent in the...
Kentucky mill outage hurts Novelis' aluminum can sheet business
Leading aluminum can sheet producer Novelis Inc lost business to competitors after a three-week outage at its U.S. joint venture rolling mill in January, a company executive told reporters on Wednesday. Vice President and General Manager Tom Boney said at a roundtable discussion that the outage at...
Ball Corporation to build first beverage packaging plant in Mexico
Ball Corporation has announced plans to build a two-line beverage can manufacturing plant in Monterrey, Mexico, with construction starting in the coming months. Production is expected to start in the first half of 2016 and produce multiple can sizes. The majority of the capacity is contracted under...
Global production of aluminium aerosol cans reaches new record in 2014
Despite the numerous trouble spots around the world and restrained economic growth in many areas, the production figures released by the international producers of aluminium aerosol cans have only been heading in one direction for years: upwards. The industry also reported positive results for...
Four Peaks launches five brews in Rexam 12 oz. cans
Kilt Lifter Scottish-Style Ale, the brewery’s award-winning flagship beer, is a full-bodied ale with strong caramel and roasted barley flavors, an amber color, malty sweetness and a hint of smokiness. Peach Ale is a light, fruity beer with a subtle, sweet peach flavor and aroma. Sunbru Kölsch-Style...
Canned beer and cider stealing drinkers from bottles
UK drinkers are swapping bottled beer and cider for cans after embracing the aluminium revolution driven by suppliers. Cans are cheaper to produce, easier to recycle and more adept than bottles at protecting beer and cider from oxygen and light, leading a host of British craft breweries and...
Rexam Partners with Heineken Russia
Rexam, a leading global can maker, has collaborated with Feilong to produce a can for its brand new, traditionally-inspired rice beer. With a striking design, the can uses various ink combinations specifically selected by Rexam to incorporate Feilong’s Chinese cultural influence. The use of two...
Record year as European can market grows by almost 4% in 2014
Record year as European can market grows by almost 4% in 2014 • Total Fillings increase by almost 4% to 63 billion cans • CSD Fillings increased by 5% to almost 32 billion cans • Beer Fillings increased by 2% to 31 billion cans Canadean, who compile the Beverage Can filling figures for BCME,...
