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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Ball Corporation in Merger Talks with British aluminum can maker Rexam
Rexam, the British aluminum can maker, said on Thursday that it was in talks to potentially be acquired by Ball Corporation in a deal that would value it at 4.29 billion pounds, or about $6.5 billion. The deal, if consummated, would combine two of the world’s largest makers of beverage cans. Rexam...
Rexam and Mahou partner on promotional cans using Editions™ technology
Rexam, a leading global beverage can maker, has partnered with Spanish beer brand Mahou, to create promotional cans in support of its sponsorship of popular Spanish football club, Real Madrid. The cans which use Rexam’s Editions™ technology (patent pending) allow for eight different designs on the...
Rexam celebrates completion of La Selva plant conversion to aluminium
Rexam, a leading global beverage can maker, proudly announces that its La Selva plant near Tarrogona, Spain, has completed the conversion of its three final production lines from steel to aluminium. Starting in 2011 with the conversion of the first line, this major engineering project was completed...
Green Vision Bahrain introduces Reverse Vending Machines to encourage recycling
Green Vision Bahrain has come up with a Reverse Vending Machine (RVM) system, where anyone who deposits a plastic bottle or aluminium can will be rewarded with a code that can be used to collect points online allowing the recycler to redeem the points to get airline tickets, electronics or toys....
Finch’s Beer Co. goes local with move to Rexam cans
Finch’s Beer Co. is going local. The Chicago-based craft brewer has teamed up with Rexam, choosing the company’s 16 oz. cans as the ideal packaging choice for its lineup of beers. Rexam is a leading global beverage can maker with North American headquarters in Chicago. Finch’s has already launched...
Rexam teams up with Tin Man Brewing Co. to package craft beer
Rexam Beverage Can North America (Rexam BCNA), largest manufacturer of beverage cans in the world, has teamed up with Tin Man Brewing Co., based in Evansville, to develop aluminium cans for the brewery's craft beer. Tin Man Brewing is passionate about aluminium packaging and says the same on its...
Polish aluminium can manufacturer plans further expansion in the Middle East
Can-Pack, a Polish beverage can manufacturer plans to expand its operations in Dubai, producing an additional 1.75 million cans a day through its Dh200 million factory unveiled in Dubai Investment Park on Monday. The company will now be able to produce 5 million aluminium cans per day catering to...
Coca-Cola and Pepsi Co. opting for smaller aluminium cans and bottles for packaging
Coca-Cola and Pepsi Co. the two leading brands of aerated drinks in the world are slowly switching over to smaller-sized cans as the world grows more health conscious. The beverage giants who had ruled the market for years are now coming up with smaller 7.5 ounces mini cans and 8.5-ounce aluminium...
Logan Aluminium to start production ahead of schedule
The repairing work at Logan Aluminium Inc is running six days ahead of schedule with the repaired reversing motor ready to be installed at the company’s hot mill at Russellville, Kentucky. Novelis, who is a part-owner of the plant, along with Tri-Arrows Aluminium Inc. is happy that the repaired...
Nanshan Aluminum eyeing expansions in high-end aluminum product market
Shandong Nanshan Aluminum Co. is targeting high-end aluminum products to meet growing demand, China Securities Journal reported today. The company is looking to expand its aluminum extrusion capacity by 20,000-30,000-tpy in 2015 and bring its total capacity of industrial aluminum extrusion to...
Novelis plant slows production due to equipment break down
An important aluminium sheet manufacturer that catered to Coca-Cola Co. (KO) and MillerCoors LLC has been forced to slow down production after the 6,000-horsepower motor that drives the hot roller broke down last month on 29th December. The hot roller was capable of flattening 25-ton blocks of...
New South Wales to introduce rewards system to boost recycling
New South Wales is getting ready to adopt the container deposit scheme aping South Australia which offers people some monetary returns for recycling bottles and aluminium cans. NSW Premier Mike Baird and State Environment Minister Rob Stokes had sent out a letter addressed to the National Packaging...
CCL to invest in new plant to produce aluminum slugs in Clinton, North Carolina
CCL Industries Inc., a world leader in specialty label and packaging solutions for global corporations, small businesses and consumers, announced today that it will invest in a new plant to produce aluminum slugs used in the impact extrusion process to make aerosol cans, tubes and bottles for...
Anheuser-Busch to invest $150-million for expansion in aluminium bottles production
Anheuser-Busch plans to increase the production of aluminium bottles for Budweiser and Bud Light and is preparing to invest $150-million for the same, the company announced at its Metal Container Corp. facility in Arnold, Mo. The proposed expansion will create 70 new jobs at the plant while...
Study shows aluminum can continues to be sustainable beverage package of choice
Aluminum cans, already the most recycled and recyclable beverage container on the market, just got even more sustainable according to a report by environmental research firm PE International. The report, which updates a prior life cycle assessment study released in 2010, shows that an aluminum can...
Carlsberg teams up with Rexam to launch a Christmas-special beer
Rexam, a global leader in the beverage can manufacturing has secured the contract with Carlsberg to launch a limited edition can for the Christmas season. Carlsberg has brewed special beer for the winter season named Tuborg Pilsner and they want Rexam’s special 1 litre and 750ml King Cans to launch...
Bunting cross belt overband magnet eases sorting for recycling
Vulcanis has designed and built a new recycling plant to receive and recover steel and aluminium cans in Barking, UK, and purchased a Cross Belt Overband Magnet for steel can recovery from Bunting Magnetics Europe Ltd. Presently, consumers in the UK use approximately 13 billion steel cans and 50...
Recycling is a way of life in Ivory Coast
Recycling is gradually becoming part of the way of life in Ivory Coast. It is already common practice to sort plastic bottles and now beverage can recycling has made its appearance. Yehni Djidji, an Ivorian blogger, tells us more. Once the beverage cans have been melted down, they can be used to...
