New Roeslein AI camera brings real-time spoilage tracking to canmaking
Roeslein & Associates has introduced the R.U.D.I. AI Vision Camera, a new tool for aluminium beverage and food canmakers designed to track can counts and identify production losses in real time. The camera expands Roeslein’s R.U.D.I. AI platform, which has previously focused on data management and...
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...
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CGAG teams up with Can for Kids’ for a new recycling program
The Turkish Cypriot Cyprus Green Action Group (CGAG) organized the first can recycling initiative in the North called Teneke Çocuk or Can Kid, inspired by a similar drive adopted by Cans for Kids charity which had managed to recycle more that 20 million cans and donating 260,000 euros worth of...
Rexam wins Can Recycling Challenge
Rexam's Beverage Can North America’s (BCNA) Chicago location has received first place in the Great American Can RoundUp (GACR) Industry Challenge. The contest was sponsored by the Can Manufacturers Institute(CMI). The contest winners are determined by the number of pounds of aluminum collected per...
Torfaen & Rhondda Cynon Taff residents urged to make their metals matter
TV presenter Iolo Williams has called on residents of Torfaen and Rhondda Cynon Taff (RCT) to ‘make their metals matter’ and recycle more of the metal packaging items they use at home every year. With the average household in the Torfaen Borough using over 60 million items of metal packaging* each...
Rexam Plc to increase prices to bear rising premiums and energy costs
By revenue, Rexam Plc is the second-largest beverage can maker in the world but the rising aluminium premiums and high energy costs in Brazil are pushing the company to contemplate raising the price for their customers. On Thursday, Rexam came out as one of the biggest losers in the FTSE-250 Midcap...
Novelis to convert all of its beverage can sheet to high-recycled content evercan™ aluminum by 2017
Novelis, the global leader in aluminum rolling and recycling, today announced a new commitment to convert all of its beverage can body sheet production to its evercan™ sheet, the world's first certified high-recycled content aluminum for beverage cans, by the end of 2017. Novelis President and CEO...
UW class aluminum recycling project benefits Laramie and helps Kenya
University of Wyoming students are collecting aluminum cans to raise funds for an orphanage in Kenya. Students in a cross-cultural communication class taught by Tracey Patton are working with Wise Recycling, a national company that promotes fundraising through community recycling. Aluminum cans can...
Hydro: Preparations for a new recycling line for used beverage cans completed
“Not one gram of used aluminium should be lost” – that is the philosophy of Hydro, one of the leading manufacturer of rolled products made from this unique material of the future. At Aluminium 2014 in Düsseldorf, Hydro has announced that the plans for a new integrated recycling line for used...
Novelis gears up for future investments in the ‘evercan’
The launch of the world’s largest aluminium recycling plant by Novelis brought with it a lot of promise, especially with their creation of the ‘evercan’, the aluminium beverage can made up of more than 90% recycled aluminium. The concept of circular economy where used product can once again be...
Minneapolis recycling rate rises with single-sort service
Minneapolis’ switch to single-sort recycling has prompted residents to recycle nearly 29 percent more waste than a few years ago, when all recyclables had to be sorted into separate containers The shift has also prompted a sizable drop in the number of workers’ compensation claims related to...
Cans for the Community sticking around despite new citywide recycling program
As the city of Lawrence initiates its new citywide recycling program, Cans for the Community, the organization that collects aluminum cans and donates the proceeds to local nonprofits, wants to remind the public that it is not going anywhere. Linda Klinker, chairwoman of Cans for the Community's...
2 Billion Beverage cans per year facility to enter trials in May 2015; market prospects bright
Zhejiang Jihong Packaging Co. is scheduled to begin trials on $1 billion, 2 billion units/yr beverage can facility in Zhejiang in late May 2015, local media reported on October 11. The beverage can manufacturer has placed orders for advanced production lines from abroad that are capable of...
Rexam refreshes Birell SABMmiller’s Non Alcoholic beer range with innovative can designs
Rexam, a leading global beverage can maker, has collaborated with brewing giant SABMiller, to produce a range of new designs for the non-alcoholic beer brand, Birell. The cans benefit from Rexam's value added thermochromic inks and matt over varnish. The thermochromic inks change colour when the...
EEG volunteer teams recycle six tonnes of aluminium cans
More than six tonnes of aluminum cans were collected during a nationwide recycling drive on Saturday, 11th Oct. The Emirates Environmental Group (EEG) organised their biannual Can Collection Drive to collect 6,009 kilograms of aluminum cans. This brings EEG’s total collections so far to 20,724kg....
XanCan makes aluminum beverage cans with textured sidewalls
XanCan(TM), a U.S. based company, today announced the launch of its textured aluminum beverage cans (patent pending). Changes to the aluminum beverage can have been minimal at best, since its birth. The concept of texturing the sidewall of beverage cans is both innovative and revolutionary. The...
King Oscar Finds a new opening for its Mackerel Can
One of the world’s leading canned fish brands has enhanced its popularity by adding an advanced opening solution to its relaunched mackerel can, produced by Ardagh Group. The Norwegian seafood firm, King Oscar, chose Ardagh’s Easy Peel® aluminium can end as an important convenience feature of its...
China Aluminium Cans plans to buy company owned by chairman
Aluminium aerosol cans producer China Aluminium Cans plans to buy a company involved in content filling of the cans from its chairman and controlling shareholder for HK$900 million. China Aluminium Cans said in a stock exchange statement that HK$120 million of the amount will be paid in cash, while...
Constellium awarded multi-year contract by Rexam to convert Spanish can production lines from steel to aluminium
Constellium N.V. announced today that it was awarded an additional contract to supply can stock to Rexam PLC (REX.L.), a leading beverage can maker. Under this agreement, Constellium will support Rexam’s strategic decision to convert all the can production lines of their two Spanish plants - La...
AEROBAL presents World Aluminium Aerosol Can Award 2014 winners
Now we know which aluminium aerosol cans are the best. An international jury made up of journalists from some of the most-important and best-known can magazines and packaging journals from around the world has reached its decision and chosen the winners for 2014. A can produced by German...
