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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New AEROBAL website – focus on aesthetics and premium quality of material
The design and contents of the new-look website of the International Organisation of Aluminium Aerosol Container Manufacturers, AEROBAL, centre on the aesthetics and premium nature of aluminium. “This is because it is the numerous beneficial properties of aluminium that provide that decisive...
Novelis estimates World Cup fans in Brazil will push sales of aluminum beverage cans past two billion mark
Novelis, the world leader in aluminum rolling and recycling, estimated today that thirsty soccer fans in Brazil will push sales of aluminum beverage cans past the two billion mark over the four weeks of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, representing a 35 percent increase over the same period last year. This...
Non-redeemable metal cans clog Vantaa waste plant
Summer sees many people snapping open a can for a long cool drink. That seasonal thirst causes many non-redeemable aluminum cans – many of them from Estonia -- to end up in mixed waste bins. Mixed waste from the capital region most often ends up in Vantaa’s new waste treatment facility – and that’s...
Lagos recyclers buy N4m waste drink cans weekly
Recycling companies in Lagos State currently source at least N4 million empty aluminium drink cans every month from scavengers and waste resource merchants. A waste resource merchant, who chooses to be called Jaco, says there are about 10 companies in Lagos that buy empty aluminium drink cans and...
Vending machines let you exchange used cans & bottles for rewards
According to the City of Sydney, around 15,000 bottles and cans across Australia are thrown into landfill waste or littered every hour, instead of being recycled -- about 58 percent of all recyclable material annually. To help minimise this waste, it is trialling Envirobank "reverse vending...
New recycling rules enhance recyling among Scottish firms
More Scottish companies are recycling after the introduction of new regulations, according to a report. Since the start of the year businesses have been required to separate all waste metal, plastic and card for recycling. The Every Can Counts programme, which focuses on recycling aluminium, said...
AZ Adds Recycling to rest stops
The Arizona Department of Transportation is implementing a recycling program at its rest areas. The state has already installed recycling receptacles at three of its rest areas and plans to bring in its other sites soon. “With each site visit I make to our rest areas, I see how necessary recycling...
ASUMH e-waste recycling event a success
Arkansas State University Mountain Home recently hosted a free electronic waste recycling roundup for the first time in the Twin Lakes Area, where members of the community were invited to drop off old computers, TVs, printers and other unwanted electronic items. Over the course of the two-day...
Kenya to host East Africa's first aluminium can production unit
Kenya’s manufacturing industry is set to grow with the entry of GZ Industries, one of Africa’s aluminium can manufacturers who are putting up a manufacturing plant. The factory is expected to be ready in the first quarter of next year will costs Kshs. 8.3 billion ($100 million) and have an annual...
Heineken plays up with the aluminium element in newly designed can
Heineken is introducing a fresh redesign to its beer cans that dials down the brand’s trademark green to emphasise the aluminium in the hope of appealing to contemporary men. Heineken has redesigned its cans to appeal to contemporary, city-dwelling men. The new ‘Star Can’ is rolling out to the 170...
Showa Denko (SDK) completed the process of acquisition of Vietnamese Aluminum Can Maker
Showa Denko along with Showa Aluminum Can Corporation (SAC), its wholly owned subsidiary has completed all the procedures for taking control of the stakes in Vietnam’s Rexam-Hanacans Joint Stock Company ((Hanacans). Hanacans, an aluminum beverage cans manufaturer, has become a member of the Showa...
China Aluminum Cans Holdings Ltd gives the outlook for H1 2014
According to China Aluminium Can Holdings Ltd, the initial phase review of the management accounts for 4 months that ended on 30th April, 2014. It expects that a material reduction in total revenue and net profit for H1 2014 for the group in comparison to H1 2013. The expected reduction in the...
Recycling authority Ranjit Baxi to publish books on recycling
Recovered fibre expert Ranjit Baxi of UK-based J&H Sales International, a stalwart and past president of the BIR world recycling organisation's Paper Division, has authored a book entitled 'Recycling our Future' which provides an insight into the challenges facing the industry and individuals as...
Every Can Counts announces European expansion
Every Can Counts, an ‘away from home’ drinks can recycling initiative, is to expand into Greece five years since first being launched in the UK. Managed by Alupro in the UK, plans to target the estimated 30% of drinks cans discarded outside of the home were originally revealed in May 2008 amid...
Recycling around 33,000 old mobile phones can get you 3665 aluminium cans
According to Rose Read, recycling manager at MobileMuster at Bega Valley, Australia, there are 32,999 old, broken or unused mobile phones stored in homes, offices and garages. “Every Australian needs to take responsibility for their contribution to our ever mounting e-waste problem and this World...
China maintains its surplus aluminium by making beer cans & foils
Aluminium factories located in China are using the metal more for making beer cans as well as cigarette packaging. They have maintained their surplus production for the eighth year although other producers like United Co. Rusal & Alcoa Inc. (AA) has cut down their output. China’s total production...
Can maker Rexam reveals first quarter results in line with expectations
Rexam Plc, the world's second largest beverage can maker in terms of revenue, said overall results in the first-quarter were in line with its expectations. The company, which makes aluminium cans for Coca-Cola, Red Bull, Carlsberg beer and Heineken, said it was feeling the effects of a strong...
Hydro adds new recycling line for aluminium beverage cans
Hydro will build a new, integrated recycling line for used aluminium beverage cans at its Neuss plant in Germany. The line will be completed by end 2015, and increase the plant's existing annual recycling capacity of 50,000 tonnes to more than 100,000 tonnes. In addition to more than doubling the...
