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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Invento launches aluminum-PET hybrid containers in US
Invento Americas is launching dual-material beverage containers geared toward consumers thirsty for stand-out packaging. The company introduced the containers, composed of transparent PET bodies and aluminum ends, two years ago in Europe. According to the company, the container improves upon the...
Ball aluminium technology for lighter-weight Fa brand aerosols
Henkel and Ball Corporation have collaborated to launch a new, lighter weight industrial aluminium aerosol can for the popular beauty care brand, Fa. Ball describes the metal technology with which it manufactures the new, lighter extruded aluminium can as “revolutionary”, as it utilises recycled...
Cans for Kids to celebrate Earth Day with Recycling event on April 26
Cans for Kids are inviting the public to join them celebrate Earth Day with snacks, fun and recycling on Saturday, April 26. Proceeds of the sold recycled cans will help purchase medical equipment for Makarios III Children’s Hospital. The general public are invited to collect their aluminium cans...
Kandiyohi County Recycling Center increases recycled aluminum revenue with new baler
Kandiyohi County Recycling Center has recently started operation on the newly installed massive aluminum can baler. Weighing nearly 800 pounds, each bale was made up about 26,400 crushed aluminum cans that had been brought to the recycling center in Willmar. During Earth Day celebration— and...
Novelis expands finishing capacity for beverage can sheet in Europe
Novelis, the world leader in aluminium rolling and recycling, today announced the commissioning of a new aluminium slitting and packing line at Aluminium Norf GmbH (Alunorf), its joint-venture facility in Neuss, Germany. With an investment of approximately 15 million Euros, it will increase the...
Henkel beauty care launches in lighter, more sustainable Aerosol packaging from Ball
Henkel and Ball Corporation collaborated to launch a new, lighter weight industrial aluminum aerosol can for the popular beauty care brand, Fa. Ball manufactures the new, lighter extruded aluminum can using revolutionary metal technology, which utilizes recycled aluminum to create a metal alloy...
Worldwide Aluminium Aerosol cans production tops seven billion
AEROBAL, the International Organisation of Aluminium Aerosol Container Manufacturers, reported a record result for 2013. With output rising by some two per cent to more than seven billion cans, the industry continued its upward trend. The industry managed to top the major seven billion mark despite...
Novelis marks commercial debut of evercan™ aluminum beverage can sheet
Novelis, the world leader in aluminum rolling and recycling, today announced at the 2014 Craft Brewers Conference in Denver that Red Hare Brewing Company will launch the world's first commercial use of evercan™, the company's independently certified high-recycled content aluminum sheet for beverage...
Worldwide Aluminium Aerosol Cans Production Tops Seven Billion
AEROBAL, the International Organisation of Aluminium Aerosol Container Manufacturers, reported a record result for 2013. With output rising by some two per cent to more than seven billion cans, the industry continued its upward trend. The industry managed to top the major seven billion mark despite...
Aluminium plant set to boost Kenya’s manufacturing sector
Africa’s largest aluminium can manufacturer, GZ Industries is set to establish a plant in Kenya to grow the country’s manufacturing industry, officials said on Tuesday. The 100 million U.S. dollar GZI facility will be located on a 50 acre plot near Nairobi strategically well placed for the local...
SweetWater beers in Ball aluminium cans
SweetWater Brewing Company will debut two award-winning beers in 12oz and 16oz aluminium cans from Ball Corporation. "For SweetWater, taste and quality are paramount," said SweetWater founder Freddy Bensch. "Out of loyalty to our beer and to our consumers, we developed our can conditioning process...
Malaysian aluminium can maker gets offer from new suitor Toyota Tsusho
Japan's Toyota Tsusho Corp has made an offer to purchase 51 percent of Malaysia's Kian Joo Can Factory Bhd, bidding more on a per share basis than a rival Malaysian firm and sending Kian Joo's stock soaring. The trading arm of the Toyota Group is offering 3.74 ringgit per share for the stake in the...
EEG progressively reaching its target of aluminium can collection for 2014
UAE’s parks, private institutions, public organizations, schools, municipalities, and families were working hard on the morning of the 27th of February as residents from all over the nation took part in this movement of depositing their aluminum cans in a joint, symbolic effort to give back to our...
Goldman Sachs Makes Bullish Comments on Aluminum
Goldman Sachs maintained a Buy rating on Alcoa and a CL-Buy on Constellium N.V. Analyst Sal Tharani believes aluminum beverage can sheet could be the driver for the next leg of profit. "Downstream aluminum market has been benefiting from long term secular growth trends in various end markets. In...
Curaçao saw a sharp drop in aluminium recycling in 2013
Last year saw a sharp drop in aluminium recycling on Curaçao but a significant improvement for plastics, according to the island’s recycling and environmental organisation Green Force. Only 266 175 aluminium cans were collected compared to 390 000 in 2012 whereas more than 44 tonnes of plastics was...
Wilcox Elementary students turn cans into funds while learning to recycle
Students and faculty at Wilcox Elementary are turning aluminum into gold. Throughout the year the school collects aluminum beverage cans for “The Great American Can Roundup,” a national recycling competition sponsored by the Can Manufacturer’s Institute. Not only does the competition build friendly...
Rexam reports the launch of 2B sparkling
In other Rexam news, the company has reported the launch of 2B Sparkling, the first beverage said to be using Purefruit natural sweetener, in 12oz cans. 2B Sparkling, also known as "Healthy Bubbles," has been approved by the New York City Department of Education, which superintends stringent health...
Can-maker Rexam plc acquires stake in Magnaparva Packaging
Rexam plc today announced the acquisition of an equity stake in Magnaparva Packaging, a part of UK-based engineering group Magna Parva, to help develop new technological solutions for its beverage can-making process. Rexam didn’t disclose the value of its investment or the size of the stake...
