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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Elementary School to accept cans for recycling
The Wilcox Elementary School will collect cans Saturday, Feb. 15, for recycling. Cans will be accepted at the school at 34580 Bainbridge Road, from 9 a.m. to noon as part of the "We Love to Recycle" program. "Like last year's drive, people can drive around to the back parking lot of Wilcox and drop...
EEG announces the launch of 17th Annual Can Collection Day
Emirates Environmental Group (EEG) has announced to launch the 17th Annual Can Collection Day on Feb.27. Emirates Environmental Group‘s chairman Habiba Al Marashi, stated that campaign for this year aims to collect a number of 27,000 kilogrammes of aluminium cans for recycling. Special sites will...
Recycled aluminium sees a drop in 2013
Last year, Green Force, the environmental and recycling company made a collection of 266.175 aluminum cans, and that is less compared to last year. In 2012 they collected around 390.000 cans. According to the owner, Mr. Timo Brouwer, there are various reasons why customers are not recycling...
Scotland firms get help with recycling rules
Hundreds of organisations across Scotland have been helped to set up recycling schemes to comply with new regulations. 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...
$60 m invested for Puerto Rico‘s aluminum plant
Puerto Rican Investors have invested a total amount of $60 million for the aluminum can plant located at Cidra in Puerto Rico. The products will be exported to countries such as Jamaica, United States, the Dominican Republic and many other countries in that region. Puerto Rican owns Caribbean Can...
Showa Denko Group to acquire aluminum can maker in Vietnam
Showa Denko and its wholly owned subsidiary Showa Aluminum Can Corporation (SAC) have reached agreement with major shareholders of Rexam-Hanacans Joint Stock Company (Hanacans), of Vietnam, to acquire 91.75% of shares in the company. Hanacans is manufacturing and selling aluminum beverage cans in...
Girl Scouts of the USA recycle 409,940 aluminum cans
Girl Scouts of the USA is proud to announce the results of Girl Scouts Forever Green (GSFG), its signature 100th anniversary "Take Action" project targeting waste reduction, energy conservation, and rain gardens. Alcoa Foundation provided a two-year, $1.5 million grant to expand the program...
U.S.Can recycling rate hits 67 percent
The U.S. continued its decade-long upward trend of aluminum can recycling in 2012 with a rate of 67 percent, according to data released by the Aluminum Association, Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI) and Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI). This is the highest recycling rate since the...
Pizza Port Brewing Co. makes Craft Beer more portable in Aluminum cans from Ball Corp.
Pizza Port Brewing Co., winner of 83 Great American Beer Festival (GABF) medals since 2000, is debuting three of its popular beers in convenient, sustainable aluminum cans from Ball Corporation. For the first time in its 26-year history, Pizza Port will be entrusting its hand-crafted passion to a...
Ma'aden opens rolling mill
The Saudi Arabian Mining Company, Ma'aden, has announced that the aluminium rolling mill operated by subsidiary Ma'aden Rolling Company has begun operations. The $590m mill, built under an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract by Samsung Engineering, is part of the $10.8bn...
Recycling challenge raises $133,695 for local charities
The aluminum beverage can industry raised $133,695 for local charities by recycling 178,099 lbs. of cans, which equates to more than 5.7 million beverage cans, for the Can Manufacturers Institute’s (CMI) Great American Can RoundUp Industry Challenge. Ball Corporation scored first place in the...
New limits on recycling start Wednesday
You would have to collect about 3,200 empty aluminum cans to hit California’s new limits on aluminum recycling that kick in on Wednesday. That works out to 100 pounds, give or take a Bud Lite or three. The new limit is a fraction of the old one of 500 pounds of aluminum, glass and plastic per...
Charity organization helps people recycle festive aluminium scraps
The festive period is traditionally the season for giving, but it’s also an opportunity to give something back. Milton Keynes Christian Foundation is helping people recycle aluminium foil packaging and aluminium drinks cans left over from the new year party. Not only will you be helping this...
Aluminium Recycling helps villagers earn living at Binh Yen, Vietnam, despite environment hazards
It is said that about 1 tonne of untreated waste and 500 cubic metres of wastewater were discharged daily into the Nam Thanh Commune's Binh Yen Village. Over the past five years, some 269 of 570 households in the village have been engaged into the process of recycling aluminum, mainly from beer...
European aluminium beverage can recycling at record level of 68%
The overall recycling rate for aluminium beverage cans in the EU 27 + EFTA countries increased by 2.4% points to a new record level of 68% in 2011. If the collection of cans in the remaining European countries and Turkey is included, this means that more than 25 billion cans are recycled in Europe...
Wealth of metal at our fingertips
"The earth below South Africans’ feet may be rich in many minerals, but one element has always been missing – this nation imports 100% of the raw materials it needs to make aluminium. Savvy urban prospectors in Gauteng, however, have detected a mother lode of the metal spilling out of bars,...
European aluminium beverage can recycling at record level of 68%
European aluminium beverage can recycling at record level of 68% Brussels, 16 December 2013: The overall recycling rate for aluminium beverage cans in the EU 27 + EFTA countries increased by 2.4% points to a new record level of 68% in 2011. If the collection of cans in the remaining European...
Cans for Christmas raises $2,500
A recycling-for-gifts event raised about $2,500 to help buy Christmas gifts for Smyth County children this year. "Cans for Christmas" at Berry Iron and Metal Company was an event that encouraged customers to bring in aluminum cans to recycle at 55 cents per pound. Berry's matched the day's payout...
