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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Aluminum beverage can industry raises $133,695 from recycling
The aluminum beverage can industry raised $133,695 for local charities by recycling 178,099 pounds 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 Corp. came in first place in the annual...
Nampak buys Nigerian beverage-can business
Nampak has bought Alucan Packaging, a beverage-can operation in Nigeria, funding the deal through existing cash resources and debt facilities. Africa’s largest packaging group also said on Monday it had been granted an option to acquire a leading rigid plastics company in West Africa’s largest...
Emirates Environmental Group collects 6,023kg of cans
The Emirates Environmental Group yesterday collected 6,023 kilograms of aluminium cans, reaching a total amount collected this year to 23,123kg. The target set for this year is 25,000kgs. An organiser pointed out yesterday that the opportunity is not lost for those who would still like to...
AB InBev starts selling auminum bud light bottles
Anheuser-Busch InBev NV (ABI) is rolling out Bud Light in screw-top aluminum bottles as the world’s biggest brewer seeks to stabilize the waning brand in the U.S., where consumers are turning to craft beers and other beverages. AB InBev has invested $150 million to create the new packaging, a...
Events planned to celebrate America Recycles Day
Lawrence-area residents can celebrate America Recycles Day on Friday with a can-collection event and an event featuring a paneled discussion and documentary showing. Cans for the Community, a Douglas County nonprofit, will host a citywide can collection. On Friday, aluminum beverage cans can be...
Designer recycles aluminium cans into stools on São Paulo Street
It’s one thing to make a product using aluminium or plastic recycled at a plant. But recycling cans into chairs — on the same street they were found — is something else. That’s exactly what the resourceful designers at Studio Swine did on a recent trip to São Paulo. The London-based designers call...
Novelis hopes to raise US recycling rates with its 'evercan' project
The recycling rate for aluminum cans in the US is a mere 55%. That's below the global average of about 70% and well below rates of better than 90% than Scandinavian countries can boast – or Brazil's 98% recycling rate. The low US rate represents an enormous waste of materials and energy – and a big...
Brazil remains leader in aluminium can recycling
Brazil recycled 97.9% of all aluminium cans consumed in the country in 2012, making it the top can recycler in the world for the 11th year in a row. Figures from the country’s aluminium association (Abal) and high-recyclability can producers association (Abralatas) show that about 267,100 tonnes of...
Scotland launches six-month can recycling trial
Zero Waste Scotland and Every Can Counts are funding a new six-month trial, which is taking five places and is part of Zero Waste Scotland’s work to ensure valuable materials can be recycled. From 1st January 2014, businesses in Scotland will be required to separate all of their waste – including...
U.S. aluminum-can recycling hits 20-year high
The rate at which the U.S. recycled aluminum cans in 2012 hit a 20-year high, reflecting metal companies' stepped-up efforts in recent years to procure and process scrap. The U.S. recycled 62 billion cans, equivalent to 67% of the 92 billion cans produced that year, according to a report released...
Aluminum can continues sustainability leadership as most recycled beverage container
Industry recycling of aluminum beverage containers in the United States continued its decade-long upward trend in 2012 with a rate of 67%, according to data released by the Aluminum Association, Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI) and Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI). This is the...
AEROBAL presents aluminium Aerosol Can Award winners
The winners of the World Aluminium Aerosol Can Award 2013 were presented at this year’s congress of AEROBAL, the global association for manufacturers of aluminium aerosol cans. A truly global competition: the 18 AEROBAL members with their production facilities in Europe, North and South America,...
Swansea Council makes £1 million from recycling
Swansea Council has made £1 million from selling its recycling. An answer to a question put to cabinet members ahead of council meeting next week revealed that the authority recycled nearly 6,000 tonnes of glass, over 7,500 tonnes of paper, and more than 1,100 tonnes of scrap metal and aluminium...
Studio Swine starts aluminium can recycling drive in São Paulo
Studio Swine puts waste aluminium to use in São Paulo with their project Can City. Alexander Groves, who set up Studio Swine with Azusa Murakami, says, “Can City was looking into the way waste is collected and recycled in São Paulo. It is the capital of aluminium, recycling more aluminium than...
Crown Holdings opens three new can factories in China
Crown Holdings has opened three beverage can factories in Heshan (Guangdong province), Ziyang (Sichuan province) and Putian (Fujian province), bringing the total number of plants in China to seven." Jozef Salaerts, president, Crown Asia Pacific, said demand for aluminium cans was on the increase...
Novelis Completes $400 Million Expansion of Aluminum Rolling Mills in Korea
Novelis, the world leader in aluminum rolling and recycling, announced today the completion of a two-year, $400 million expansion program in South Korea. The expansion of its Yeongju and Ulsan plants increases the company's production capacity in the region by more than 50 percent to approximately...
Companies provided with facilities to aid recycling of cans
A number of new recycling boxes are to be put in place across London and the south east to help businesses recycle more aluminium and steel cans. It has been reported that the drinks can recycling programme, Every Can Counts, has teamed up with waste management company, Greenaway Waste Management,...
UACJ group's new integrated factory in Thailand to commence operation in January
UACJ Group, a comprehensive aluminum manufacturer offering a steady supply of high-quality aluminum material to a wide variety of industries is setting up a new integrated factory in Thailand that will start to operate in January, catering to the growing Southeast Asian demand for aluminium...
