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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Aluminium recycling draws attention as long term solution to waste management problems
Increased recycling could be the long term solution to managing some of the Cayman Islands’ waste management problems. While many politicians have focused on how to deal with the George Town dump, less has been said about how Mount Trashmore got so big in the first place. The Cayman Islands lags...
India's Aluminum Can Market Faces Five-Fold Growth By 2020 - Hindalco
India's appetite for aluminum drinks cans could increase five-fold over the next seven to eight years, playing an important role in increasing the country's stake in global aluminum demand, the chief marketing officer of Indian aluminum producer Hindalco Industrial Ltd. (500440.BY) said Thursday....
Novelis introduces its first “high recycled content” aluminium production
International recycler Novelis has launched what it has said is the first independently certified, “high-recycled content” aluminium production. The firms can product, aluminium can body sheets guaranteed to contain at least 90% recycled content, is being offered to European and North American...
Aluminum shipments by Japan decline at slower pace in March
Shipments of rolled-aluminum products by Japanese fabricators to domestic and overseas markets decreased at a slower pace in March, supported by demand from beverage-can makers, according to an industry group. Volume fell 1.5 percent to 171,163 metric tons last month from a year earlier, the Japan...
Transnet targets BHP’s aluminium smelters
Wood Elementary is competing in the Third Annual Great American Can Roundup School Challenge, and area residents can help by dropping off their aluminum cans at the Fort Wood Recycling Center located behind The Hub in St. Robert. When you drop off your aluminum cans, please let the center know that...
Emirates Environmental Group collects used aluminium cans
The final numbers are in from a can collection drive held last week across the UAE. And a slew of recyclable aluminium cans have been diverted from landfills thanks to efforts by the Emirates Environmental Group. As part of its 16th annual Can Collection Campaign, the group collected 6,533...
Fidelity Bank ready to finance aluminium can project in Nigeria
Fidelity Bank Plc has expressed its readiness to finance a multi-million naira aluminium can project in Aba. The bank explained in a statement yesterday that the factory, when completed, is expected to take off with an initial production capacity of 1.2 billion cans yearly. This, it stressed, would...
Emirates Environmental Group in can collection campaign
Emirates Environmental Group continues its highly successful annual Can Collection Campaign with a nationwide effort to gather thousands of drink cans at selected depots for recycling. In its 16th annual collection, EEG is inviting communities, institutions, private sector groups and government...
Aluminium can market affected by Health-conscious Americans
U.S. aluminium can sales are set to slow in 2013 for a third straight year as more consumers ditch sodas for healthier options such as water and iced teas, traditionally bottled in plastic or glass. The loss of market share in the fizzy drinks capital of the world, also due to loud anti-obesity...
UAE recycles 5% aluminum cans; global average 63%
Habiba Al Marashi, chairperson of The Emirates Environmental Group (EEG) said that every year, the UAE consumes more than 500 million cans of beverages and sends approximately 5% for recycling, compared with the global average of 63%. In line with this, the EEG has launched the 16th edition of the...
AmeyCespa opens new Materials Recycling Facility (MRF) at Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire
AmeyCespa has opened a 60,000 tonne-a-year capacity materials recycling facility (MRF) at Waterbeach in Cambridgeshire, where it will sort dry recyclables from South Cambridgeshire district council. The MRF, which is located at the firm’s existing site, contains state-of-the-art equipment to...
Coca-Cola shifts to aluminium cans, signs contract with Bevcan
South Africa’s sole beverage can manufacturer Bevcan has been awarded a five-year, R5.6-billion contract to produce and supply lightweight aluminium cans for Coca-Cola’s portfolio of beverages. Coca-Cola Canners of Southern Africa, a subsidiary of Coca-Cola Southern Africa, expected to deliver its...
Recyclebank, Coors Partners on New Aluminum Recycling Program
Recyclebank, in partnership with the Coors Brewing Company, has launched an online awareness campaign that seeks to educate consumers even more about aluminum recycling. Bringing Recyclebank’s 4 million users together with Coors’ record as a company among the leaders in can recycling, the $250,000...
Nampak puts R1.6bn into can and bottle business
Nampak, Africa’s largest packaging group, is investing R1.6bn in two businesses that produce bottles and cans for the "growing" beverage market, the firm said on Friday. The first investment will be nearly R1bn in a third furnace at its Germiston-based glass bottle business to improve overall...
Aluminium Cans for Meals on Wheels
The Sullivan Senior Center has started an aluminum can collection site to benefit Meals On Wheels. Your aluminum cans can make a difference in the lives of many seniors who receive Meals On Wheels. During this time of ongoing budget cuts we need to focus on other ways to supplement our budget....
Unilever freshens up deodorant packaging with compressed cans
Unilever will today unveil a major packaging breakthrough, after scientists spent years sweating over designs for a more efficient compressed aerosol deodorant can.The consumer goods giant is adamant there were no "underarm" tactics used when they developed the new aerosol spray, which is half the...
Dry Dock Brewing Co. to offer Craft Beer in Ball Corporation's aluminum cans
Dry Dock Brewing Co., the 2009 Small Brewing Company of the Year at the Great American Beer Festival, is combining four of its award-winning, hand-crafted beers with the convenient, environmentally friendly technology of Ball Corporation's aluminum cans. For the first time in Dry Dock's eight-year...
'Single Stream' pilot recycling program to start in Green Brook and South Bound Brook
A new “single stream” pilot recycling program will take effect Mar. 1 in Green Brook and Mar. 7 in South Bound Brook. These changes are being made in the Somerset County recycling program to increase the amount of material recycled and make it easier for residents to fully participate in the...
