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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Romania aims to recycle more plastic bottles and aluminum cans
Romanians are currently recycling only 3 percent of their aluminum waste, way below the European average of 70 percent, but the figure it set to increase via new recycling machines installed at large retailers. The country's Environment and Forestry Ministry recently launched a project aiming at...
Firefighters collect aluminum cans to benefit burned children
All area residents and merchants: Please save and drop off your used aluminum beverage cans at the Bay Village Fire Department to benefit burned children. These aluminum cans really do a lot of good for fire safety education, and for children who are victims of severe burns. The drop-off bin is...
South Africa to switch to all-aluminium cans
South Africa is to follow the global trend of replacing tin-plated steel beverage cans with aluminium-bodied cans, with the first locally produced all-aluminium cans set to hit the market mid-2013. South Africa’s beverage cans, both soft drinks and beer cans, are currently produced with a steel...
Brazil achieves 98.3% ABC recycling rate
Brazil has reported its highest aluminium beverage can recycling rate in history with 98.3%. Associação Brasileira do Alumínio (ABAL), the Brazilian Aluminum Association and Associação Brasileira dos Fabricantes de Latas de Alta Reciclabilidade (ABRALATAS) the Brazilian Association of Cans of High...
Ball Packaging Europe significantly reduces weight of aluminium cans
Beverage can manufacturer Ball Packaging Europe has succeeded in reducing the weight of 33cl aluminium cans to just under 9.5g. This quantum leap in lightweighting will significantly reduce beverage cans’ ecological footprint. The seemingly minor drop in weight will have major effects. Assuming...
Party time of the year opens doors to can recycling
As most families know, this is a very busy time of the year. With Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s, most residents are having a lot of company with dinners and parties going on. With so many activities, in addition to day-to-day events, there will be a lot of drinking soft drinks...
Polish firm acquires 35% stake in SMC unit
The San Miguel group is taking in Poland-based Can Pack Group, a key player in the global packaging industry, as a strategic partner in its aluminum can manufacturing business. In a statement on Thursday, San Miguel Corp. said its packaging unit San Miguel Yamamura Packaging Corp. (SMYPC) had...
Hulamin to supply aluminium to Nampak
Hulamin (HLM) said on Tuesday it had entered into an agreement with Bevcan (a division of Nampak Limited) to supply aluminium sheet for the manufacture of aluminium bodied beverage cans. Deliveries are expected to increase to 14‚000 tons by 2015‚ in addition to the can end and tab stock Hulamin...
Recycled aluminum cans needed for Festival of Lights
Elizabeth Freeman, organizer of the annual Festival of Lights, is looking for recycled aluminum cans to create new ornaments for a nine-foot tall tree called “If Can, Can” that will be part of this year’s festival, according to a news release. About 200 colorful cans are needed for the project. All...
Company raises awareness of metal can recycling
Metal packaging manufacturer Nampak’s Bevcan and Divfood divisions, together with recycling initiative Collect-a-Can and its interactive awareness brand, Can Do!, will launch local initiatives that form part of international Canvironment Week at the Green Expo, in Cape Town, later this month....
Novelis: driving force for Hindalco’s Growth
The recent inauguration of Asia’s largest beverage can recycling plant in South Korea by Novelis Inc., a global leader in aluminum recycling and rolling, is one more feather in India’s Aditya Birla Group’s cap. The move also underlines the soundness of a decision that group took some years ago to...
Exchange Club turns recycled cans into cash for programs
Four big, blue “Cans for Kids” bins in Merrimack are collectors for donated aluminum cans earmarked for recycling by the Exchange Club of Merrimack. The local chapter is part of a national, nonprofit group supporting programs aimed at child abuse prevention, crime prevention, services to senior...
Alcoa Foundation and DoSomething.org Partner on Aluminum Can Recycling Drive
Starting today, Alcoa Foundation and DoSomething.org, the largest U.S. organization for teens and social change, will run the biggest youth-led aluminum can recycling drive in the country, targeting high school students. The goal of the drive is to activate a minimum of 40,000 young people across...
Novelis begins plans to increase recycling capacity to 2.1 million tons by 2015
Novelis has opened an aluminium recycling and casting center in South Korea as part of a $400m expansion project. The Yeongju recycling center is the firm’s first major step in the plan to increase recycling capacity to 2.1 million tons by 2015. The facility will have an annual capacity of 265,000...
Novelis Opens Asia's Largest Beverage Can Recycling Operation
Novelis, the global leader in aluminum recycling and rolling, today announced the opening of an aluminum recycling and casting center at its Yeongju, South Korea, facility. The new operation is the largest aluminum beverage can recycling center in Asia. The Yeongju recycling center is part of a...
RECYCLING: largest company in state benefits from technology
Ruben Stewart eased his Silverado pickup into the Mission Grove Plaza parking lot in Riverside to dump his empty Aquafina bottles and soda cans. It’s a recycling ritual he performs every few months at the rePLANET kiosk behind Ralphs. After recycling specialist Abel Estevez weighed the contents of...
Cans for Cash' program returns, offers rewards for recycling aluminum
Aluminum giant Alcoa Inc. ( AA ) announced the signing of a tentative long-term power contract with Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) for its Intalco Works aluminum smelter in Ferndale, Washington. The contract is expected to be finalized by the end of the year and will expire in September...
Can Man Adrian Ablett's work to appear on TV
Litter crusader Adrian "Can Man" Ablett is to have his work featured on TV. Environmentalist, Adrian, 39, of Fosse Road North, Leicester, recently hit a target of recycling 50,000 aluminium cans and has since added another 1,292 to that. TV company Landmark Films discovered Adrian's website when...
