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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US$ 2 million from Alcoa to accelerate recycling
Alcoa and its charitable branch, the Alcoa Foundation, is to invest a sum of US$ 2 million in the new US Action to Accelerate Recycling (AAR) initiative to improve the domestic recycling rate. If landfill diversion targets are achieved, this would result in the avoidance of 850 metric tons of...
Logan Aluminum to hold Can Recycling Challenge in 2012
Tom Walpole, President of Novelis North America, one of the owners of Logan Aluminum, has announced that Novelis will be holding its Can Recycling Challenge in 2012. Collection of aluminum drinking cans has been going on since October of last year, however, September is the month Logan Aluminum is...
Berli Jucker (BJC) to expand container plants in Saraburi, Thailand
Berli Jucker (BJC) plans to invest more than Bt3.5 billion on expanding its two container plants - Thai Beverage Can (TBC) and Thai Malaya Glass - in Hemaraj Industrial Estate, Saraburi province. The company will allocate Bt2 billion for TBC's facility and to boost its manufacturing capacity from...
Carlsbad installs two large recycling containers on city's south side
Residents living in South Carlsbad no longer will have to drive to the recycling center on Greene Street or to the convenience station on Lamont Street to drop off their recycling materials. The city has installed two large roll-off recycling containers on the south end of the Walmart parking lot....
Malta criticised for failure in recycling sytem
European Commission criticism of Malta regarding waste management confirms that the recycling system is failing. If no real action is taken the result will be the construction of more incinerators across the country. The current system used by the private sector to collect waste generated through...
Beverage can made from 100% recycled aluminium under development, says Novelis CEO
Novelis revealed they are working on a beverage can made of 100% recycled aluminium in their Q1 results conference call and described it as the “ultimate sustainable package.” Evercan is currently under development at their innovation centre which opened in June in Georgia. While discussing the Q1...
U.S. Aluminum-Can-Recycling Rate at 65% in 2011
The share of aluminum containers that were recycled in the U.S. in 2011 reached the highest point in 14 years, as can makers sought to reduce costs, a group of trade organizations said Monday. Recycled aluminum represented a 65.1% share of reported U.S. shipments of aluminum beverage cans last...
Ireland ranks seventh in packaging recycling rates
Ireland is proving it really is green at heart with households recycling almost ten per cent more last year compared to 2010. Repak figures released yesterday show 208,000 tonnes of household waste was recovered while the total amount of packaging recycled was 652,000 tonnes — the equivalent of...
Novelis expects can bear consumption during major sporting events to boost aluminium demand
Guess what is the connection between Soccer World Cup 2014, Olympics 2016 and Hindalco? Well, it is the beer can. Keeping (also) in mind the two major global sporting events in Brazil, Hindalco’s wholly owned subsidiary, Novelis, is creating large capacities in the South American country, products...
New DIY Can Crusher From Gizmoplans for can recycling
Gizmoplans, a leader in do-it-yourself construction plans, has released a new set of blueprints to construct a DIY Can Crusher. Now people who cash in on aluminum cans can make the work of crushing those cans a lot easier by assembling their own electric can crusher. These new can crusher plans...
Aluminum can plant to shut down,110 jobs at stake
An aluminum can plant on Columbus’ far east side is closing, putting 110 employees out of work. Broomfield, Colo.-based Ball Corp. (NYSE:BLL), which bought the plant in 2009 from Anheuser-Busch InBev (NYSE:BUD), said after the markets closed Wednesday that it would shut its Central Ohio plant and...
Mary Stumpp, aka the Can Lady, recycles aluminium cans for charity
Mary Stumpp has met a lot of people driving "Carmella," a 1993 beat-up, caramel-colored Chevrolet pickup overflowing with garbage bags full of aluminum cans around Broad Ripple and other parts. On her drives, the 51-year-old introduces herself as "The Can Lady," often abruptly pulling to the side...
Arcadia Ales launches Sky High Rye in12 oz. aluminium cans from Rexam
Continuing the move of craft beer to aluminum cans, Sky High Rye from Arcadia Ales has launched its West Coast-style Pale Ale in 12 oz. cans from Rexam. Sky High Rye is brewed with 80 percent English barley malt and 20 percent rye malt. It boasts a floral aroma of resinous hops with contributing...
Nespresso makes new Pixie coffee machine from recycled aluminium coffee capsules
Nespresso’s new Pixie coffee machine, the smallest of the company’s capsule brewers, is constructed from aluminium recovered from recycled coffee capsules. Nespresso has extensive recycling efforts in Europe for their capsules. In June 2011, Nespresso launched a new capsule recycling service where...
Novelis to set up an organization for buying used beverage cans
The world’s largest recycler of used aluminium cans, Novelis, has announced they will be establishing a new buying organization for the collection of used beverage cans (UBCs) which will make the company the largest UBC procurement company in North America. This follows the announcement that...
Recycle wonder: Man creates unique artworks from used aluminium cans
An enterprising artist is turning his trash into cash by using empty aluminium cans to create unique artworks that sell for thousands. Jeff Ivanhoe, 67, has spent more than 30 years painstakingly piecing together his 'AluMosaics'; carving cans into tiny pieces then arranging the colourful strips...
Girl Scouts recycle 209 pounds of aluminum cans in 16-week period
A Halethorpe-based Girl Scout troop finished seventh in a national competition by recycling thousands of aluminum cans during a 16-week campaign. As part of the Great American Can Roundup Scout/Council Challenge that began Jan. 15, members of Troop 496 collected discarded cans by placing containers...
Two thirds of used aluminium cans recycled in Europe
The overall recycling rate for aluminium cans reached 66.7 per cent in 2010, according to the most recent figures published by the European Aluminium Association (EAA). For the EU 27 countries, plus EFTA nations and Turkey, the recycling rate increased by 2.4 per cent in 2010 despite an extra 2...
