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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Rio Tinto Landfill upgrade improves community recycling by 20 per cent
This month marks six months since upgrades to the Evans Landing landfill came into effect, an important milestone in terms of the community working together to dispose of waste appropriately. During 2010 and 2011, $ 2.5 million worth of upgrades were made to the 30-year-old facility, including a...
Alcoa Takes Full Ownership of Evermore Recycling
Alcoa today announced it has reached an agreement with Novelis whereby Alcoa will assume full control of the Evermore Recycling joint venture, the undisputed leader in used beverage can (UBC) recycling, effective August 31, 2012. The two companies previously were partners in the joint venture which...
Novelis quits can recycling venture with Alcoa
Aluminum products maker Novelis said on Monday it has pulled out of a joint venture with Alcoa Inc to recycle beverage cans and will set up its own recycling business. Alcoa said it would assume full control of the Evermore joint venture effective Aug. 31. The two companies have been partners since...
Hotel staffs push recycling efforts
Visitors to Camana Bay last Saturday would have found flyers urging them to recycle aluminium cans and glass on their windshields as members of staff at The Ritz-Carlton, Grand Cayman and the Grand Cayman Marriott Beach Resort spread the message of recycling. The group of five, who chose recycling...
Japan aluminum beverage can season starts slow due to rains
Japan's demand for drinks in aluminum cans typically picks up in July due to higher temperatures, but this year canstock output is off to a slow start due to rainy weather, aluminum rolling mill sources said Wednesday. Japan's May cansheet shipments were 40,201 mt and some sources fear the June...
Phoenix Scrap Metal Accepting Scrap Alloys and Aluminum Cans
Executives at Glendale Iron & Metal, a Phoenix scrap metal business, today announced the company is accepting scrap alloys and aluminum cans. The company has been in business for more than 45 years and has become an industry leader with the best prices in town and the fastest processing time. The...
Cayman Islands boost Recycling
A common whinge in the Cayman Islands is the lack of recycling, but there is now a major push under way to recycle aluminium cans and glass bottles locally. The Department of Environment Health has supplied aluminium can recycling containers to apartment and condominium complexes along West Bay...
Aerosol sprays to be recycled with food and drink cans in Somerset to recover metal
They deliver everything from deodorant to insecticide, hair spray to paint, with each household getting through 27 a year on average. And until this week the vast majority of the 6.5 million aerosols used every year in Somerset were ending up in the refuse bin and heading for landfill. But from now...
InventHelp Client designs “Aluminum or Metal Can Smasher” – to boost Recycling
InventHelp, America’s largest invention submission company, announces that one of its clients, an inventor from Indiana, has designed an air-powered tool that could flatten aluminum or metal cans. This invention is patented. “Aluminum or Metal Can Smasher” would compact cans so that they would take...
Global Research Center to Help Novelis Hit 80% Recycled Content
Novelis, a producer of rolled aluminium and the largest recycler of aluminium beverage cans, has opened its new Global Research & Technology Center outside of Atlanta, Georgia. The company said that the 160,000 square foot (14,860 square metre) facility serves as the global hub its research and...
Hundreds celebrate 60th anniversary of Alcoa’s Wenatchee smelter
Hundreds of people took a lengthy stroll through Alcoa’s Wenatchee Works smelter Saturday to see the inner workings of one of North Central Washington’s largest employers. They dipped their hands in alumina — the white liquid-looking raw material used to make aluminum — and was surprised when their...
Palm Recycling teams up with Alupro's 'MetalMatters' for recycling campaign
Working in partnership with Sefton Borough Council, Palm Recycling joined forces with Alupro's 'MetalMatters' Campaign - an industry-funded recycling programme aimed at helping local authorities and their waste management partners to boost recycling rates by encouraging more households to recycle...
Novelis to produce 100% recycled can
According to the CEO of aluminium giant Novelis, Phil Martens, the company is preparing to start production of a line of fully-recycled aluminium cans in roughly the next two years. The 100%-recycled beverage can will be manufactured with a single-alloy design rather than with separate alloys for...
Research and Markets has published report on Aluminum Industry in Brazil
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Aluminum Industry in Brazil - Market Opportunities and Entry Strategies, Analyses and Forecasts to 2016: Market Profile" report to their offering. Brazil was the sixth-largest aluminum producer in the world in 2010. The country's domestic...
Novelis launches R&D center for aluminium
Novelis has opened a research and technology center that it hopes will help it improve sustainability and innovation of aluminium for use in the beverage market. The 160,000 square foot Global Research Center will focus on solutions for the company’s can business and will be the central point for...
Novelis Opens New Global Research & Technology Center
Novelis, the world's leading producer of rolled aluminum and largest recycler of aluminum beverage cans, today officially opened its new Global Research & Technology Center outside of Atlanta, Ga. The 160,000-square-foot facility serves as the global hub of the company's extensive research and...
Novelis and U.S. Conference of Mayors Announce Winners of Cans for Cash Recycling Challenge
The winners of the 2012 Cans for Cash(TM) City Recycling Challenge were announced yesterday by the United States Conference of Mayors and Novelis Inc., the global leader in rolled aluminum products and aluminum can recycling. Established in 2004, Cans for Cash(TM) is a national contest that rewards...
Aluminum can recycling drive at the Tri-Oswego Triathlon 2012
The Tri-Oswego 2012 Triathlon committee and Novelis Oswego Works are asking the community to participate in an aluminum can recycling drive at the Tri-Oswego Triathlon and Novelis Kids’ Fun Run, planned for this Saturday, June 16th in Oswego, New York. Novelis, the presenting sponsor of the...
