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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51 Million Cans and Counting For UK Recycling Programme
On-the-go drink can recycling programme, Every Can Counts has helped to collect some 51 million used beverage containers from workplaces and on-the-go locations in 2011. According to the programme, this equates to 774 tonnes of aluminium and steel collected and around 5800 tonnes of greenhouse gas...
5,000kg of aluminium cans collected in green drive
The green initiative is fast gaining ground. On Thursday, thousands of environment — friendly residents coming from various government departments, educational institutions, hotels, private companies, labour camps, social organisations and families responded to the call of the Emirates...
Abu Dhabi residents warm up to can collection drive
Gulf News reported that a campaign to collect aluminum cans and send them for recycling has saved a huge amount of carbon emissions and reduced energy consumption over the past 15 years. The Emirates Environmental Group's annual can collection campaign since 1997 has resulted in the mitigation of...
Everyone's a winner on can-recycling day
An environmental group is holding a nationwide drive to collect and recycle drinks cans Thursday. The annual event, organised by the Emirates Environmental Group (EEG), has been held since 1997 and has recycled 148.7 tonnes of aluminium cans. Instilling a "culture of recycling is the ultimate goal...
Alupro raises concerns about the future of cash for cans
Evesham, Worcestershire / UK -- An unintended consequence of the proposed ban on cash transactions for scrap metal would be to make "cash for cans" recycling activity illegal. Around the world "cash for cans" programmes have played, and continue to play, a key role in the aluminium recycling...
Crown Holdings to Build Aluminum Can Plant in China
Crown Holdings Inc., based in Philadelphia, has announced plans to build a new two-piece beverage can plant in Nanning, China. The company expects the new plant to be operational by the second quarter of 2013 and will have an initial production capacity of 750 million two-piece aluminum cans per...
Californians skeptical about state's 100-percent aluminum can recycling rate
The state of California has surpassed its goal of 75 percent for the recycling and redemption of aluminum cans by a huge margin. During the period of Jan. - June 2011, a total of 4,021,390,132 aluminum cans were recycled out of 4,023,599,419 cans sold. That equals an all-time high of 100 percent...
Crown continues aluminum beverage can expansion into China
Crown Holdings plans to build a new two-piece aluminum beverage can plant in Nanning, the capital of Guangxi Province in Southern China, in response to growing demand for beverage cans in China, the US-based aluminum can maker said Monday. The new plant is expected to be operational by the end of...
Norco Lions Club gets new aluminum-recycling trailer donated
Norco residents once again have a place to recycle aluminum cans while helping a good cause, after someone bought the Norco Lions Club a new trailer to replace one that was stolen in December. Proceeds from the recycling are dedicated to the Lions Club's "Cans for Sight" program, which provides eye...
Pinoy in UAE recycles aluminum cans to send PHL kids to school
A Filipino in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) raises funds by recycling aluminum cans to send children in the Philippines to school. A report of the news site Gulf News on Friday said after work, Michael Del Moro Manlogon collects around 300 aluminum cans a day from a food court near...
Alcoa Shines Bright at Super Bowl XLVI
Alcoa AA +2.16% will be at Super Bowl XLVI this Sunday in Indianapolis, Ind., in more ways than one. The award-winning Lucas Oil Stadium, host site of the Super Bowl football game, features several products made by Alcoa's Kawneer architectural aluminum products business. Alcoa Foundation is also...
Aluminum cans underpin mission work
"Father Pete" is a familiar face around Ripley, coming as he does two Sundays a month from his home in Pontotoc to lead Spanish and English church services. As much as he's known for his religious service, however, the Glenmary Mission priest -- The Rev. Gerald "Pete" Peterson -- is known as a...
Novelis builds on its footprint
After you finish that can of beer or soda, if you toss it in the recycling bin, odds are good that it’ll end up as one bit of Atlanta-based Novelis’ campaign to turn itself into one of the world’s greenest — and most profitable — aluminum processors. Only a few years ago, after it was acquired in...
A NEW recycling plant will create 21 jobs and help process 60,000 tonnes more of Cambridgeshire recycling a year.
AmeyCespa, which bought the recycling plant at Waterbeach from Donarbon for £48.6 million in 2010, will start construction on the new building shortly which will increase the county's green credentials. The plant, which will create additional jobs, should be operational by December. Although it...
United Company RUSAL : UC RUSAL installed unique equipment at Krasnoyarsk aluminium smelter to broaden range of alloys
UC RUSAL (SEHK: 486, Euronext: RUSAL/RUAL, MICEX: RUALR, RTS: RUALR), the world's largest aluminium producer, announces the development and launch of a unique magnetic hydrodynamic mixer which will enable the Krasnoyarsk aluminium smelter's cast house to extend its alloy product range. The cost of...
Novelis Korea orders cold rolling mill
Novelis Korea has placed an order with Siemens VAI Metals Technologies for a tandem cold rolling mill. The plant will produce flat strip for the beverage can industry in Yeongju, South Korea and is due to start production in 2013. Siemens will supply all the electrical engineering and equipment,...
Alcoa Donates its Recycling “Tools” to Extreme Makeover Home Edition Team
KNOXVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--When the television show Extreme Makeover-Home Edition came to Knoxville, Tennessee, to renovate a home this week, Alcoa Recycling picked up its tools and volunteered its services along with local construction contractors and laborers. Alcoa’s “tools” came in the...
Keep Kids Connected to host aluminum can recycling day
Keep Kids Connected, a local nonprofit organization that provides Netbook computers to kids with cancer or other life-threatening illness, will be hosting an aluminum beverage can recycling day on Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon at the Tradition Bank branch located on Pin Oak in Katy. The tabs are...
