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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Boy Scouts collecting aluminum cans to recycle
Boy Scout Troop 178, chartered by the Morton United Methodist Men, continues to actively collect and recycle aluminum cans to fund local scouting activities. Crushed or uncrushed cans in plastic bags may be deposited in the metal collection bin located at the back of the lot on the west side of...
Hindalco: Novelis brings fresh impetus
Renewal of the Coca-Cola bottlers-Novelis deal and commencement of new domestic capacity should boost volumes. After touching a 52-week low on January 2, Hindalco shares got a boost, as its US arm, Novelis Inc, renewed its can-body sales agreement with global beverage giant Coca-Cola. Also, the...
Hindalco up 4% after Novelis renews contract
Hindalco Industries climbed 4% to Rs 127.10 after Novelis Inc, also part of the Aditya Birla Group, renewed its can-body sales agreement with Coca-Cola Bottlers' Sales & Services Company (CCBSS). A Novelis statement released late on Tuesday said the two companies had signed a multi-year agreement...
Novelis secures Coca-Cola supply deal
Novelis is to supply Coca-Cola Bottlers' Sales Services Company, the Coca-Cola group that buys aluminium can sheet for Coca-Cola in North America. The agreement covers the supply of aluminum can body stock, can end stock and can tab stock to the producers of beverage cans for Coca-Cola in North...
Adopt a can-do attitude and get recycling
Wherever you are this summer, party the environmentally friendly way by recycling all of your aluminium cans. Alcoa, Planet Ark and eight-time world surfing champion Layne Beachley have joined forces in a campaign aimed at increasing the number of recycled cans. Planet Ark’s Brad Gray said there...
Atlanta-based Novelis signs multi-year deal with Coke
Novelis, one of the largest producers of aluminum rolled products, has signed a multi-year agreement with Coca-Cola North America to furnish the beverage giant supplies for its cans. Terms of the deal, including its length, were not disclosed. Atlanta-based Novelis, a long-time supplier of aluminum...
Recycling | Aluminum Cans
In the United States, approximately 31% of all aluminum products comes from recycled scrap. That's a great number, but with more help by everyone, we could make that number climb. By recycling your aluminum products you are helping the environment in several ways. One of which is conserving energy....
Ardagh buys aluminium can producer for €85m
PACKAGING COMPANY Ardagh has acquired the European division of Exal Corporation, the world’s biggest aluminium can producer, for €85 million. The acquisition of the Boxal group of companies, which are owned by Exal, will mark Ardagh’s first foray into the European aluminium can market. Ardagh,...
Novelis to Add Coating Line at Brazilian Can Plant
Atlanta-based Novelis, a producer of rolled aluminum products, has announced plans to invest about $50 million to install a coating line for beverage can end stock at its operations in Pindamonhangaba, Brazil. The company forecasts aluminum beverage can demand in South America to grow by 7 percent...
New investment strategy: fill your garage with compacted aluminum cans
In the process of complying with CAFE requirements automakers will essentially need to spend about $157 billion to double their fleet’s fuel efficiency. This will likely lead to years of rising sales for makers of aluminum body panels, turbochargers and other light weight components. Based on a...
Man sentenced in swindle for faking aluminum can transactions
A 32-year-old Grove City man was sentenced Wednesday to 120 days in jail and ordered to pay back the $47,184 he swindled from the Kandiyohi County Recycling Center. Gregory Donald Schake had been charged with four felony counts of theft by swindle for faking aluminum can transactions at the...
Reactions mixed as recycler stops paying CRV fees
Reactions were mixed at the Burbank Recycle Center on Tuesday — the first day the facility stopped paying CRV reimbursement for recyclables after its operator was slapped with allegations that it filed $33 million in fraudulent claims at another recycling center. The change threatens to drive...
Can recycling project
SOMETIMES it's better to focus on what you can do, rather than worry about what you can't. That's the motto at a Whaddon day centre for adults with learning disabilities, where a pioneering can recycling project is paying dividends for some of Cheltenham's most vulnerable people. Clients at the...
Macks Creek students go green in recycling contest
Third graders at Macks Creek Elementary helped reduce the volume of trash in landfills and will have a pizza party to celebrate their award-winning recycling efforts. The third grade classes won a recycling drive against some of their older peers by collecting more than 3,000 lbs. of paper and...
Aluminum Recycling Program to Benefit Habitat for Humanity
You can help the environment by recycling your aluminum cans and help a local Habitat for Humanity chapter at the same time in Lexington. Wise Recycling is donating a portion of its proceeds from each recycled aluminum can to the local Habitat for Humanity chapter. The company wants to raise...
Kobe Steel Ltd : December 21, 2011 Kobe Steel to form aluminum joint venture in China
Kobe Steel, Ltd. has tied up with Jiangsu ALCHA Aluminium Co., Ltd., a major producer of aluminum rolled products in China, to expand its aluminum business in China. Kobe Steel and ALCHA have signed a letter of intent to establish a joint venture in Baotou, Inner Mongolia to produce and sell...
Novelis to Invest $50 Million for new Coating Line in Brazil
Novelis, the world's largest producer of rolled aluminum, today announced it will invest approximately $50 million to install a coating line for beverage can end stock at its operations in Pindamonhangaba, Brazil. "This expansion is the most recent step in an ongoing program to expand our...
Recycling will help both disability service and the environment this Christmas
TEWKESBURY’S Learning Disabilities Service has appealed for local people to recycle all their aluminium foil and drinks cans this Christmas by dropping them in to the offices in Station Road. The service provides a range of activities for adults with learning disabilities to experience and the...
