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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Expansion plans in rolling mills and strategic automotive capacity - Novelis
Through Novelis, Hindalco is trying to capture the upstream market of value added aluminium products such as beverage cans. Novelis also makes aluminium for cars. Novelis plans to invest between $500-600 million (roughly Rs 3,120 crore) in its global expansion plans in the current year. Most of...
Recycling's new page
For the first time, today's print edition of The National comes to you on recycled paper. As the UAE strives to improve its record in recycling, we are proud to make a move in the right direction. But this one step reveals the length of the journey the country is still only starting: the recycled...
Novelis to Promote Aluminum Recycling with the Atlanta Falcons, Ovie Mughelli and the Commissioner of Tailgating
Atlanta-based Novelis, the world's leading producer of rolled aluminum and the global leader in beverage can recycling, is teaming up with the Atlanta Falcons, Falcons fullback Pro Bowl Ovie Mughelli and the "Commissioner of Tailgating" to promote aluminum beverage can recycling. Falcon's fans are...
Lexington students recycle record number of aluminum cans for contest
More than 243,000 aluminum cans were collected for recycling by students in Fayette County during this year’s Cans for Cash recycling contest. In terms of weight, students collected 7,618 pounds of aluminum beverage cans — 32 percent more than was collected in 2010. The contest challenges public...
Coca-Cola Recycling launches recycling center in Texas
Coca-Cola Recycling LLC opened a new consumer recycling center in Irving, Texas that accepts and processes aluminum cans and #1 PET plastic beverage bottles. The new center was created to offer free and convenient access to beverage container recycling. The Dallas-Fort Worth area was selected as...
More than 7,000 pounds of aluminum cans collected in annual drive
The Cash for Cans campaign lived up to its billing by pumping nearly $4,000 back into the community while recycling more than 7,000 pounds of aluminum cans. Cash for Cans is sponsored by Alcoa and Keep Evansville Beautiful as a way to "get people to realize there is money in those aluminum cans...
US can maker seeks to acquire troubled Hungarian peer for €14m
US-based extruded aluminium can maker Exal Corporation has reached an agreement to acquire troubled Hungarian peer Szenna Pack for €14m and pay off some of its debts, consultancy KPMG Hungaria said on Tuesday. Family-owned Szenna Pack filed for bankruptcy protection in July because of a...
Aluminum Can Industry Collects Over 3 Million Cans, Raises Nearly $75,000 for Local Chairities
As the nation celebrated America Recycles Day, the aluminum beverage can industry announced it had collected and recycled more than 3 million cans and raised nearly $75,000 for local charities across the country, the Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI) announced today. The Rexam manufacturing plant...
Expanded Wiri factory will produce 600 million aluminium cans every year
Amcor Australasia, New Zealand’s leading beverage can manufacturer for more than two decades, has invested a further $40 million in its South Auckland plant to double production and bring new capability to the local beverage market. Officially launched today to dignitaries and industry...
Wuhan Baosteel Can making opens with 480 million cans per year
Wuhan Baosteel Can-making Co Ltd officially opens. This is the fifth Baosteel invested domestic two-piece can factory following those in Shanghai, Hebei, Chengdu and Foshan. So far, Baosteel Metal Co Ltd has completed two-piece can manufacturing and service system domestic coverage strategic...
Constellium signs can recycling deal
Constellium has signed a multi-year agreement with Canibal, France, to contribute to the development and deployment of a used beverage can (UBC) collection network in France. This partnership aims to support the development of Canibal beverage can collectors, expand the French network of UBC...
New recycling facility opens in Irving
On Tuesday, Coca-Cola Recycling LLC opened a new consumer recycling center in Irving that accepts and processes aluminum cans and #1 PET plastic beverage bottles. Located in the Kroger shopping complex at 3612 North Belt Line Road, the new center was created to offer free and convenient access to...
Recycled Aluminium Christmas tree for Carnegie Science Centre
On Monday 14th November 2011, a volunteer team of 40 employees from ALCOA will be delivering a 6 ft tall Christmas tree to the Carnegie Science Centre located in the North Shore River Front in Pittsburgh. The tree is an evergreen variety handmade out of 100% infinitely recyclable aluminium cans to...
The Aluminum Association Supports America Recycles Day and Offers Challenge
Recycle Every Aluminum Can You See and Use Tomorrow and Everyday The Aluminum Association supported America Recycles Day,November 15th and reminded everyone to recycle all the aluminum they use in their everyday lives. Aluminum is infinitely recyclable meaning it can be eternally recycled with no...
Council expands kerbside recycling service
Aberdeen City Council has expanded its fortnightly black box kerbside recycling service to include empty aerosol cans and clean foil trays and kitchen foil. The move is expected to prevent up to three million aerosol cans and 20 million foil containers ending up in local landfill every year. The...
Recycling plant opens in Taylor
The first single-stream recycling facility in Central Texas has opened in Williamson County. "We can separate all of the components and package it up," said John Rabon, with GM Wilco Recycling. Wilco Recycling is a private venture that built a $6 million facility in Taylor, and it opened in...
New aluminum can recycling tools help Americans step up efforts
Recycling is not only good for the planet, but good for your wallet too. According to the Aluminum Assn, Americans earn nearly $1 billion a year from recycling aluminum cans, yet nearly another $1 billion worth of aluminum cans are still tossed into landfills. As national sponsors of America...
Novelis in $32m Brazilian expansion
Novelis is to invest $32M to expand recycling capacity at its aluminium rolling and recycling complex in Pindamonhangaba, Brazil. This is in addition to a $300M rolling mill expansion currently under way at the plant and a further $30M invested over the past two years to expand recycling capacity...
