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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Alcoa Introduces New Ways to Recycle Aluminum Can
...Alcoa (NYSE:AA) announced today the launch of a free, user-friendly iPhone application compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad that will make it fun and easy for consumers to recycle aluminum cans...
Alcoa Launches Aluminum Can Recycling App for iPhone
...Alcoa /quotes/comstock/13*!aa/quotes/nls/aa (AA 12.87, -0.01, -0.08%) announced today the launch of a free, user-friendly iPhone application compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad that will make it fun and easy for consumers to recycle aluminum cans. The new app -- called Aluminate(TM) --...
Alcoa Receives Recognition for its Commitment to Sustainability
...Alcoa was recognized for using renewable, clean energy for 60 percent of its smelting operations, providing energy efficient materials for green buildings, having an employee energy reduction program, and leading the industry in the recycling and reusing of aluminum beverage cans...
Maaden-Alcoa aluminum complex foundation laid
...The Saudi Arabian Mining Company, Maaden and Alcoa Inc., the largest US aluminum producer, poured Sunday the first concrete for the Middle East’s first fully integrated aluminum smelter and a rolling mill to produce food-grade cans, at Ras Al-Zour in the Eastern Province...
Moscow Region new factory to produce 1 billion aluminum cans per year
...A representative of the Moscow Region’s Ministry for Foreign Trade Affairs said that the Can Pack Group has opened a new aluminum can factory in the Moscow Region’s Volokolamsk district that is able to produce 1 billion cans per year...
5th grader wants your aluminum cans
...If you normally throw your empty soda cans in the trash, or even if you already recycle them, Jacob Price wants your help...
Aluminum can recycling rate hits 57.4 percent
...The Aluminum Association, Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI) and the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) announced the 2009 Used Beverage Container (UBC) recycling rate at 57.4 percent. This is the highest recycling rate of any beverage container in the United States. In 2009,...
Father and son come up with winning lantern made from recyled aluminium cans
...THE Mid-Autumn Festival is something the Liau family from Rantau look forward to every year...
Crown to Expand Production Capacity of Aluminum Beverage Cans in China
... Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK) (Crown), a leading supplier of packaging products worldwide, announced today that it will build three new beverage can plants in China - one in Putian (Fujian Province), one in Foshan (Guangdong Province) and one in Ziyang (Sichuan Province)...
60 percent aluminium drinks cans in UK were recycled
...Redditch - Over the past 21 years the aluminium packaging industry has invested over £50 million supporting the development of the recycling infrastructure for aluminium packaging, including drinks cans...
57.4% of aluminum cans were recycled in 2009
...The Aluminum Association, Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI) and the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) on September 15 announced the 2009 Used Beverage Container (UBC) recycling rate at 57.4 percent. This is the highest recycling rate of any beverage container in the United States....
U.S. aluminum can recycling up 4 pct in 2009
...Nearly 55.5 billion aluminum cans were recycled in the United States in 2009, an increase of about 2.3 billion cans or 4 percent over the previous year, three industry groups said on Tuesday...
Nigeria president commissions aluminium can plant of GZ Industries
...GZ Industries Limited said that when fully operational it will be capable of producing 600 million can per year with that capacity doubling after the first year to meet 100% of demand from Nigeria and other West African countries...
Finally, Koala Recycling Solutions Offers A Way to Recycle Aluminum Cans and Other Metals in Israel
...Koala Recycling Solutions, the only Israeli company offering collection and recycling of metal packaging from consumers, tells us what we can and should be recycling...
Recycling sense: Simple dos and don'ts can help save funds
... An admitted "neat freak," Cash says recycling day is torture for her. "Every time I come here, I want to try to clean up these bins," she said last week while dropping off a load of plastic bottles and aluminum cans at Sonoco Recycling on Mule Academy Road in Fishersville. .... It's a...
Used aluminium can scrap price keeps rising in Tokyo
...Japan metal Bulletin reported that used aluminium can market price keeps increasing when the price hit higher at tenders by local government around Tokyo...
Brazil: World Leader in Recycling Aluminium Cans
...For the last nine years Brazil has led the world in recycling aluminium cans, of which it reuses 96.5 percent, and it now has a strong chance of reaching the 100 percent mark...
UBC Recycling Rate Hits 55 Percent in U.K.
...According to Rick Hindley, executive director of the U.K.-based aluminum recycling association Alupro, the aluminum beverage can recycling rate in the United Kingdom reached 55 percent last year.
