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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European Aluminium’s Packaging Seminar reveals useful facts about Mallorca’s recycling system
<p>The recently ended annual Packaging Seminar of the European Aluminium, in Mallorca was a success. Held every year, September, the event provides the host country with the opportunity to give an insight into their specific recycling and recovery challenges. This year’s seminar was no...
Chocolate comes in aluminium cans
<p>A unique collaboration between Ball and Belgian chocolate brand, Ovidias, sees the chocolatier bring its patented packaging concept to the commercial market. Ovidias is the only company to package its chocolates in beverage cans. <br /><br />Using Ball’s 330ml can, the product comes in a...
Aluminium foil packaging market to grow driven by flexible packaging demand until 2020
<p>According to the latest market study released by Technavio, the global aluminium foil packaging market is expected to reach USD 10.46 million tons by 2020, growing at a CAGR of nearly 4 per cent.<br /><br />Flexible packaging is an economical method to package, preserve, and distribute food,...
China aluminium rolling industry is growing in tandem with the global market
<p>According to a recently published market research report by Reportbuyer, global consumption of aluminium rolled products that are primarily used in packaging, transportation and construction sectors amounted to 23.8 million tons in 2015, up 5.1 per cent from a year ago and a 1.5 percentage...
Black Medicine Iced Coffee poised for a switch to aluminium cans this fall
<p>RTD coffee company Black Medicine Iced Coffee has planned to switch to aluminium cans starting end of this year, a move it says will appropriately meet consumer preferences and convenience, not to mention portability.<br /><br />The company launched in 2014 in California's Oakland creates hot...
Pelliconi Group signs in Sacmi for an aluminium cap liner machine
<p>Italian crown cork and cap manufacturer Pelliconi Group has signed a contract with Sacmi to supply a new metal cap production line for its China business. Sacmi, a manufacturer of the aluminium cap liner-making and application machine, will provide the firm with line capable of producing...
UPM Raflatac VANISH film enables aluminium beverage can recycling without affecting quality
<p>Aluminium beverage cans labelled with UPM Raflatac's VANISHTM film is fit for recycling, confirmed Novelis. The world's largest recycler of aluminium cans said the thin 23-micron VANISHTM label is ‘sufficiently light’ in order not to affect the quality of the secondary aluminium...
Extra investment needed to bring more cans into EU’s official recycling loop, study finds
<p>According to a study by BOKU University, Europe can take specific measures to formalise the informal recycling of aluminium beverage cans. The findings were presented today at European Aluminium’s 2016 Packaging Seminar in Mallorca, Spain. <br /><br />The study was carried out by the...
AEROBAL presents winners for World Aluminium Aerosol Can Award 2016
<p>AEROBAL, the International Organisation of Aluminium Aerosol Container Manufacturers has invited entries for this year’s best aluminium aerosol cans award. About 70 per cent of all aluminium aerosol can producers worldwide are members of AEROBAL. Packaging Europe's editor in chief, Tim...
ISRI seeks nominations for 2017 Design for Recycling Award
<p>The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI), the Voice of the Recycling Industry, today released a call for entries for the 2017 Design for Recycling (DFR) Award. The DFR Award is ISRI’s highest award given annually to the most outstanding contribution to products designed with...
Ardagh to display its newly launched beverage can lines at Brau Beviale 2016
<p>Recently, Ardagh Group, an award winning manufacturer of glass packaging, beer kegs and aluminium bottles have ventured into the beverage can manufacturing. As an aftermath of the same, the company will feature its beverage cans at Brau Beviale 2016 along with its other products.<br /><br />As...
Colorado based distillery creates aluminium bottle for outdoor enthusiasts
<p>Premium malt makers are making a swift shift from conventional glass bottle packaging to trendier and sustainable metal packaging, to be more specific, to aluminium packaging. Wood's High Mountain Distillery in Salida, Colorado, recently announced that from now its Tenderfoot Whiskey will be...
German aluminium packaging market reports a lukewarm summer
<p>According to EUWID's quarterly report on the German aluminium packaging market, aluminium beverage can suppliers have had a normal summer this year. There was a seasonal upturn but that was not sustained and was far from "terribly impressive", the suppliers told EUWID. <br /><br />According to...
Tesco Quedgeley signs in for a novel aluminium aerosol can recycling scheme
<p>Aluminium recycling is percolating deeper inside the system in varous parts of the world, especially in the Americas and Europe where the demand for aluminium packaging solutions is increasing steadily. Even the smaller businesses are cashing in on the opportuities that are being thrown at them...
Alufoil Trophy 2017 to showcase the very best in aluminium foil and closure applications
<p>Each year the Alufoil Trophy competition offers the opportunity for companies to showcase the very best and latest aluminium foil and closure applications and ideas. EAFA, the European Aluminium Foil Association has announced that entries for the 2017 competition are now open and will be...
Kian Joo MD Yeoh Jin Hoe initiates takeover of Alcom
<p>A prominent corporate honcho and MD of Kian Joo Can Factory Bhd and Box-Pax (M) Bhd Yeoh Jin Hoe has initiated the takeover of Aluminum Company of Malaysia Bhd (Alcom) after buying a 59.16% stake of the aluminium rolled products manufacturer. This is an attempt to expand his business interests...
Malang univ students awarded for creating deodorant from processed aluminium waste
<p>Aluminium recycling has long become mainstream, at least in those parts of the globe, where the consumption rate of aluminium packaging solutions has been reasonably high for some time now. Secondary aluminium extracted from packaging solutions has made its way into a number of economically...
Global alcoholic beverage packaging market to grow at 4.81% during 2016-20
<p>According to a recent report, the global alcoholic beverage packaging market is slated to grow at a CAGR of 4.81 per cent during the five year period starting 2016 through 2020. Change in the lifestyle of consumers, introduction of new products and flavours, and increase in the number of...
