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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PepsiCo surpasses 2014 recycling goals, uses more rPET
PepsiCo has reported that it diverted 93 percent of its waste from landfills in 2014, surpassing its recycling goal and reusing 90 percent of its waste. The company also says it decreased the overall amount of packaging by 89 million pounds in 2014 versus the prior year and used 134 million pounds...
Use of RVM will increase percentage of recycled aluminium packaging in India, says Can-Pack MD
In the recently ended World Packaging Congress in Mumbai, Marek Kura, managing director of Can-Pack, said the use of RVM i.e. Reverse Vending Machine, currently used by many countries for recycling of metal cans, is yet to take off in India. Can-Pack India is the country’s leading aluminium...
Rexam joins hands with WeCan for UK’s first mobile canning facility
Rexam has teamed up with WeCan Solutions to produce aluminium cans for the first ever mobile canning facility in the UK, one of only a handful in Europe. The pioneering service, backed by Rexam, offers onsite canning solutions for craft brewers and smaller beverage brands with a minimum filling run...
Ball opens aluminium aerosol can plant in India
Ball Corporation today opened an aluminum aerosol can plant in India, located in the northwest city of Ahmedabad. With this new plant, Ball will meet the region's increasing demand, and continue the company's Drive for 10 vision of entering into new geographic regions and remaining close to...
SA aluminium body positive about aluminium prospects
Owing to the increased use of aluminium in the automotive and beverage packaging industries, demand for aluminium in South Africa has positive long-term prospects, says Aluminium Federation of South Africa (Afsa) executive director Mark Krieg. “There is tremendous growth opportunity in South...
Rexam offers customers two new Sleek® aluminium can sizes
Rexam has added two new can sizes to its Sleek® family, reaffirming its position as a leading global can maker with the largest range of can sizes in the industry. The new 400ml and the 473ml super sleek cans, both with 202 ends, are manufactured in Ejpovice, Czech Republic, and are available to...
More innovation needed to bridge the packaging-recycling gap in Romania
European Aluminium’s packaging group chairman Mr Raphael Thevenin (Constellium) calls upon local authorities and waste management operators to invest in innovative packaging collection and recycling systems, on the occasion of the annual packaging recycling seminar of European Aluminium in...
Study reveals single serve coffee packaging systems can reduce food waste and lower environmental impact
A recent study by Quantis Canada on the environmental impact of single serve coffee portions, relative to bulk coffee preparation at home, reinforces findings from the LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) on two coffee packaging systems commissioned by Flexible Packaging Europe (FPE). The externally...
Ball maintains leadership position for sustainability
Ball Corporation has been named the industry leader for container and packaging companies on the 2015 Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI) for the third consecutive year. Ball Corporation maintained its best-in-class position on both the DJSI World Index, and the Dow Jones Sustainability Index...
Budweiser Budvar celebrates 120th anniversary with limited edition Rexam cans
Rexam has collaborated with Czech brewer, Budweiser Budvar, to create a limited edition can design celebrating 120 years of the Budvar brewery. Rexam and Budvar worked together to create a unique design that encapsulates Budvar’s history and communicates the premium nature of the beer. Using value...
Anheuser-Busch plans boosting aluminum bottle production
Anheuser-Busch confirmed a $170 million project to expand aluminum bottle production for Budweiser and Bud Light at its Metal Container Corp. facility in Jacksonville, Florida. The project will create about 75 new jobs at the facility, officials said. The brewer had sought $15 million in state and...
Global beverage containers market to grow at a CAGR 2.83% during 2014-2019
A recently conducted market research reveals consolidation in the packaging industry is going to have a substantial impact on the market. Rexam, the premeire can maker, if merges with Ball will craete a gloabl leader in the metal beverage packaging indsurty. A deal to this effect was announced in...
Kulshan Brewing Company moves into Rexam cans
Hoping to bring its award-winning beers to even more customers, Kulshan Brewing Company has added cans to its packaging mix. Two of its brews - Bastard Kat IPA and Full 90 Session Ale are available now in Rexam 12 oz. cans. Brewed with passion and precision, Bastard Kat is an American Style West...
Alupro announces revisions to the aluminium IBA protocol
Following approval from Defra and the Environment Agencies, revisions are being introduced to the protocol that account for aluminium packaging recovered from incinerator bottom ash (IBA). Three revisions to the protocol are designed to obtain a more accurate rate of the aluminium packaging...
Defra seeking reaction to aluminium recycling shortfall
The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) is taking steps to improve compliance of aluminium reprocessors after the number of aluminium packaging waste recovery notes (PRNs) issued in the UK failed to meet statutory business targets for 2015. In the second quarter of 2015,...
Alufoil Trophy 2016 - Search for the best innovations in aluminium foil and closures begins
EAFA, the European Aluminium Foil Association has announced that entries for the 2016 Alufoil Trophy competition are now open and will be accepted until 20 November 2015. The Alufoil Trophy is now recognised as the most highly valued award in the sector, with categories covering every aspect of...
A new, simpler PRN system under way for 2016
Advisory Committee on Packaging (ACP) chairman Phil Conran said a simpler accreditation process for the Packaging Recovery Note (PRN) system will be introduced from 2016 onward. The changes proposed therein will hopefully encourage more secondary aluminium businesses (as well as other metal...
Inabata and Toyo to launch anti-counterfeit blister foil
A blister foil with anti-counterfeit features developed by Japan's Toyo Aluminium will be launched at Pharma Expo next month. The blister foil technology features colour-shifting inks that can be complemented by additional semi-overt and covert features and - according to US distributor Inabata -...
