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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Rexam opens graphics and design studio in Luton
Global can maker Rexam has opened a new state-of-the-art graphics and design studio, providing a unique offering for customers with on-the-spot design expertise, platemaking and proofing. The studio, located at the heart of Rexam's European central office in Luton in the UK, showcases Rexam's...
ISRI seeks nominations for Design for Recycling Award
The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI), the Voice of the Recycling Industry™, today released a call for entries for the 2015 Design for Recycling (DFR) Award. The DFR Award is ISRI’s highest award given annually to the most outstanding contribution to products designed with recycling in...
Aluminium industry reinforces commitment to sustainable packaging in Europe
At its annual Packaging Seminar held yesterday in Helsinki, the European Aluminium Association (EAA) reaffirmed its commitment to sustainable packaging in Europe with the launch of its new brochure, “Aluminium packaging: convenient, safe and infinitely recyclable”. “While the EU Commission recently...
Alupro develops new protocol for aluminium packaging recovered from Incinerator Bottom Ash (IBA)
Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation (Alupro) has developed a new protocol for aluminium packaging recovered from Incinerator Bottom Ash (IBA). This protocol for recycling will allow issuing of PRNs on this material from 1st Jan 2015. This is acknowledged by the Environment Agency (EA) and it...
Nespresso aims at 100% recyclability of aluminium capsules
Nespresso, which is the premium coffee brand of Nestlé, has announced its aim to achieve a 100 percent recycling of its aluminium capsules by expanding their recycling capacity. At present the capacity is at 75% where customers can order recycling bags when the order their coffee online as...
Alupro, as Aluminum Packaging Recycling Organisation marks 25 years
The Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation (ALUPRO) is celebrating its 25th Anniversary this year, and is using the milestone to take a reflective look at its many achievements, which have encouraged and increased the recycling of aluminium packaging in the UK. The not-for-profit organisation...
Alufoil Trophy 2015 open for entries: Rolling out excellence in aluminium foil applications and design
EAFA, the European Aluminium Foil Association, announced that entries for the Alufoil Trophy 2015 competition are now open until 21 November 2014. The Alufoil Trophy recognises and rewards the use of aluminium foil and aluminium closures in all its many forms and uses. From rolls in the kitchen,...
Novelis and Red Hare Brewery heading towards 100% recycled beverage cans
The world’s first 100% recycled beverage can, could be soon underway. Novelis Inc. has partnered with the Marietta craft-beer manufacturer, the Red Hare Brewing Company, to bring beverage cans produced almost entirely out of recycled material. Novlis Inc., a multi-national aluminium manufacturer,...
Amcor eyes $3 billion in acquisitions
Five years after its transformational $1.9 billion acquisition of Alcan's packaging assets, Amcor is eyeing potential acquisitions worth $3 billion as the global packaging giant seeks further growth in both emerging and developed markets. Amcor chief executive Ken MacKenzie said the pipeline for...
EU Aluminum Can industry shows stronger growth during 2013 as exports up
Over the past decade the total beverage can market in Europe further increased and is now well above 50 billion cans per year. The aluminium share rose steadily and today more than 70% of all beverage cans consumed in Europe are made of aluminium. As per Beverage Can Makers Europe study, last year...
Aluminium boxes and containers for the offshore industry
There is increasing scientific evidence that human activity is negatively impacting the environment. The political climate also is changing. ln addition, how companies view environmental issues is emerging as a component of a healthy "bottom line." Slowly, but with ever-increasing momentum,...
New AEROBAL website – focus on aesthetics and premium quality of material
The design and contents of the new-look website of the International Organisation of Aluminium Aerosol Container Manufacturers, AEROBAL, centre on the aesthetics and premium nature of aluminium. “This is because it is the numerous beneficial properties of aluminium that provide that decisive...
European Aluminium Association calls for joint non-ferrous and ferrous EU 2030 packaging targets
The decision by the European Commission to split the proposed non-ferrous and ferrous 2030 packaging targets will lead to extra cost, according to the European Aluminum Association (EAA). Under the proposals published by the European Commission last week, 80 per cent of packaging will need to be...
First Aluminium set to acquire $2m machinery to boost production
First Aluminium plc is set to acquire $2 million machinery to improve production of aluminium products and packaging tubes for the health and cosmetics industry. “We are bringing in new machines that will cost us $2 million. Currently, if you include the cheap Chinese products, then we have about...
Ardagh comes up with Coca-Cola 2014 World Cup aluminium bottles
Now that the Quarter Finals of the 2014 Fifa World Cup have been decided, the Coca-Cola Company is offering fans of the remaining eight teams and the millions of collectors who are still following the competition 20 different designs on Ardagh's 25cl aluminium bottles. Designs include action shots...
LRS Consultancy to study packaging recycling strategies
LRS Consultancy (LRS), a London-based research firm, in partnership with the environmental services company Enval, the waste management and recycling firm SITA UK, the consumer products companies Nestlé UK & Ireland and Coca-Cola Enterprises and the retailer Tesco UK, is undertaking a study that...
Ma’aden-Alcoa JV first production-grade coil
The Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Ma’aden) and Alcoa announced Tuesday at a customer event that the rolling mill at their joint venture aluminum complex in Saudi Arabia has successfully produced its first production-grade coil. The mill at Ras Al Khair is the most technologically advanced in the...
Aluminium & Plastic Packaging Recycling Research secures defra funding in UK
The UK Government’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has provided funding for a project to scope out viable approaches for collecting and recycling flexible packaging materials containing aluminium, such as toothpaste tubes and pet food sachets. Funded by Defra’s Action...
