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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Research on the amount of metals packaging put onto the UK market
Defra is in talks with the UK metals industry to start a research project on the amount of metals packaging put onto the UK market. This would be to confirm that the current estimates for aluminium and steel packaging are accurate. UK and EU packaging recycling targets are set on the basis of these...
Alufoil Trophy winners earn more honours with WorldStar awards
Four products, which won the coveted Alufoil Trophy in 2013, have been recognised by the World Packaging Organisation (WPO) with the award of a WorldStar 2014 for packaging excellence. The winning alufoil products were made by Constantia Flexibles and Amcor Flexibles and cover food, beverage and...
African beer brand Skol gains impact in aluminium bottle
The African beer brand Skol has moved into Impact Bottles made by Ball Packaging Europe to market its Skol Platinum beer in Rwanda. The Impact extruded aluminium bottle is initially being launched on the growing African market, which is set to double in size over the next 10 years. The team behind...
Germany reaches a mark of 89% with the recycling of aluminum packaging
Already at a high level, the recycling of aluminium packaging in Germany reached a new peak in 2012, according to a study from the CVM Society for Packaging Market Research. A total of 83 500 tonnes of the 93 800 tonnes used, or 89%, was recycled in that year. 'The high rates of recycling show that...
DONGXING Aluminium launches superior quality aluminium foil strip and foil shielding tape
With an aim to facilitate the growth of food processing industry, aluminium foil shielding tape, aluminium foil strips and other food packaging foils was introduced by Dongxing Aluminium, a China based company recently. They have plans to come up with food packaging materials that can preserve food...
KM Packaging Celebrates Milestone
KM Packaging revolutionised the ready meals industry with lidding film for aluminium foil trays in the late 1990s, paving the way for a new generation of cost-effective, freezable and ovenable meals which would subsequently grace dinner tables across the world. Since then KM has been the driving...
North Lincolnshire Council and Leeds City Council to launch Alupro’s “leave your cap on” recycling campaign
North Lincolnshire Council and Leeds City Council have become the latest local authorities to launch Alupro’s “Leave Your Cap On” recycling communications campaign which encourages recyclers to screw the aluminium caps back on glass bottles before recycling. The new campaigns have seen ‘Leave your...
Pizza Port Brewing Co. makes Craft Beer more portable in Aluminum cans from Ball Corp.
Pizza Port Brewing Co., winner of 83 Great American Beer Festival (GABF) medals since 2000, is debuting three of its popular beers in convenient, sustainable aluminum cans from Ball Corporation. For the first time in its 26-year history, Pizza Port will be entrusting its hand-crafted passion to a...
Apple’s new Mac Pro uses 74% less aluminum and 84% lighter packaging
Apple has today released its environmental report for its new Mac Pro machine, which details some fairly large savings on power and raw materials. The new device also earns a gold rating from the EPEAT, but that isn’t too surprising as Apple has ‘helped’ the organization rethink how it evaluates...
Charity organization helps people recycle festive aluminium scraps
The festive period is traditionally the season for giving, but it’s also an opportunity to give something back. Milton Keynes Christian Foundation is helping people recycle aluminium foil packaging and aluminium drinks cans left over from the new year party. Not only will you be helping this...
Ess Dee Aluminium bags two awards at National Quality Convention
Ess Dee Aluminum, one of the country's leading aluminum foil manufacturers, has bagged two awards in National Concept on Quality Convention. The event was held in Durgapur from December 20 to 23, 2013 and attracted more than 1,200 teams and 5,000 participants from across the country. "We are proud...
European aluminium beverage can recycling at record level of 68%
The overall recycling rate for aluminium beverage cans in the EU 27 + EFTA countries increased by 2.4% points to a new record level of 68% in 2011. If the collection of cans in the remaining European countries and Turkey is included, this means that more than 25 billion cans are recycled in Europe...
Wealth of metal at our fingertips
"The earth below South Africans’ feet may be rich in many minerals, but one element has always been missing – this nation imports 100% of the raw materials it needs to make aluminium. Savvy urban prospectors in Gauteng, however, have detected a mother lode of the metal spilling out of bars,...
European aluminium beverage can recycling at record level of 68%
European aluminium beverage can recycling at record level of 68% Brussels, 16 December 2013: The overall recycling rate for aluminium beverage cans in the EU 27 + EFTA countries increased by 2.4% points to a new record level of 68% in 2011. If the collection of cans in the remaining European...
Blue Can Pure Water in recyclable aluminum cans offers “ecological and convenient alternative”
Blue Can Pure Water comes in recyclable single serve aluminum cans with a 50-year, shelf-life. “Our philosophy is to reduce the use of plastic bottles with a sustainable product rather than legislative bans. Our vision is to scale our technology globally, taking on mounting consumer waste by...
Residents encouraged to recycle aluminium bottle tops
Leeds residents are being encouraged to leave metal screw caps on glass bottles and jars when recycling at the city’s bottle banks. People can screw the aluminium tops back on empty bottles before dropping them at recycling points across the city. The ‘you can leave your cap on’ campaign has been...
Aluminum cans help specialty drinks brands expand reach in Brazil
ABRE, the Brazilian Packaging Association, recently reported that the average number of beverage cans used in 2012 per Brazilian consumer rose to 103, a 12% increase from 91 cans used the year before. While many of these cans are for beer or soft drink applications, an increasing number of brands...
UN report recognises Life Cycle Assessments work of EAFA
A new report, from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has used a number of Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) undertaken by the European Aluminium Foil Association (EAFA), to understand best practice in using LCA as an assessment tool for packaging. The report, produced under the Life Cycle...
