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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Ess Dee Aluminium's sale is dropping due to low volume and a weakened rupee
Shares of aluminium packaging producer Ess Dee Aluminium have been pummelled over the last year. The company produces aluminium packaging for pharmaceutical producers. During the nine months ended December 2011, the company's sales slipped by two per cent to Rs 493 crore as it found it hard to...
Nicholl acquisition provides basis for continued growth
Specialist aluminium foil tray manufacturer the Nicholl Group has been acquired by Bawtry Investments Ltd for an undisclosed sum. Nicholl and its subsidiaries will continue to operate as a separate division of Bawtry under their existing management teams and maintain the Group’s long-term growth...
Ball Corporation announces a metal technology that can use recycled aluminum in Aluminum Aerosol Packaging
Ball Corporation [NYSE: BLL] announced today a metal technology breakthrough that enables the use of recycled aluminum in the manufacture of extruded aluminum packaging for aerosols. The resulting new metal alloy exhibits increased strength and allows lightweighting of the container without...
Parekh Aluminex Achieves Buy Rate on The Stock Market
Firstcall Research is bullish on Parekh Aluminex and has recommended buy rating on the stock with a target of Rs 385 in its April 10, 2012 research report. "Parekh Aluminex Ltd a Mumbai based company established in 1994, headed by Mr. Amitabh Parekh (Chairman and Managing Director). The Company...
Italy ranks 3rd in the world for recycling of aluminium
"Most of our ingots are destined to the export trade: The German automotive companies buy aluminium and use it for their auto components. Recycling is an industrial and manufacturing process both downstream - recovery, sorting and processing at the foundries where new material is produced - and...
Aluminium key to future Coca Cola success
Drinks giant Coca Cola plans to double business by 2020 – and aluminium will be vital to this, delegates were told at a conference in Miami. Coca Cola’s Chief Procurement Officer – Bottling Investment Group William Hovis said the beverage group was one of the world’s largest users of aluminium with...
Stable demand for aluminium packaging
Manufacturers of packaging made of aluminium appear to be satisfied with the financial year 2011. At 401,300 tonnes (t) of aluminium foils, tubes, and aerosol and beverage cans, aluminium packaging manufacturers were producing almost at the high level of the previous year (2010: 405,000 t). “Even...
Parekh Aluminex Ltd acquires American Foils Inc.
Parekh Aluminex Ltd is in process of acquiring 100% shares of American Foils Inc based in USA, by which it will become a wholly owned subsidiary of the company. American Foils Inc. is engaged in the business of manufacturing of Aluminium Pans / Rolls / Containers / Foils etc. This acquisition would...
Lydall Product Innovation Wins 2012 AluFoil Trophy
The automotive products group of Lydall, Inc. LDL +0.33% announced today that its constrained layer damping (CLD) heat shield product won the 2012 AluFoil Trophy in the Technical Innovation category. "The European Aluminum Foil Association judges liked the simple, but effective use of aluminium to...
Amcor Flexibles wins Overall Excellence and Product Preservation Alufoil Trophies!
Amcor Flexibles is proud to announce winning two Alufoil Trophies from the European Aluminium Foil Association (EAFA). The company received the Overall Excellence Award won with Amcor Canny in recognition of high scores in four of five categories - Marketing + Design, Consumer Convenience,...
Aluminum cans: the ultimate in recycling
When you drink a cold beverage from an aluminum can, you don't just satisfy your thirst. You also hold the potential and the challenge of recycling right there in your hand. Nearly 60 percent of aluminum beverage cans get recycled, more than double the recycling rate for any other beverage...
Every Can Counts helps divert 51m cans from landfill
This equates to 774 tonnes of aluminium and steel collected and around 5,800 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions saved as a result of the programme. Every Can Counts - which is funded by a partnership comprising of UK and European drinks can manufacturers, the aluminium and steel packaging and...
Aluminium packaging website
The International Aluminium Institute (IAI) has launched the latest in the series of product-related sustainability websites, highlighting the advantages of the use of aluminium in packaging. The site is designed to demonstrate the economic, social and environmental benefits of aluminium packaging...
Ess Dee Aluminum arm commissions new unit at Bangalore
Equity Bulls reported that Flex Art Foil Private Limited, the wholly owned subsidiary of Ess Dee Aluminum Limited has commenced the operations at its new manufacturing unit at Bangalore to carry out the activities of printing aluminum foils based packaging products. The Ess Dee Aluminum Limited...
Neville and More Launches New Aluminium Bottle Range
Neville and More has launched a new range of screw neck aluminium bottles available direct from stock with short delivery lead-times. The range includes eight different sizes (30ml, 50ml, 100ml, 150ml, 200ml, 250ml, 300ml and 1000ml). The bottles can be supplied printed or ready-to-label and all...
Alupro raises concerns about the future of cash for cans
Evesham, Worcestershire / UK -- An unintended consequence of the proposed ban on cash transactions for scrap metal would be to make "cash for cans" recycling activity illegal. Around the world "cash for cans" programmes have played, and continue to play, a key role in the aluminium recycling...
DJ Rusal: Plans To Raise Alloy Production By Up To 70% By 2016
Russia's aluminum giant United Co. Rusal PLC (0486.HK) Tuesday said it plans an increase of up to 70% of alloy production at its Siberian smelters by 2016. "By 2016 we plan to produce 1,930,000 tons of high value-added products at our Siberian smelters, in order to satisfy consumer' demand. This...
Warning over composite packaging proposals
Coalition proposals that aim to exclude composite packaging from data used to calculate obligations on aluminium packaging recycling could encourage much more to be used, stakeholders have warned. Last December, Defra launched its consultation on targets for new packaging recycling from 2013 to...
