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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BPA And Water Bottles: Aluminum Bottles May Release Chemical
BPA and water bottles have never had a cozy relationship. Studies in the past have shown that people could lower their levels of BPA by eating fresh, rather than packaged, foods and by avoiding plastic food containers like plastic water bottles. Therefore, many have chosen aluminum bottles as a...
The Malleable Market For Global Aluminum
Last week's Investor Alert highlighted a Macquarie Research chart showing a recent notable upswing in aluminum production around the world. Following a huge dip in output in China and worldwide throughout 2009, China once again surpassed the rest of the world in producing the most aluminum. China's...
Awarded: Separation of plastic-aluminium laminate from recovered beverage cartons
Helsinki, Finnland -- Stora Enso and its partner Alucha Recycling Technologies have been granted the 'Best of the Best' LIFE Environment Project award for 2010. This award is granted by the European Union to recognise projects that have a positive impact on the environment. Stora Enso and Alucha...
Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation, Alupro, sounds waste policy caution
The Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation (Alupro) has given a cautious welcome to yesterday's Waste Policy Review announcement, but has said that Government must go further to meet its zero-waste economy ambitions. Commenting on the review, Alupro executive director Rick Hindley said: "It's...
Aluminum Can Recycling Rate Reaches Highest Level in More than a Decade
The U.S. recycling rate for aluminum beverage cans has reached its highest level in a decade, with 58.1% of all cans recycled last year—a rate that is more than double that of any other beverage container, the Aluminum Association, Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI) and Institute of Scrap Recycling...
Backward integration boosts Ess Dee
Ess Dee Aluminium, India’s largest manufacturer of aluminium foil and foil products, is well poised to benefit from its backward integration exercises along with rising demand for packaging products from pharmaceutical and FMCG sectors. Business: Ess Dee Aluminium engages in the manufacturing and...
Justifying Alcoa’s Aluminum Growth Estimates
Alcoa (NYSE:AA) recently announced that it expects the global consumption and supply of aluminum to double from its 2010 figures by the year 2020. [1] This is based on the company’s forecast that aluminum demand will grow at a compound average rate of 6.5% annually. Here we look at the key trends...
European aluminium foil sector set to grow
Growth in the European aluminium foil sector is expected this year, with first quarter 2011 reports showing an increase in production by 1.3 per cent to 214,400 tonnes compared with the same quarter last year. Thicker aluminium foil gauges, used mainly for the manufacture of semi-rigid foil trays...
Taree factory produces aluminium drink bottles
...The Ardagh Group (formerly Impress Group) has extended its aluminium portfolio from aerosol cans to aluminium bottles after its research identified an opportunity to enter a niche, but growing, market segment...
German aluminium packaging orders rising
...Orders for aluminium packaging received by German producers so far in 2011 have risen around 10 percent on the year, German aluminium industry association GDA said on Monday...
Strong growth in aluminium packaging but economic headwinds loom - Germany
...Germany experienced a “significant increase“ in turnover for aluminium packaging across food, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals in 2010 as the sector continued its post-recession revival, said the national trade body...
German aluminum packaging output up by 14pct in 2010
...According to the GDA, the federation of the aluminum producing and processing industry in Germany, aluminum packaging manufacturers in Germany have recovered from the economic crisis more quickly and better than expected in 2010...
German aluminium packaging output up 14% in 2010, outlook stable
...Aluminium packaging manufacturers in Germany have "recovered from the economic crisis more quickly and better than expected in 2010," according to a report Wednesday by the GDA, the federation of the aluminium producing and processing industry in Germany...
Indian cigarette makers get reprieve on use of aluminium foil`
...It is reported that in a breather to the cigarettes manufacturers, the Bombay High Court has ruled that the process of embossing on aluminium paperback foil and cutting it to shape to be used in the packaging of cigarettes does not amount to manufacture. Hence no excise duty can be levied on...
Sequoia Capital Picks Up Stake In Ess Dee Aluminium?
... Sequoia Capital India has picked up a stake in Ess Dee Aluminium Ltd., which makes packaging materials used by pharmaceutical companies, from the open ...
Ess Dee Aluminium expects to buy more metal on India drug demand
...Bloomberg reported that Ess Dee Aluminium Ltd an Indian maker of packaging used by pharmaceutical companies expects to buy more of the metal this financial year and next driven by increased demand for medicines...
Ess Dee Aluminium expects to buy more metal on India drug demand?
... Bloomberg reported that Ess Dee Aluminium Ltd an Indian maker of packaging used by pharmaceutical companies expects to buy more of the metal this financial year and next driven by increased demand for medicines. ....
Ball Corp. to acquire aluminum can, bottle maker
...Packaging company Ball Corp. said Wednesday it has agreed to buy the European aluminum can and bottle maker Aerocan SAS...
