European aluminium EPR fees vary by country, PRO, packaging and recyclability
In a recent conversation with AL Circle, Daniel Vaknine, Co-Founder of Gramta, explained the objectives and implementation of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) and the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR). He discussed how the aluminium packaging industry can comply with these...
Fun Kids highlights Amazing Aluminium with podcast series
Fun Kids, the UK’s leading radio station for children, families and parents, released the final episode of the Amazing Aluminium podcast series on 2nd September. Co-created by the Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation (Alupro), Amazing Aluminium touches on the metal’s composition, its...
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End user weekly recap: Ardagh Group appoints AFRY as a consultant for packaging factories in Brazil; Linke Hofmann Busch aluminium coaches to run via Kerala Platforms
With the world moving towards sustainability, big aluminium players are transforming the way their enterprises worked in the past and adopting methods of waste management. It is therefore quite common to find recycled aluminium in the end-user sector. But overall, this week the sector has been...
Hulamin posts a 147% jump in half-yearly earnings; revenue grows 45% despite increased production costs
Hulamin, a South African aluminium supplier and exporter, announced robust earnings, with a hike of 147 per cent for the first half of 2022 ended June 30. Revenue rose by 45 per cent to R7.9 billion, and operating profit surged by 144 per cent to R223 million amid the challenges posed on working...
Suntory to use the world’s first 100% recyclable aluminium cans for its limited edition premium malts
Japanese multinational brewing and distilling company Suntory Holdings will be using the world's first 100 per cent recycled aluminium cans for its limited edition of The Premium Malt's CO2 Reduction Can (350ml, 5.5% ABV) and The Premium Malt's "Kaoru" Ale CO2 Reduction Can (350ml, 6% ABV). These...
Timaru materials recovery facility recycles huge waste deposits from Ashburton
Ashburton, a large town in the Canterbury Region of New Zealand, has an implemented kerbside recycling scheme that yields almost 22 tonnes of waste materials in plastic, paper, cardboard, steel and aluminium per week. Now the collection from Ashburton is being conveyed to the new US$3.8 million...
Bud Light churns out limited-edition aluminium beer bottles for USTA
With the arrival of the American football season, Bud Light has introduced limited-edition aluminium bottles customised with the indomitable battle cry of The University of Texas at San Antonio (USTA). The ‘Birds Up’ sign on the bottles will remind the school’s motto and cheer the fans up for an...
Sonali Paper Bangladesh begins production at aluminium foil packaging line
Sonali Paper and Board Mill Ltd, a paper manufacturer from Bangladesh, is about to set its first foot in the aluminium sector by beginning commercial production of its latest product line of aluminium foil papers on August 29, 2022. The next day itself, during filing its details at the Dhaka Stock...
Wildpack releases Q2 2022 results appointing new auditor KPMG LLP
Wildpack Beverages, a Canadian beverage manufacturing and packaging enterprise has released their unaudited Q2 2022 Financial Reports, ending June 30, indicating revenue growth of 10 per cent to US$8.91 million compared with the Q2 2021 earnings of $8.14 million. Wildpack's Board of Directors has...
Ardagh Group trusts AFRY’s engineering expertise to run aluminium packaging facility, Brazil
Ardagh Group has selected AFRY as their engineering and consultation partner to run operations at the latest Ardagh Metal Packaging factory and the Ardagh Glass Packaging factory in Brazil. Ardagh Group is an international supplier of sustainable and recyclable aluminium and glass packaging...
GIADEC aims to raise US$6 billion to actualize an integrated aluminium industry in Ghana
Ghana Integrated Aluminum Development Corporation (GIADEC) believes it can raise nearly US$6 billion in private finance to achieve a unified aluminium sector. It also hopes that the integrated aluminium development plan would help Ghana's packaging, pharmaceutical, electric cable manufacturing, and...
Alupro-sponsored Student Starpack Awards winner gets a VIP tour of the R&D centre in Wantage
Jake Inglis, the winner of the Alupro-sponsored category for "personal daily care product and brand" at the 2022 Student Starpack Awards, was given a VIP tour of Crown's cutting-edge R&D centre in Wantage on Thursday, August 18. Jake was joined by judges and given a chance to interact with Crown's...
S27 Alehouse & Brewery brings to notice the struggle of US brewers for aluminium can shortage
Lucas Szymanowski, the co-founder of S27 Alehouse & Brewery in San Jose, California, has talked about the unavailability of aluminium cans to package craft beer. In his words, "Cans have been the biggest problem for us.” Brewers across the United States are facing aluminium can shortage, which...
Ball Aluminum Cup partners with Re:Water for its UK debut
The infinitely recyclable Ball Aluminum Cup is set to hit the UK market this autumn after making a triumphant debut at three Super Bowls and Coldplay's Music of the Spheres US Tours. Ball has teamed up with Re:Water as the exclusive distributor of the cup. This collaboration marks the UK's first...
Increasing demand for beverage cans leads to multiyear high US aluminium can sheet imports in 2Q2022
The United States imports of aluminium can body sheet hit the highest since at least 1998 in the second quarter of 2022 ended June 30, driven by a strong demand for beverage cans and increased mill investments in Asia targeting North American consumers. As per the data released by the US Department...
WildPack signs supply agreement for aluminium solutions with Ball Corporation
On August 23, Wildpack Beverage, Canadian drinks-making and packaging company, declared that a long-term purchase and supply agreement has been signed with Ball Corporation for the procurement of sustainable aluminium packaging solutions. The Chief Growth Officer at Wildpack, Thomas Walker,...
Singapore's Green Doctors Programme developed a method to recycle pharmaceutical blister packaging
Blister packages for pharmaceuticals usually consist of aluminium and plastic layers. As a result of their multi-material composition, discarded packages are typically landfilled, although metallic and polymeric fractions can be recycled if they are separated. The separation of aluminium and...
CafePod UK deploys residential coffee pods made of 80% recycled aluminium
Headquartered in London, CafePod, to bring the experience of flavoured coffee to a user’s resident, has decided to supplement its Nespresso® compatible pod range with three new exquisite blends. For the first time, CafePod made its coffee pods with 80 per cent recycled aluminium which can be 100...
Amcor profit rises by 6% amidst elevated prices of plastic, resin and aluminium
Amcor, one of the most prominent packaging organisations in the world, amounted to US$1.53 billion or AUD2.2 billion of excess imports to its consumer decks and recorded a 12 per cent price hike in the financial year 2022 due to the escalating prices of plastic films, resin and aluminium. The Chief...
PURA deploys latest watermelon flavoured kid’s beverage in sustainable aluminium cans
PURA Beverages has launched its latest watermelon-flavoured range for kids, which is scheduled to arrive at stores just in time for the hot summers, packed safely inside the brand's twenty-five per cent recycled cans and sustainable tetra-packs that remind us of the company's philosophy, 'Live a...
