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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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...
Lavazza launches Australia’s first Nespresso compatible aluminium coffee pods
Lavazza, the Italian coffee brand, has incorporated aluminium as its coffee pod material to offer the Australian customer base a sustainable experience. The company’s first carbon neutral capsules are the very first types to be introduced in the Australian retail market and, moreover, are...
AEROBAL declares Rexona as the winner of “aluminium cans already under the market” category
The much-awaited winner list of the World Aluminium Aerosol Can Award 2022 is finally revealed by The International Organisation of Aluminium Aerosol Container Manufacturers (AEROBAL), with lightweight and recyclable aluminium solutions recognised across categories. In the category “aluminium cans...
Qualipac Aluminium joins ASI as its new Industrial User member
On Thursday, August 11, Aluminium Stewardship Initiative announced the joining of Qualipac Aluminium as its news Industrial User member. To support a responsible value chain for aluminium, Qualipac Aluminium has opted to participate in an ASI certification procedure. Groupe Pochet, a pioneer in...
Rolled aluminium production rise in the US could eliminate imports
According to analysts, US importable beverage can sheet will almost disappear due to the additional production of three major US aluminium rolling mills by the end of 2026. Even though demand for this packaging is expected to grow by then, the three mills will virtually eliminate importable...
Ball Corporation plans to close its St. Paul aluminium beverage cans facility
On Thursday, August 4, Ball Corporation, the world’s leading sustainable aluminium packaging provider, officially declared its plans to shut down beverage cans plant located on Saint Paul’s West Side. The company also announced that the tentative time of ending the operations at St. Paul would be...
Britvic upgrades Rugby factory with £26.9 million introducing extreme capacity canning line
British producer of soft drinks, Britvic, has invested £26.9 million to enhance the operations in its Rugby factory along with maintaining the newfound canning line that can produce more than 120,000 aluminium cans per hour. This investment is to honour the company's 35 years of service in the...
Jason Momoa amazes Hawaiian Airlines passengers by distributing Mananalu aluminium water bottles
Growing up amongst nature and the ocean, Jason Momoa's connection with the environment was established long back. His closeness and care towards nature led to the formation of Mananalu, a drinking water company, in 2019. To commemorate Hawaiian Airlines' collaboration with his water firm Mananalu,...
PPG unveils non-BPA internal spray coating for aluminium beverage cans
On Monday, August 1, Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company (PPG) unveiled PPG INNOVEL® PRO, an improved interior spray coating for the endlessly recyclable aluminium beverage can that omits the use of bisphenol-A (BPA) or bisphenol starting ingredients and has more strong application qualities. Bisphenol...
End user weekly recap: International cola giant forecasts strong revenue growth eyeing sustainable demand; Colep Packaging acquires a 40% stake in aerosol manufacturing firm ALM
From transport to automobiles to packaging, the use of aluminium is widespread and expanding with passing time. This week the end-user sector of the global aluminium industry recorded some significant changes. A swift change was witnessed, with companies shifting to aluminium for a more sustainable...
Novelis bags ASI Performance Standard certification for 3 beverage can sheet facilities in North America
Novelis, the leading producer of flat-rolled aluminium and the world’s largest recycler, announced on Friday, July 29, that three of its recycled aluminium ingot and beverage can sheet producers in North America received the ASI Performance Standard certifications. Novelis’ Greensboro, GA, Berea,...
Colep Packaging acquires a 40% stake in aerosol manufacturing firm ALM
The leading player in the European aerosol market and the Iberian leader in general Packaging, Colep Packaging have acquired a 40% stake in the more than three decades old Spanish aluminium aerosol provider ALM. As a result of this move, Colep will be able to expand its packaging portfolio and...
CANPACK S.A. to materialize US$140 million plant in Poços de Caldas sufficing aluminium can demand in Brazil
CANPACK S.A. has declared that it will enhance its aluminium beverage can production capacity with the introduction of a new manufacturing unit in Poços de Caldas, a municipality under the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The CANPACK authority, alongside economic development leaders and state plus...
Lakeland Artisan adopts sustainability, introduces aluminium cans for soft drinks
Lakeland Artisan, run by husband-wife Geoff and Mary Monkman, is a well-acknowledged food and drinks company creating high-quality, handcrafted products using natural ingredients bereft of artificial preservatives. Under the company's lead, Mawson's Traditional soft drinks will now pack their...
End-user weekly recap: Novelis expands its evercycle™ portfolio to cosmetic packaging; Israel-India aluminium-air battery JV plans trial run on a 50-seater e-bus
The end-user sector in aluminium is where all the products from the other streams meet, and this week, it was buzzing with innovative activities as there were many additions along the path. Novelis wishes to be carbon neutral by 2025, and on July 20 2022, the world leader in sustainable aluminium...
Portuguese food packaging company invests €1 million for aluminium and waterproof paper solutions
Berrapack packaging company based in Aljustrel, Beja, is about to allot €1 million for the manufacturing of waterproof paper and aluminium packages for use in the food industry in the coming year, according to the proprietor on July 21. “We will produce between 400,000 and 500,000 paper packages...
Saperatec GmbH develops a recycling plant in Germany to sort packaging materials for reuse
Saperatec is, at this moment, engrossed in constructing its first recycling plant in Germany, specialising in composite packaging in addition to segregating thin layer composite materials from aluminium barriers during its exceptional recycling process. Saperatec is working with composite flexible...
