Ball Corporation has increased its production capacity with the opening of a new aluminum aerosol can plant in northwest city of Ahmedabad, India. The move is in line with the company's Drive for 10 vision strategy of expanding its ...
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Metal packaging products supplier Crown Holdings is to increase beverage can capacity at its Osmaniye plant, in central southern Turkey with the installation of a new production line. The expansion plans come in response to increasing ...
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Ukrainian paint producer Meffert Ganza Farben is creating product differentiation in the DIY sector with the re-launch of its paint in the Paintainer plastic pail from RPC Superfos, replacing the previous metal pack format. In particular, ...
Tags: plastic pail, Metal
Ball Corporation will close its beverage packaging end-making plant in Bristol, Virginia, next year. Opened in 1971, the Bristol plant is one of the oldest North American beverage packaging units of the company. It makes can ends in a ...
The European Commission has launched a probe into the proposed purchase of UK-based can manufacturer Rexam by the US firm Ball Corporation, to ascertain whether it conforms to the EU Merger Regulation. The investigation is born out of ...
Tags: beverage can, aluminum bottle
Tetra Pak is planning a push in the food packaging market with its cartonboard packaging offering. Tetra Recart was the first retortable carton package which enabled filled product to be sterilized within the package. A direct ...
To celebrate the centenary, Ardagh formally opened its new factory extension. Since 1914, metal packaging solutions were manufactured at the Sutton‐in‐Ashfield site, originally for the production of printed fancy metal ...
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While this decline was spread across all three market sectors — light metal packaging, steel drums and similar containers, and other containers (of a capacity exceeding 300 litres — it was most substantial in the light metal ...
Tags: Metal Packaging, Falling Demand
Hindustan Tin Works (HTW), prominent Indian can and end maker, will celebrate the export of its “1 billion ends” at the Metal Packaging Plaza during Interpack. Atit Bhatia, sr. vice-president, HTW, said: “We are a ...
Tags: Metal Packaging, Interpack
Research by Smithers Pira has determined that the authenticity and trust of brand owners and their products is growing in importance in the eyes of consumers. Given increased scrutiny in the wake of high profile food recalls over the last ...
Tags: Metal Packaging, Packaging, Printing, food packaging
Originally only associated with nightlife activities or as an accompaniment to alcoholic beverages to create mixed drinks, energy drinks are increasingly being consumed as refreshments in their own right. In fact, a recent study conducted ...
Tags: Crown, Energy Drinks, Drinks Market
Interpack is feeling confident that 2014 will be its best year yet. It has a high number of returning exhibitors as well as a collection of very eager newbies, each with new advances to show and new advantages to share. interpack 2014 is ...
Henkel will exhibit lubricants and cleaners under the Bonderite brand for the manufacture of two-piece beverage cans at Metpack 2014, a trade fair for the international metal packaging industry, scheduled between 6 May and 8 May 2014. The ...
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Recycling campaigns are not without their detractors as their results are often met with more than a little scepticism and their long-term value often questioned. However, a number of communication programmes, developed by the Aluminium ...
Tags: Packaging Recycling, Packaging
Relativity Capital's portfolio company MHF Services (MHF) has purchased the assets of specialty metal packaging firm Bull Run Metal (BRM) Fabricators and Engineers in the US. Following the transaction, BRM will conduct business as MHF ...