Latest Beverage can Stories

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK), a leading supplier of metal packaging products worldwide, announced today that its subsidiary, CROWN Asia Pacific Holdings Ltd., plans to install a second beverage can line in its existing facility in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The new line is expected to be operational in the fourth quarter of 2011 and have an initial annual production capacity of 700 million two-piece 33cl aluminum beverage cans, which will expand the...

-- 100% Recyclable Packaging Celebrates 200 Years of Service -- WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- For the past two hundred years, one food container has ruled the food packaging world and shows no signs of relinquishing its crown in the future. On August 25, the Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI) invites Americans to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the food can by acknowledging its consistent relevance in our past, present and future. The can revolution began on August 25,...

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK) (www.crowncork.com) a leading supplier of metal packaging products worldwide announced today that its business unit, CROWN Bevcan Europe & Middle East, will install a second beverage can production line in its recently opened facility in Kechnec, Slovakia. The new line is expected to be operational early in 2011 and have an initial annual production capacity of approximately 850 million two-piece aluminum...

DALLAS, June 30, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- The packaged food industry has seen a tremendous evolution in terms of the technologies used for packaging. All the recent packaging technologies are devised keeping in mind the convenience of the consumers and the preservation and safety of food items. With rising average annual incomes, better home cooking facilities, and a shift of people towards supermarket or hypermarkets are the major factors driving this market. However, the market for canned...

OSLO, June 28 /PRNewswire/ -- New increases in the use of aluminum in consumer electronics, automobiles, packaging and infrastructure are among the top drivers for growth in rolled aluminum products, and concerns about sustainability are behind much of the trend, according to Philip Martens, president and COO of Novelis Inc. Martens spoke on June 22 at CRU's 15th Annual Aluminium Conference in Oslo, Norway. Novelis is the world's largest producer of rolled aluminum and the global leader...

CHICAGO, June 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Novelis Inc., the world's leading producer of aluminum rolled products, is positioning itself to meet the growing global demand it sees in markets for consumer packaging, transportation light-weighting and sustainable design applications. Erwin Mayr, Novelis SVP and Chief Strategy Officer, presented the company's long-term outlook at Harbor International's Third Annual Aluminum Outlook Conference in Chicago this week. (Logo:...

ATLANTA, May 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Novelis announced today that it will invest approximately $300 million to expand its aluminum rolling operations in Pindamonhangaba, Brazil, in response to the growing demand for its products in South America. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100527/CL11716LOGO ) The expansion will increase the plant's capacity by more than 50 per cent to over 600,000 metric tonnes of aluminum sheet per year. The project, which includes the addition of a third...

ERIE, Pa., May 21 /PRNewswire/ -- The recycling of beverage containers made from polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is garnering higher purity and yield with high speed, high strength eddy current separation technology from Eriez®. Eriez' newest line of Eddy Current Separators deliver exceptional nonferrous particle separation from PET flake. Recyclers can obtain a single pass aluminum reduction up to 92 percent and achieve a clean PET yield of 97 percent to 99 percent. According to...

BROOMFIELD, Colo., May 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Ball Resealable End (BRE) from Ball Corporation (NYSE: BLL) has received the 2009/2010 AmeriStar Award for beverage packaging. Each year, the Institute of Packaging Professionals (IoPP) honors companies that have succeeded in creating innovative packaging that delivers improved efficiency and sustainability. The BRE does this by adding resealability to the long list of beverage can benefits, which include superior shelf life,...

SAO PAULO, May 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Novelis do Brasil Ltda., a subsidiary of Novelis Inc., the worldwide leader in aluminum rolled products and can recycling, announced today that it has begun work on a US$15 million expansion of recycling capacity at its integrated aluminum rolling and recycling complex in Pindamonhangaba, Sao Paulo. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070809/NOVELISLOGO ) The investment will include the addition of two new furnaces and related improvements, which...