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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...

SAO PAULO, May 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Novelis do Brasil Ltda., a subsidiary of Novelis Inc., the worldwide leader in aluminum rolled products and can recycling, has signed a multi-year agreement with Rexam, a leading global beverage can producer and the domestic leader in Brazil, to supply aluminum sheet for can production. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070809/NOVELISLOGO ) Under this agreement, Novelis will be the sole supplier of can body sheet for Rexam's ten Brazilian...

ATLANTA, April 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Novelis Inc., the global leader in aluminum rolled products and aluminum can recycling, today announced that it recycled an estimated 40 billion used beverage cans in 2009. The company's focus on beverage can recycling saved more than 76 trillion BTUs of energy in the last year alone - the equivalent of more than 13 million barrels of oil. The impact of this savings avoids the emission of five million metric tons of greenhouse gases - equal to taking...

ST. LOUIS, April 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Cat food can art? Yes, if it's a means of reaching pet owners with an important message about recycling and, if it's about raising money for a worthwhile organization dedicated to protecting the environment. Pet food cans are an often overlooked contributor to landfills. According to recycling industry sources, it's estimated that less than 20 percent of aluminum pet food cans are recycled each year, compared to 54 percent of aluminum beverage cans. In...

PHILADELPHIA, March 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK), a leading supplier of metal packaging products worldwide, today announced that its Brazilian subsidiary, Crown Embalagens S.A., plans to double the production capacity of its Estancia, Brazil beverage can plant as well as double the planned capacity at its beverage can plant currently being constructed in Ponta Grossa, Brazil. This investment is being made to meet the growing demand for beverage cans for...

PHILADELPHIA, March 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK), a leading supplier of metal packaging products worldwide, today announced that its subsidiary, CROWN Asia Pacific Holdings Ltd., plans to build a new beverage can plant in Hangzhou, China. Hangzhou is a city located in the Yangtze River Delta in the People's Republic of China. It is located about 120 miles southwest of Shanghai and is the capital of the Zhejiang province. This ancient city was the capital...

WASHINGTON, March 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- During a 12 week period, over 105 million beverage cans, or more than 3 million pounds of recycled cans, raised over $2.3 million for Habitat for Humanity, the American Red Cross, Toys for Tots, local parks, other non-profit groups, schools and recycling programs through the Aluminum Can Council's (ACC) America Recycles Day Challenge. The America Recycles Day Challenge is a friendly, intra-industry contest where aluminum suppliers Alcoa Inc.,...

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK), a leading supplier of metal packaging products worldwide, announced today that its subsidiary, CROWN Asia Pacific Holdings Ltd., intends to install a second beverage can line in its existing facility northeast of Ho Chi Minh City in Dong Nai Province, Vietnam. The new line is expected to be operational in the fourth quarter of 2010 and have an initial annual production capacity of approximately 600 million...

MARCO ISLAND, Fla., Feb. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- The worldwide adoption of aluminum in industrial and consumer applications is nearing a tipping point and may be about to surge, according to Philip Martens, president and chief operating officer of Novelis, a global leader in aluminum rolled products and aluminum can recycling. Martens was the keynote speaker at the Platts Aluminum Symposium 2010 held here February 1-2. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100203/DE49286) (Logo:...