Summit News

Cans of the Year Awards: Bronze The Bronze winners at the Cans of the Year Awards 2022 married high-class design with enhanced functionality. Mark McCord reports The Cans of the Year Awards, backed by The Canmaker magazine, offer the chance to showcase...

On the second day of The Canmaker Summit 2022, held in Prague, Czech Republic in early October, sustainability was once again the main topic on stage, with the focus of presentations shifting to recycling and how the industry may...

Like a motor race when a fraction of a second separates the first two cars as they pass the chequered flag, the difference in quality between runners-up and winners of The Canmaker Cans of the Year Awards was often barely perceptible. Judges...

Necessity is the mother of invention, and entries into the 2022 The Canmaker Cans of the Year demonstrated that old adage in a tough year for the industry. Despite new economic and supply-chain challenges supplanting those caused by the Covid-19...

Ahoj, Prague! After a two-year hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic, The Canmaker Summit returned to the Czech Republic for a much anticipated two-day celebration of the global canmaking industry. Some 220 delegates gathered at the Marriott Hotel for the...

Peter Stein, chief executive and co-founder of Swiss can distributor and service provider NOMOQ, has shared his thoughts on winning the 2022 Can of the Year Award. The company's winning entry was a 330ml aluminium D&I can, digitally printed by...

On the second day of The Canmaker Summit, which took place in Prague, Czech Republic on Thursday 6 October, delegates heard the focus of presentations shift to recycling and how the industry may achieve circularity. The day started with a...

Winner of the Can of the Year 2022 competition, which is backed by The Canmaker magazine, is a digitally-printed beverage can produced by NOMOQ, a Swiss-based distributor of containers and service provider to the craft beer sector. The trophy was...

The Canmaker Summit returned this week after a two-year hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Some 220 delegates gathered at the Marriott Hotel in Prague, Czech Republic for the two-day event which kicked off with an informal reception and networking...

Dr Peter Biele, chairman of tinplate manufacturer Thyssenkrupp Rasselstein, will talk at this year’s The Canmaker Summit, which takes place in Prague, Czech Republic on 5-6 October 2022. The event will bring together the global canmaking industry with a two-day...

Paulo Sousa, chief executive officer at canmaker Colep Packaging, will give a presentation at this year’s The Canmaker Summit, which takes place in Prague, Czech Republic on 5-6 October 2022. The event will bring together the global canmaking industry with...

Francois Querrioux, chief operating officer at canmaker Eviosys, will give a presentation at this year’s The Canmaker Summit, which takes place in Prague, Czech Republic on October 5-6. The event will bring together the global canmaking industry with a two-day...

The Early Bird registration deadline for The Canmaker Summit 2022, being held in Prague in the Czech Republic on 5-6 October, is coming up on Friday 15 July. The event will bring together the global canmaking industry with a two-day...

The deadline for entries to the 2022 Cans of the Year Awards, backed by The Canmaker magazine, has been extended to Friday 22 July following requests from canmakers. Canmakers worldwide have been given three more weeks to submit their best...

The Canmaker Summit will be next held from 5-6 October 2022, after being postponed due to continuing concerns around travel restrictions. The location will still be at the Marriott Prague Hotel, in Prague in the Czech Republic. The event is a...

The Canmaker Summit 2021, which was due to take place in Prague, Czech Republic in October, has been postponed due to ongoing concerns around travel restrictions. The annual event is a fixture of the canmaking industry and attracts delegates from...

The Canmaker Summit, set to take place in Prague this autumn, has been rescheduled because of the problems associated with the coronavirus pandemic. Although it had been hoped that the gradual release of lockdown conditions would have made it possible...

The canmaking industry is buoyant but must not rest on its laurels, executives were warned on Thursday as the Canmaker Summit reached its climax after three days of high-level presentations and networking. The sector is stable but there’s always a...

A seafood container that is so light, yet rigid, that it defied judges’ belief, has scooped The Canmaker Can of the Year Award 2019 for Ardagh Group. The Hansa-style can, with a body made from 0.19mm gauge aluminium and fitted...

The Canmaker Summit 2019 got off to a rousing start today, as more than two hundred industry leaders from around the world gathered in London for the most prestigious conference of the canmaking year. Stephen McAneny, group vice president for...