Canmaking

Canpack’s beverage can sales rise despite fall in shipments

Despite a decline in its beverage can shipments, Poland-based Canpack reported first-quarter 2023 sales of US$867 million, up by 2% on the same period a year earlier. Shipments of beverage can bodies totalled 6.28 billion in the quarter, down 3%,...

Novelis renews contract to supply can sheet for Coke’s cans

A new long-term contract has been signed by aluminium canstock manufacturer Novelis to supply the Coca-Cola system with coil from which its cans are made. In an arrangement that has been operation for many years Coca-Cola pays for the canstock...

CANtastic competition tests canned food creativity

Schoolchildren are being challenged to devise an original, healthy, tasty and exciting meal containing at least one canned ingredient in a competition during Healthy Eating Week from 12-16 June. Canned Food UK, which champions the benefits of canned food and...

Trivium cuts its carbon emissions by lightweighting cans

Lightweighting projects for Trivium Packaging’s aluminium and tinplate cans have helped the Netherlands-based canmaker to reduce its overall carbon emissions by 7.3%. In its 2022 Sustainability Report, the Cumulative scope 1 and 2 emissions (from a 2020 baseline) were down...

Envases Group acquires Spanish canmaker

Envases Group, the global packaging and canmaker, has agreed to acquire Domiberia, a Spanish metal packaging specialist with customers in the food and industrial sectors. The cash deal, the value of which was not revealed, is expected to be completed...

BPA-Ni internal coating for beverage ends launched by AkzoNobel

Coatings manufacturer AkzoNobel has launched an internal lacquer for beverage ends that is BPA-Ni (Bisphenol A non-intent) compliant. Accelshield 700 is based on a blend of speciality solvent-based polyesters, free of styrene and BPX-ni (no intentionally-added bisphenols of any type)...

Crown Hellas Can to close its end line in Corinth

Crown’s Hellas Can in Greece is closing its end-making line in Corinth at the end of June, with the loss of 39 jobs. The canmaker said the line was “old technology” and that its customer base for the product had...

New Nampak chief executive to take drastic action as losses mount

Africa’s largest packaging company and canmaker Nampak will slash its workforce, reduce salaries and freeze vacancies in response to a loss of ZAR2.4 billion (US$120 million) for the six months to the end of March. Newly-appointed chief executive Phildon Roux...

Sales up but profits slump at Japanese aluminium group UACJ

Sales at Japanese aluminium group UACJ for the year to the end of March were up 23% due, it said, to the combined effects of higher ingot prices and sales volume. Despite net sales rising to JPY963 billion (US$6.92 billion),...

Drinks giant to fund circular economy for aluminium drinks cans in UK

Alcoholic drinks giant Diageo has pledged to fund a project that will create an aluminium circular economy for drinks cans in the UK. The project will enable the British Aluminium Consortium for Advanced Alloys (BACALL), a collective of industry experts,...

Easier-open food end design wins WorldStar Award

A design of easy-open end for food cans that enhances openability without the risk of the tab being opened during processing has won a WorldStar Award for Japan’s Toyo Seikan Co. The aluminium Finger Fitting Tab, which also won a...

European debut for innovative easy-open aluminium lid

An easy-open aluminium twist-off lid developed by US-based Consumer Convenience Technologies (CCT) is making its debut in Germany on jars of pasta sauce marketed by German grocer Edeka Kempken. The EEasy lid will appear on jars in stores in Krefeld,...

Moravia Cans joins UK-based industry group

Award-winning Moravia Cans has joined the Metal Packaging Manufacturers Association (MPMA) as an Associate Member. The Czech Republic-based aerosol can manufacturer, which won Can of the Year in 2017 with its D&I aluminium aerosol can for Unilever’s Dove antiperspirant, was...

Stolle deal ensures better productivity for decorator operators

Canmaking equipment manufacturer Stolle Machinery has signed an agreement with Sandon Global to exclusively sell its lightweight pneumatic plate and roll-mounting systems for use with Stolle’s Concord and Rutherford beverage can decorators. The sales agreement was signed during Metpack in...

Novelis captures solar energy for its recycling plants

Aluminium canstock manufacturer Novelis set out ambitious environmental targets in its 2023 Green Bond Report to address climate change and implement business practices to achieve a more circular economy. Novelis aims to be carbon neutral by 2050 or sooner, and...

Aluminium industry needs long-term plan to meet climate goals, webinar concludes

A culture of recycling and supporting technologies will be the key to meeting climate target goals in the aluminium industry, a webinar held by a business intelligence company in May concluded. The London-based CRU Group assembled aluminium industry figures to...

‘Transitory’ dip in canstock sales and shipments at Novelis

Lower sales and aluminium canstock shipments for producer and recycler Novelis in its fourth quarter for 2023 were attributed to “challenging macroeconomic headwinds” and a return to pre-pandemic inventory levels at canmakers. Commenting on the results, chief executive Steve Fisher...

CAN-paign in Scotland points to benefits of canned food in time of crises

Scots consumers are being encouraged to tackle the cost-of-living crisis and climate change concerns by eating more canned food. Environmental organisation Zero Waste Scotland is highlighting the benefits of canned food in its CAN-paign to help people buy budget-friendly meals...

Wider range of personal care containers from Roberts  

Decorative metal container manufacturer Roberts Metal Packaging has relaunched its Softline Extreme range following increased demand for its aluminium jars. The London-based canmaker has included new deep and shallow ranges with threaded lids and flat angular bottoms.   Chris Saunders, managing director...

New chief executive for conveying specialist Ashworth

Conveying system specialist Ashworth Brothers is to have new president and chief executive with stalwart Paul Nunes to to replace Vincent Moretti on 21 June, following a decision by the board. Moretti is retiring after 35 years at the US-based...
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Entries for The Canmaker Cans of the Year Awards 2023 are now open

Canmakers from across the globe are now being invited to submit the best examples of the metal packaging they...