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%,...
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...
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...
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, 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...
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’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...
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 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),...
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,...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
