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After a break of more than two years, the aerosol and dispensing packaging (ADF) event returned to Paris, France from 29-30 June as part of a new trade show aimed at the beauty, luxury drinks and consumer products sectors. During...

Although demand for beverage cans continues to rise worldwide as customers promote the sustainability of aluminium packaging, there are concerns in some markets that near-term growth could be impacted by higher-than-expected retail price inflation. In its second-quarter report, CocaCola indicated that...

At Ball’s Investors Day event in 2020, John Hayes, then Ball’s chief executive, said “Our time is now”, meaning a new era for cans. As we start to emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic, this view still holds true. Despite the...

The global beverage market has been reshaped in the past couple of years as a new generation of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks threaten to knock traditional brands from perches they’ve occupied for decades. At the same time, surging consumer demand...

Krones subsidiary Kosme has begun installing middle- market canning equipment as part of a targeted campaign to capitalise on the growth of start-up beverage businesses. The Italian company, which entered the Krones fold in 2003, has fitted out Hungarian craft brewer...

With the global canned beverage market expected to grow to US$53 billion by 2030, according to Market Research Future, a considerable number of small and mid- sized drinks producers continue to open up every year. The craft market has skyrocketed and...

Producers of both steel food containers and aluminium drinks cans in the US are taking no risks when it comes to lubricants that keep their machinery in good working order – they are using products that are safer than even...

The global canmaking industry appears to be holding up well compared with many other sectors. As has been reported, in the first quarter of the year beverage can volumes were up in the major regional economies, with continued record shipments....

More than 550 professionals hailing from all areas of the canmaking industry met at the Bourbon Atibaia Resort, in São Paulo, Brazil from 11-13 May for the Latin American Canmakers Conference (Latamcan). The trade show returned to Brazil after two...

It’s been a long two years with the world against us, yet the industry has seen the most significant jump in capacity since the 1970s and the largest I have been involved with since the Asia Pacific boom years of...

One of the main events in the calendar of beauty, luxury drinks and consumer products brands, Paris Packaging Week returned to the capital of France for a face-to-face event at the end of June, reports Danielle Ingram. The trade show had...

The canning industry now has an updated version of its guidelines for the safe production of heat- preserved foods. This was officially released at the beginning of March 2022 following a one-year project funded by the member companies of Campden...

Demand for canned food has surged in the past few years, driven principally by pandemic mitigation measures that closed restaurants and forced people to eat at home. But the trend has shown little sign of abating to pre-Covid levels since the...

A slimmed-down version of the decorated tinplate container that won Hindustan Tin Works (HTW) the Can of the Year Award in 2021 has been launched. The original was commissioned by one of India’s leading food and beverage companies, DS Group, which wanted...

The recent revival in shipments of food cans in the US, prompted by the pandemic lockdowns, stalled in the first quarter of this year with a drop of 11.6 per cent compared with the same period a year earlier,...

The leading canmakers have been adopting challenging sustainability targets that call for them to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions to zero within the next 30 years. This covers every aspect of their operations and embraces raw materials and the supply...

One day, the term ‘can-opener’ may become as redundant for food containers as it did, many years ago, for beverage cans. The story goes that Ermal Fraze,founder of the Dayton Reliable Tool & Manufacturing Company (today’s DRT Manufacturing in Dayton, Ohio),...

The canmaking industry in Brazil is living in abundant times. In its fifth consecutive year of growth for beverage cans, canmakers reached a total of BRL18.3 billion (US$3.85bn) in sales with 33.4bn cans delivered to customers in 2021. The local industry...

In the context of a booming metal packaging market, beverage end-makers are obliged to continuously maximise the output of their existing production lines. Equipment manufacturers have been successfully supporting the industry by developing high-speed machines that enable previously unimaginable productivity. But...

The increasing demand for beverage cans in many regions worldwide has seen business pick up for a number of equipment suppliers in the canmaking industry. This includes manufacturers of test and inspection equipment, as canmakers look to invest in solutions...