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The Canmaker

DIGITAL EDITION – August 2021

Access the digital edition for this month’s news and features, including:

Pint-sized weight savings

The recent advances in lightweighting aluminium beverage cans are reaching the larger sizes, as Phil Rogers found in his latest analysis.

Mark Smyth
is managing director of MS Can Solutions,
a packaging consultancy, and a member of The Canmaker magazine’s editorial board

Unprecedented boom for food & speciality cans

VIEW FROM THE BOARD

Editorial board member Mark Smyth wonders if the growing demand for for and speciality cans observed last year will continue.

A collection of Colep's general line cans

Split shift

EXECUTIVE PROFILE

Colep Packaging’s chief executive Paulo Sousa talks about the canmaker’s re-organisation and his plans for the newly created business.

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Serving customers great and small

THREE-PIECE CANS

Operations chief at Soudronic, Ruedi Umbricht is working to ensures that makers of three-piece welded cans, large and small, have the equipment they need.

WeCan_Vincent Argondizzo and Lorenzo Gironi

Manufacturing for the future

THREE-PIECE CANMAKING

The co-founder of a newly-formed Italian can making machinery manufacturer reveals the trends that shaped the development of its first equipment.

Decorative and food cans produced by Bharat Tin Works

Riding the storm

THREE-PIECE CANMAKING

Indian canmakers Bharat Tin Works and Shetron talk about the recent challenges that they face in the manufacture of three-piece tinplate cans.

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We go together

LUBRICANTS AND CHEMICAL TREATMENTS

The latest innovations in lubricants and chemical treatments include a pin-chain oil and accompanying application systems developed in tandem.