April 28: Leading European food can manufacturer Impress is planning to install its third D&I manufacturing operation, it was revealed yesterday at Cannex de las Américas, the canmaking technology show at Las Vegas.
The D&I line, which will enable Impress to make 73mm-diameter two-piece steel cans in higher volumes more cost competitively, uses technology similar to that at facilities at Deventer in The Netherlands and at Sutton in the UK, and will be constructed at a current plant in western France..