Beverage can lightweighting programmes are not the kind of thing that canmakers are keen to share the details of, understandably because of the competitive edge that their success gives. Metal represents a large proportion of the cost of a can, and increasingly so as productivity increases, so any saving made by a canmaker contributes to…

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