April 28: CPMC, China’s largest canmaker, expects to have its first D&I beverage can plant operational later this year.
Part of the huge COFCO group, CPMC has been a leading supplier of three-piece steel cans for packing Wanglaoji herbal tea, and plans to augment these with D&I aluminium cans.
Since the middle of 2008, JDB, the licensee for packing Wanglaoji has been converting and augmenting its filling lines to accept the lighter specially-designed cans.
