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, as reported by the Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI), based on data from its member companies in…
The food can marches on
Rising metal costs impacted US food can shipments in the first quarter of 2022, halting the increases of the Covid era, but the canmakers are still doing well. Arthur Stupay reports