Issue
December/ January 2015
- Focus: Asia
- Market/consumer trends
- Printing technology and consumables
- Oven technology
- Asia CanTech review
Back issues
Issue
October 2014
- Filling Focus: Food
- Used and refurbished equipment
- Metal decorating
- Beading, necking and flanging
- Asia CanTech show issue
Issue
July/ August 2014
- Filling Focus: Wine and spirits
- Bottle can update
- Raw materials
- Caps and closures
- IMDA review
Issue
April 2014
Regulars:
- New products;
- Filling Focus;
- Candid
Features:
- Aerosols;
- Water Recycling;
- Metpack 2014
Issue
March 2014
Regulars:
- Equipment news;
- Filling focus;
- Candid
Features:
- Soft drinks;
- Beverage Cans: Taiwan and China;
- Seaming
Issue
February 2014
Regulars:
- Candid
- Craft Beer Update
- FillingFocus News
Features:
- Metal Packaging Europe
- Aerosols: BAMA
- Recycling: Alupro
Issue
December 2013
In this month’s issue we take a look back at Asia CanTech 2013, which was held in October at the Marriot Hotel in Surabaya, Indonesia.
Keynote speaker Hiroshi Ueno, general manager of Universal Can, gave an insightful update on the aluminium bottle market in Japan and Asia, while Christof Frohs from Ibea spoke about in-line colour monitoring for two-piece cans and printed metal sheets.
Elsewhere, our publishing director Neil McRitchie spoke with Tan Kee Huak, COO of IMCP, who has been working in laminated cans for the past two and a half years.
Our usual craft beer update is also featured, along with the latest news and product updates from around the industry.
Issue
November 2013
This month’s issue looks at the increasingly successful aerosol can, with a series of articles detailing its origins, latest developments, and a look at what lies ahead for this interesting category.
Elsewhere, we explore the marketing possibilities that a can has to offer, many of which are only just being realised for the first time. The look and appearance of the product has a huge impact on whether or not the customer commits to buy, but the importance of this is often overlooked.
In addition, we look at the benefits of using advanced alkaline cleaning technology for aluminium beverage cans.
Issue
October 2013
This month’s issue features a look at how a German organisation is achieving greater levels of downgauging, details on the ‘next generation food can’, and a full Asia CanTech preview.
Also included is the first in a series of articles from Rexam – looking at the importance of seamer interchangeability – along with our usual round-up of news and views from across the globe.
Next month’s issue will focus on updates to the two-piece can, shaping and embossing, and aerosol trends.
Issue
September 2013
This issue contains the annual Supplier Profile, the essential guide to equipment, materials, tools and services for the metal packaging industry – this year it is bigger and better than ever.
But there is also so much more to read! Mall/Herlan has unveiled high speed bottle necking and shaping machine in Italy, and in China, a high speed end making plant is staking claim to be the world’s large one site easy open end maker. Seaming and tooling are under the spotlight, we look at Ball’s first plant to reach zero waste to landfill, and find out what AkzoNobel are doing in R&D for packaging and coatings.
There’s a profile of the Brazilian can market plus all the usual news and comment.
Next month’s issue includes features on beading and necking technology, raw materials, and refurbishment.
Issue
July/August 2013
This issue is packed with news, features, products and equipment.
It contains a four page contains review of Euro CanTech (see page 14) and looks at how the three-piece can market, in particular, is under attack from plastic alternatives (see page 34).
In the UK lager in a can is well established and the country out drinks its European neighbours with cans, but sales are, according to most recent statistics, starting to plateau. However the real ale market, or craft beer in the US, continues to grow year on year in Britain but it mostly sells its products through pubs or in bottles. In the US, canning is much more popular and a reasonably new phenomenon is the mobile canner (see page 22). Perhaps the UK’s craft brewers could soon be following suit?
The biggest hurdle for the can industry to clear is the wine market (see page 38). Some in that sector are still angry about the proliferation of screw caps over corks – let alone aluminium bottles and cans – and it’s another level of snobbery that needs to be overcome. Following that we’ve also got great articles on the aluminium bottle market (see page 26) and a look at a rather interesting cap maker from the US (see page 30).
Enjoy this joint summer issue, and don’t forget the next issue is the Supplier Profile edition.
Issue
June 2013
The June issue of CanTech International features an exclusive look at how a British company dealt with water issues around the installation of a brand new can line in sub-Saharan Africa. You can also read about expansion work at Nampak, Africa’s largest packing business and how they’re converting steel lines to aluminium.
There is also all the usual news and features from around the world of cans covering, suppliers makers and fillers.
3 Comment
7 World News
42 New Products
New cans and ends in the market place
43 Equipment News
The latest machinery and equipment for the can line
46 Filling Focus
News The latest from can fillers around the world
66 Candid
Iain Percival, Rexam’s sector director, Beverage Can Europe
FEATURES
14 Inspection and testing
A step change has happened in the can industry with the adoption of optical inspection for inside spray Euro CanTech 2013 preview
16 The can world will focus in on Birmingham, England this month for the first ever Euro CanTech
18 Curing systems
CanTech International correspondent Evert van de Weg looks at how KBA- MetalPrint has developed its curing equipment over the years
21 Recycling
Geoff Courtney, chairman of the Can Makers, believes myths surrounding the recycling of cans need to be busted to help make the industry more sustainable
24 Focus Africa
Nampak Bevcan, South Africa’s sole beverage can manufacturer, has started commissioning the company’s first aluminium beverage can line as the
country’s drinks can industry prepares to enter a promising new era, David Hayes reports
29 IMDA review
The International Metal Decorators Association (IMDA) annual meeting and con- ference, held near Chicago in the US, was the organisation’s most
successful so far
35 Cannex review
Cannex returned to America for three days in Atlanta with the quality of visitors, if not the quantity, impressing exhibitors
38 Innovation update
Can makers and suppliers are striving for the latest tech- nology to make consumers pick their products and ink is where the innovation comes in Luke
Walsh reports
48 Craft beer update
Russ Phillips updates readers on the canned craft beer market in the US and reviews the best cans
49 Buyers Guide
Issue
May 2013
REGULARS
3 Comment
6 World News
32 New Products
New cans and ends in the market place
33 New Equipment
The latest machinery and equipment for the can line
34 Filling Focus
An indepth look at how the international canned beer market
58 Candid
Alexander Mohr, external affairs director at the Association of European Producers of Steel for Packaging (Apeal) explains his role
FEATURES
12 News Focus
Anheuser-Busch this month launches an attempt to reassert the dominance of its
flagship lager Budweiser with an innovative bow-tie shaped can
14 Used & refurbished equipment
Competitive pricing and limited availability of more up-to-date second-hand can making machinery
18 IMDA 2013 preview
Jack Knight from INX International introduces a preview of the International Metal Decorators Association (IMDA) conference
for which he is also president.
21 Lubricants
CanTech International correspondent Evert Van de Weg looks at how Fuchs Lubritech, a leading lubricant producer, is coping with ever changing
legislation
27 Can shaping
Budweiser has announced that Belvac’s innovative shaping machinery produced its new bow-tie can, arguably the most innovative introduction to the
market for 30 years. Bill Speidell, strategic initiatives, Belvac Production Machinery reveals the details of the shaping technology behind the Belvac
Vertical Shaper
28 Aerosol update
Success of the British aerosol sector flies the ‘Made in Britain’ flag says Dr John Morris, chief executive of the British Aerosol
Manufacturers’ Association (BAMA)
40 Craft beer update
Russ Phillips updates readers on the canned craft beer market in the US
41 Buyers Guide
Issue
April 2013
REGULARS
- P7 World News
- P42 New Products
- P43 Diary
- P44 Equipment News
- P46 Filling Focus
- 66 Candid
FEATURES
- P12 Euro CanTech 2013
- P14 Seam inspection
- P18 Autonomous maintenance
- P21 Cannex 2013 preview
- P27 Canvironment Week
- P31 Focus: US
- P33 Three-piece update
- P35 Metal production
- P38 Knight’s Knowledge
- 49 Buyers Guide
Issue
March 2013
Regulars:
New Products: New cans and ends in the market place
Equipment News: The latest machinery and equipment for the can line
Filling Focus: News and information from the filling industry
Candid: Guido Aufdemkamp, director of communications, European Aluminium Foil Association (EAFA)
Features:
Handling & conveying: Alec Peachey rounds up the latest developments in the area of can handling and conveying
Filling, closing & sterilisation: From single machines to complete processing lines, Evert van de Weg finds out what JBT FoodTech has to offer
Machinery: CanTech International talks can making machinery with Andrew Truelove and Geoff Gargon of CMB Engineering
Drying: A number of factors need to be considered when drying cans. Alec Peachey talks to Peñalver who supply ovens for drying ends and caps
Aerosols: Manufacturers and suppliers got together at the Aerosol and Dispensing Forum (ADF) in Paris, France
Knight’s Knowledge: Jack Knight is director international technical service manager for INX International Ink Co. In this article he looks at how to identify the capabilities of your press
Caps & closures: Producers of metal caps and closures are facing competition from alternatives such as plastic. A study carried out by the Freedonia Group takes a closer look at the market
Issue
February 2013
Regulars:
New Products: New cans and ends in the market place
Equipment News: The latest machinery and equipment for the can line
Filling Focus: News and information from the filling industry
Candid: Dick Searle, chief executive, The Packaging Federation
Features:
Can-Pack: CanTech International correspondent Evert van de Weg talks to Stanislaw Wasko, first vice president and operational director of Poland-based can making group Can-Pack
Sustainability: Anders Linde is the secretary general of Metal Packaging Europe. He looks at the organisation’s work to get metal recognised as a permanent material by the European Parliament
Three-piece cans: David Hayes travelled to Japan to find out about the new drinks cans developed by Daiwa Can
Aerosols: Lee Bradley, European marketing director at Crown Aerosols Europe, discusses why aerosols are adding value for consumers in new markets
Inspection & testing: Beth Graves, sales and marketing manager at Prime Controls, reviews the evolution of three-piece can leak testing and present day technology
Beverage cans: Editorial board member James Peterson discusses how beverage cans have evolved and the reasons why they remain a popular packaging choice
Industry view: Tony Lacey, the owner of OKL Can Line, says the industry must look to address its ageing workforce
Knight’s Knowledge: Jack Knight from INX International looks at why ink rolls are a key element in quality printing
