Business news
Guinness begins global roll-out of Cold Brew Coffee Beer in cans
Following the successful launch of Guinness Cold Brew Coffee Beer in the US last year, the latest canned addition to the Guinness family is now available in the UK.
Creative innovations
Soudronic stands for Swiss quality and creativity, according to Evert van de Weg, who speaks to the company’s CEO Rolf Geide, revealing some of the important projects and innovations happening at the company
Scanmetals joins Alupro
Alupro is welcoming Scanmetals as its latest member; the company specialises in recovering non-ferrous metals from incinerator bottom ash generated by Energy-from-Waste (EfW) facilities.
Sun Chemical celebrates two wins at the 2022 Kepner-Tregoe Excellence Awards
The company won the award for Excellence in the Utilization of KT Process in Manufacturing Operations, while Gareth Phillips, customer excellence lead at Sun Chemical, was named Program Leader of the Year.
Novelis completes $150 million aluminium rolling & recycling expansion in Brazil
Annual capacity at this rolling and recycling complex, the largest in South America, is expected to increase to approximately 680 kilotonnes for aluminium sheet and 490 kilotonnes for recycling.
Old but new
It’s time for a new introduction in this week’s blog, with Jill now having served her last week as CanTech’s editor…
Aluminium Stewardship Initiative certifies Crown against ASI Chain of Custody Standard
Crown Holdings has achieved ASI Chain of Custody Standard Certification for the manufacture of aluminium can bodies and can ends its Crown Beverage Can Brazil Division subsidiary.
AkzoNobel and Microsoft announce partnership
AkzoNobel and Microsoft are partnering to explore how quantum computing could help fast track the development of high-performance and more sustainable paints and coatings.
New canning lines from KHS
KHS provides first canning line at Coca-Cola HBC in Edelstal, Austria; one of six Coca-Cola HBC sites to have
received a new canning line from the company in 2020.
VMI donates €160,000 to support Ukrainian refugees
In a special fundraising action, production machinery specialist VMI Group and its employees have collectively donated EUR 160,000 to “Giro 555”, which is the Dutch part of the global Emergency Appeals Alliance.
Prime Controls debuts new equipment
Prime Controls has announced enhancements to its SD230 double shell and missing tab detector with the introduction of the SD230 FLEX and SD230 MINI.
Ardagh Metal Packaging submits planning application for $200 million beverage can plant
Ardagh Metal Packaging plans to build the new plant at Global Point, Newtownabbey near Belfast, Northern Ireland, close to key local customers including Diageo and Coca-Cola (Hellenic).
Growing Guinness
This week we learned that Diageo is making a £40.5m investment to expand capacity at its beer packaging facilities in Belfast, Northern Ireland and Runcorn, England, which is set to support the growth of Guinness Draught and Guinness Zero.
US aluminium jobs and economic impact steady through Covid-19
A new US study completed by economic research firm John Dunham & Associates shows that overall employment in the domestic aluminium industry has been largely steady for most of the past decade.