Sustainability
Rexam achieves record results for 2010
Strong beverage can sales helped Rexam achieve an underlying profit of 45% in 2010. Profit before tax increased to £412m from £285m in 2009 on sales up 2% to £4.96bn. Total sales in 2009 stood at £4.86bn. Profit from continuing operations including one-offs rose to £338m from £134m.
Business news, Can & end making, Metal decorating, Sustainability
Crown expands beverage can production in Vietnam
Crown Holdings is set to expand beverage can production capacity in all three of its existing facilities in Vietnam. The company will add a second can line to its facility in Hanoi.
University students encouraged to recycle
A recycling initiative developed by Every Can Counts is encouraging students to recycle beverage cans at universities – in return for the opportunity to watch films. Known as the Can Film Festival, the initiative has been developed in conjunction with the National Union of Students, and rewards students with the opportunity to watch films, for free, by bringing along empty beverage cans to be recycled.
US brewing company starts using cans
Baxter Brewing Company has become the first craft brewery in New England, US, to can its entire line of beers. Located in the historic Bates Mill in Lewiston, Maine, Baxter beers will be distributed throughout the state of Maine and are expected to expand into the rest of northern New England throughout this year and into 2012.
Prices paid for UBCs raised by Novelis
The price paid for used aluminium beverage cans (UBCs) in the UK has risen to £920 (US$1,476) per tonne. Novelis, the world’s largest recycler of aluminium beverage cans, has increased the price offered for baled and densified UBCs by more than eight per cent.
Crown offers added convenience with new aerosol size
Crown’s aerosol can plant in South Carolina is now able to produce slim 45mm diameter containers – a size which is more convenient for women. Crown Aerosol Packaging North America has invested in equipment at its Spartanburg facility that will allow the company to manufacture the smaller size.
Speciality is key
Rich Grimley, chief operating officer, Rexam Beverage Can Americas talks to CanTech International about the North American market.
Martens named CEO of Novelis
Philip Martens has been named president and chief executive officer of Novelis, a leader in aluminium rolled products and can recycling. Martens joined the company as president and chief operating officer in May 2009.
Conway confident as beverage can sales help improve Crown’s results
The chief executive of can making company Crown expects a “busy and promising” 2011 following the release of its final year results. Higher unit sales of beverage and food cans worldwide helped to improve margins at the company with beverage can sales unit volumes rising 13% and food can volumes up 5% in the fourth quarter.
Misconceptions of metal recycling
When I first started writing about the metal packaging industry I never quite realised how much there was to it. Can makers, suppliers, shaping, embossing and metal decorating are just some of the things I write about on a regular basis. But there is one thing that makes cans stand out above other packaging types […]
Revellers to drink from cans at Cologne festival
Carnival revellers in Cologne will be drinking from cans after the town council put a ban on glass. The town council has responded after many carnival revellers repeatedly stepped or fell into shards of glass. They now consider the risk of injury posed by glass shards too high after the streets were strewn with empty glass bottles and splinters in previous years.
Novelis to expand aluminium recycling at German plant
Novelis, a leader in aluminium rolled products and can recycling, is investing $18 million (€13m) into the construction of a new recycling centre at Aluminium Norf (Alunorf) in western Germany. Construction has already started on a multi-chamber melting furnace and ancillary equipment that will recycle 50,000 metric tons of aluminium scrap per year to feed the rolling mills of Alunorf, the world’s largest aluminium rolling complex.
Ball reports strong full-year results
Ball Corporation has reported an increase in sales in its results for 2010 – thanks in part to double-digit volume growth in China and Brazil. The company’s net earnings from continuing operations were $542.9 million, on sales of $7.6 billion, compared to $390.1 million, on sales of $6.7 billion in 2009.
Courtney to head up the Can Makers
Geoff Courtney has been appointed chairman of the Can Makers, an industry body which represents the UK manufacturers of beer and carbonated soft drinks. Courtney has more than 20 years experience in the packaging industry and takes over from Vince Major, who has held the position since 2009.