Features
Exhibitors at Metpack: part 1
Find out more about the companies exhibiting at the trade fair from 2-6 May 2023, across halls 1 to 3.
Nippon Steel’s chromate-free tinplate
Japan’s Nippon Steel Corporation focuses on food safety and sustainability while promoting the new passivation process for its chromate-free tinplate,* EZP, and its challenge to achieve carbon neutrality in 2050. David Hayes reports
Craft beer can seaming
Evert van de Weg revisits Can x Lab to discuss its additional services and expertise in seaming for beverage cans in the craft beer sector
Total Eclipse
CanTech International speaks to Prime Controls about its Eclipse Technology, which the company is set to showcase at this year’s Metpack trade fair
A thirst for opportunity
Magnetics specialist, Bunting, shares the journey towards its expansion for supplying the two-piece can industry with decorator cylinders at its brand-new manufacturing centre in the US
EU can manufacturers contest new packaging reuse rules
Liz Newmark speaks to experts in the metal packaging industry about their views on the European Commission’s proposal for new regulation on packaging and packaging waste
Can Manufacturers Institute joins 2023 Asia CanTech lineup
Robert Budway, president, and Scott Breen, vice president of sustainability, at the Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI), have been announced as the first keynote speakers joining Asia CanTech’s 2023 edition in Bangkok, Thailand. Alex Rivers spoke to both about their involvement in the conference
Sealing the future for North American caps and closures
Anne-Marie Hardie visits Massilly North America’s metal cap and lithography facility in Ontario
Implementing an effective DRS – the challenges, opportunities and necessities
Tom Giddings discusses the introduction of a DRS in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, outlines the views of the aluminium industry and explains what decisions need to be made moving forward.
Driving sustainable collaboration
Evert van de Weg muses on the evolution of green thinking within the packaging industry, and speaks to Wijnand Bruinsma, AkzoNobel’s director of sustainability, about the company’s Collaborative Sustainability Challenge
Disruption continues
Over two years have passed since the UK exited the EU, but feelings about Brexit remain raw for many British and European can manufacturers. Liz Newmark reports
Driving excellence for can makers
Lluís Miñarro, can tooling segment manager at Hyperion Materials & Technologies, shares how can tooling manufacturers are using expertise and innovation to help can makers improve efficiency
Putting in the work
Patrick Heskins, BAMA chief executive, starts 2023 with a reflection on pets, packaging and opportunities in the aerosol market
Expanding three-piece decorating demand
David Hayes speaks to Crabtree Printers’ Alan Rutter on the company’s growing, post- Covid, three-piece can decorator and coating equipment export enquiries