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AkzoNobel trading updates

AkzoNobel has released its full-year and Q4 2014 trading updates. Highlights included: Full-year results: • Revenue down 2 percent: Volume up 1 percent in all Business Areas, more than offset by currency effects and divestments • Operating income excluding incidental items was €1,072 million (2013: €897 million), up 20 percent • Operating income of €987 […]

New VP for Ball

Ball has announced the promotion of Manette A. Snow to the newly created position of vice president, diversity and inclusion.

Alu cans still top sustainable choice

Aluminium cans are the most recycled and recyclable beverage container on the market and they are becoming even more sustainable according to a report by environmental research firm PE International. The report updates a prior life cycle assessment study released in 2010, and shows that an aluminium can made in the US and Canada today: […]

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Ball appoints Erik Bouts to lead global metal beverage packaging business

Ball has announced that Erik Bouts will be joining the company as senior vice president, Ball Corporation, and chief operating officer, global metal beverage packaging, effective February 2015. Bouts will report to John A. Hayes, chairman, president and CEO and he will be based in Zurich, Switzerland. “Erik is a proven leader with a wealth […]

Nussbaum invests in Sun Chemical’s dispensing solution

Nussbaum, a European monobloc packaging expert, has installed Polare, Sun Chemical’s new dispensing solution. “Aside from shape and size, the inks are the most visible component of a can. This means that, in order to obtain that visually striking balance to capture the customer’s attention, the ink layer, colour shade and sharpness of print need […]

Hulamin secures long term slab supply from Bayside

Shareholders have been advised that Isizinda Aluminium has announced the acquisition of the Bayside casthouse in Richards Bay, KwaZulu Natal, from BHP Billiton. The effective date is expected to be 1 April 2015, subject to Competition Commission approval. Isizinda (meaning Hub in isiZulu) is a strategic partnership between Bingelela Capital and Hulamin. Bingelela Capital, a […]

Novelis commits to evercan aluminium

Novelis has announced it will convert all of its beverage can sheet to high-recycled content evercan aluminium by 2017. This commitment means that all can body sheet produced by Novelis will be certified 90 percent recycled content. The global industry average is 50 percent. Novelis’ evercan body sheet is priced at the same levels as […]

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Aluminium can recycling historically high

Aluminium beverage cans are once again the most recycled beverage packaging type in the United States, with an industry recycling rate of 66.7 per cent in 2013, according to new data released by the Aluminium Association, Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI) and Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI). For three years in a row the rate […]

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Metaprint AS invests in inspection system from Vision Experts

Metaprint AS in Tallinn, Estonia, maker of aerosol containers and printed metal sheets, has invested in an inspection system from Vision Experts. Owner Martti Lemendik said: “We can reach our goals only by using the newest technology; our investment in the print inspection system from Vision Experts improves our overall process and helps us to […]

Thai Union to buy King Oscar

Thai Union Frozen Products Public Company Limited (TUF) is to buy seafood company ‘King Oscar’. King Oscar Holding AS is owned by the private equity fund Procuritas Capital Investors IV in the Nordic Region. The company is number one in the premium sardine category in Norway, USA and Australia, posting sales of USD 80 million […]

AkzoNobel top for sustainability

AkzoNobel has been ranked number one on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) for the third consecutive year. The firm were first ahead of some 350 companies on the list. “We are obviously very proud to have retained first place and huge credit must go to all our employees,” said AkzoNobel CEO Ton Büchner. “But […]

AkzoNobel commits to Chinese market

AkzoNobel today broke ground on a new Decorative Paints site in Chengdu, China. €50 million has been invested to build manufacturing facilities for both powder coatings and decorative paints in the region. The new site covers an area of 55,000 square meters and the site is expected to be fully operational by 2017. AkzoNobel CEO […]

Schuler continues growth

Press manufacturer Schuler has enjoyed further growth in the first six months of its current fiscal year. New orders were up 10.5 per cent year on year to € 554.6 million. Thanks to an improved interest result, the Group also raised its net profit by 10.1 per cent to € 25.1 million in the first […]

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