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Ball and Faultless unveil aerosol can
Ball Corporation and new partner Faultless Starch/Bon Ami company has unveiled a G3-HD two-piece tinplate can, which will soon be hitting shelves in the US.
AkzoNobel acquires Basf
AkzoNobel has made an agreed offer to acquire BASF’s Industrial Coatings business for €475 million.
Ball introduces steel aerosol can
Ball announces it is manufacturing G3-HD, a two-piece, lightweight steel aerosol container at its Chestnut Hill, Tennessee facility.
New generation of spray coatings
PPG Industries’ packaging coatings business has announced that it will showcase Innovel HPS new generation spray coatings for the interior of beverage cans at Cannex & Fillex Asia Pacific in Guangzhou, China, 1-4 June.
AkzoNobel opens production line in Mexico
AkzoNobel opens a new production line for coil coatings at its facility in Garcia, Mexico.
Rexam converts to Alu-cans in Spain
Rexam will convert its two beverage can plants in Spain from steel to aluminium it has announced. The preference for aluminium cans has increased significantly over the past few years and the switch, which is being supported by aluminium coil supplier Constellium, will help meet customers’ growing demand for packaging that helps them differentiate their […]
Multi Colour
Neil McRitchie visited the laminating line at IMCP in Surabaya, and talked to Mr Tan Kee Huak, chief operating officer of IMCP, who has been working on laminated cans for the past two and a half years
Tinplate prices on the rise in India
Metal Container Manufacturers Association of India (MCMA) has expressed serious concern relating to an approximate 8% increase in tinplate prices by a local producer, which it believes are abnormal and unjustified. MCMA believes that this has been done primarily to benefit from adverse rupee dollar parity in the last two months, in which the landing […]
New Sterling Necker from CMB
CarnaudMetalbox Engineering (CMB Engineering) has launched a multiple-stage die necking system for two-piece aluminum or steel can production.
Tinning line goes into production
Jiangsu Sunshine in Dajiang, China, has started up an electrolytic tinning line which is capable of producing 250,000 tonnes of tinplate a year.