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An improved consumer experience from a beverage can

Nomis Consultancy’s Simon Jennings introduced ‘Open Clean’, a new innovation for the beverage can industry on the third day of Asia CanTech

Can & end making, Filling, Sustainability

Keep it clean

At the recent Asia CanTech conference in Thailand, one of our speakers raised a very interesting topic – namely that of consumers’ attitudes to hygiene. A recent survey showed that close to 60 per cent of people asked were not satisfied with stay-on-tab (SOT) closures as they thought them to be unhygienic. Interestingly, over 30 […]

Can & end making, Sustainability

Resealable can shortlisted for innovation award

Can2close, a resealable beverage can, has been named as a finalist in the 2013 Beverage Innovation Awards. Judged by a panel of industry experts, can2closes’s concept was nominated in the ‘Best Closures’ category. The resealable beverage can end is a new mechanism that replaces the standard stay-on tab opening of beverage cans with a simple […]

Can & end making, Sustainability

360 end falling foul of litter laws

Littering laws from the 1960s and 1970s are holding back expansion plans for a US brewer. Sly Fox Brewing Company, which recently introduced the first cans to feature Crown’s 360 end, has run into trouble with some rather old littering laws. It seems quite a few American states have laws making cans that feature detachable […]

Can & end making, Sustainability

Coke cans the most dropped

Cans of Coca Cola are the most dropped by litterbugs according to a new survey by the Keep Britain Tidy campaign. For the first time the campaign invited volunteers to join surveying staff and more than 500 people signed up to count over 37,000 pieces of litter dropped around the UK. The survey, which was […]

Can & end making, Filling

Canvironment Week 2012 gets underway

Canvironment Week, an annual environmental campaign that promotes the sustainability of metal packaging, got underway at the Green Expo in South Africa.

Can & end making, Sustainability

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Events

Tue

7

Jul

BAMA Innovation Day (CANCELLED)

Mon

24

Aug

59th Annual Conference of Metallurgists - COM 2020, Toronto CANADA

The Conference will mark the 59th Annual Conference of Metallurgists.

Mon

28

Sep

PPMA (POSTPONED)

Thu

15

Oct

Sustainable Packaging Summit

The Sustainable Packaging Summit breaks the familiar industry event paradigms. A platform for meaningful and practical discussion that moves us forward on the key dilemmas, this is a ‘summit’ rather than another ‘conference’.

A carefully crafted agenda focusing on how we progress collaboratively, not self-congratulation
Leading players and thinkers from the value chain brought together with fresh visions and challenges from outside the world of FMCG packaging
Taking interactivity to the next level, with emphasis on discussion rather than presentation, innovative formats, and experience augmented by Packaging Europe’s multimedia content expertise

Wed

28

Oct

Empack (NEW DATES)

Mon

9

Nov

Asia CanTech

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