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Promote the true benefits of packaging, manufacturers told
July 1: "Stop apologising and start promoting the benefits of packaging" was the overriding message to packaging manufacturers from speakers at the recent Europack Summit, held in Monte Carlo, Monaco.

Packaging has a positive impact on the environment by preventing food products – which use vast amounts of energy to produce – from ending up as waste. Measured as 'carbon footprint’, this benefit far outweighs the relatively small negative impact of waste packaging.


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Crown completes Interfood plant deal in Vietnam
July 1: Crown Asia Pacific has completed the acquisition in Vietnam of a majority stake in the Interfood Shareholding Company’s beverage canmaking facility.

The plant, in Dong Nai Province, has a capacity of 600m 33cl aluminium drinks cans, and has space for additional lines. It originally contained lines transferred from Taiwan.

It is thought that in due course Crown could relocate the manufacturing lines from its Ho Chi Minh City joint-venture with Sabeco, to the newly-purchased plant.


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Ball to buy four canmaking plants from A-B InBev
July 1: Brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev is selling off part of its US-based beverage canmaking operations with Ball Corporation agreeing to buy three can body plants and an end-making plant.

More than two-thirds of the cans produced by these Metal Container Corporation (MCC) operations are for leading soft drink companies while the remainder are for AB InBev’s beer brands such as Budweiser and Michelob.

MCC’s remaining five body and two end plants will continue to serve most of A-B Inbev beer can needs, said the Netherlands-based brewer. There are no plans to sell the plants.


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Tango gets more edgy with bigger cans
July 1: Tango fans in the UK are being encouraged to consume more of the soft drink in a sales promotion by manufacturer Britvic.

Limited volumes of larger 44cl cans made by Ball Packaging Europe are being used in the promotion, in which instructions on the back of the can lead drinkers to a voice-activated freephone helpline that offers advice "on any side effects consumers might be suffering from after consuming Tango".


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Top US food canner preparing for BPA ban
June 30: A leading US food canner is investigating alternatives to can coatings that use bisphenol-A (BPA), at it faces the prospect of a nationwide ban of the chemical.

Speaking exclusively to The Canmaker at the recent Europack Summit in Monte Carlo, the executive, who did not want to be identified, suggested that it "looked likely" that BPA would be banned throughout the US, following pressure from activist groups.


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Crown calls for a rejection of share offer
June 30: Shareholders in the world’s biggest canmaker, Crown Holdings, have been advised against accepting a bid to buy three million of its shares worth almost US$70 million.

The ‘mini-tender’ offer for about 1.9 percent of Crown’s outstanding common stock has been made by TRC Capital Corporation, a private Canadian investment company.

Because the offer is below the market price, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) says it could catch out unwary stock holders.


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Alcoa commissions end and tab stock coating line in Russia
June 26: Russia’s only producer of aluminium coil for beer and beverage can manufacturing has commissioned a new line for making high-quality coated sheet for ends and tabs.

Alcoa Russia’s line at Samara, which will also supply the building and construction industries, is the only one of its kind in Russia.

The 60,000 tons per year line completes an investment programme of $750 million in Alcoa’s Russian operations and will serve both domestic customers and those in Europe.


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Vietnamese president opens Sabeco canmaking plant
June 26: Vietnam's president Nguyen Minh Triet (pictured right) was at the inauguration of the country's latest beverage can plant last weekend.

He was opening the beverage can and carton plants built by Ho Chi Minh-based Siagon Beverage Corporation (Sabeco), Vietnam's biggest drinks group.

The plant in the province of Nghe An has capacity to make 450 million cans and 1 billion ends a year. The adjacent plant makes 40 million carton boxes a year.


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Eco-friendly can line to increase output in Thailand
June 26: Output at a pioneering production line that makes so-called eco-friendly beverage cans is being increased to almost 70 percent of its capacity this autumn.

The technology used enables reductions in waste and energy consumption compared with conventional operations.

Bangkok Can Manufacturing in Thailand, a subsidiary of Japan’s Toyo Seikan Kaisha, started up in 2008 making TULC (Toyo Ultimate Can) containers using polyester coatings applied to the steel coil before manufacture.


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Stolle underwrites Chinese can plant project
June 26: Fears that installation of the first aluminium beverage can line to be built by Chinese food and drinks giant COFCO could be disrupted after engineers working on the line were not paid have been averted following a rescue by US-based equipment manufacturer Stolle Machinery.

But Stolle says it’s not planning to compete with specialist project engineering firms. There is "no intention of competing with specialists", it said.

Engineers who were installing the line at COFCO subsidiary CPMC’s plant at Hangzhou near Shanghai said they had not been paid from the beginning of March by project integrator Omnitech International, placing doubts on the original October completion date.


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