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Growing global demand for cans boosts Ball results
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July 29: Growing worldwide demand for cans boosted Ball Corporation’s financial results in the first half 2010.
Both sales and profit in the period increased 12.5 percent year-on-year to US$3.6 billion and $227 million respectively.
The canmaking company's president and chief operating officer John Hayes said: “Executing on our strategic initiatives has enabled us to refine our company's product portfolio, improve operating performance and meet the growing worldwide demand for metal packaging by our customers.”
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Lower food can volumes at Silgan but profits up
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July 28: Ongoing cost control and improvements in manufacturing efficiencies lifted half-year profits at Silgan, North America’s leading food canmaking company and a global supplier of metal closures.
Net profit grew 2 percent to US$63 million with company sales at $1.36 billion, up 1 percent compared to the first six months of 2009.
“We are pleased with out year-to-date 2010 performance,” said chief executive Tony Allott. “This modest increase over strong results in 2009 was primarily the result of continued solid operational performance in our metal food container and closures businesses.”
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Beverage cans boost profits at Rexam
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July 28: Global beverage can volume growth helped boost profits at UK-based canmaking company Rexam in the first half of 2010.
Rexam’s net profit in the period was £102 million (US$158m) compared to a loss of £15m ($23m) in the first half last year. Due to the weaker US dollar and euro, company sales were down 1 percent year-on-year to £2.49bn ($3.87m).
Chief executive Graham Chipchase said, “We are pleased with our performance in the first half. There has been some volume recovery as well as pricing improvement. Our relentless cost control has driven strong profit growth.
"We expect our results in the second half of the year to be similar to those of the first. We are confident that our focus on the fundamentals of cash, costs and return on capital will continue to strengthen our business and improve shareholder value."
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Ball buys producer of slugs for aerosol cans and bottles
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July 27: US canmaking company Ball Corporation has acquired Neuman Aluminum, a manufacturer of aluminium slugs used for the production of impact-extruded aerosol cans and beverage bottles.
Canada's Neuman is the leading manufacturer of aluminium slugs in North America, with facilities in Verona, Vancouver and Sherbrooke, Quebec. It employs around 180 people at its two plants and had sales of $128m in 2009.
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Russia’s Magnitogorsk ups tinplate quality
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July 27: Russia’s sole tinplate producer Magnitogorsk (MMK) plans to install a new tension leveller at its trading and distribution company MMK Trading House.
To start up by the end of next year, the investment is expected to boost annual tinplate sales by about 30,000 tonnes, said Dmitriy Balandin, MMK Trading House sales chief for coated products.
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Crown's ninth Spam award from Hormel
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 July 22: For the ninth year, Crown Food Packaging North America has been recognised with a ‘Spirit of Excellence’ award from Hormel Foods for its contributions to enhancing the sustainability and efficiency.
Crown has been supplying Hormel with metal packaging for the Spam range of luncheon meat for almost 40 years. Hormel’s Fremont cannery first used Crown’s 12-ounce cans in 1970, but it was the introduction of a two-piece aluminium can with a two-finger easy-open tab in 1999 that found favour with consumers.
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Global can volumes up for Crown
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July 21: Strong canmaking volume growth in the Americas and Europe provided cheer for world-leader Crown Holdings in its second quarter results.
Following investments in Brazil, beverage can sales volumes in the Americas were up by 10 percent while global sales unit volumes were up by 8 percent. In Europe, sales unit volumes were up by 6 percent for food cans and 7 percent for beverage cans.
Chief executive John Conway expected growth in emerging markets to be on track with more beverage can capacity coming on stream in Brazil and Asia in 2011.
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Beverage can shipments revive in US
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July 20: Shipments of beverage cans in the US in the second quarter of 2010 were up by 0.9 percent compared those of the same period last year, suggesting that the decline in sales of soft drinks has been halted.
Figures from the Can Manufacturers Institute show that the increase was the same for both soft drinks and beer, with the sector total rising to 27.24 billion.
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Aluminium bottle making system from Belvac for Korea?
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 July 19: A Korean canmaking firm is thought to be one of two customers that will be first to use an aluminium bottle manufacturing system developed by Belvac Production Machinery, which is best known for its necking systems used in beverage can plants.
Belvac’s Bottle Can Manufacturing System (BCMS) converts preforms made on a D&I front end into necked and shaped bottles with screw threads. Using up to 27 rotary forming units with a recirculating system, it operates at up to 1,000 items per minute, providing a capacity of 250 million bottles a year.
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Heinz committed to cutting BPA from canned foods
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July 16: Heinz wants to convert all of its canned products made in the UK to be BPA-free, despite regulatory bodies around the world saying that current migratory limits for the chemical used in the manufacture of epoxy phenolic coatings are safe.
The food manufacturer, famous for its canned baked beans and soups, said that it is committed to changing all of its canned products to using coatings that are free of BPA – or bisphenol A – though its researchers have yet to decide which alternative technology it will use.
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| Thursday, July 15 | | · | Can inks and coatings specialist bought by AkzoNobel |
| Wednesday, July 14 | | · | Alcoa returns to profit in second quarter |
| · | EFSA says BPA recommendations should be unchanged |
| Tuesday, July 13 | | · | Soup can drug smuggling operation scotched |
| · | 'Major step forward' in easy-open food end design |
| Monday, July 12 | | · | More customers use cans with Ball's digital printing |
| · | 'Sandwich in a can' caught in investment tangle |
| Friday, July 09 | | · | Can-Pack plans second beverage can project in India |
| Thursday, July 08 | | · | Award-winning cigarette tin improves shelf life |
| · | Silgan is thinking of acquisitions |
| Wednesday, July 07 | | · | Dr Pepper turns back to cane sugar for 125th anniversary |
| · | August target date for Iraq's beverage can plant |
| Tuesday, July 06 | | · | High-resolution graphics boost Mixed Ape cocktails |
| · | Massive effort needed to reach 65 percent recycling rate in UK |
| Monday, July 05 | | · | FDA 'to be sued' over lack of BPA action |
| Friday, July 02 | | · | Lyle's Golden Syrup factory to be sold |
| Thursday, July 01 | | · | Sales growth expected for Hindustan Tin Works |
| Wednesday, June 30 | | · | December target for Baosteel's aluminium can plant |
| Tuesday, June 29 | | · | Tuna cans that save on tinplate costs |
| · | Cans mean sustainability for craft brewer |
| Monday, June 28 | | · | More fizz gets Japanese Pepsi drinkers excited |
| Friday, June 25 | | · | Ball reveals its sustainability achievements |
| Wednesday, June 23 | | · | Safety award for Impress plant in UK |
| · | Recycled cans pay for couple's wedding |
| Tuesday, June 22 | | · | Key line up for EuroPack conference |
| · | Industrial maintenance aerosols in hard-working printed cans |
| Monday, June 21 | | · | Valspar and DIC exchange coatings and inks businesses |
| · | Official opening for Nigeria’s first beverage can plant |
| Friday, June 18 | | · | Canmaking in Europe to get an umbrella lobby group |
| · | Better press for Bisphenol-A |
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