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Welcome to September’s Issue of Canmaking News
It’s September and the start of Autumn here in the UK, a time of transition when the summer goes to seed and makes way for the season of ‘mists and mellow fruitfulness’ as Keats described it. It’s a time of transition for us at Canmaking News too as we welcome a new editor and say…
Crown Opens New US-Based Graphics Studio
Crown Beverage Packaging North America has opened a new graphics studio in the US, to help its North American beverage brands maximise the impact of their packaging graphics and expedite product launches. The unit, based in Ambler, Pennsylvania, features cutting-edge technologies that shorten product development timelines and allow for design mock-ups in real-time. The facility…
Ball to Sell its Argentinian Aerosol Facility
Ball has announced it will sell its tinplate steel aerosol packaging facilities in Garin and San Luis, Argentina, to Envases del Plata SA, an Argentinian metal packaging company. The transaction is expected to close later this year and business is expected to continue to be operated consistent with its successful long-term performance. Post-close, Ball will…
The Reality of Marketing . . . or is it?
Karen McKenzie, freelance writer for the industry, investigates the multi-layered world of Augmented Reality Today, mobile phones are part of our reality, everyone has one. They are an appendage to our bodies; we are lost without them. Year after year, mobile phone technology just gets better and better. With network coverage stronger than ever and…
Welcome to August’s Issue of Canmaking News
Mid summer is a time of high days and holidays for many of us but the world of canmaking carries on regardless. This month we’re hunting down and looking at increasingly popular canned alcoholic summer beverages: craft beers, wines and cocktails; it’s not just the contents that are important, more and more on-trend manufacturers are…
Princes Lincolnshire Pea Plant Completion: First Phase of £80m Investment
International food and drink group Princes has completed the first phase of a planned £80m investment in its Long Sutton site in Lincolnshire with the opening of a new pea plant at the facility. The investment is Princes biggest ever capital investment. Long Sutton is the firm’s largest food production site in the UK, producing…
Tonejet’s Hertfordshire Facility Now Open for Business
Tonejet, manufacturer of electro-static drop-on-demand digital print engines, has opened a new facility in Hertfordshire, UK. The new manufacturing and customer demo facility will allow Tonejet to meet worldwide orders for its Cyclone direct-to-pack digital printing systems. Every aspect of Tonejet’s Cyclone printing system, which provides low cost short-run digital decoration for beverage cans, is…
Crabtree Appoints Alan Rutter as Senior Director
The Gateshead, UK headquartered firm has promoted Alan Rutter to the new position from his previous role as Asia Pacific Spares Projects Sales Director.
UK Packaging Awards 2019
The 14th edition of the UK Packaging Awards, which acknowledges the efforts of organisations, teams and individuals, will take place at the luxury Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane, London on Thursday 7 November. Visitors, including the industry’s leading experts, attend to celebrate the very best projects, businesses and individuals and to enjoy great food and…
Chromium-Free Passivation Alternative from Thyssenkrupp Rasselstein
Thyssenkrupp Rasselstein is now offering its customers Rasselstein Chromium-Free Passivation Alternative (CFPA); a titanium based 100% chromium-free passivation used on the surface of tinplate. CFPA minimises tin oxide growth during storage, providing the same functionality as chromium-based passivation and gives tinplate high-quality surface properties, such as a brilliant appearance, best lacquer adhesion, excellent wettability and…
