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FEATURE: A Winning Formula for Latamcan 2019
This year’s annual Latamcan 2019 Conference, held in the buzzing metropolis of Mexico City over three days, highlighted the key challenges the metal packaging industry is facing as technology and innovation continues to evolve.
ADF&PCD Shanghai 27-28 March 2019
Registration is now open for ADF&PCD Shanghai 27-28 March 2019.
Register free online now and save 1,600 RMB. Early registrants will also be given priority booking for the conference sessions when the arrangements become finalised.
BAMA Forum and Awards Dinner 2018
Last month on 17 and 18 October the BAMA Forum and Awards Dinner was held at Oulton Hall near Leeds in West Yorkshire. Once regarded as a ‘modest eighteenth-century house’, it’s now a splendid four-star luxury hotel and conference centre and an ideal venue for BAMA’s annual conference.
ADF on Tour in London Town and New York, New York
With its customary focus on information, innovation and inspiration the Aerosol Dispensing Forum (ADF) triumphed both in London and in New York City last month.
Tin vs Aluminium
Bisphenol A is an organic synthetic colourless compound, discovered by Russian chemist Aleksandr Dianin in 1891, and has been in commercial use since 1957. BPA-based plastics include certain polycarbonates for use in various consumer products, such as plastic water bottles, CDs and DVDs, and epoxy resins, which are used to line water pipes and the insides of many food and beverage cans.
Bisphenol A (BPA)… where are we now?
Bisphenol A is an organic synthetic colourless compound, discovered by Russian chemist Aleksandr Dianin in 1891, and has been in commercial use since 1957. BPA-based plastics include certain polycarbonates for use in various consumer products, such as plastic water bottles, CDs and DVDs, and epoxy resins, which are used to line water pipes and the insides of many food and beverage cans.
July Issue 166 – Features
This month, the ingenious design and manufacture of the 2-piece aluminium beverage can grabbed our attention, when we came across an engaging video (see below) by the brilliant Bill Hammack (‘The Engineer Guy’) in which he details the engineering choices underlying the design and making of a beverage can.
June Issue 165 – Features
This year’s IMDA Annual Conference, held at Oakbrook, Illinois last month, reflected the many challenges the metal packaging industry has to deal with: technological changes, regulatory provisions and an ever-changing workforce; to keep viable, leading, and innovating onwards to continued success.
