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Aluminum Association launches campaign to highlight benefits of aluminium packaging
The Aluminum Association has launched the Choose Aluminum campaign, featuring a digital media ad buy, videos with workers and aluminium leaders, a new sustainability website at www.ChooseAluminum.org and additional material highlighting the sustainable properties of the 100% recyclable, durable metal. The campaign follows the launch last month of the Aluminum Association’s brand-new website at www.Aluminum.org. The ads, videos, and website…
Covanta recycles 3 billion beverage cans in 2020
Covanta has highlighted its enduring commitment to sustainability, service to the communities where its facilities operate and notable advancements in diversity, equity and inclusion in a new report. For example, during 2020, Covanta: Diverted 21.2 million tons of waste away from landfills – one of the largest sources of the potent greenhouse gas methane –…
Hyperion completes acquisition of Aggressive Grinding Service
Hyperion Materials & Technologies has successfully acquired Aggressive Grinding Service (AGS), a Pennsylvania-based precision carbide and ceramic grinding business. A statement from the company said that “Bringing AGS into the Hyperion Materials & Technologies family will enhance Hyperion’s capabilities and leadership in multiple high-growth markets, including can tooling, custom and preform carbide rod blanks, and…
Regal Rexnord Corporation completes acquisition of Arrowhead Systems
Regal Rexnord Corporation has announced that it has completed its acquisition of Arrowhead Systems, a global leader in providing industrial process automation solutions, in an all-cash transaction valued at $297 million. “We are excited to welcome Arrowhead to Regal Rexnord,” said Louis Pinkham, Regal Rexnord’s Chief Executive Officer. “Arrowhead aligns nicely with our strategy to transform Regal…
Budweiser to celebrate launch of first ever beer can
Budweiser is launching a series of 1,936 non-fungible tokens to celebrate the birth of its first ever beer can that happened in the year 1936. The company that launched back in 1876, and plans to use the NFT collection to honour its journey so far. This NFT series is titled the “Budverse Cans: Heritage Edition”.…
Stolle Machinery opens new R&D centre
Stolle Machinery has announced the opening of a new R&D centre, dedicated to advancing can and end-making technology. Located near the company’s headquarters in Centennial, Colorado, the Stolle Advanced Technology Operation (SATO) is a 2800 m2 facility that is staffed and equipped to design, manufacture and test the latest canmaking technology. Stolle is working on…
Heaps Normal raises $8.5m as non-alcoholic beer demand rises
Just 16 months since launching its award winning non-alcoholic beer ‘Quiet XPA’, Canberra-based Heaps Normal has raised an intoxicating sum as it plans to build a dedicated production facility and capitalise on growing demand. The $8.5 million Series A round was led by Heaps Normal chief executive Andy Miller, and was open and closed within…
Emirates Global Aluminium, GE sign pact to cut greenhouse gases
Emirates Global Aluminium, the Middle East’s biggest producer of the metal, signed an accord with General Electric Co. to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at its plants in the United Arab Emirates. The companies plan to develop a roadmap to cut emissions from the GE’s natural gas turbines by “exploring hydrogen as a fuel, as well…
SLO Brew Releases Holidaze IPA
Tis’ the season for a piney, West Coast IPA brewed with a healthy dose of…Christmas trees. Holidaze IPA (7% ABV) from SLO Brew is crafted with fresh spruce tree tips, Citra hops and a touch of orange peel for a bright and juicy beer that drinks like a hike through a pine forest. The brewers at SLO Brew didn’t hold…
Welcome to December!
We can’t quite believe that it’s December already, the last 11 months really have flown by and it almost feels as if we’re not quite ready for the festive period (especially in the UK where the sun is in short supply!). That being said, there are exciting things on the horizon, with more podcasts and…