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Robert Clausing joins Bunting as Lean Manufacturing Coordinator
Bunting has hired Robert Clausing as the company’s new Lean Manufacturing Coordinator. Clausing will be responsible for focusing on the lean manufacturing mindset in order to reduce and eliminate waste. “Waste is anything that adds to the process without adding value to the product,” said Clausing. “It can be as obvious as transportation expenses and…
Stolle Sponsors Guinness World Record at Sidney High School, Ohio
Stolle Machinery has sponsored a record-breaking event which took place on the 18th September in Sidney Ohio. As part of the Shelby County International celebration, several thousand school children and the public gathered at the Sydney High School stadium and broke the record for ‘the most people opening a beverage can simultaneously’. The previous record…
Zagorka partners with Bulgarian beer and Ball
Zagorka has launched two limited edition artistic cans supplied by the Ball Corporation. Zagorka has chosen to use Ball’s iconic 50cl standard can celebrate two legends: The electronic music artist and producer, Ivan Shopov, and the Bulgarian artist Nasimo who is known for Eastern European street art. Elitsa Ivanova, marketing manager for Bulgaria, said: “Our…
APEAL, STATE HIGH COLLECTION RATES AND EASY RECYCLING ALLOWS ALL STEEL SCRAP COLLECTED IS USED TO PRODUCE NEW STEEL
Since recycled steel can be used for a multitude of applications and recycled steel is identical to all other steel, it is hard to tell what the recycled content percentage of any steel object is. APEAL estimates the recycled content rate of steel packaging in Europe to be 58%, given current packaging production and scrap…
Easyfairs acquires majority stake in Milan-based Packaging Première exhibition.
Global exhibition organiser Easyfairs announces today its acquisition of a majority stake in high-end Italian packaging exhibition Packaging Première, which takes place on 26-28 May 2020 in Milan. Packaging Première is a ‘selective’ exhibition dedicated to designers, luxury packaging manufacturers and international brands, held in the heart of Milan, the Italian hub of fashion and design…
Life Water UK with Ardagh Group launch a sparkling canned spring water
Life Water UK has introduced a sparkling version of its natural spring water in a can, providing a new choice for environmentally conscious water drinkers.
Coca Cola to use sustainable cardboard instead of shrink wrap for multi-pack cans.
Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP) will replace their plastic shrink wrap with sustainably sourced cardboard. This will stop the use of roughly 4,000 tonnes of single-use plastic each year. Plastic shrink wrapping is notoriously hard to recycle compared with other plastics. There are few collection centres that accommodate this waste so most of the wrap at the…
Getting to know Canned Water for Kids (CW4K)
Canned Water for kids is drinking water packaged in aluminum bottles and cans. CW4K canned water is the perfect replacement for recyclable plastic water bottles.
Aluminium Aerosol Can Production in First Half of 2019
Despite rapid growth in the production of aluminium aerosol cans over the last few years, AEROBAL, the International Organisation of Aluminium Aerosol Container Manufacturers, has reported that this growth did not continue during the first half of this year. So far, production of cans from member companies has fallen by 1% to three billion cans…
