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Silgan Containers expands manufacturing plant in Lancaster, South Carolina
Silgan Containers has announced plans to invest roughly $9.7 million to expand its operations complex in Lancaster, South Carolina. “Silgan is proud to make this investment in Lancaster, S.C., which will provide job security and opportunities to our great team of employees in Lancaster. The state and county’s positive business climate combined with an excellent workforce…
Sun Chemical creates strategic committee to drive sustainability in packaging market
Sun Chemical has created a ‘Corporate Sustainability Committee’ to further strengthen its approach to addressing the sustainability needs of the packaging industry. The development of sustainable packaging solutions is not a new endeavour at Sun Chemical but has accelerated in the past ten years as awareness of environmental issues dramatically increased. Comprised of eight executive…
BABE Canned Wine Launches Exclusively in Sainsbury’s
Co-founded by Instagram influencer Josh Ostrovsky and boasting supermodel Emily Ratajkowski as its Chief of Taste, BABE Wine, one of the fastest growing canned wines in the US, is set to launch in the UK with an exclusive nationwide deal with UK retailer Sainsburys. BABE Wine joined AB InBev in 2019 as part of the company’s…
David Beckham promotes canned Haig
Haig Club has launched a premixed range of whisky in cans. They come in two flavours, root ginger ale and lime and Haig Club Clubman mixed with cola. The premixed drinks are convenient and great for the summer. David Beckham who is a co-owner of Haig with Simon Fuller, launched the whisky in 2014. “We…
Nearly half of parents shamed by their own children for bad recycling practices
A poll of 2,000 mums and dads of school-aged children found 41% believe it is their children who drive recycling and sustainability attitudes at home, thanks to the popularity of teenage environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg. 43% have faced a telling off from their offspring for not making more effort with the recycling – an average…
Jack Daniel’s launches new spirit-based canned cocktails
Right in time for summer, the Jack Daniel Distillery has introduced a new series of Jack Daniel’s Canned Cocktails featuring Jack & Seltzer; Jack & Cola; and Jack, Honey & Lemonade, available in select markets beginning this month. Each cocktail is made with Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey, perfectly mixed and ready to enjoy in convenient…
Tubex honoured with two World Star Awards
Tubex have been awarded two trophies for their aerosol cans Unilever Dove Men & Care and Beiersdorf Body Mousse. “The Tubex team is thrilled to win the prestigious World Star Award twice! It is proof of our target to offer our customers the best there is in can manufacturing,” says Karin Swain, PR. The award-winning…
Ball announces national partnership with Acosta to launch the Ball aluminium cup
Ball have named Acosta, a sales and marketing agency in the consumer packaged goods industry, to exclusively represent the company’s aluminium cups in retail and on-premise outlets, including grocery, drug and C-stores, food service, specialty channels and select mass channel retailers, across the U.S. Ball launched the U.S. pilot of its infinitely recyclable Ball Aluminum…
10 reasons for non-contact measurement from Sencon
Sencon’s Back End Gauge goes above and beyond expectations and has been designed for can making needs of today and the future. The world’s most accurate Back End gauge measures dimensional features on a finished (back end) can. It uses solid-state optical metrology that has proven its reliability on Sencon End Gauges over the last…
SLAC manufactures equipment to assist in the COVID-19 Pandemic
SLAC International have begun to manufacture equipment to assist in the global COVID-19 pandemic. The firms Mingjia manufacturing operation in the Shandong Province, China, has begun to produce folding masks, designed to protect individuals against the coronavirus. The Mingjia CV20R automatic N95 mask production system is used for fully automated N95 ‘folding mask’ production. The…
