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  • WHY IS THE CRAFT BEER INDUSTRY MOVING TO CANNED BEER?

    WHY IS THE CRAFT BEER INDUSTRY MOVING TO CANNED BEER?

    For hundreds of years, beer is mostly sold in bottles. More and more brewers are making the switch to aluminium and steel cans. The brewers claim the original taste is better preserved. In the past mostly pilsner was sold in cans, but in the last couple of years a lot of different craft beers sol...
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  • ALUMINUM BEVERAGE BOTTLES

    ALUMINUM BEVERAGE BOTTLES

    A BETTER BOTTLE FOR THE NEXT GENERATION Safe, shock-resistant, and stylish. Step aside, plastic and glass. Ball aluminum bottles are a game-changer for sporting events, beach parties, and the always active beverage consumer. From water to beer, kombucha to hard seltzer, you customers can feel g...
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  • What are the advantages of beverage cans?

    What are the advantages of beverage cans?

    Taste: Cans protect product integrity Beverage cans preserve drink’s flavor Aluminum cans help to preserve the quality of drinks for a long time. Aluminum cans are completely impervious to oxygen, sun, moisture, and other contaminants. They don’t rust, are corrosion-resistant, and have one of t...
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  • Seven Things To Know Before Your Beverage Production

    Seven Things To Know Before Your Beverage Production

    Aluminum cans are gaining ground as one of the most popular packaging choices for new beverages. The global aluminum cans market is expected to generate around USD $48.15 billion by 2025, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of around 2.9% between 2019 and 2025. With more consumer dem...
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  • Global aluminum demand affecting beverage, pet food packaging

    Global aluminum demand affecting beverage, pet food packaging

    Aluminum cans increasingly popular in ever-growing beverage industry Demand for aluminum is impacting the food and beverage industry, including craft beer brewers. Great Rhythm Brewing Company has been treating New Hampshire consumers to craft beer since 2012 with kegs and aluminum cans, the vess...
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  • How COVID upended beer packaging for local breweries

    How COVID upended beer packaging for local breweries

    Parked outside Galveston Island Brewing Co. are two large box trailers loaded with pallets of cans waiting to be filled with beer. As this makeshift warehouse illustrates, just-in-time orders for cans were another victim of COVID-19. Uncertainty over aluminum supplies a year ago led Houston’s Sa...
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  • Soda and Beer Companies Are Ditching Plastic Six-Pack Rings

    Soda and Beer Companies Are Ditching Plastic Six-Pack Rings

    In an effort to cut down on plastic waste, packaging is taking on different forms that can be more easily recycled or that do away with plastic altogether. The plastic rings ubiquitous with six-packs of beer and soda are gradually becoming a thing of the past as more companies switch to greener ...
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  • Beverage Cans Market Size Estimated to Grow at CAGR of 5.7% During 2022-2027

    Beverage Cans Market Size Estimated to Grow at CAGR of 5.7% During 2022-2027

    Growing Consumption of Carbonated Soft Drinks, Alcoholic Drinks, Sports/energy Drinks, and Various Other Ready-to-eat Drinks Surging the Usage of Beverage Cans That Have Readily Aided the Market Growth. The Beverage Cans Market size is estimated to reach $55.2 billion by 2027. Furthermore, it is...
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  • Price to buy aluminum beer cans will increase for local brewers

    Price to buy aluminum beer cans will increase for local brewers

    SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — The price of aluminum beer cans will begin to increase as prices continue to rise across the country. An extra 3 cents per can might not seem like a lot, but when you’re buying 1.5 million cans of beer a year, it adds up. “Nothing we can do about it, we can complain...
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  • The latest supply chain casualty? Your favorite six-pack of beer

    The latest supply chain casualty? Your favorite six-pack of beer

    The cost to make beer is soaring. The price to buy it is catching up. Up until this point, brewers have largely absorbed the ballooning expenses for their ingredients, including barley, aluminum cans, paperboard and trucking. But as high costs persist longer than many had hoped, brewers are forc...
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  • Plastice Beer Keg, innovative packaging solution in the craft beer industry

    Plastice Beer Keg, innovative packaging solution in the craft beer industry

    After many years of development and testing, our PET keg is now seeking expressions of interest from Craft Breweries that would like to trial our innovative, reliable, new PET kegs. The kegs come in A-type, G-type and S-type variety and have the option of an internal bag to use with compressed a...
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  • Ongoing aluminum can shortage spurs packaging manufacturer to increase production

    Ongoing aluminum can shortage spurs packaging manufacturer to increase production

    Dive Brief: The pandemic-driven aluminum can shortage continues to constrain beverage makers. Ball Corporation anticipates “demand continuing to outstrip supply well into 2023,” President Daniel Fisher said in its latest earnings call. “We are capacity constrained, right now...
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  • 1L 1000ml King beer can first launched in China market

    1L 1000ml King beer can first launched in China market

      Carlsberg has released a new king size beer can in Germany that brings Rexam’s(Ball Corporation) two-piece one litre can into Western Europe for the first time since 2011. And antoher similar size 32oz(946ml) king can produced by Ball Corporation is more popular in North American market. ...
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  • Aluminum can supply issues could impact craft beer prices

    Aluminum can supply issues could impact craft beer prices

    Great Revivalist Brew Lab in Geneseo is still able to get the supplies it needs to can its products, but because the company uses a wholesaler, prices may go up. Author: Josh Lamberty (WQAD) GENESEO, Ill. — The price of craft beer might be going up soon. One of the nation’s largest manufac...
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  • Ball Corporation’s Decision To Raise Aluminum Can Orders Is Unwelcome News For The Craft Beer Industry

    Ball Corporation’s Decision To Raise Aluminum Can Orders Is Unwelcome News For The Craft Beer Industry

    The surge in the use of aluminum cans brought on by changing consumer trends accelerated by the pandemic has led Ball Corporation, one of the largest can manufacturers in the country, to change its ordering procedures. The resulting restrictions could potentially damage the bottom line of many sm...
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  • Which beverage can sizes do Europeans prefer?

    Which beverage can sizes do Europeans prefer?

    Which beverage can sizes do Europeans prefer? One of the many strategic options that beverage brands have elected has been to diversify the can sizes that they use so as to appeal to different target groups. Some can sizes are more dominant than others in certain countries. Others have been estab...
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  • Aluminum cans are still hard to come by for beverage companies

    Aluminum cans are still hard to come by for beverage companies

    Sean Kingston is head of WilCraft Can, a mobile canning company that travels around Wisconsin and surrounding states to help craft breweries package their beer. He said the COVID-19 pandemic created a surge in demand for aluminum beverage cans, as breweries of all sizes shifted away from kegs to ...
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  • Aluminum cans vs. glass bottles: Which one is the most sustainable beer package?

    Aluminum cans vs. glass bottles: Which one is the most sustainable beer package?

    Well, according to a recent report via the Aluminum Association and Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI) — The Aluminum Can Advantage: Sustainability Key Performance Indicators 2021 — demonstrating the ongoing sustainability advantages of the aluminum beverage container compared to competing packag...
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  • Crown, Velox to Launch Fastest Digital Beverage Can Decorator

    Crown, Velox to Launch Fastest Digital Beverage Can Decorator

      Crown Holdings, Inc. has announced a collaboration with Velox Ltd. to provide beverage brands with game-changing digital decoration technology for both straight wall and necked aluminum cans.   Crown and Velox brought together their expertise to unlock new possibilities for major bra...
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  • Ball Announces New U.S. Beverage Can Plant in Nevada

    Ball Announces New U.S. Beverage Can Plant in Nevada

    WESTMINSTER, Colo., Sept. 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Ball Corporation (NYSE: BLL) announced today plans to build a new U.S. aluminum beverage packaging plant in North Las Vegas, Nevada. The multi-line plant is scheduled to begin production in late 2022 and is expected to create nearly 180 manu...
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