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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...Read more -
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...Read more -
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 ...Read more -
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...Read more -
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...Read more -
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...Read more -
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...Read more -
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...Read more -
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. ...Read more -
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...Read more -
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...Read more -
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...Read more -
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 ...Read more -
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...Read more -
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...Read more -
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...Read more -
Coca-Cola supplies under pressure due to shortage of cans
The Coca-Cola bottling business for the UK and Europe has said its supply chain is under pressure from a “shortage of aluminium cans.” Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) said that the shortage of cans is just one of “a number of logistics challenges” the company is having to face. A sh...Read more -
Aluminum prices hit 10-year highs as supply-chain woes fail to meet surging demand
Aluminum futures in London climbed to $2,697 a metric ton on Monday, the highest point since 2011. The metal is up roughly 80% from May 2020, when the pandemic crushed sales volume. A lot of the aluminum supply is trapped in Asia while US and European companies face supply chain challenges. Al...Read more -
Aluminum cans slowly replace plastics to tackle marine pollution
A number of Japanese beverage vendors have recently moved to abandon the use of plastic bottles, replacing them with aluminum cans in a bid to combat marine plastic pollution, wreaking havoc with the ecosystem. All 12 teas and soft drinks sold by Ryohin Keikaku Co., operator of retail brand Muji...Read more -
How Aluminum Cans Are Made
Aluminum was first identified as an element in 1782, and the metal enjoyed great prestige in France, where in the 1850s it was more fashionable than even gold and silver for jewelry and eating utensils. Napoleon III was fascinated with the possible military uses of the lightweight metal, and he ...Read more
