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Vol 28: January 2015
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CONTENTS
The Canmaker, Volume 28, January 2015
FEATURES
Crown’s taller cans cash in on Brazil’s sharing culture
17
Crown Brazil has recently commissioned a beverage can line capable of
making seven different can formats, including the fast growing 55cl size
From little acorns great oak trees do grow
41
19
Editorial Board member Bev Page charts the history of Ardagh’s plant in
Sutton-in-Ashfield, a general-line decorative canmaking plant that became
the first D&I tinplate two-piece food can operation in Europe
Canmaking in Sri Lanka
21
Hong-Kong based GM Metal Packaging now makes decorative and fancy
cans in China and Sri Lanka
A money-making
merry-go-round
26
The US Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee
on Investigations has published its findings
on the involvement of Wall Street bank
holding companies with physical
commodities, including aluminium
Metal strives for visual
impact in Japan
21
NEWSCAN
29
Japan’s canned coffee market has
volumes of 10 billion a year, dominated
by steel cans, while aluminium has
been penetrating the sector in canned
black coffee applications
Designs on success
33
SPGPrints Austria supplies machines for
producing embossing rollers and engraving
decoration plates and rubber blankets used
by metal decorators to allow flexible printing
on beverage cans
Brew up
36
The leading canmakers were present at
Brau Beviale trade fair in Nuremberg,
Germany, in November
In it together
Jim Koch, co-founder of The Boston
Beer Company, tells us he wanted to
reinvent the can and optimise the interface
between the consumer and beer
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Crown to sell general line can plants to Germany’s Huber
8
Canned foods are often better than fresh
8
Nussbaum updates its colour management
8
Bigger range of monobloc aerosols
9
Crown to convert beverage can line to aluminium in France
10
Environmental award for Peru canmaker
10
Rexam’s first distribution centre in Peru
10
Crown expands speciality can capacity
10
Orora offers resealable end
11
Canmakers comply with French ban on BPA
12
ORG celebrates its 20th anniversary
12
Can-Pack celebrates its 25th anniversary
13
Coca-Cola and SABMiller join forces in Africa
14
PepsiCo divests Indian canning
14
Stronger shelf impact for Ambrosia
14
Wattie’s stops NZ asparagus supply
15
Hormel to close California cannery
15
REGULARS
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Comment 3 Inside information 4 Newscan 8 25 Years Ago in
The Canmaker 11 Filling projects 16 US View 17 View
from the Board 19 Product Focus 24 Canmaking on the Web
40 The Directory 42 Candates 64 A Day in the Life 64
CONTRIBUTORS
Richard Estrada, Joanne Hunter, Bev Page, Arthur Stupay
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COMMENT
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t is a safe prediction for the year
ahead to say that the canmaking
industry will further fine-tune its processes to save materials and resources.
At the end of 2015, almost 200
countries will meet at the
United Nations (UN) climate
change conference in Paris for
what it could be, for the first
time in more than 20 years of
UN negotiations, a binding and
universal agreement to combat
climate change.
It will follow the recent UN
climate change conference in
Lima, Peru, where a framework
for setting national pledges was approved.
Last month’s conference also saw the
launch of Peru’s first national
environmental prize, which was awarded
to a metal packaging producer in the ‘ecoefficiency’ category.
Packaging Products del Peru (PPP)
was recognised for its reduction in the consumption of raw materials with its bottle
crown closure that uses a steel gauge of
0.17mm.
PPP is already making crown caps of
0.15mm and this year expects to start production with 0.14mm gauge, as well as
launching its crown closure that saves a
quarter of lining material.
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nother safe prediction is to say
that the best chance to meet
existing and potential suppliers
and customers in the canmaking and
canning industry will be Cannex &
Fillex – The World
Canmaking Congress which is
being held on 1-4 June in
Guangzhou, China.
Since 1994, Cannex has
toured the US, Singapore,
Thailand, the Netherlands
and Australia, and in 2015
returns to China for the third
time. Each convention has
surpassed the previous one
and extra floor space has been added to
accommodate demand from exhibiting
companies.
Cannex will be the best chance in
2015 to meet your peers and glimpse
into the future of this business in the
most dynamic market in the world.
The events calendar will culminate
on 28-30 October with The Canmaker
Summit and the Cans of the Year
Awards which returns to Scotland by
popular demand, this year to the fine
location of Gleneagles.
Here’s to a successful canmakers’
year.
Mónica Higuera
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INSIDE INFORMATION
Editorial board
Companies in this issue
The Canmaker is backed by an Editorial Board made up of key
figures from the industry — canmakers, equipment manufacturers,
suppliers and consultants — whose knowledge of the industry is
second to none. Viewing things from a different angle, the Editorial
Board provides us with a solid foundation, ensuring that
The Canmaker is the premier journal for a prestigious industry.
Air Innovation (64); Altana Group
(24); Amalgamated Beverage
Industries (15); Appletiser (15);
Arbor Brasil (9); Ardagh Group
(38); Ball Corporation
(10,28,33,36,41); Bell’s (38);
Beverage Can Makers Europe (36);
Blackstone Capital (14); Blue Ribbon Intermediate Holdings (14);
Brau Beviale (11,33,36,37,38,41);
Brewers Association (14); CanPack (36,37); Closure Logic (38);
Coca-Cola (14,15,29,30,33);
Coopers (15); Crabtree of
Gateshead (21); Crown
(8,10,11,28,33,36,41); CSR Carlsberg (9); Daiwa Can Company
(8,9); DS Containers (8,9); Ecocaps (36,38); Firestone Walker
(38); GEW (EC) Ltd (25,40); GM
Metal Packaging (21); Gutsche
Family Investments (14); Heinz
Wattie’s (15); Hereford Cider Company (38); Hewlett Packard Indigo
(29); Hormel Foods (15); Huber
Packaging Group (8,9); Japan
Canners Association (30); Japan
Gary Alexander Container Fabrication Machinery (USA)
Emilio Amati ASA San Marino (Italy) Geoffrey Beeston Consultant
(France) Scott Biondich Coca-Cola (USA) Antonio Bove Easytech
Closures Solutions (Italy) Joseph D Bulso Industrial System
Technology Corp (USA) Jackson Cheng Zhuhai Cosmos Products
(China) Jan Driessens Quopa Sarl (Switzerland) Joe Finan INX
International (USA) Sunil Gidumal GM Metal Packaging (Hong
Kong) Colin Gillis Ball Packaging Europe (Switzerland)
Tony Greensall Chen Lain (Taiwan) Ray Good Consultant (UK)
Janelle Harris IMDA (USA) Frank Hoffmann Biagosch & Brandau
(Germany) Len Jenkins Crown Holdings (USA) F C Lo F C
Packaging (Hong Kong) Chee Wee Loy MC Packaging (Singapore)
Mike Masenoir IMDA (USA) Ken Matyska Consultant (USA) John
McHugh Crabtree of Gateshead (UK) Chris McKenzie Stolle
Machinery (Australia) Richard Moore Consultant (Hong Kong)
Peter Moran CMB Engineering Seaming Systems (UK) Dr Ulrich
Nehring Institut Nehring (Germany) Amir Novini Applied Vision
(USA) Bev Page Consultant (UK) Neal Santangelo Crown Aerosols
(USA) Brian Schofield Greenbank Technologies (UK) Anthony See
Kian Joo (Malaysia) Tolga Sezer Aujan Group Holding (Dubai)
Arthur Stupay Tower Research (USA) Yasufumi Tadaki Toyo
Seikan Kaisha (Japan) John Taylor T&S Overseas (UK) Antonio
Teixeira Brasilata (Brazil) Reynold Wong China Metal Packaging
Group (China)
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Advertisement index
Packaging Institute (30); KHS
(36,38); Kirin Beverage Co (30);
Kleeman (36); LME (26,27,28);
Mall & Herlan (38); Meltog
(21,24); Metro (26); Miller’s Brewery (38); Monster Beverage Corporation (15); Novelis (26);
Nussbaum (8,9); Orora Ltd (11);
Oskar Blues (38), Pabst Brewing
Co (14); Packaging Products del
Peru (3,10); Packaging Strategies
Japan Corp (30); PepsiCo (14);
Pioneer Foods (14); Premier
Foods (14); Refresco Gerber (14);
Rexam (9,10,11,26,28,33,36,38);
Roeslein & Associates Inc. (24);
SABMiller (14); Sedwall Manufacturing Co (24); SPGPrints Austria (33); Summit Brewing (38);
Sun Chemical (8,9); Suntory Beverage & Food (30); The Boston
Beer Company (41); The Shepton
Mallet Cider Mill (36); Tokyo Pack
(29,30); U.S. Can Corporation
(8,9); Varun Beverages (14); Veldkamp (25); Xolution GmbH (11);
AkzoNobel Packaging Coatings
Altek Company
Applied Vision
Bear Products
Cannex 2015
CK Corporations
CMC-Kuhnke
DRI Inc
Easy Open Lid Industry Corp Yiwu
Galland Henning Nopak, Inc
GED Intergrated Solutions
GEW Engineering UV
Hengli CNC Technology Co, Ltd
iBooks
I-Mer Co Ltd
International Thermal Systems
Jiangyin Comat Metal Products Co, Ltd
Jorson Trading Co, Ltd
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OBC
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6&7
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Lacueva Can Making Machinery S.L.
13
Micromec S.r.l.
16
Prime Controls
IFC
Roeslein & Associates, Inc
4
Rushserve Limited
20
Sencon
19
Shantou Xinqing Cannery Machinery Co, Ltd 11
Shinyi Can Making Machinery Ltd
12
Soudronic AG
Stolle Machinery
5
OFC
SwissCan
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The Canmaker Summit
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IBC
The Filling Business
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Versatile Technology Pty Ltd
20
YP International Limited
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