thyssenkrupp has approved the investment funds to build a new, state-of-the-art coating line for packaging steel at its Andernach site. As well as meeting the technical requirements for a new process for the production of chromium-coated packaging steel, this will...
JSW Steel plans additional tinplate capacity in India. In the last year it has installed and commissioned a tinplate mill of 250,000 tonnes per annum and related facilities at its Tarapur unit. In its 2019 annual report JSW Steel has reported that it has decided to...
Ardagh Group (“Ardagh”) announced today that it has entered into an agreement to combine its Food & Specialty Metal Packaging business (“Food & Specialty”) with the business of Exal Corporation (“Exal”), a leading producer of aluminum containers, to form...
APEAL, the Association of European Producers of Steel for Packaging has announced that recycling of steel packaging in Europe has hit an all-time high of 80.5%. This record rate, which represents data from 2017, confirms steel as Europe’s most recycled primary[1]...
Silgan Holdings Inc. have announced that it is closing its metal container manufacturing facilities in Mt. Vernon, Missouri and Waupun, Wisconsin. The Company anticipates closing both of these facilities during the fourth quarter of 2019. Volumes from the closed...
The European Commission in a statement by Commissioner Vestager confirmed that they have prohibited the proposed joint venture between Tata Steel and ThyssenKrupp. The EC investigation showed that the merger would have led to higher prices for steel products that are...
