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Ball agrees to Sell Tinplate Steel Aerosol Packaging Facilities in Argentina
Ball Corporation have announced an agreement to sell its tinplate steel aerosol packaging facilities in Garin and San Luis, Argentina, to Envases del Plata S.A., an Argentinian metal packaging company. The transaction is expected to close later this year. Ball states...
thyssenkrupp files complaint against EU Commission decision
thyssenkrupp has filed a complaint with the General Court of the European Union (EGC) against the European Commission's decision to prohibit the formation of a European flat steel joint venture with Tata Steel. The Commission had justified its merger control decision...
thyssenkrupp invests in new state-of-the-art coating line at Andernach site
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
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 Food & Specialty Metal Packaging to Combine with Exal to form Trivium Packaging
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...
Steel packaging hits its own industry target in Europe three years early
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 Announces Footprint Optimisation In Metal Container Business
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...
EC blocks the proposed joint venture between Tata Steel and ThyssenKrupp.
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...
ITA 15th Global Study of Tin Use – Call for important statistical data
The International Tin Association (ITA), is carrying out its 15th annual global study of tin use. These studies are the primary source of tin industry statistics and the tinplate industry as the third largest end use for tin is a significant contributor to this...
The Can Makers launch first Sustainability Hub
A brand new hub has launched to showcase the benefits of drinks cans, reflecting the UK's growing demand for more sustainable drinks packaging. Run by the Can Makers, the trade body representing drinks can manufacturers in the UK, the Sustainability Hub provides the...