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John Hayes featured in the Business Roundtable’s 2012 Sustainability Report

Posted on May 15, 2012 by ballsteeltinwp

John Hayes is one of 126 CEOs featured in the Business Roundtable’s 2012 Sustainability Report – Create, Grow, Sustain. The report includes narratives from CEOs of leading U.S. companies on how their companies are leading the way with solutions to make the U.S. economy more sustainable while also driving economic growth and job creation.

Ball plants around the globe continue to strive and succeed for zero waste to landfills. To be zero waste to landfill, a facility must first ensure that all waste streams that can be recycled are being recycled. Once all streams are recycled, if there is a WtE facility in the area, the remaining waste is shipped there for the process of creating energy from incineration of waste. Reducing waste and increasing recycling is one of Ball’s areas of focus for sustainability and has a long term direction for waste to send zero waste to landfills.

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Ball Recognized by Microsoft with the 2012 Technology Innovation Award

Posted on May 5, 2012 by ballsteeltinwp

Ball Corp. was recognized by Microsoft with the 2012 Technology Innovation Award as part of the Microsoft Dynamics Customer Excellence Awards program and was honored by Microsoft executives at an awards luncheon on Monday, March 19, in Houston Convergence 2012, Microsoft Dynamics’ annual user conference. “Increasing our knowledge of our customers’ preferences, while improving internal communications and visibility of the customer across business functions, helps us get closer to our customers so that we can anticipate their needs,” said Bob Tettero, Ball Corp.’s Director, Market and Customer Business Growth Analysis.

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Raising Awareness About the Lack of Safe Water Access

Posted on April 26, 2012 by ballsteeltinwp

On March 22, CannedWater4Kids partnered with Novelis Inc., the world’s largest producer of rolled aluminum and the global leader in beverage can recycling, and Ball Corporation, the largest global producer of recyclable beverage cans, to raise awareness about the lack of safe water access for many people around the world.

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2012 Decorative Tins Catalog

Posted on April 15, 2012 by ballsteeltinwp

We have released our 2012 Decorative Tins Catalog showing 22 new items to our line! Make sure you check out our catalog on the homepage. We try to accommodate our customers by giving an updated variety to the line. If you are interested in some of our past designs, call an inside sales representative to see if the designs are still available.

With all the choices we have to offer, there’s bound to be a favorite for you!

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CannedWater4Kids

Posted on March 23, 2012 by ballsteeltinwp

Ball’s customer CannedWater4Kids is entered in Walmart’s “Get on the Shelf” contest, a competition where the public votes for its favorite products that currently are not sold by Walmart. The three products receiving the most votes will get a shot at selling on Walmart.com.
First round voting is open now through April 3. The top 10 entries will proceed to Round 2.

You can help our customer advance to the next round by casting your vote here… Vote either by text or on Facebook – instructions are on the page.

CannedWater4 Kids is a non-profit charity that provides purified canned drinking water to communities around the world to ensure children have healthy, safe water to drink. The water is packaged in cans donated by Ball.

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Hiball Energy Moves to Cans from Ball

Posted on March 13, 2012 by ballsteeltinwp

Hiball debuts its top selling zero calorie, 4 Sparkling Energy Waters (Grapefruit, Wild Berry, Vanilla and Lemon Lime) and 2 certified Organic Energy Drinks (Cranberry Apple and Wild Berry) in aluminum cans from Ball.

BROOMFIELD, Colo., March. 9, 2012 —Hiball Energy, the pioneer of Sparkling Energy Water and Organic Sparkling Energy Drinks, has teamed up with Ball Corporation [NYSE: BLL], the largest beverage can company in the world, to debut its line of reformulated sparkling energy waters and organic energy drinks now packaged in cold-activated, lightweight 16-oz. aluminum cans. The cans will be featured for the first time today at the Natural Products Expo West in Anaheim, Calif.

“Our choice to move from 10 oz. glass bottles to 16 oz. aluminum cans is the result of consumer demand for a larger size with a more portable packaging option,” said Todd Berardi, founder and president of Hiball Inc. “Hiball’s customers ultimately win by getting 60 percent more volume, 30 percent lower cost per ounce, and 100 percent more energy fueled by premium organic and fair trade ingredients – all packaged in lighter, more portable and 100-percent-recyclable aluminum cans.”

The new can package features “cold activation” graphics using thermochromic ink by Chromatic Technologies, Inc. (CTI). When cans reach a temperature of 45 degrees F/8 C, the bubbles on the can graphics turn from white to blue — indicating that the beverage inside is at the optimal temperature for drinking.

“The aluminum can is the natural packaging solution for sparkling energy water and organic sparkling energy drinks,” said Rob Miles, senior vice president, sales for Ball’s metal beverage packaging division, Americas. “The durability and portability of the can combined with its 100-percent endless recyclability solidifies cans as the perfect eco-friendly container for energy drinks and waters.”

Why choose cans?

• Cans from Ball Corporation are a sustainability success story as they are lightweight, contain an average of 68 percent recycled aluminum and are infinitely recyclable. Cans are the number one recycled beverage container of any kind in the United States.

• Cans are a barrier to air and light, resulting in a fresher, better taste.

• Cans take up less space than a bottle, allowing for more compact shipping.

• Cans are a great way to differentiate brands in displays and on the shelf, offering a 360-degree mini-billboard.

• Cans have superior portability and don’t shatter.

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THE HISTORY OF THE CAN

Posted on February 1, 2012 by ballsteeltinwp

THE HISTORY OF THE CAN IS LITERALLY A HISTORY of western civilization, and its innovation an engine of prosperity in the United States. Two centuries ago, the first cans were designed to sustain world powers in their quests around the globe. In boomtown America, the can was key to big business and broader frontiers. Today, can making is a major economic force; the more than 130 billion cans Americans use each year have created an eight billion dollar industry, with 200 manufacturing plants in 38 states, that employ more than 35 thousand employees.

The can has moved as fast as consumer demand has grown; always adapting, innovating and satisfying while preserving the qualities that provide its inherent value—protection and strength. From the original, crude tinplate canisters shaped by hand to the lightweight, completely recyclable containers produced mechanically today, the can preserves and endures like no other package available.

What’s more, the can brings products into our hands and into our homes, allowing us to enjoy things made at another time in another place which we otherwise would never experience. Exotic foods and out-of-season produce are merely the beginning of what is now within reach. Food supplies aid third-world countries, blood plasma rescues wounded soldiers, and a vast array of household products are kept safely in the home, thanks to the utility of the can.

Because we have come to rely so much on the convenience and easy familiarity of canned products, almost imperceptibly present in every part of life, we are the “tin can civilization.” Without fanfare, the can has played an essential role in the standard of living we enjoy by making the products we want cheaper, safer, easier, more readily available and reliable. Our health and long life expectancy have benefited from nutritious canned foods; our wealth and productivity have increased as cans made their products more cost-effective and accessible; and the innovation and improvement of canned products has left more time for life and leisure.

Research and continual improvements guarantee that the can will consistently and faithfully remain the necessary-but-unnoticed, unsung hero of contemporary living.

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Please Check Out Our Revamped Website

Posted on January 26, 2012 by ballsteeltinwp

Ball this week unveiled its new external website, www.ball.com. Browse through the site to check out the fresh look and added features and functionality.

Improved navigation at the top includes key topic tabs for Packaging, Innovation, Sustainability, About Ball and Aerospace. An extended footer at the bottom simplifies navigation and enhances search engine optimization.

New features include a Drive for 10 page, more videos and links to Ball’s corporate social media sites. More functionality is still to come, including a new product news blog and further ”One Ball” integration of our products and operations.

Visit www.ball.com.

 

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New Designs to be Revealed Soon!

Posted on January 16, 2012 by ballsteeltinwp

Our sales and marketing teams are diligently working on new designs for our 2012 decorative offering. Check out our website in a few weeks for the “reveal”!

Just a quick reminder, we have the capability of producing small quantities of custom tins on our digital printer. How can we help you?

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Ball To Work With NASA

Posted on December 12, 2011 by ballsteeltinwp

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. is one of five companies that will develop mission concepts for demonstrating solar electric propulsion in space, important for NASA’s future deep space human exploration missions.

Ball will work with NASA to define a mission concept that will demonstrate the solar electric propulsion technologies, capabilities, and infrastructure required for sustainable, affordable human presence in space.

“Moving payloads reliably and cost effectively from low Earth orbit to high-energy orbits is critical for deep space human and robotic exploration and relies on the systems engineering expertise Ball is known,” said Cary Ludtke, vice president of Ball’s Civil and Operational Space business unit. “In addition to solar electric propulsion and power-related advanced technologies, Ball has broad capabilities on deep space missions, as well as spaceflight systems engineering and integration, including modular design implementation.”

The extremely high efficiency of solar electric power-based propulsion can deliver the large amounts of logistics support equipment required for deep space human exploration within an executable launch infrastructure.  The mission concept studies will identify technology gaps and look at innovative technical solutions for transportation using solar electric propulsion systems. NASA will use the studies to plan and implement a future flight demonstration mission that will test and validate key capabilities and technologies.

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