Cans

Already at the beginning of August – and thus unusually early in the year – the topic of prices is very present in the German market for tinplate packaging. Whereas price negotiations between producers of tinplate packaging and closures and their suppliers often start late in the year, this time the talks could well be...

The beverage can industry has finally entered the peak season, although this had so far fallen short of expectations. The new regulations planned by the Federal Environment Ministry in the Packaging Act were ruffling feathers throughout the industry. They were “not expedient,” said associations, and beverage can...

Slumps for food cans and chemical-technical containers / shorter lead times for crown caps...

As of April 1, 2023, the Netherlands has extended its deposit system for single-use beverage containers, which has been in place since 2006, to include cans made of aluminium and tinplate, according to the reverse vending machine manufacturer Tomra Collection, a subsidiary of the Norwegian Tomra Group. Metal beverage...

The statements on market developments in the individual segments diverged significantly in mid-April. While the aerosol can industry boasted excellent operating rates and some tube manufacturers’ orders extended into next year, beverage can producers were driving with the handbrake on. Rising temperatures could provide...

Contrary to the trend that had become apparent at the end of last year, tinplate prices did not increase as of January 1, 2023. As reported by manufacturers of tinplate packaging and closures to EUWID at the beginning of March, the quotations for the upstream material were maintained in most cases. In some cases, there...

Tubes and aerosol cans with volume gains in 2022 / beverage cans market rather restrained...

Ireland began the first phase of its deposit system for single-use beverage containers at the start of December....

Packaging producers are determined to raise their prices from next year on...

However, the fourth quarter appeared to be very difficult to assess, packaging suppliers told EUWID in early October ....

No clear trend discernible in the development of tinplate prices for 2023...

The production of aerosols in Germany has fallen for a second consecutive year. According to the Industrie-Gemeinschaft Aerosole e. V. (IGA), Frankfurt/Main, just over one billion aerosol cans were filled in 2021, which corresponds to a decline of 3.75% compared to the previous year....

Manufacturers of tubes, beverage cans, and aerosol cans made of aluminium have drawn a positive balance for the first half of 2022. The order books were well filled across the board, and even at the beginning of July the production lines in many places were running at full steam. However, manufacturers of aluminium...

The supply situation in the tinplate packaging market largely eased in the first half of this year. The can and closure producers surveyed by EUWID unanimously reported that the volumes fixed with the tinplate industry for the whole of 2022 would be sustained without any problems. There reportedly was no need for...

With a total of 646m aerosol cans filled, the French market exhibited comparatively stable development in 2021....