www.cantechonline.comTech Can INTERNATIONAL JULY/AUGUST 2012 Inside: Can making in the movies A look at lightweighting India market report Caps & Closures Massilly’s market strategy CT-COVER JUL12.indd 1 12/7/12 16:47:07 Editorial Comment Editorial Lights, Advisory Board camera, Gordon Shade Chief Executive Officer of the European Metal action Packaging Association (Empac) hese are three words that I wouldn’t normally – two major reasons why brand owners are increasingly associate with the can industry. Eurocan spent six switching to them. Simon Jennings Owner and advisor of Nomis Consultancy T months of last year working on the Tim Burton film There are only a few presentation slots available at Dark Shadows. Managing director John Jenner and his the next Asia CanTech event in Bangkok, Thailand, so we team were asked to provide can making equipment and highly recommend booking as soon as possible. If you set up two canneries at Pinewood Studios. 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Published by Bell discusses this mobile canning Publishing Ltd. No part of this publication 30 Sustainability may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval 14 Eurocan service for craft breweries system or transmitted in any form or by Gordon Shade, chief any means without the prior written Eurocan recently experienced executive officer of the permission of Bell Publishing Ltd. a taste of Hollywood after 24 Lightweighting European Metal Packaging being asked to supply and Stephen Clarke is the customer Printed in the UK by Williams Press, Association (Empac), and technical service (CTS) Maidenhead, Berkshire. setup can making equipment Ellen Wauters, ISSN: 1466-7851 that was used in the film Dark manager for Western Europe communications manager, Shadows. Alec Peachey talks at Ball Packaging Europe. 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Industry Metal Packaging Europe, which ufacturer of aluminium closures in body Metal Packaging Europe comprises leaders from the major South Africa for wines, spirits and (MPE), which has worked hard to aluminium, steel and packaging other beverages. The business, bring resource efficiency to the converter companies. which is 53 years old, operates out forefront of EU Policy, has wel- Anders Linde (pictured), secre- of a plant in Paarden Eiland, Cape comed the move. tary general for MPE, welcomed Town and manufactures a broad The European Parliament the endorsement. He said: “The range of aluminium closures to a endorsed the European vote by the European Parliament blue chip customer base across Commission’s Resource Efficiency is the first step towards recognis- Concurrently the ‘permanent the country. Roadmap, specifically calling ing the concept of permanent materials’ concept has officially Guala Closures, which is based for ‘permanent materials’ to be materials in EU policy. It will help been defined by British Standards in Italy, was founded in 1954 and made a new resource category. create a true recycling society as “materials for which efforts are operates in four continents through This category now works along- based on a closed material loop. made to retain for use in soci- 24 production plants and a sales side the existing categories of “Metals are infinitely recyclable ety the energy and raw materi- network covering more than 100 ‘renewable’ and ‘non-renew- while preserving their virgin metal als invested in their production countries. able’ resources. qualities – they have infinite recy- at the end of the product life, The transaction is subject to The vote by the European cling possibilities and have the abil- either through reuse or recycling, the approval of the South African Parliament officially recognises ity to constantly deliver new appli- with no loss of quality no matter Competition Commission, which is the positive contribution which cations in a permanent material how many times the material is expected in the last quarter of infinitely recyclable permanent loop without depleting the earth’s recycled.” 2012.This will give Guala Closures its materials, such as metals used in resources.” first base on the African continent.