ABOUT BALL CORPORATION

• Founded in 1880, Ball Corporation is said to be the world’s largest supplier of beverage cans, and is a leading provider of Aluminium packaging for beverages, personal care and household products. Interestingly, Ball also operates an aerospace business, pioneering satellite technology to track GHG emissions and plastic waste.
• The majority of Ball’s aluminium is sourced in Europe, where the average CO2 emissions per tonne of aluminium produced is six (the global average is approximately 11.5).
• Lightweighting is another area where the company is working to cut back its emissions, aiming to reduce the weight of its cans by 10%.
• The company also has a strategic focus on increasing the recycled content in its products. Currently, recycled materials make up approximately 50% of its output – the company aims to increase this to 85% by 2030.
• Ball campaigns for the introduction of higher recycling rates across the US at a state and federal level. Aluminium recycling rates across the US stand at 38%, yet reach as high as 97% in Brazil.
• Many of the company’s products are Cradle to Cradle certified. At the end of 2021, 100% of the compounds it uses, 86% of the ink systems, 63% of internal coatings and 4% of external coatings had received the Cradle to Cradle Material Health certification, with 61% of these achieving silver level or better.
• In February 2022, the Ball Aluminium Cup received a bronze certification from the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute.
• Ball's signature product, the Ball Alumi-Tek bottle, is a mono-material, resealable and fully recyclable bottle which can be customised without the need for labels. It is available in two sizes and is well-suited to a range of carbonated beverages for on-the-go consumption.
• Ball became the first can maker to achieve ASI certification in 2020.