Coca-Cola presents at the 84th INTERNORGA in Hamburg (International Trade Show for Catering and Food Service) the new 250 ml cans for the German market.

Rexam announces to close its beverage can making plant in Dunkirk, France, to balance capacity in the European market.

The Dunkirk plant manufactures 33cl and 50cl steel cans and has an annual capacity of approximately 1.1bn cans.

Rexam also announces that it is to cease making beverage cans and can ends at its Dmitrov plant near Moscow to address the continued weakness in the Russian beverage can market.

The closure of Dmitrov, which was acquired as part of Rostar in January 2008, will result in annualised savings of approximately £6m in 2010 for an exceptional restructuring charge of £16m in total in 2009 of which some £8m will be cash costs. It forms part of the capacity reduction programme in our European beverage can operation which, in total, is expected to save some £20m in 2010. The end line will be relocated within Russia whilst the can line will be eventually redeployed as market conditions improve.

source: rexam.com

The beverage can is the most recycled beverage container in the world.

Beverage can recycling and the use of recycled material saves up to 95 percent of the energy required for the production of virgin material.

For more informations see the pdf file at the Ball-Europe website:


source: ball-europe.com

The theme lists are now grouped by country.
Here is the actual theme site of the FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa

I added a list of all cans with 3D view.

Furthermore there is a new statistic about the number of cans here.

All with a own website (and hopefully the others too) know, how much work such a website is. Therefore a data backup is necessary.

Therefore, the database is now backed up daily by a cron job. The results are saved on the server and additionally with the website itself on my private Raid5 system.