After 9 years Germany has a christmas set again. The set has 3 cans and displays a qr-code to download a christmas game for iOS or Android mobile devices.

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

Different can versions are now better indicated. The differents are detailed shown by pictures and text. And there is an image zoom function embedded. In country list, the versions are only shown by one can with a version mark.

An example is shown here

First release of my new 3D technologie made by CSS and Ajax. No use of Adobe Flash. So 3D cans are displayed also on Apples mobile devices.

More things with this technologie are intended...

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