Ball Corporation Plans to Build New Aluminum Can End Facility

SEATTLE (Scrap Monster): Colorado-headquartered Ball Corporation announced plans to build new aluminum can end facility in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The facility is expected to begin operations in early-2022 and will create nearly 200 well-paid manufacturing jobs in the region over several years.

The press release by Ball Corporation stated that the new facility will manufacture infinitely recyclable, lightweight aluminum ends, which will be mainly supplied to local as well as national customers, including beverage majors. It plans to install additional end modules at the facility so as to achieve huge expansion over the years.

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The new facility is expected to provide strong support to aluminum beverage packaging growth in the U.S. Midwestern region. Furthermore, the aluminum ends from the facility will enable a truly circular economy, it noted.

Colin Gillis, president, beverage packaging-North & Central America, Ball Corporation said that the new Kentucky facility will provide aluminum end supply to Ball’s expanding North American network of beverage can manufacturing plants. Additionally, two new beverage can manufacturing plants are currently under construction in Glendale, Arizona, and Pittston, Pennsylvania. The above investments will align the company’s end production with its beverage can capacity investments, he added.