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Awards given for innovation in aluminium aerosol cans

Boxal Group won the prestigeous AEROBAL Award in the category ‘Can Already in the Market’ for its innovative aerosol can design in combination with the new application as an olive oil spray. Working closely with French company Fareva, Boxal developed a sophisticated 59×205 mm aluminium aerosol can for this innovative application in the food market. The aerosol can features a customised full-body shaped can with a food grade internal coating offering a convenient use of the olive oil condiment. The shaped aerosol container is printed with Boxal’s recently launched Hi-Def printing technology delivering high quality printing results for photo-realistic designs in high resolution on aluminium aerosols.

Exal North America (part of the Exal Group) won in the ‘Prototype’ category. The awarded package which is now available for Bag-on-Valve (BoV) and other applications is manufac-tured with Exal’s revolutionary Coil-To-Can (C2C) aluminium container manufacturing technology. This innovative technology marries the manufacturing speed and light weighting of standard, drawn & ironed beverage can technology with the dynamic shaping technology originally available only with heavier walled extruded aluminium containers. Thanks to their lighter weight, C2C containers produce fewer transport-related carbon dioxide emissions throughout the logistics chain than heavier packaging formats. Exal’s C2C process can also use post-consumer recycled aluminium as a raw material, and finished C2C containers are infinitely recyclable. This is a great sustainability asset of aluminium because aluminium re-cycling requires only 5 % of the energy needed for the production of virgin material. Since the C2C process incorporates high-speed production lines less energy input per container is required, too.