Working to maximise the UK's recycling rate for aluminium packaging
Working to maximise the UK's recycling rate for aluminium packaging
Our members
Our membership comprises the full spectrum of the aluminium packaging 'loop' – from primary producer to packaging converter, from packer filler to reprocessor.
With its young, dynamic management, Assan Alüminyum is one of the top 50 industrial companies in Turkey, producing aluminium flat rolled products such as foil, sheet and coils in two plants near Istanbul, Tuzla and Dilovası, with a total building footprint of 140,000 m2 built on 535,000m2 of land. Since its inception Assan Alüminyum has competed successfully in international markets. Today, over 70% of our production is sold to more than 60 countries mainly in Europe. Every day, our customer-oriented approach is strengthening our position as the preferred supplier to international customers as well as our leadership in Turkey with a production capacity of around 250.000 tons/year.
Website: www.assan.com.tr
Elval is the only Greek producer of flat rolled aluminium products, including thin foil for flexible packaging, can stock, coil-coated aluminium for building and construction, as well as special high magnesium alloys for shipbuilding, automotive and other applications. The company exports almost three-quarters of its 200,000 tonnes output to more than 70 countries around the world. UK sales and distribution subsidiary: Metal Agencies, Tel: 01932 331111
Website: www.metalagencies.com
Hydro Aluminium is one of the three largest integrated aluminium companies in the world, and the second largest rolled products supplier in Europe, where it ranks first in the production of lithographic sheet and aluminium foil. The company specialises in the packaging, litho, automotive, and transport industries, and has rolling mills in Germany, Norway, Italy and Malaysia .
Website: www.hydroaluminium.com
Novelis is the world's largest producer of rolled aluminium and the global leader in beverage can recycling with operations spanning 11 countries and nearly 11,000 employees. Novelis produces aluminium sheet and foil products for high-value market applications to customers in many sectors including packaging, transportation, architecture, electronics and lithography.
Website: www.novelis.com
Symetal S. A. is an aluminium foil manufacturer located in Greece. It belongs fully to ELVAL S.A. which in turn is a member of the VIOHALCO Group of companies, the largest Greek metal processing group which was established in 1937. The group is strongly export-oriented and it accounts for approximately 9% of the total exports of Greece. Symetal, being one of the leading companies of the aluminium sector of the group, exports its products to more than 60 countries worldwide.
Website: www.symetal.gr
Ball Packaging Europe is one of the leading beverage can producers in Europe with 2,700 employees and twelve production sites in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Poland and Serbia. The company is a subsidiary of Ball Corporation, one of the leading global producers of metal and plastic packaging for the beverage, food and household products industries with corporate headquarters in Colorado, USA. In the UK Ball Packaging Europe operates two can making plants in Wrexham and Rugby and one end making facility in Deeside.
Website: www.ball-europe.com
Chadwicks is a world leading innovator in heat seal pre-cut lids and shrink sleeves, dedicated to producing high quality custom-made packaging solutions for a range of industry sectors worldwide. As part of the flexible packaging division of Clondalkin Group, Chadwicks drives unique projects to create tailor made, innovative packaging in the food, dairy and beverage markets based on individual customer briefs and product initiatives.
Website: hwww.chadwicks-lids.com/
Constellium is a world leader in the manufacturing of high-quality aluminium products and solutions. The history of Constellium dates almost as far back as the commercial production of aluminium, and our know-how today has grown out of the expertise of Pechiney, Alcan and Alusuisse. Supported by our Technology and Innovation organization, and in collaboration with customers, Constellium produces advanced alloys and cutting-edge technological solutions. To best respond to market needs, Constellium focuses on businesses specializing in rolled products, extrusions and automotive structure.
Website: www.constellium.com/
Coppice Alupack specialises in the manufacture of aluminium foil containers and ovenable board containers for the bakery, ready meal and takeaway sectors of the food industry. Situated in a picturesque valley in South Wales, Coppice has one of the most modern foil container manufacturing plants in Europe .
Website: www.coppicealupack.com
Crown Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiaries, is a leading supplier of packaging products to consumer marketing companies around the world. Crown is proud to be the leader in metal packaging technology. Crown has led the industry with unique can shaping and decorating technologies that redefine how the world looks at cans. And with 64 plants in 24 countries, we are committed to helping beverage brands expand worldwide.
Website: www.crowncork.com
AM Holdings is a leading independent supplier of both confectionary foild and polyester film-based packaging. Our products are used in a variety of applications including confectionary, dairy, multi-media and pharmaceutical packaging, all of which are supplied through our operating companies: Frith's Flexible Packaging Ltd, Macleans (Foils) Ltd and S.F. Williams (Foils) Ltd.
Website: www.friths.co.uk
i2r Packaging Solutions Limited manufactures a comprehensive range of wrinkle wall and smooth wall aluminium foil containers used throughout the food industry, providing high quality, lightweight, robust products, for many leading consumer brands.
i2r's experienced development team focuses on custom designed innovative tray solutions developed in conjunction with major retailers and food processors.
Together with their parent company Contital S.r.L. i2r supply the UK, Eire, Continental Europe, Middle East, North America and Asia.
With the environment at the forefront of our minds, i2r produces unique industry products that use less material achieved through intellectually protected designs.
Website: www.i2rps.com
Nicholl Food Packaging is the UK operation of the Nicholl Group of Companies which also has operations in France, Belgium, Germany and North America and is one of the foremost producers of the aluminium food packaging industry, supplying food processors, bakery, wholesale and takeaway market sectors around the world. Our trays are ideal for Ready to Cook, Frozen Foods, BBQ and Bakery applications.
Nicholl Food Packaging also provides food packaging solutions with the supply of food application trays made from paper, bagasse, pulp, recycled carton material and plastic trays in addition to offering a comprehensive range for lidding film solutions. The Nicholl Group of Companies is committed to innovation and delivering consistently high standards of quality and service to our customers.
Website: www.nfpfoil.com
Rexam is a leading global consumer packaging company. We are one of the leading global beverage can makers and a major global player in rigid plastic packaging. We are business partners to some of the world's most famous and successful consumer brands. Our vision is to be the best global consumer packaging company. Rexam's sales from ongoing operations in 2010 were in the region of £4.9 billion. We have around 100 plants in more than 20 countries and employ around 19,000 people. Rexam is a member of the FTSE 100 and its ordinary shares are listed with the UK Listing Authority and trade on the London Stock Exchange under the symbol REX.
Website: www.rexam.com
ITS is Europe's leading supplier of private label aluminium foil, cling film, baking paper, sandwich paper and coffee filters products. Supplying to the catering, hospitality and retail sectors, ITS is the company behind numerous private labels across Europe sold by wholesalers, C&C organisations and supermarkets from Greece in the south to Finland in the north and Russia towards the east. Several quality and environmental certifications such as BRC, ISO 9001, ISO 14001, FSC are proof to the fact that production is on the highest possible standards and care for our planet is part of the strategy. ITS is a family-owned company since almost 35 years and our key values are: customer satisfaction, quality, respect for the environment, innovation and efficiency.
Website: www.itsfoil.nl
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) is the UK's largest automotive manufacturing business built around two iconic British car brands with a wonderfully rich heritage and incredibly powerful consumer appeal and loyalty. As the UK's largest investor in automotive R&D and engineering, committing over £1.5 billion a year to product creation, JLR is at the centre of the UK automotive industry's drive to deliver technical innovation in all areas of vehicle development. As the UK's largest automotive employer, JLR has a world class team of 20,000 people in the UK, plus 1,000 globally. In addition it supports 140,000 people through the supply chain, dealer network and wider economy
Aluminium is the best material available today to protect the delicate flavours and aromas of Nespresso's Grand Cru coffees. It is also infinitely recyclable. By collecting and recycling used capsules, Nespresso is able to reduce its environmental impact. Nestlŕ Nespresso SA is the pioneer and market leader in highest-quality portioned premium coffee. Headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, Nespresso has a presence in more thane50 countries and 5500 employees. In 2010, it operated a global retail network of 215 exclusive boutiques. Nespresso achieved global 2010 sales of more than CHF 3 billion and organic growth of more than 20%.
Website: www.nespresso.com/mediacenter
Wrap Film Systems (WFS) is Europe's leading supplier of both branded and private label cling film and aluminium foil products. Supplying to the catering, hospitality and retail sectors, WFS is the company behind the catering brands Wrapmaster & Caterwrap as well as the Baco & BacoFoil retail brands.
Website: www.wrapfilm.com
Wrapex is one of the largest convertors of cling film, aluminium foil and baking papers in the UK. Our manufacturing plant, offices and warehousing are based in Bristol alongside our sister company PROCARE which is the leading manufacturer of hair foils in the E.U. We operate a low cost fully automated production facility with full BRC accreditation. Our products are marketed under the Prowrap brand and include Premium, Professional and Value ranges in the catering sector alongside the SPEEDWRAP dispensing system and associated refills. We also offer a comprehensive range of retail products. Clients benefit from a full in house own label design service.
Website: www.wrapex.com
Alupro's reprocessor members represent over 74% of the packaging tonnage recycled by accredited reprocessors in UK.
Aleris Recycling ( Swansea) is part of the European division of Aleris International Inc, one of the world's largest recyclers of aluminium. Aleris is a global leader in the production and sale of aluminium rolled and extruded products, recycled aluminium, and specifications alloy manufacturing. Aleris is a privately-held, global leader in aluminium rolled products and extrusions, aluminium recycling and specification alloy production. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, the Company operates more than 40 production facilities in the Americas, Europe and Asia.
Website: www.aleris.com
Avon Metals is a leading aluminium recycling and non-ferrous metals trading company. We are privately owned by The Remet Company, an international non-ferrous trading company based in London.
Our core activity is the production of 10,000 metric tonnes per annum of primary and secondary based aluminium master alloys, grain refiners and modifiers, which are used in the production of extrusion billet, foil stock, can stock, plate & sheet.
Avon Metals is also an active physical trader of high grade non-ferrous scrap metals, LME primary base metals such as Aluminium, Tin & Zinc, and off-exchange minor metals and ferro-alloys including titanium, tungsten & ferro-titanium for the superalloy, titanium and special steel industries. In addition, we have a factory clearance division that is geared towards servicing industries that generate scrap.
Website: www.avonmetals.com
EMR is a global leader in recycling, handling around 10 million tonnes of scrap metal each year from a wide range of sources – delivered from the general public, local trade, industry and local authorities as well as providing a complete service to local industry in terms of their scrap/waste disposal routes.
Website: www.emrltd.com
Manufacturer of recycled aluminium ingots, consuming 15,000 tonnes of aluminium scrap annually on a 7 acre site in the West Midlands. Major supplier to Honda, Nissan and Toyota. The widest range of furnaces and scrap processing equipment in the UK allows us to receive the widest variety of scrap with a particular specialism in swarf and post-consumer scraps. Active multi-strand research programmes with industry and academic partners. Work with customers and suppliers on long term contractual basis. Fully licensed under IPPC / Environmental Permitting.
Website: www.nortal.co.uk
Novelis is the global leader in beverage can recycling and establishes industry programmes of to promote post-consumer aluminium collection and recycling in many of the countries where it operates. A leading example of this is the dedicated drinks can recycling plant in Warrington – the only one of its kind in Europe.
Website: www.novelis.com
Sims Metal Management is the world's largest metal recycling company, operating 42 recycling sites throughout the UK which recover and recycle end of life and abandoned scrap cars, consumer goods and surplus metal from manufacturing processes and other sources of ferrous and non ferrous scrap metal. Sims Metal Management produces fragmented furnace feed for steel works and high grade copper, aluminium and brass for smelting and re-use in manufacturing.
Website: www.simsmm.com
Tandom Metallurgical Group is an international metal business both consuming, tolling and trading ferrous and non-ferrous metals. We produce alloys for the diecasting and steel industries, and offer a whole range of toll and processing facilities for associated industries. Given the diversity of the metals industry, our business ensures that we are able to offer competitive prices on a consistent basis when quoting for metal and services.
Website: www.tandom.co.uk
Tom Martin & Company is the UK's leading independent non-ferrous scrap metal merchant. With over 60 years of in-depth experience, Tom Martin & Company is firmly established as an integral part of the non-ferrous metal industry in the UK, handling in excess of 4000 tonnes of non-ferrous scrap per month. We provide a specialist scrap management and collection service to the manufacturing industry across a wide range of sectors including aerospace, automotive, engineering, packaging and printing, amongst others. Our global network of customers and trading partners, which ranges from small specialist foundries right up to the largest multi-national smelting facilities in the world, ensures that we remain competitive in all market conditions.
Website: www.tom-martin.co.uk
Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc. is one of the world's largest independent Coca-Cola bottlers. CCE is the sole licensed bottler for products of The Coca-Cola Company (TCCC) in Belgium, continental France, Great Britain, Luxembourg, Monaco, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden. In Great Britain (GB) Coca-Cola Enterprises Ltd (CCE) employs around 4,500 people across England, Scotland and Wales at manufacturing sites, regional offices and depots. CCE is committed to minimising the environmental impact of its products and operations, with a particular focus on sustainable packaging and recycling, water stewardship, and energy and climate protection.
Website: www.cokecce.co.uk
Red Bull established its business 23 years ago, in Austria. Nowadays, Red Bull Energy Drink is available in more than 160 countries and sold more than 4 billion times a year. To read more about the Red Bull can and its lifecycle please click on the link below:
Website: Red Bull can lifecycle
21/03/12
The Aluminium Packaging and Recycling Organisation (Alupro) has welcomed the Government’s announcement that statutory packaging recycling targets which will increase year on year, are to be introduced from 2013 until 2017; but has cautioned that continual review is critical if... Read more
02/03/12
Every Can Counts, the away from home drinks can recycling programme, has today revealed that it helped collect 51 million used beverage cans from workplaces and ‘on the go’ locations across the UK in 2011. This equates to 774 tonnes... Read more
15/02/12
An unintended consequence of the proposed ban on cash transactions for scrap metal would be to make ‘cash for cans’ recycling activity illegal. Around the world “cash for cans” programmes have played, and continue to play, a key role in... Read more
14/02/12
Alupro fully supports the Government’s preferred option for an increase in recycling targets, (option 3a) and believes the targets proposed are fair and equitable. Alupro urges the Government to ensure that future targets are ‘stretching but realistic’, and are regularly... Read more
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