Producer members

Producer members of Alupro are the leading raw material suppliers and converters of aluminium packaging to the UK market.

Reprocessor members

Alcan is one of the world’s leading suppliers of bauxite, alumina and aluminum, and a top-ranked provider of engineered and packaging materials. With its head office in Montreal, Canada, Alcan is a public company,with 2006 revenues of $23.6 billion. Alcan has some 68,000 employees,  in 61 countries and regions.

www.alcan.com

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 Fax: 01932 331190

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, automotive and transport industries, and has rolling mills in Germany, Norway, Italy and Malaysia .

www.hydroaluminium.com

Novelis was formed in January 2005, following its spin-off from Alcan, and is the global leader in aluminium rolled products and aluminium can recycling. With 37 operating facilities in 12 countries and more than 13,500 employees, Novelis supplies aluminium sheet and foil to a number of markets including beverage and food packaging, automotive and transportation, construction, industrial and printing.

www.novelis.com

Alcan Packaging manufactures a wide range of packaging products for the food and beverage, pharmaceutical, beauty and tobacco industries, and is one of the largest producers of flexible packaging in Europe and the Americas . The company converts plastic films, aluminium foil and paper into all types of specialist packaging products.

www.alcanpackaging.com

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.

www.ball-europe.com

Chadwicks is the UK 's largest heat seal, pre-cut lid manufacturer for the diary and food industries, producing products in a wide range of materials, including aluminium foil. The company is one of forty companies in the international Clondalkin Group which has manufacturing operations in Ireland, the UK, Europe and the USA .

www.chadwicks-lids.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 .

www.coppicealupack.com

Three long-established foil converting companies, now trading as AM Holdings, provide expertise in a wide range of foil and plastic film-based specifications for the food, confectionery and decorative graphics markets.

www.friths.co.uk

Nicholl's new foil container manufacturing plant in Cannock, West Midlands, has brought several regional businesses on to one purpose-built site, which sets industry standards for production efficiency and hygiene. Traditional and smoothwall container profiles are supplied to all sectors of the food industry.

www.nichollfoodpackaging.co.uk

Aleris Recycling ( Swansea) is part of the European division of Aleris International Inc, one of the world’s largest recyclers of aluminium. The company operates a fully integrated recycling system from its five sites within Europe, recycling over 500,000 tonnes a year, and supplying molten metal and ingot both to its own rolling mills and to other industrial partners. Of this total, more than 100,000 tonnes is production and post-consumer drinks cans and foils, and the company is a major supporter within Europe of developing the collection of used aluminium packaging .

www.aleris.com

Primary and secondary smelters supplying master alloys to all end-markets, Avon Metals are also non-ferrous metal merchants. As leading suppliers to the automotive and aerospace industries, Avon offers research facilities for metallurgical investigation and new alloy development.

www.avonmetals.com

One of the world's largest recycling companies, European Metal Recycling handles more than 8.5m tonnes of scrap metal a year at 65 sites. The company processes and merchants ferrous and non-ferrous metals, including demolition scrap and the high-tech granulation and dense media separation of mixed materials.

www.emrltd.com

Novelis is one of the world's largest recyclers of aluminium and establishes industry programmes of 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 .

www.novelis.com

www.thinkcans.com

Sims Metal Management is the world’s largest metals and electronics recycling company, processing over 13m tonnes of scrap metals each year. In the UK its national collection infrastructure and processing network serves the waste sector, industry and the public community, channelling scrap metal into several multi-process hub facilities, which are strategically located to supply domestic steel and foundry customers, or on docksides for export.

www.simsmm.com