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M ore than 3,200 canmaking profes-sionals converged at Cannex FillexAsia Pacific in Guangzhou, China,
last month. They included 800 staff from150 exhibiting companies and with indi-vidual visits exceeding 9,600, the three-dayevent was the largest-ever canmaking tech-nology show and the most successful exhi-bition for the metal packaging industryever held inAsia.
Cannex was officially opened by ZhouYunjie, director, and Zhang Hong, secre-tary general of the China Packaging Fed-eration Metal Container Association(CPFMCA); Xia Qifeng, consultant to theDepartment of Science and Technology ofGuangdong Province, and Dr Li Jian Hui,director general of Guangdong Province’sDepartment of Civil Affairs; along withAllan Sayers and Mónica Higuera, pub-lisher and editor of The Canmaker respec-tively.
At the opening ceremony, Xia Qifengsaid that Cannex is “a premier and pro-fessional exhibition for canmaking indus-try, and also a marketplace for exchangesand cooperation in international canmak-ing industry. The products, equipment andtechnology exhibited here reflect the latesttechnology and direction of development ininternational canmaking industry.
“It has thoroughly demonstratedChina’s economic strength and its attrac-tion to global exhibitors,” Xia added.
Soon after ORGPackaging’s chairmanZhou Yunjie had helped with the openingceremony at Cannex he revealed why theBeijing-based canmaker is one of the keysuppliers to the food and beverage industryin China.
Already a leading manufacturer ofthree-piece cans, ORG started up its firsttwo-piece aluminium beverage can plant inApril, a project that had been announced atInterpack last year. Engineered by StolleMachinery’s Global Systems Group, theplant at Zhejiang has capacity to make 700million cans a year, supplying local brewersand PepsiCo, with qualification trials forCoca-Cola products in hand.
Now ORG is well on the way to settingup a second two-piece plant, this time at
Guangzhou in the south, said ZhouYuan,vice chairman of ORG, who was accompa-nying Zhou Yunjie, and its production isexpected to start early next year.
ORG has been dramatically growing itscapacity to make a variety of three-piecetinplate cans and is a key supplier to ener-gy drink producer Red Bull in China. It isone of a number of three-piece canmakersin China that have expanded into two-piece beverage cans, such as CPMC,Shengxing and Gaosen.
Jozef Salaerts, president of Singapore-basedCrownAsia-Pacific, was visitingCannex along with a number of Crownexecutives, just as the announcement wasmade that a second beverage can plant wasbeing planned for Cambodia.
While demand for drinks cans inChina will be met by Crown with 11 plantsby the end of 2013, it has not overlookedgrowth in South EastAsia with lines beingadded at its plants in Vietnam, where it isthe leading canmaker, and a second linebeing planned for start up at its PhnomPenh plant in Cambodia early next year.
Thesecondplant,atSihanoukville, lookslike it will be huge, with Crown saying thatitwillaccommodateanumberofproductionlines, the first of which will come on streamat about the same time as line 2 at PhnomPenh with initial capacity to make 725 mil-lion 33cl aluminium cans a year.
The place tobeThe canmaking industry met at Cannex last monthand attendance was in the thousands. MónicaHiguera and John Nutting report from Guangzhou
CannexFillexAsiaPacificwasopenedby, left to right, XiaQifeng, consultant to theDepartmentofScienceandTechnologyofGuangdongProvince;DrLi JianHui, directorgeneral of theDepartmentofCivil Affairs; ZhangHong, secretarygeneral of theChinaPackagingFederationMetalContainerAssociation (CPFMCA);AllanSayers, publisher ofTheCanmaker; ZhouYunjie,CPFMCAdirector; andMónicaHiguera, editor of TheCanmaker
Ecuador’s Envases del Litoral wasrepresented by, left to right, general
manager José Polit and vicepresidentsJaime Simón J and Jaime Simón V
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While the capital Phnom Penh is themajor conurbation, Sihanoukville on theGulf of Thailand coast is the primary com-mercial port, making it ideal for shippingcans to neighbouring markets.
“Cambodia is growing at a steady paceand this in turn is driving increaseddemand for our customers’ products, andwe are experiencing a preference on theirpart for two-piece aluminium beveragecans,” said Salaerts. “This newest invest-ment is supported by a long term contractwith a major brewer and is consistent withthe company’s growth plans.”
China’s Zhejiang LongwenMachinery andShantou XinqingCanningMachinery (main);andChinaHanjiang ranmachinery at their booths
Switzerland’s CanMan ran live demonstrationsof its X1welder, before shipping the unit toTaiwanese canmaker KingCan after Cannex
Amongst the equipment ondisplay on Sencon’s booth
was the first End ProgressionGauge to be sold by the
company toChina
Mustafa Ahmed, general manager ofInternational Caps (Capex) fromUnited
Arab Emirates
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On the second day of Cannex, ChenJiawen of Jorson Trading and Engineeringsold its side stripe powder coating system
to a canmaker in Canada
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Iran’s Sherkate TULK Iranian (STI)revealed at Cannex that it would startinstallation of a beverage can line usingToyo Ultimate Can (TULC) technologylicensed from Toyo Seikan Kaisha.
The first such operation outside the FarEast – hinted at by Toyo Seikan’s chairmanHirofumi Miki some years ago – STI usesTULK in its name, rather than TULC.STI’s president and owner Babak Tashako-ri was at Cannex with plant managerAmirGhafouri.
The dry-DWI TULC production offersenvironmental benefits because no lubri-cants are used in the can body forming pro-cess, eliminating the need for washerchemicals and waste water treatment. Thecanstock is pre-coated with polyester sothere is no need for liquid-applied coatings,or for curing ovens which consume energy,thereby reducing carbon dioxide emissions.
STI will produce 25cl and 33cl cans suit-able for non-alcoholic beer, carbonated bev-erages, fruit juices and mineral water.
Chinese aluminium aerosol canmakerEuro Asia is expanding its operation atZhongshan with two monobloc canmakinglines, the company’s managing director WT Lin said.
EuroAsia’s facility currently features 11canmaking lines, and by the end of 2012the company plans to add a 200cpm linesupplied by Germany’s Mall + Herlanalong with a refurbished line. Lin addedthat he was at Cannex to look for new tech-nology to manufacture aerosol cans.
Euro Asia was established in 2002 fol-lowing the takeover by a Hong Kong-basedfirm of Cebal’s aluminium can businessfrom French aluminium manufacturerPechiney, which at the time featured threecanmaking lines.
The company is based at the NationalHealth Technology Park of ZhongshanTorch Development Zone, in the middle ofa ‘pharmaceutical’ industrial state.
China produced around 1.7 billionaerosols in 2011, up 15 percent year-on-year, noted Dr You Yizhong of theAerosolCommittee of the China Packaging Fed-eration, who was accompanied by secre-tary general Zhao Kun. Of these, about 400million were monobloc aerosols, he added.
Germany’s Hinterkopf showcased arange of cans printed with its prototypedigital system that will be commerciallylaunched next year.
Hinterkopf’s new system enables 360-deg printing without an overlap using ahigh resolution of 600dpi, said managingdirectorAlexander Hinterkopf. Microtextdown to a height of one point may also beprinted, which is ideal for legal informa-tion, he noted.
Tactile effects, and gold and silver with-out hot stamping can also be achieved,while for more intense colours, the systemallows an ink layer of up to six micronsthick, compared to one or two microns inoffset printing, Hinterkopf explained.“This is more than printing. It’s surfacecovering.”
Spot varnish can be used to give a 3Deffect and the system is said to realisticallyreproduce face tones, flowers and fruit, tar-geting the cosmetics and beverage sectors.“Everything ispossiblewithdigital,”hesaid.
Ecuador’sEnlit processes around 35,000tonnes of tinplate a year to make cans forfish and vegetables. The canmaker wasvisiting its suppliers and in September iscommissioning an easy-open end produc-tion line from Alfons Haar with an oper-ating speed of 1,000 epm, while last year itinstalled a coating and single-colourprinting line by KBA-MetalPrint at itsplant in Guayaquil.
CPMC, the canmaking arm of COFCO,China’s largest food processor, manufac-turer and trader, installed a six-colour UVmetal decorating line supplied by Ger-many’s KBA-MetalPrint at its plant inGuangzhou in May, said Dina Zhou,deputy sales manager for internationalbusiness.
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Chinese aluminiumaerosol canmaker EuroAsia is expandingwithtwo canmaking lines, saidmanaging directorWTLin (second from right)
Left to right, Danny Li,Pacific Can’s generalmanager - China operations,andmanaging directorGlenn Yee visit theMercierEngineering booth
Alexander Hinterkopf, managing director ofGermany’s Hinterkopf, talks to BelindaMaand Zhang Hong of the China PackagingFederationMetal Container Association
Syria’s Awad Press for Metal Deco-ratingwas at Cannex looking for equip-ment to make luncheon meat cansfeaturing easy-open ends and olive oil cansin 25cl and 50cl sizes. The company’s busi-ness has grown to serve domestic demandpreviously met by Turkish imports, whileits export business to Gulf countries is alsogrowing, said general affairs managerNasouhAwad.
Also present at Cannex was MustafaAhmed, the general manager of Inter-nationalCaps (Capex) from UnitedArabEmirates. The Dubai-based companymakes twist caps, easy-open ends andpeel-off ends and is a member of the AlWatania for Industrial Group (WFI).
Last year Capex announced the signingof a memorandum of understandingwith National Foods from Pakistan to sup-ply it with ten million caps a year. In 2010,Capex expanded its operation at the Tech-no Park in Dubai with two high-speedlines that boosted its annual capacity to1.6 billion units.
China’sJorsonEngineering&Tradinglaunched its new generation side stripepowder coating system which has asmaller footprint and is said to be easier to
operate and save costs when changing thewelding arm of the associated bodymaker.
The system integrates powder feedingand coating into one unit. Company pres-ident Chen Jiawen explained the bendablefeeding tube comes from the top and is5mm in diameter compared to 8mm. Jor-son was looking for a partner to test thesystem and carry out final improvementsaccording to feedback.
Meanwhile, on the second day of theshow, Jorson sold its established powdercoating system to a canmaker in Canada.
China’sHanjiangwas delighted with itsfirst order from western Europe. Thecompany sold a 200cpm weldingmachine to a general line canmaker inItaly. “This year we have a lot of interestfrom Europe,” said sales engineer Alex -Chen, adding that Cannex had been“very successful”.
Demand in Asia for a wider range ofcolours for food and beverage end tabs hasprompted Taiwan’s Chen Lain MetalsCo to set up a tab-stock coating and slit-ting line.
The family-owned business is alreadystrong in the production of three-piece andDRD cans and full-panel easy-open ends atitsplants inTaiwanandVietnam,saysgen-eralmanagerDanielTeng. “Nowwewanttofocus on coloured tab-stock,” he says.
Supporting Teng is Global BusinessManaging Director Tony Greensall, theformer ICI andAzkoNobel executive whois back in the business after a two-yearbreak. “The big tab-stock suppliers have alimited range of colours,” said Greensall,“so we see an opportunity to provide amore flexible service for niche markets.”
Chen Lain, which already offers tollcoating services using its KBA-Metalprintand Lance lines, will be installing the new
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3,200 canmaking professionals
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1,250mm-wide coil coating line and slitterrunning at up to 100m/min with a start upexpected in the fourth quarter of 2012.
Initially four colours will be offered:gold, red, green and black.
Coatings that offer low environmentalimpact for canmaking operations are to bemade for the first time in the Chinese mar-ket byAkzoNobel, which announced theproducts at Cannex.
The special powder-based coatings areused for protecting the weld on three-piecetinplate can bodies. They are amongst arange ofAkzoNobel coatings product appli-cations that include two-piece beveragecans which were being used to promotethe company at Cannex.
AkzoNobel’s Packaging Coatings divi-sion will invest in manufacturing capaci-ty at its existing plant near Shanghai,representing what it says is the first timepowder coatings for food contact applica-tions have been produced in China.
The country’s three-piece food and bev-erage can market, of which around 80 per-cent uses powder side stripe coatings forweld repair, is currently supplied onlyfrom imports.
Canmakers in China began convertingto powder coatings just under a decadeago, replacing solvent-based coatingsdue to the better performance withaggressive products including some ready-to-drink tea beverages, and improvedenvironmental-friendliness.
AkzoNobel will also more than doubleits production of internal spray coatingsfor two-piece beverage cans at its plant atShanghai.
Three-piece can manufacturing equip-ment specialistCanMan ran live demon-strations of its X1 welder, before the unitwas shipped to Taiwanese canmaker KingCan after the show.
King Can, based at Taichung City, pro-duces three-piece tinplate cans for a rangeof products including pickles, powdered
milk, flour, tea, and snacks. Its portfolioincludes lever-lid ends and shaped cans.
The Swiss company also recentlyshipped two X5 welders to Egyptian can-maker Cairo Pac, managing directorRuedi Umbricht revealed. The welders arepart of two lines to produce 603- and 401-diameter cans, with upstream and down-stream systems supplied by Italiancompany Cevolani.
Amongst the equipment on display onSen-con’s booth was the first End ProgressionGauge to be sold by the company to China.
The unit was one of a number of testand inspection systems being showcasedby Sencon, and was due to be shipped tothe customer – a China-based beverageend manufacturer – after the exhibitionclosed. To assist its business in China, Sen-con revealed that it was in the process ofsetting up a sales and support office inHong Kong.
The company also recently installed itsfirst optical coating scanner for internaltwo-piece can applications. The system isdesigned to accommodate the issuescaused by the grain of metal in non-con-tact scanning operations.
FarEastHorizon, part of the Sinochemgroup, is a Chinese financial serviceprovider serving local customers with tai-lored one-stop financial solutions throughfinancial leasing and other value-addedservices.
Based at Shanghai, the company waslisted on the Stock Exchange of HongKong in March 2011. Marketing managerStefanie Min said, “Our services help com-panies purchase machinery and supportthem in IPOs [Initial Public Offerings].”
This was the first time Far East Hori-zon was attending Cannex. “Cannex isvery focused on packaging. This is the bestexhibition we have ever seen,” Min said.
More news and developments fromCannex Asia Pacific next month in TheCanmaker.
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