Company Profile
Ball Corporation
Company Overview
Ball Corporation is a supplier of high quality metal packaging for beverage, food and household products customers, and of aerospace and other technologies and services, primarily for the U.S. government. Our approximately 15,000 knowledgeable, motivated and customer-focused employees share Ball's high regard for mutual respect, integrity and ethical conduct.
Company History
Founded in 1880, Ball Corporation was originally known for the glass canning jars your grandmothers used to use. Today, Ball makes packaging that enables delivery of safe, nutritious food and beverages and convenient household products to consumers around the world. Ball Aerospace is known for its contributions in support of space and Earth science, exploration, national security and intelligence programs.
Ball is one of the world's largest manufacturers of food cans, aerosol cans, paint & general line cans, and specialty metal tins. Fruits, vegetables, soup, meat, beverages, or pet food - we make a metal can that protects products and displays them beautifully. Ball is North America's largest producer of 3-piece steel aerosol cans, Europe's leading supplier of extruded aluminum aerosol cans and the world's largest producer of aluminum slugs (disks that are later extruded into cans and bottles).
Notable Accomplishments / Recognition
By 2020, we strive to cut the carbon footprint of our beverage cans by one-fourth.
More and more, our global customers are committing to ambitious product carbon footprint reduction goals and ask us to measure our contributions. To better support our customers and reduce risk, we increased our knowledge and capabilities to assess our products’ environmental footprints and developed our own target, which includes carbon emissions across the value chain (excluding the beverage).
The target reflects a two-pronged approach:
• Ball is committed to reducing the carbon footprint of our most common beverage can formats per region by 10 percent from 2010 to 2020 through efforts that are in our control, such as optimizing the weight of our cans and our plants’ energy efficiency.
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Throughout September, Ball is celebrating Who We Are - a key component of Drive for 10 that highlights our culture, people and values. Ball and its employees are accomplishing so much, and we want to share the pride we have for our company, our teams and our work.
We'll also take a deeper look into Ball's ongoing focus on safety and social sustainability tied to community engagement, giving and volunteering efforts in our local communities.
Watch this page and Ball’s social media channels throughout the month for features and activities around the key themes of:
• Uncompromising Integrity
• Being Close to Customers
• Behaving Like Owners
• Paying Attention to Details
• Being Innovative