Power from a can

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CANS OF THE YEAR 2014
An exceptional three-piece tinplate
coffee can from Daiwa in Japan has
won the canmaking industry’s top
accolade this year. Mónica Higuera
reviews the Can of the Year contenders
can for Tectron water proofer from
Implus Corporation. Cans are printed
in-line in up to eight colours on highspeed offset decorators.
DSC printing
technology does not use
water or alcohol,
reducing hazardous
wastes.
Exal Corporation
in the US received
Gold in the Bottles
category.
Aluminium bottle
manufacturing
has long had issues related to the
behaviour of the inks in the neck area,
but Exal’s impact-extruded bottle for
Cedar Ridge Apple Ranch’s cider exploit
these to good effect, using a clear
basecoat and a glossy overvarnish.
Judges awarded Gold in Ends, Caps
and Closures to Can-Pack in Poland.
Metal crowns for bottles are becoming
more sophisticated, and the closure for
Higuli beer features embossing that is
registered with the
customer’s logo,
providing a premium
quality look.
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Aerosol Cans:
DS Containers, USA
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Bottles:
Exal Corporation,
USA
2014
Food Three-Piece:
Crown Aerosols &
Speciality
Packaging, UK
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CAN
2014
2014
Prototype &
Sustainability:
Packaging Products
del Peru, Peru
Can of the Year
2014 & Beverage
Three-Piece:
Daiwa Can
Company, Japan
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Food Two-Piece:
Metalgráfica
Renner, Brazil
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Power from a can
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ittle did Hollywood action stars
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce
Willis know when appearing
earlier this year in a Japanese TV
commercial campaign for Kowa
Pharmaceutical’s Powered Coffee that
the can they were drinking from will be
later winning the canmaking industry’s
Can of the Year title in 2014.
Selected by a panel of expert judges
near The Canmaker magazine’s offices
in the UK, the 20cl three-piece welded
tinplate can features detailed
decoration, registered embossing and an
aluminium easy-open end.
Produced by Daiwa’s subsidiary
Sanwha, the canned drink is sold
through retailers rather than the
vending machines commonly used for
the large ready-to-drink (RTD) canned
coffee market.
Judges were impressed by the can’s
attention to detail. “This can is just
stunning. I couldn’t stop myself holding
and touching it. This packaging feels
active,” said a judge.
The canned coffee is marketed as
an energy drink that helps consumers
to recover from physical exhaustion,
and the can’s design expresses a
strong image and combines it with
foaming ink, gravure printing and
embossing.
Daiwa was amongst the contenders
for the Can of the Year title after taking
Gold in the Beverage three-piece
category.
Winner of the Beverage two-piece
category was Rexam USA for its D&I
aluminium cap can for Monster Energy
drink featuring a tactile ink and
varnish.
Judges said the recloseable can had
the ‘Wow’ factor and was a stunning
piece of canmaking art, that is further
enhanced by the use of a re-closeable
twist-off cap.
In the Aerosol can category Gold
went to DS Containers in the US for its
two-piece drawn polymer-coated steel
2014
Ends, Caps
& Closures:
Can-Pack Metal
Closures, Poland
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CANS OF THE YEAR 2014
CAN OF THE YEAR 2014
Daiwa Can Company, Japan
Three-piece welded tinplate can for Kowa Pharmaceuticals Company’s
Powered Coffee
AEROSOL CANS
Gold:DS Containers, USA
Two-piece drawn polymer-coated steel can for Implus Corporation
Tectron water proofer
Silver:Ball Corporation, USA
Impact-extruded aluminium can for Unilever’s AXE body spray
Bronze:Colep, Portugal
Three-piece welded tinplate can for Coty’s Adidas deodorant
BEVERAGE THREE-PIECE
Gold:Daiwa Can Company, Japan
Three-piece welded tinplate can for Kowa Pharmaceuticals Company’s
Powered Coffee
Silver:ORG Packaging, China
Welded tinplate lightweight can for He Bei Cheng De Lolo juice
Bronze:There was no award in this category
BEVERAGE TWO-PIECE
Gold:Rexam, USA
D&I aluminium cap can with twist-off cap for Monster Energy drink
Silver:Crown Bevcan Europe & Middle East, France
D&I aluminium can with ‘360 degree’ end for Royal Unibrew’s FAXE beer
Bronze:Rexam BCSA, Brazil
D&I aluminium can for NewAge Indústria de Bebidas’s Guaraná Cruzeiro
juice
BOTTLES
Gold:Exal Corporation, USA
Impact-extruded aluminium bottle for Cedar Ridge Apple Ranch Indigeny
Reserve cider
Silver:Rexam BCE, Czech Republic
D&I aluminium Fusion bottle for New Age Indústria de Bebidas’s
Germânia 55 beer
Bronze:Daiwa Can Company, Japan
Polyester-coated drawn aluminium bottle for UCC Ueshima Coffee Black
‘Mutou’ coffee
Daiwa’s winning team – with the Can of the Year trophy are, clockwise from top left: Kenji
Minami, president of Shanghai Daiwa Trading Co, Takashi Kanehira, Asst manager, R&D
Strategy Dept at Daiwa Can, Yuichiro Murayama from Daiwa Can’s Technical Centre, and
Yoshifumi Kibe, coordinator for International Operations at Daiwa Can
The winner in General Line was also
from Brazil; a 20-litre pail for Sayerlack
Renner paint entered by Brasilata. New
UN regulations for the packaging of
dangerous goods prompted the
CATEGORY WINNERS
DECORATION & PRINT QUALITY
Gold:Dongguan GM Metal Products, Hong Kong
Decorative tinplate tin with hinged lid for Abidally Sons’ Monarch tea
Silver:Crown Aerosols & Speciality Packaging, UK
Fancy tinplate embossed tin with slip lid for Fox’s Chocolatey biscuits
Bronze:Crown Aerosols & Speciality Packaging, UK
Fancy tinplate gift tin for Pernod Ricard Ballantine’s Finest whisky
ENDS, CAPS & CLOSURES
Gold:Can-Pack Metal Closures, Poland
Embossed steel crown cap for JSC ‘MPK’ Higuli beer
Silver:Ardagh Group, France
Easy Peel lid on a drawn aluminium can for King Oscar mackerel
Bronze:Hindustan Tin Works, India
Transparent lid on a three-piece welded tinplate tin for Innopac Home
Line’s spice tins
FANCY CANS
Gold:Dongguan GM Metal Products, Hong Kong
Decorative tinplate tin with hinged lid for Abidally Sons’ Monarch tea
Joint Silver:Gebrüder Reichsfeld, Germany
Three-piece welded tinplate with Bluetooth speaker for Pirlo Webshop
Joint Silver:Virojanglor, France
Secondary tinplate container with isothermic insert for MHCS’s Moët &
Chandon Champagne
Joint Bronze:Virojanglor, France
Fancy tinplate tin with customised plastic sleeve for Kusmi Tea
Joint Bronze:PT Sinar Djaja Can, Indonesia
Embossed tinplate tin with slip lid for PT Konimex’s Sobisco-Choco Mania
FOOD THREE-PIECE
Gold:Crown Aerosols & Speciality Packaging, UK
Decorative tinplate tin with peelable end and slip lid for Bewley’s Fortnum
& Mason coffee
Silver:Almeida & Freitas, Portugal
Welded tinplate can for Unique Portuguese Taste UpTaste olive oil
Bronze:Shetron, India
Tinplate can with easy open end for Bharath Canning Co’ BICCO fruit pulp
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canmaker to redesign its large 20-litre
pails with features that better resist
dropping damage while enabling the use
of thinner tinplate gauges to reduce
costs.
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Crown Aerosols & Speciality
Packaging in the UK was the winner in
the Food three-piece category for a
decorative tinplate tin with peelable end
and slip lid for Bewley’s coffee sold by
Fortnum & Mason. The container is
based on an existing body using a
membrane seal that was customised
with an easy-grip lid and with a
streamlined step feature that closes
with a reassuring ‘click’.
The brief was to create a speciality
tin for premium coffee that stood out
from the crowd. Detailed body
embossing and ornate design work
further enhanced the sense of quality;
while the use of deep rich rose gold,
bronze, copper and gold metallic elevate
the product to ‘speciality’ status.
Brazil’s Metalgráfica Renner took
Gold in Food two-piece with a drawn
tinplate can with recloseable lid for
Komdelli pâté by Fábrica de Conservas
de Pescado. The can features two types
of easy-open ends — one of plastics and
one with an aluminium membrane.
These are then covered with a printed
tinplate lid which allows the can to be
re-sealed. The can’s conical shape
reduces warehouse space and
transportation costs before filling.
FOOD TWO-PIECE
Gold:Metalgráfica Renner, Brazil
Drawn tinplate can with recloseable lid for Fabrica de Conservas de
Pescado’s Komdelli pâté
Silver:SAPIN, Saudi Arabia
Drawn aluminium cans with easy open end for Mondelez’s Kraft
processed cheese
Bronze:MGK-pack, Croatia
Drawn tinplate can for Argeta Sarajevo pâté
GENERAL LINE
Gold:Brasilata, Brazil
20-litre tinplate pail for Sayerlack Renner paint
Silver:Brasilata, Brazil
Welded tinplate tin with Plus Closure for BASF’s Suvinil paint
Bronze:Massilly - Safet Embamet, France
Three-piece welded tinplate tins for JEFCO Peintures Aplat By
Wilmotte paint
PROTOTYPE
Gold:Packaging Products del Peru, Peru
Steel crown cap for beer
Silver:Universal Can Corporation, Japan
D&I aluminium bottle with promotional cap
Bronze:Dayton Systems Group, USA
Three-piece welded steel DSG Food Cap Can
SUSTAINABILITY
Gold:Packaging Products del Peru, Peru
Steel crown cap for beer
Silver:Metalgráfica Renner, Brazil
Drawn tinplate can with recloseable lid for Fabrica de Conservas de
Pescado Komdelli pâté
Bronze:Liberty Bottleworks, USA
Impact-extruded 24oz aluminium bottle for Nike Air Jordan / Liberty
Bottleworks
DELEGATES’ CHOICE AT THE CANMAKER SUMMIT:
Dongguan GM Metal Products, Hong Kong
Decorative tinplate tin with hinged lid for Abidally Sons’ Monarch tea
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In the Fancy can category Gold went
to GM Metal Packaging in Hong Kong
for its tinplate can shaped like a book
with hinged lid for Monarch tea.
The judges unanimously agreed this
tin was a stunning piece of canmaking
craft. The can demonstrates the skilled
use of high-end lithography to
reproduce the painting in an
imaginative design, and went on to win
Gold in Decoration & Print Quality.
“It’s a paragon of decoration. It’s a
work of art,” said one of the judges. “This
takes a man with an eye for detail.
“This is a piece of craftwork. I can
stare at it for hours. The portraits…
the fit in terms of embossing. The
inside printing matches – you don’t
have to do that. And this is made of six
pieces.”
All of the shortlisted entries were on
display at The Canmaker Summit last
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Like a rectangular container
developed earlier by Brasilata, the pail
features a series of sawtooth-shaped
beads that absorb any impacts without
rupture, enabling a 0.30mm gauge
tinplate to be used rather than 0.34mm.
Double seams instead of triple seams,
also help with material reduction.
“To make a can that is stronger and
cheaper is quite memorable,” said a
judge.
2014
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General Line:
Brasilata, Brazil
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Beverage
Two-Piece:
Rexam, USA
GOL
2014
2014
Fancy Cans,
Decoration & Print
Quality and
Delegates Choice:
Dongguan GM
Metal Products,
Hong Kong
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CANS OF THE YEAR 2014
GM Metal Packaging’s Sunil Gidumal
received two Golds and the Delegates’
Choice award from publisher of The
Canmaker Allan Sayers
Crown won four awards at the Cans of the
Year 2014 and were received from Allan
Sayers by Robert Bourque, Crown Beverage
Packaging China’s vice president
month in Hong Kong where delegates
also found the quality of the bookshaped can remarkable, with GM Metal
Packaging winning the Delegates’
Choice award.
The above cans are all in commercial
production. In the Prototype category,
this year’s Gold award was for a metal
crown from Packaging Products del
Peru (PPP).
“This is very smart, and clever,” said
another judge. The crown for beer
bottles features a liner applied in a ring
that saves 25 percent material without
affecting sealing performance, and is
due to be commercial soon.
PPP’s development was also
recognised with a Gold in the
Sustainability category for the
remarkable savings this closure allows.
With brewer SABMiller alone using
about 45 billion crowns a year, the
savings can be immense.
The company that scooped the
highest number of titles this year was
Crown with four awards, with its
Speciality canmaking division taking
Gold in Food three-piece, Silver and
Bronze in Decoration & Print Quality;
and Crown Bevcan Europe winning
Silver in Beverage two-piece.
Rexam won three awards: Gold and
Bronze in Beverage two-piece; and
Silver in Bottles.
• More on the Silver and Bronze award
winners next month in The Canmaker.
Rexam Beverage Can AMEA’s operations director Andy Backhouse and The Canmaker’s
editor Mónica Higuera show Rexam’s awards in the Beverage and Bottles categories
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