Coors starts up aluminium bottle manufacturing

摘要

Aluminium bottles are being manufactured in a new canmaking plant set up by Scott Coors, the 48-year-old son of the Coors Brewing magnate Bill Coors, who pioneered the use of aluminium beer cans. The ALeco Container plant in Colorado is offering high-quality digitally-printed lightweight bottles to customers looking for smaller batches than are available from the big manufacturers. "My father is credited with developing the aluminium can, and making the can and recycling commercially viable. Those are big shoes to fill," Coors said. Arvada contains a D&I line and multi-die necking systems designed to produce up to ten million bottles a year. The plan is to set up a number of micro-bottling lines in key US markets, with the company supplying bottles to high-end customers. "Our goal is to produce cookie-cutter production lines, serving customers in regional markets," said Coors, "If you're looking for a few pallets of around 3,000 bottles every week or so, that's the market we play in. "Our product is unique and we specialise in extremely small orders. Our prices are higher, due to smaller runs, but our customers work on higher margins and want a special product," said Coors.