Aluminum Challenging Plastics in Beverage Industry

摘要

After replacing some quantities of steel in the automotive industry in recent years, aluminum has another potential area of increasing use, which is gaining importance, namely the beverage industry. Although aluminum has been present in the packaging and beverage industry for a long time, it is now challenging plastics and glass. Aluminum is not only being used in soda or beer cans (where it has been commonplace), but is also implemented where plastics and glass have been dominant thus far-the packaging of water. This may result in a strong increase in demand for aluminum in the future-from the beverage industry as well as in numerous other products where plastics have been dominant in the past.