CANS OF THE YEAR AWARDS - SPG Events

Easy-open ends for drinks cans revolutionisedthe business, helpingexpand worldwide sales to morethan 250 billion a year. The performancerequirements are so high that a significantchange in their design is rarely risked –until this year, when the FIFA World Cupin South Africa provided the opportunityto develop the first full-aperture versionfor a beer can.Such was the impact of the EventCan version of Crown’s SuperEndCANS OF THE YEAR AWARDSthat the judges for the Can of the Year 2010organised by The Canmaker magazineselected it without question from what wasagreed to be an already high-quality selectionof Gold award winners.The idea behind the end design was tofind a can that could elbow into the marketfor drinks containers at sports eventswhere concerns about safety had enabledplastics bottles and cups to take over.By offering a can with a full aperture(FA) it could be more quickly served openat the bars during the World Cup and atother events.South African Breweries, part of theglobal SABMiller brewing group, firstapproached Paris-based Crown Bevcan in2008, and after discussing various solutionsit was decided to fit full-apertureeasy-open ends onto the cans, so that theycould be used like drinking cups.Objective was to use the ends on a limitededition of SAB’s Castle Lager, distributedthrough bars in the tournament▲7: Beverage Two-Piece –Toyo Seikan Kaisha (Japan)These are the first 50cl aluminium cans to bemade outside of Japan using Toyo Seikan’saTULC process featuring a polyester coating.At Toyo Seikan’s new plant at Guangzhou inChina, the dry-DWI process meets increasinglyimportant sustainability goals of customers bycutting the amount of curing-oven energy andwaste water required in manufacture8: Food Three-Piece –Crown Food Europe (France)Bonduelle, the French-based canned vegetableproducer, has launched its Vapeur range ofhigh-quality products that are heat processedusing less liquid in the can. It is enhanced as acomplete package by the use Crown’s can withan Easylift easy-opening end – a first onvegetable cans – on which the decoration ismatched to the label design9: Bottles –Daiwa Can Company (Japan)This 12cl bottle made by Daiwa forHouse Foods is a new size andmade from polyester-laminatedaluminium coil using D&I techniques56798105: Food Two-Piece –Metalgráfica Renner (Brazil)Brazilian cookie manufacturer Dauperkeeps its products fresh with this cleveruse of a decorated drawn tin using a sliplid made by Renner. The vacuum isreleased to open the can by peeling off aseal in the lid that covers a hole. It’s a twopiece can, but not as we know it6: Aerosol Cans – Boxal (France)This aluminium monobloc can uses aninside curl bead developed by Boxal thatraises tightness performance to meet thehigh-pressure requirements of newcompressed gas applicationsCAN OF THEYEAR 201010: CAN OF THE YEAR and Ends, Caps & Closures– Crown Bevcan Europe & Middle East (France)Developed for use during this year’s FIFA World Cup inSouth Africa, this latest full-aperture version of CrownBevcan’s lightweight SuperEnd facilitates serving atbars and easier drinking from the opened beer can,eliminating the need for glass or plastics containersDECEMBER ● THE CANMAKER © 2010 Sayers Publishing Group 27