Ball Packaging Europe
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| legal form | Ball Europe GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | Late 2002 |
| Seat | Luton
100 Capability Green LU1 3LG Bedfordshire |
| management | Colin Gillis, President Frank Weekers, CFO |
| Number of employees | approx. 2800 |
| sales | 1.3 billion euros |
| Branch | packagings |
| Website | Ball Europe |
| Status: 2010 | |
Ball Beverage Packaging Europe , headquartered in Luton , previously in Zurich and Ratingen , is one of the leading beverage can manufacturers in Europe and belongs to the Ball Corporation , an American conglomerate. According to its own information, it is number 2 on the European market. Ball Corporation is number 1 in the world in the manufacture of beverage cans. Ball Beverage Packaging Europe produces around 13 billion cans, which corresponds to 31% of the beverage cans required in Europe.
A predecessor company of Ball Packaging Europe was the Braunschweiger Schmalbach-Lubeca AG , the new company has existed since April 1, 2003 .
Business operations
Ball Beverage Packaging Europe achieved a turnover of 892 million euros in 2004 with around 2,400 employees. The can deposit in Germany resulted in a drastic drop in production, which is no longer so noticeable. In 2010 they achieved a turnover of 1.3 billion euros with around 2,800 employees.
For a long time, the company's headquarters were located near the Leutschenpark in the Leutschen Tower at Leutschenbachstrasse 52 in the Oerlikon district of Zurich. Vice President Gerrit Heske died on March 22, 2014 in Lucerne. ( ⊙ ). In the meantime the location in Zurich has been closed and moved back to Luton in Great Britain.
Current production locations
The company's production sites are (as of August 2019):
- Widnau in Switzerland
- Ludesch in Austria
- Gelsenkirchen in Germany
- Nogara in Italy
- Belgrade in Serbia
- Waterford in Ireland
- Mont in France
- Tarragona in Spain
- Guadalajara in Spain
- Ejpovice in the Czech Republic
- Lublin in Poland
- Argayash in Russia
- Vsevolozhsk in Russia
- Naro-Fominsk in Russia
- Wakefield in the UK
- Milton Keynes in the UK
- Bierne in France
- Fredericia in Denmark
- Malmo in Sweden
- Mantsala in Finland
Intention to sell the production sites
In 2016, as a result of the requirements of the competition authorities in the course of the planned merger with Rexam, Ball Corporation parted from most of its European locations. Rexam also sold its works in Enzesfeld (Austria) and Valdemarillo (Spain). The Irish packaging company Ardagh , among others, was discussed as a possible buyer of the entire package .
The following Ball can band mills were for sale:
- United Kingdom: Works in Rugby and Wrexham
- Germany: plants in Weißenthurm, Haßloch and Hermsdorf
- Netherlands: Oss plant
- Poland: Radomsko plant
- France: La Ciotat plant
Furthermore, the following can end works
- United Kingdom: Deeside plant
- Germany: Braunschweig plant formerly Schmalbach-Lubeca
Ball's Business Center in Bonn was also affected by the sale. The plants in Bierne (France) and Belgrade (Serbia) will remain with Ball.
Web links
- Report on the research center in Bonn-Auerberg on express.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Portrait. August 13, 2019, Retrieved August 22, 2019 (UK English).
- ↑ Location Map. Retrieved August 22, 2019 .
- ↑ The company's own information ( Memento from May 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Ratingen-Bonn ( memento of March 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on ball-europe.com
- ↑ a b Merger control: Commission approves acquisition of Rexam by Ball subject to conditions. euzeitung.de, January 17, 2016, accessed on May 16, 2016 .
- ↑ Ardagh confirms interest in Ball and Rexam works for sale. euwid-verpackung.de, March 9, 2016, accessed on May 16, 2016 .