Ball Corp.

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10 Longs Peak Dr., Broomfield, CO 80021-2510, United States
(303)469-3131, (303)460-2127 fax, http://www.ball.com

Primary SIC: Metal Cans, Primary NAICS: Metal Can Manufacturing
Description: Ball Corporation was founded in 1880, by the five Ball brothers and operated for many years as Ball Brothers Glass Manufacturing Co. It trades on the New York Stock Exchange and the Chicago Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol BLL. The company supplies metal and plastic packaging to the beverage, food and household products industries, also aerospace and other technologies to governmental and commercial customers. The packaging business dates to 1969, when Ball began supplying beverage cans. The company's five segments consist of metal beverage packaging, Americas and Asia; metal beverage packaging, Europe; metal food and household products packaging, Americas; plastic packaging, Americas; and aerospace and technologies. Two-piece aluminum beverage cans are produced at 14 manufacturing facilities in the U.S., and one in Canada. The company also operates 10 beverage can plants and two beverage can end plants in Europe, a joint venture on aluminum cans in Brazil, and nine plants in the U.S., and Canada, that manufacture steel food containers and ends for packaging food products. Ball also has eight plastic container manufacturing facilities in the U.S. Research and development facilities for packaging and metal beverage containers are in Westminster, Colo., and Bonn, Germany. Aerospace research and development is at various locations in the U.S. Trademarked items include barrier plastics such as Gamma, Gamma-Clear, AmazonHM and KHS Corpoplast GmbH Plasmax barrier bottles, as well as Heat-Tek PET plastic bottles for hot beverages. More

Manufacturing: Metal and plastic containers for food and beverage industry, commercial and government aerospace and communications products and services.