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Ball Corporation is a supplier of high-quality metal and plastic packaging products for beverage, food and household customers, and of aerospace and other technologies and services, primarily for the U.S. government.

Based in Broomfield, Colo., Ball Corporation and its subsidiaries employ more than 15,500 people and reported 2007 sales of $7.4 billion. Ball Corporation stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol BLL.

Ball Corp. has more than 60 facilities in 10 countries and Puerto Rico, not including technology licensees.

Mission and Strategies
To be the premier provider to our packaging and aerospace and technologies customers of the products and services that we offer as we aggressively manage our business, and to explore and pursue acquisitions, divestitures, strategic alliances and other changes that would benefit Ball’s shareholders.

In packaging, our strategy is to leverage our superior continuous process improvement expertise in order to manufacture, market, sell and service high-quality, value-added products that meet the needs of high-volume and/or growing customer segments of the beverage, food and household products markets.

In aerospace and technologies, our strategy is to provide remote sensing systems and solutions to the aerospace and defense markets through products and services used to collect and interpret information needed to support national missions and scientific discovery. Spacecraft; sensors; instruments; satellite payloads; laser technologies; electro-optical systems; cameras; data exploitation; antennas; software; systems engineering; tracking systems; cryogenics; space-qualified components; engineering services. (Various U.S. government agencies such as the Department of Defense, NOAA, and NASA, as well as aerospace and defense prime contractors)

Ball Corporation Products: High-quality metal and plastic packaging products and related services; aerospace sensors, spacecraft, systems and components.

Manufacturers and providers of aluminum beverage cans, PET plastics containers (for oil, household, personal care and dairy products), easy-open beverage can ends, steel food cans, aerosol cans and ends, metal food & household packaging products and innovative technologies for broad applications to the aerospace and defense industries. Ball Corp. also provides end services and support, lithographic plates, paint cans, general line cans, plastic pails and buckets (primarily for the construction and chemical industries) and oblong metal cans and decorated custom tins.

Joint Ventures: Rigid packaging products, primarily for foods and beverages, through joint ventures or by licensing Ball’s manufacturing technology. Ball Corporation and its joint venture companies in Brazil, the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan and Thailand along with licensees in Asia, Australia, Latin America, the Middle East and New Zealand produce billions of recyclable beverage containers annually. Ball has enjoyed more than two decades of international packaging success through both joint ventures and technology licensing partnerships.

Please note: These are brief descriptions of products and services from Ball Corporation and not a complete list.

. Beverage can manufacturing plant to close in Kent, WA
The Ball Corporation beverage can manufacturing plant located in Kent, Washington USA is to close its operations later this year, displacing over one hundred employees. 2008-04-23

. Ball metal beverage packaging and Coors SmoothPour launch
Ball Corporation metal beverage packaging launches its SmoothPour aluminum beverage can end on new Coors Banquet and Coors Light vented wide mouth cans. 2008-04-18

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