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Ball Expands R&D Capabilities
Manufacturing News Center
July 12, 2004 -- BROOMFIELD, Colo., (USA) -- JWXnewswire -- Ball
Corporation Expands Technology and Innovation Center for Package Development
in Westminster, Colorado.
The company's newly expanded Edmund F. Ball Technology and Innovation
Center will now house the new product development, technology and engineering
capabilities for all of Ball Corporation's North American packaging
products including metal beverage cans, metal food cans and PET plastic
bottles.
The relocation and conslidation of its PET plastic technology center
to Westminster from Smyrna, Ga., that began in 2003 is now complete.
A 30,000-square-foot state-of-the-art facility was added to its existing
metal packaging R&D building and renamed the facility in recognition
of its emphasis on innovation.
The move resulted in 46 relocated and new jobs in Westminster, approximately
25 of them in the Ball Technology and Innovation Center. Ball's North
American packaging technology and innovation operations will continue
to coordinate initiatives with the company's European technology center
-- part of Ball Packaging Europe -- in Bonn, Germany
About 60 people work in the Ball Technology and Innovation Center in
Colorado, which features production equipment capable of replicating
a manufacturing plant environment for testing of new metal and plastic
containers and processes. Included in the newly expanded center is a
3-D printer that allows Ball to produce actual models of new packaging
designs for customers within 24 hours. The 3-D printer shaves weeks
off of the typical package development process and enables Ball's customers
to more quickly introduce new products.
More details will be released regarding the ribbon cutting ceremony
and grand opening scheduled for Oct., 14, 2004.
Ball Corporation (NYSE: BLL) is a leading supplier of high-quality
packaging products and innovative packaging solutions to the beverage
and food industries. The company also owns Ball Aerospace & Technologies
Corp., which develops sophisticated sensors, spacecraft, systems and components
for the government and commercial space markets. Ball employs 12,600 people
worldwide and reported 2003 sales of $4.9 billion.
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