On Thursday, August 4, Ball Corporation, the world’s leading sustainable aluminium packaging provider, officially declared its plans to shut down beverage cans plant located on Saint Paul’s West Side.
The company also announced that the tentative time of ending the operations at St. Paul would be next spring, and it would lay off about 110 workers.
Another aluminium beverage cans plant operated by Ball is closing in Phoenix, Ariz., while the construction of a new facility in Nevada is getting delayed. All this is due to the "deceleration of customer demand resulting from significant retail pricing actions by customers to pass through inflationary costs to consumers, particularly in the U.S," said Ball in a news release.
St. Paul’s aluminium can production will be moved to other Ball plants. The definite date for Ball’s St. Paul plant closure will be decided subject to customer needs. Ball said it would correspond with the plant’s union to evaluate the effects of the closure on employees. Currently, Ball has more than 24,000 employees in total.
Ball acquired the St. Paul plant in 2016. In 2018, the St. Paul Port Authority tweeted that the plant produced 5.5 million cans a day, which totals 2 billion cans a year.
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