Ball Corporation, a leading beverage can maker with
production facilities around the globe, announced that they will stop
production at its Birmingham, Alabama, Chatsworth, California, and Longview,
Texas, beverage packaging plants in 2018. The company will supply its products
from other facilities.
Also, the company will build a new state-of-the-art
beverage packaging facility in Goodyear, Arizona. This plant will start producing
in the second quarter of 2018 and will serve growing customer demand for
specialty cans in the southwestern U.S.
Carlos Medeiros, president, Beverage Packaging North &
Central America, said,"These transformational actions will optimize our
plant network, realign our standard 12-ounce beverage can and end capacity,
increase our manufacturing flexibility and drive efficiencies so we can better
compete with other packaging substrates."
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Ball will record a total after-tax charge of approximately
$22 million, primarily for employee severance, pensions and other benefits,
facility shutdown costs, and asset impairment and disposal costs, for the
closure of Birmingham, Chatsworth and Longview.
“Birmingham, Chatsworth and Longview employees may be
provided benefits and outplacement services in accordance with the bargaining
process, and are eligible to apply for job openings within Ball,” according to
the company press release.
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