RECYCLED CONTENT MEASUREMENT FORMULA:
By early April 2025 a full guidance document was written for the recycled content measurement formula, which was detailed at The Summit. The voluntary guidance was created to determine percentage-based recycled content of aluminum can sheet used to make beverage containers. The guidance includes how to determine both pre-consumer and post-consumer aluminum scrap. It also offers clarity regarding scrap generated from can making and filling operations. The full voluntary aluminum can sheet recycled content measurement guidance document and summary document are now both on the CMI website. These documents can be used as reference and shared.
The second Global Aluminium Can Sustainability Summit took place on October 1-2, 2024 in the Cloister’s Room of St. Ermin’s Hotel | 2 Caxton Street, London SW1H 0QW.
AGENDA: The Summit focused on decarbonization pathway performance and recycled content measurement and the necessary steps for further progress. See detailed agenda below.
ATTENDEES: This was an invite-only event for beverage companies, aluminium can manufacturers, can sheet producers, aluminium producers, and the associations that represent them. Because we are at capacity, registration is closed. If you want to be added to the waitlist for the Summit, please email sbreen@cancentral.com. See attending organizations below and here is the latest list of attendees.
MEDIA: There was media present from four trade press publications: Aluminium International Today, The Canmaker (Sayers Publishing Group), CanTech International (Bell Publishing), The Metal Packager (Connective Press Group). We’ve asked reporters to get sign-off on direct quotes from speakers, but you should assume everything you say could be included in an article.
PHOTOGRAPHY: There was a photographer at the Summit. These images will be used by the sponsors, hosts and attending companies to share news about the Summit and the can industry. Images may be used in press releases, printed publicity and published on attendees websites and social media. If you would like to see your images, or would like us to delete them, please email dthompson@cancentral.com.
CONVENERS/SPONSORS: Ball Corporation, CANPACK, and Envases are joining the returning sponsors Ardagh Metal Packaging and Crown Holdings. International Aluminium Institute and Can Manufacturers Institute (U.S.) are again partnering on convening the event along with new partners Abralatas (Brazil) and Metal Packaging Europe. There is no cost to attend the event thanks to the generosity of the event sponsors.
QUESTIONS: Please contact Scott Breen, Senior Vice President of Sustainability at Can Manufacturers Institute, sbreen@cancentral.com with content questions and Dorie Thompson, Director of Events at Can Manufacturers Institute, dthompson@cancentral.com with logistics questions.
SCHEDULE One Pager (PDF)
October 1, 2024 (TUESDAY)
Full day of program starting with breakfast
| 7:30AM-8:30AM | Registration and Light Breakfast |
| 8:30AM-8:40AM | Can Maker Welcome
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| 8:40AM-8:45AM | Antitrust Guidance |
| 8:45AM-9:20AM | Emissions Profile of Today’s Aluminium Can Versus the Aluminium Can of the Future
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| 9:20AM-10:00AM | Aluminium Industry Emissions State of Play
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| 10:00AM-11:00AM | Reality Check on Higher Can Recycling Rates
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| 11:00AM-11:15AM | Networking Break Sponsored by AkzoNobel |
| 11:15AM-11:35AM | Recycling Policy Debate: Advocacy Deposits Everywhere or Tailored Policy Approaches Recycling refunds have been proven to significantly increase recycling rates, but are they the right solution for the can industry to push everywhere?
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| 11:35AM-12:05PM | Lightning Talks on Game Changers in Aluminium Circularity Short presentations on game changers in aluminum circularity from different perspectives—policy, innovation, and communications
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| 12:05PM-12:25PM | Partner Talks Several aluminum circularity question prompts provided for people to pair up and discuss. Participants will respond in an online survey. The results and insights will be shared out after lunch. |
| 12:25PM-1:30PM | Lunch Sponsored by Kaiser, Novelis, and Tri-Arrows Aluminum |
| 1:30PM-1:40PM | Sense of the Room Review key insights and themes from the partner talks that took place before lunch. |
| 1:40PM-2:20PM | Expected Growth in Can Sales and the Sustainability-Related Threats The session first highlights the forecasted growth for the aluminum beverage can due to sustainability and other factors and then details the threat greenwashing accusations, improved sustainability performance by competitors, and greater amounts of reusable packaging could pose to that growth.
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| 2:20PM-2:50PM | Making Metal Can Recycling/Sustainability Claims Without Greenwashing
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| 2:50PM-3:05PM | Networking Break Sponsored by PPG |
| 3:05PM-4:15PM | Customers Speak
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| 4:15PM-4:30PM | Wrap up List of restaurants that St. Ermins recommends for you to consider if going out on your own or with other attendees. |
October 2, 2024 (WEDNESDAY)
Half day of program starting with breakfast, ending with lunch
| 7:30AM-8:30AM | Registration and Light Breakfast |
| 8:30AM-8:40AM | Welcome From Can Maker Sponsors
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| 8:40AM-9:20AM | Recycled Content Overview and Measurement Methodology Discussion
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| 9:05AM-9:50AM | Exploring the Ramifications and Nuances of the Recycled Content Methodology Choosing how to measure the recycled content in aluminum beverage can is only the first step. Now it has to be used in carbon accounting, policy advocacy, public communications, etc. This session will explore the ramifications of the how the aluminum can industry is measuring its recycled content as well as certain nuances that may not be apparent at first review.
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| 9:50AM-10:15AM | Best Practices in Sustainability Reporting Within Industries and Externally The aluminum beverage can sector can learn from how other sectors have standardized and improved their sustainability reporting between companies within the industry and to those external to the industry. In this session, we will explore how other industries have enhanced their sustainability reporting and the lessons learned for the aluminum can industry.
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| 10:15AM-11:00AM | Standardizing Reporting Across the Value Chain on Key Sustainability Metrics Sustainability disclosure and reporting are key for many stakeholders across the value chain. Robust disclosure and reporting requires good data. The availability of good data and the capacity to report out that good data varies across the value chain. Further, the requests for the data often create complications as they are not in standard formats or using standard definitions. This session will explore the need for efficient, standardized, and meaningful reporting and how the can industry value chain has worked together and could work together after the Summit to create more efficient, standardized, and meaningful reporting.
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| 11:00AM-11:15AM | Networking Break Sponsored by Sherwin Williams |
| 11:15AM-12:25PM | Visioning Exercise Group discussions to catalyze thinking among attendees on what the aluminum can industry’s sustainability vision should be, the goals that should be set to achieve that vision, and what will help and hinder progress toward those goals. Facilitators:
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| 12:25PM-12:35PM | Reviewing Inspiration and Takeaways The Summit is meant to empower attendees with insights on the challenges and opportunities for the aluminum beverage can to build on its leading sustainability position. This session reviews the key takeaways from the Summit so that you are inspired to improve the aluminum can’s sustainability performance and share its story with others.
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| 12:35PM-12:40PM | Goodbye From Can Maker Sponsors Goodbye and see you in two years!
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| 12:40PM-2:00PM | Closing Lunch |
2024 SUMMIT ANTITRUST GUIDANCE
- Awareness and compliance with global antitrust laws is essential for a successful Summit
- Antitrust laws place compliance with its rules on every director, officer, and employee and can extend to intermediaries (e.g., advisers)
- Some jurisdictions have criminal sanctions
- Everyone’s active participation is key
- Do not at any point during the event from the stage or in the context of side conversations discuss, agree on, or signal (current or future) costs, prices, margins, terms of sale, output, capacity or plans of your company
- g., Do not say “We should price or envisage to price the carbon impact and/or deposit return system costs into our products to finance the transition to low carbon packaging” since that could be interpreted as a signal to the respective competitors to charge costs on to customers/consumers
- Antitrust laws require that each company makes its own independent decision whether or not (and to what extent) it charges sustainability costs on to customers
- Do not discuss any purchasing or competitive sustainability plans in this forum in a way that is anti-competitive (i.e., negatively impacts competition or influences other player’s business strategy) or with the expectation to reach a common understanding with the relevant players (including “signaling”)
- g., Do not say “we will price or envisage to price carbon impacts into our products,” “we are requiring our suppliers to only source from sustainable companies,” or “we will not source from manufacturers using high carbon processes.”
- Monitor compliance with the above rules a.o. by limiting discussions to agenda topics and by protesting any discussion or activities which appear to violate them – if needed, dissociate yourself from any such discussion or activities.
2024 SPEAKERS For a complete list of speakers see detailed agenda
- Abralatas
- AFRY
- AkzoNobel
- Aluminium Stewardship Initiative
- The Aluminum Association
- Aluminum Dynamics
- Aluminium Federation
- Alupro
- American Beverage Association
- Anheuser-Busch InBev
- Arconic
- Ardagh Metal Packaging
- Associação Brasileira do Alumínio (ABAL)
- Bacall
- Ball Corporation
- Be Better
- Belvac
- Boston Beer
- Can Manufacturers Institute
- CANPACK Group
- CarnaudMetalBox Engineering
- Coca-Cola
- Constellium
- Crown Holdings
- Diageo
- Ellen MacArthur Foundation
- Elval
- Emirates Global Aluminium
- ENVASES
- Eunomia
- European Aluminium Association
- Every Can Counts
- Federated Hermes
- GIE La Boite Boisson
- GreenBlue
- GZ Industries
- HENAN ZHONGFU
- Heineken
- Hubbub
- Hulamin Operations
- International Aluminium Institute
- Japan Aluminum Association
- Kaiser Aluminum
- Keurig Dr Pepper
- Kingsley Napley
- Kobelco Japan
- London Metal Exchange (LME)
- Ma’aden Rolling Company
- McKinsey & Company
- Metal Packaging Europe
- Metal Packaging Manufacturers Association
- Molson Coors
- Monster Energy
- Novelis
- PepsiCo
- PPG Industries
- The Recycling Partnership
- Red Bull
- RELOOP
- Shandong Nanshan Aluminium
- Sherwin-Williams
- Silgan Containers
- Simplify Climate
- Smithers
- Speira
- Stolle Machinery
- Tianjin Zhongwang
- TOMRA
- Toyo Seikan Group Holdings
- Tri-Arrows Aluminum
- Trivium Packaging
- UACJ Corporation
- Wolf Research
- Wood Mackenzie
IAI Brochure – ALUMINIUM The sustainable option for beverage cans
Aluminium cans present a powerful case for advancing a sustainable and circular economy, owing to their remarkable recyclability, efficiency in waste management, economic value of scrap and potential for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Collectively, the aluminium industry has an opportunity to make a difference by being active and, indeed, proactive in raising awareness of aluminium’s many benefits and advocating for process and infrastructure change that will capitalise on the enduring recyclability of cans.
Aluminium’s inherent properties make it an ideal material for the circular economy. It is a permanent material that can be recycled over and over again with small remelting losses and without losing quality, underscoring its potential for true closed-loop recyclability. For every kilogramme of aluminium sorted, almost the same quantity of recycled metal is produced. This capability positions aluminium cans as a cornerstone of sustainable packaging solutions, especially as our industry strives to increase recycling rates and reduce environmental impact. (Full Report PDF)