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You want to stand out on a shelf and we can help. Our award-winning printing capabilities allow for virtually infinite possibilities. We'll work with you to find the best possible visual treatment for your brand from pearl, gloss, and matte to metallic, thermochromatic, and UV activated.

That's not all. There is a strong sustainability argument to be made for metal packaging and graphics. For many other substrates, the use of colours and labels can come at a considerable cost to the environment. Plastic packaging is a case in point. Dyed and pigmented plastic packaging is significantly challenging to recycle. Because of its pigmentation, coloured plastic can only be recycled into darker shades of the original dye (or black), which limits its recycling potential. For this reason, many recycling facilities regard pigmented plastics as contaminants to the recycler stream and subsequently send them for incineration or landfill.

In contrast, direct, full-body printing is possible for cans, which eliminates the need for secondary materials for labels and retains the can’s inherent recyclability. In effect, metal cans provide a 360° canvas to make your brand pop.

Metal has an intrinsic ability to be formed into virtually any shape. This can make your product stackable, nestable, and – perhaps most importantly – attention-grabbing. Our shaping technologies can help.

Die necking gradually forms a straight cylinder into the desired shape by pushing smaller and smaller dies on to it, while blow moulding shapes a cylinder to fit a specific mould using air pressure. These techniques allow for a number of different shapes and sizes of the neck and body of the cylinder. Embossing is yet another way of shaping the can to make it stand out on any shelf.