Coca-Cola shifts to aluminium cans, signs R5.6bn Bevcan contract
South Africa’s sole beverage can manufacturer, Bevcan, has been awarded a five-year, R5.6-billion contract to produce and supply lightweight aluminium cans for Coca-Cola’s portfolio of beverages.
Coca-Cola Canners of Southern Africa, a subsidiary of Coca-Cola Southern Africa, expects to deliver its range of beverages in the new cans to the Gauteng market later this year and to the rest of the country during 2014.
Bevcan is in the process of replacing its production line of tin-plated steel beverage cans with aluminium-bodied cans – in line with global trends – with the first locally produced all-aluminium cans set to hit the market in mid-2013.
“Our infrastructure investment for this project includes the installation of a new high-speed line at one of our Gauteng plants, which is due for commissioning in May 2013,” Bevcan MD Erik Smuts says.
South Africa’s beverage cans, both soft drinks and beer cans, are currently produced with a steel body and aluminium can-ends and tabs.
Phased OutSmuts previously told Engineering News that the Nampak subsidiary’s older production lines would gradually be phased out as it moved to eventually completely stop producing tin-plated steel cans.
Initially, about 70% of the beverage cans produced would be 100% aluminium.
“The new aluminium can is in line with best global practices and trends in packaging. It is also light and easy to carry and will appeal to today’s environmentally conscious consumer,” Coca-Cola Southern Africa president Therese Gearhart comments, adding that less fuel and energy will be required for transport owing to the lightweight properties of aluminium cans.
JSE-listed Hulamin, which supplies the aluminium products for can-ends and tabs, last year signed a two-and-a-half-year aluminium sheeting supply deal with Bevcan.
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