Low cost, highly efficient and easy-to-store, it’s difficult to imagine a better food package than the metal container. Its strength and unparalleled ability to maintain freshness provide worthy benchmarks across all of our packaging markets.

We’re currently creating new packaging to enhance our metal food container catalog. A primary focus is developing innovative packaging to support the growing on-the-go and convenience markets.

Ball Peelable Ends
Introducing a new multi-layer film closure for steel food cans! Ball Peelable Ends are designed to improve ease of use, convenience and safety for consumers. The end incorporates an easy-to-grasp, flexible pull tab and eliminates the sharp edges of traditional food can closure systems.

Consumer Benefits

• Improved ergonomic comfort, hand safety
• Superior tab gripability, ease of use
• Convenient
• High abuse resistance
• Package shelf life equal to standard metal can

Decoration Options

• End can be white or colored
• Printable - up to nine colors
• Glossy for excellent shelf appeal 
• Pull tab can be incised

Sustainability Benefits

Steel Food Cans

• Highest recycling rate of all food packaging
• Contain at least 25% recycled content
• Conveniently recyclable in curbside and drop-off recycling programs
• Excellent cube efficiency, transportation benefits
• Require minimal secondary packaging

Plus Ball Peelable Ends

• 45% lighter than comparable metal EZOpen ends
• Stack more efficiently
• Nearly double the number of pallets shipped per truckload

Fusion-Tek^TM Microwavable Food Can
Provide customers the ease of a microwave-safe container along with the durability and strength of traditional food cans.

Consumer Markets

• Microwave and Convenience

Consumer Appeal

• Easy meal preparation
• From microwave to desk or table
• No dishes required - easy clean up
• Kid-friendly meal preparation

Metal in the Microwave - Yes!
A traditional steel food can does not heat in the microwave because microwave energy can not pass through steel. Ball has developed a proprietary technology to join metal and plastic, making it possible to manufacture a steel food can with a plastic end. Fusion-Tek’s plastic end creates a channel for microwave energy to pass through the can, heating the product inside quickly and evenly.