Metal Packaging Manufacturers Association

LIGHTWEIGHTING

LIGHTWEIGHTING

Making cans lighter while retaining their strength is one of the great sustainability triumphs of metal packaging.

While today’s cans may not appear physically to its predecessors, over the last 25 years across Europe, the weight of steel and aluminium cans has reduced by a third.

Nowadays the body of a can is no thicker than a human hair but remains totally robust.