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Ball Corporation is a global aluminum manufacturing company headquartered in Westminster, Colorado. It is best known for its early production of glass jars, lids, and related products used for home canning. Since its founding in Buffalo, New York, in 1880, [2] when it was known as the Wooden Jacket Can Company, the Ball company has expanded and ...
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., commonly Ball Aerospace, was an American manufacturer of spacecraft, components and instruments for national defense, civil space and commercial space applications. Until 2024, the firm was a wholly owned subsidiary of Ball Corporation, with primary offices in Boulder, Colorado, and facilities in Broomfield ...
The Ball brothers from left to right: George A. Ball, Lucius L. Ball, Frank C. Ball, Edmund B. Ball, and William C. Ball. The Ball brothers (Lucius, William, Edmund, Frank, and George) were five American industrialists and philanthropists who established a manufacturing business in New York and Indiana in the 1880s that was renamed the Ball Corporation in 1969.
Ball Corporation. The Ball Corporation — a packaging and aerospace manufacturing company based in Broomfield, Colorado. Originally the Ball Brothers Glass Manufacturing Company (1886-1967), founded by the Ball Brothers and based in Muncie, Indiana.
Jarden Corporation. Jarden was an American consumer products company. Formed by the spin out of Ball Corporation 's canning business, the company became a wider conglomerate of consumer brands, particularly in the outdoors and home appliances market. Jarden was acquired in 2016 by Newell Rubbermaid, which renamed itself Newell Brands. [2][3]
BALL's old ad. Webb C. Ball set up "RR Standard" ("RR" for Rail Road) to assure a high accuracy and perfect reading to all railroad employees. He also created the BALL Time Service, an after-sale service to which every employee of the rails had to bring his watch every two weeks to make sure the accuracy and reliability of the watch was maximal.
In February 2015, Rexam accepted Ball Corporation's sweetened takeover offer of £4.4 billion ($6.7 billion), a deal which created one of the world's biggest consumer-packaging suppliers. [24] Ball was required to sell eight U.S. aluminum can plants. [25] In June 2016, Rexam was acquired by Ball Corporation for $8.4 billion. [6] [7]
Establishment and operation as a family business. Heekin Can was founded in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1901 by James Heekin (born December 8, 1843), proprietor of a business that sold food products, including coffee, tea, spices, extracts, and baking powder, packaged in tin cans. After his can supplier increased prices in 1900, Heekin began to make ...