Ball Corp.

History

Year	Detail
1880	Frank C. and Edmund B. Ball, two of the five Ball brothers, borrowed $200 from George Harvey Ball, the founder and first president of Keuka College, to buy the Wooden Jacket Can Co., a small manufacturing business in Buffalo, New York.
1922	The company simplified its name from Ball Brothers Glass Manufacturing Co. to Ball Brothers Co.
1969	Ball enters the beverage can business, acquiring Jeffco Manufacturing Co. in Golden, Colorado, to form its metal beverage container operations.
1969	The company changes its name to Ball Corporation.
1993	Ball acquired Heekin Can, Inc., the largest regional manufacturer of metal food containers in the U.S. The acquisition makes Ball the third-largest producer of metal food and aerosol cans in the North American market.
1997	Ball acquired M.C. Packaging Ltd. in China. Combined with Ball's FTB Packaging Ltd. joint venture, Ball is the largest supplier of cans in the Chinese market.
2002	Ball acquired Schmalbach-Lubeca AG, the German-based metal-can beverage company, to create Ball Packaging Europe. The move boosts Ball's beverage can sales by more than $1 billion annually.
2006	Ball acquired U.S. Can, a U.S.-based aerosol and specialty metal packaging company, and merged it with Ball's metal food-packaging operations to form the metal food and household products packaging division.
2009	Ball acquired four metal beverage can plants from AB InBev, making Ball the largest supplier of beverage cans in the world.
2010	Ball has become the largest supplier of aluminum slugs globally, having acquired Neuman Aluminum and Aerocan S.A.S.
2011	Ball acquired Aerocan S.A.S., a leading supplier of European aluminum aerosol cans and bottles.
2016	Ball acquired Rexam PLC, becoming the world's largest producer of aluminum beverage cans.
2020	Ball and Kroenke Sports & Entertainment (KSE) partnered to advance sustainability in sports and entertainment, including the naming rights for Ball Arena, home to the NBA's Denver Nuggets, NHL's Colorado Avalanche and NLL's Colorado Mammoth, alongside family entertainment and concerts.
2024	Ball shifted to an all-in on aluminum business approach and divested its aerospace business to BAE Systems.
2025	Ball sold the Ball Aluminum Cup assets and formed a strategic joint venture that will accelerate the continued development and growth of the Aluminum Cup category.