Ball Corporation enters into alliance with Boomerang Water to provide customers with on-site refillable bottled water solutions

Boomerang Water’s new innovation The technology, together with Ball’s refillable aluminum bottles, meets the growing demand for sustainable beverage packaging in places such as resorts, cruise lines and campuses

WESTMINSTER, Col., September 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Today Ball Corporation (NYSE: BALL), a leading global supplier of infinitely recyclable aluminum beverage packaging, and Boomerang Water LLC, a leader in sustainable water bottling technology, announced an alliance to offer consumers a long-lasting way to stay hydrated. At resorts, cruise ships, campuses and elsewhere, Ball will supply its aluminum bottles for the Boomerang Bottling System, a cutting-edge technology that provides the convenience of bottled water in a durable package while limiting the environmental impact. Boomerang’s bottling system washes, rinses, filters, fills and caps fresh water into refillable, returnable and recyclable Ball aluminum bottles, eliminating waste and carbon emissions from bottle manufacturing and shipping traditional disposables.

“Boomerang offers state-of-the-art innovation with its bottling system that can wash, fill and cap over 3,000 bottles of premium chilled water per eight-hour shift. The idea and concept is the reusability and circularity of aluminum bottles combined with a Boomerang system”, said the co-founder of Boomerang Water Jason Dibble. “Ball’s aluminum bottles are the perfect complement to our Boomerang bottling system since they can be reused over and over again and ultimately recycled easily at the end of their life.”

Aluminum offers tremendous opportunities for packaging innovation, and Ball is leading the way in leveraging the value of the material to drive sustainability for its customers. Aluminum cans, bottles and cups – which are infinitely recyclable and economically valuable – enable the circular economy as they can be refilled, reused and recycled without losses. Through its alliance with Boomerang Water, Ball will provide aluminum bottles that will model what is possible in a closed loop system by being filled, reused and ultimately recycled. Rather than throwing away end-of-life bottles, Ball and Boomerang Water will recycle them, in which case they can be turned into new bottles within 60 days.

“At Ball, our ambition is to never stop leveraging our years of expertise in beverage packaging to deliver new, innovative and sustainable solutions to our customers,” said Billings JayPresident of Ball Aerosol Packaging. “We aim to be a strategic supplier for innovators, like Boomerang, who find new ways to provide consumers and businesses with sustainable options and make a difference for the planet. We look forward to sharing more about the impact of our covenant.”

The alliance between Ball and Boomerang Water comes at a time when sustainability is more important than ever to consumers, who are increasingly turning to the brands they love to provide them with the opportunity to buy and use. products that are good for the planet. In fact, research reveals that 85% of consumers have become more sustainable in their purchases in recent years.

Boomerang Water’s new technology was successfully launched and implemented at the Four Seasons Resort Hualalai, where Ball’s aluminum water bottles are widely available throughout the resort. The system is an ideal solution for locations where retrieval of used cylinders may be easy, including resorts, cruise ships, convention centers, corporate and college campuses, military and government bases, as well. as industrial and manufacturing facilities.

look how the Boomerang bottling system works.

About Ball Corporation
Ball Corporation provides innovative and sustainable aluminum packaging solutions for beverage, personal care and household products customers, as well as aerospace and other technologies and services, primarily for the US government. Ball Corporation and its subsidiaries employ 24,300 people worldwide and had net sales of $13.8 billion in 2021. For more information, visit www.ball.com, or connect with us on Facebook or Twitter.

About Boomerang Water
A veteran-owned company, Boomerang Water is the world’s first on-site micro-bottling solution to cost-effectively replace plastic water bottles. Boomerang is committed to disrupt current water bottling practices to end single-use plastics and shipping. Our zero-waste system washes, sanitizes, fills and caps reusable glass or aluminum bottles with premium pure, filtered water at the point of use to maximize freshness and minimize waste. For more information, visit https://boomerangwater.com/, or connect with us on Facebook or Instagram.

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SOURCE Ball Corporation