Ball Reports recipients of David Hoover Sustainability Award

Ball Corp. announced the recipients of the 2011 R. David Hoover Sustainability Award.

According to a release, in the award program's inaugural year, five Ball plants out of 61 around the globe earned the Hoover sustainability award for making improvements in economic, social and environmental performance.

Officials noted that earning the award are Ball's plants in:

- Findlay, Ohio (Metal Beverage Packaging Division, Americas)

- Springdale, Ark. (Metal Food & Household Products Packaging Division, Americas)

- Oss, Netherlands (Ball Packaging Europe)

- Braunschweig, Germany (Metal Beverage Packaging, Ends)

- Beijing, China (Ball Asia Pacific Ltd.)

The plants were scored on their achievements toward reducing electricity, natural gas and water usage, reducing waste and volatile organic compounds, improving their safety records, commitment to recycling and promoting Ball's packaging products within their communities. Additional points were awarded for commitment to sharing best practices and ideas with other plants. The five recipients represent the highest scores in each of Ball's divisions.

"Sustainability is a key part of our Drive for 10 vision, which we also introduced in 2011," said John A. Hayes, president and CEO. "By embracing our triple bottom line approach balancing the economic, environmental and social impacts of our products and operations in our decision-making process our plants create long- term value for all of our stakeholders. Every sustainable action we take brings us closer to achieving our Drive for 10 vision."

Ball Corp. is a supplier of packaging for beverage, food and household products customers, and of aerospace and other technologies and services.

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