Where is aluminium foil produced?

Due to its versatility, ease of use and easy recyclability, aluminium foil turns out to become one of the most consumed aluminium products across the world. According to the Product Complexity Index (PCI), aluminium foil is the 275th most traded product in the world and the 281st most complex product. Aluminium foil can provide complete insulation to light, oxygen, moisture and bacteria making it the perfect product to be used in food and medicine packaging. Other applications of aluminium foil include beverage, confectionary, personal care, health care and other industrial uses. Since, aluminium foils are mostly used in packaging applications, developed economies are the top consumers of foil.

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The global aluminium foil packaging market is expected to see high growth over coming years. The major growth is expected in the developing markets owing to strong economic growth and increasing middle class with growing disposable income. The change in life style which includes changed food habits has led to increased demand for packaging. Growing demand for ready to eat confectionaries and pharmaceutical products is the major drivers for aluminium foils industry.

We are looking at the top five aluminium foil manufacturers in the world on the basis of their product volume and market size. It is interesting to note that with the recent developments in the global aluminium market that has slowly shifted the production base to the East and particularly Asia, a number of new emerging players from China, India and Middle East have started taking market share from some of the oldest foil manufacturers from the U.S. The list is based on current available data and is dynamic depending on changing market conditions.

Amcor

Amcor Limited is an Australian-based multinational packaging company. Amcor creates packaging solutions using flexibles and rigid plastics packaging, and products that protect food, beverage, pharmaceutical, medical, personal, home, and personal care goods. Headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, the company employs 27,000 people worldwide and has operations across 43 countries.

Zhejiang Junma Aluminium Industry

Zhejiang Junma Aluminium Industry  is one of the largest manufacturer and exporter of Aluminium foil in China.  Zhejiang Junma's aluminium foil rolling machines are supplied by world's first rate manufacturer roughing, and finishing mills, thickness testing instruments and high precision equipment. Zhejiang Junma aluminium Foil are widely used in cigarette package, food package, flexible package, electric package industries, etc. The total output of our company is 12,000tons per year. The company also has a household aluminium foil factory with a capacity of 80000rolls per day. 

Novelis

Novelis is the world leader in rolled aluminum products, delivering unique solutions for the most demanding global applications, such as beverage cans, automobiles, architecture and consumer electronics. Novelis is a global leader in rolling and the company is specialized in coil-coating, laminating, tray and container production. The company offers the whole range of opportunities to satisfy our customers’ requests. Their products are used in different markets including packaging and food containers.

Hindalco

Hindalco is India’s premier foil and foil laminates supplier in different variants – plain, laminated, lacquered and printed which are used for various packaging applications. The state-of-the-art foil rolling facilities incorporate the latest technology and offer a wide range of quality foils. The three German mills are fitted with “Automatic Shape & Gauge controls” for delivering high quality output and are capable of meeting requirements of sophisticated end applications.

Jumbo reels of foil are used as stock for manufacturing House Foil rolls. SRC stock in various thicknesses and widths is offered for manufacturing semi-rigid-containers. Hindalco has its own well established and widely distributed brands of house foil - “Freshwrapp” and “Superwrap”.

The entire range of products are not only well accepted in India but are also exported to several countries regularly.

Huawei Aluminium

Huawei Aluminium is a leading Chinese aluminium product manufacturer located in the capital of Henan Province, P.R. China. It takes 25 minutes to Zhengzhou International Airport from our company. Their products include Pharmaceutical foil, packaging foil, aluminium foil, aluminium plates etc. The products are widely used in railways, shipbuilding, automobile manufacturing, printing, electrical, electronics, packaging and other industries. Their products sell well throughout the country and are exported to the United States, South Korea, Japan, Canada, Britain, Italy, India and other countries and regions.

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Other prominent companies in the aluminium foil manufacturing sector are:

Eurofoil

Eurofoil is one of the leading suppliers of aluminum foil in Europe from its two plants in Dudelange, Luxembourg, and Rugles, France, and is a leading player in the market for tobacco consumer packaging products from its Berlin, Germany, operation. These businesses are supported by the Eurofoil Innovation Centre in Belvaux, Luxembourg. In 2012, Novelis sold three of its European aluminum foil and packaging plants to Eurofoil. The transaction includes foil rolling operations in Rugles, France; Dudelange, Luxembourg; and Berlin, Germany.

Eurofoil was established in 2012 by American Industrial Acquisition Corporation (“AIAC”). AIAC’s companies manufacture precision products and equipment for a wide variety of end markets, including food, pharmaceutical, petro-chemical, aerospace, defence, appliances, automotive, rail, refrigeration, construction and medical devices.

ACM Carcano

Carcano Antonio S.p.A. was established in 1880. Since then the company has been constantly evolving to become a solid company in the field of aluminium foil rolling and converting. Carcano Antonio S.p.A. works according to a completely integrated and traceable production process, from the raw material to the finished products, according to GMP and European standards UNI EN ISO 9001:2008 and UNI EN ISO 14001:04.

Assan Alüminyum

As one of the leading companies in the flat rolled aluminium sector, Assan Alüminyum is producing flat rolled aluminium products since its establishment in 1988. Assan Alüminyum is exporting to more than 70 countries around the world, led by the European Union and providing logistics advantage to its customers with its warehouses in various countries. It serves a large variety of sectors including distribution, construction, transportation, consumer durables and packaging.

Ess Dee Aluminium

Ess Dee Aluminium consists of the parent company, Division India Foils and its 100% subsidiary, Flex Art Foils Ltd. With over 100 years of collaborative experience, we are the leading providers of primary packaging solutions in the Asian Market, poised to expand horizons globally by consistently exceeding expectations.

For close to a century Division India Foils has been one of the largest producers and pioneers of Aluminium Foil in Asia. Ess Dee was the first in India to manufacture dedicated high-end pharmaceutical packaging products like Cold Form Blister and Child-Resistant-Blister packaging. The company’s product portfolio has significantly enhanced since then, now covering a wide range of sophisticated and technologically advanced products.

A thin, flexible sheet of aluminium, used for wrapping food and other purposes

Aluminium foil (or aluminum foil in American English; occasionally called tin foil) is aluminium prepared in thin metal leaves. The foil is pliable and can be readily bent or wrapped around objects. Thin foils are fragile and are sometimes laminated with other materials such as plastics or paper to make them stronger and more useful.

Annual production of aluminium foil was approximately 850,000 tonnes (940,000 tons) in Europe in 2014,[1] and 600,000 tonnes (660,000 tons) in the U.S. in 2003.[2] Approximately 75% of aluminium foil is used for packaging of foods, cosmetics, and chemical products, and 25% is used for industrial applications (e.g., thermal insulation, electrical cables, and electronics).[2] It can be easily recycled.

Aluminium foil supplanted tin foil in the mid 20th century. In the United Kingdom and United States it is often informally called "tin foil", just as steel cans are often still called "tin cans". Metallised films are sometimes mistaken for aluminium foil, but are actually polymer films coated with a thin layer of aluminium.

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Foil made from a thin leaf of tin was commercially available before its aluminium counterpart. Tin foil was marketed commercially from the late nineteenth into the early twentieth century. The term "tin foil" survives in the English language as a term for the newer aluminium foil. Tin foil is less malleable than aluminium foil and tends to give a slight tin taste to food wrapped in it. Tin foil has been supplanted by aluminium and other materials for wrapping food.[3]

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The first audio recordings on phonograph cylinders were made on tin foil.[4]

Invention

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Tin was first replaced by aluminium in 1910, when the first aluminium foil rolling plant, Dr. Lauber, Neher & Cie. was opened in Emmishofen, Switzerland. The plant, owned by J. G. Neher & Sons, the aluminium manufacturers, was founded in 1886 in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, at the foot of the Rhine Falls, whose energy powered the process. In December 1907, Neher's sons, along with Dr. Lauber, had invented the endless rolling process, by which they discovered that aluminium foil could be used as a protective barrier.[5]

In 1911, Bern-based Tobler began wrapping its chocolate bars in aluminium foil, including the unique triangular chocolate bar, Toblerone.[6]

The first use of foil in the United States was in 1913 for wrapping Life Savers, candy bars, and gum.[7]

Properties

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Aluminium foil has a thickness less than 0.2 mm (7.9 mils); thinner gauges down to 6 micrometres (0.24 mils) are also commonly used.[8] Standard household foil is typically 0.016 mm (0.63 mils) thick, and heavy-duty household foil is typically 0.024 mm (0.94 mils)

Foil may have a non-stick coating on only one side.[9]

Although aluminium is non-magnetic, it is a good conductor, so even a thin sheet reflects almost all of an incident electric wave. At frequencies more than 100 MHz, the transmitted electric field is attenuated by more than 80 decibels (dB), that is less than 10−8 = 0.00000001 of the power gets through.[10]

Thin sheets of aluminium are not very effective at attenuating low-frequency magnetic fields. The shielding effectiveness is dependent upon the skin depth. A field travelling through one skin depth will lose about 63% of its energy (it is attenuated to 1/e = 1/2.718... of its original energy). Thin shields also have internal reflections that reduce the shielding effectiveness.[11]

Manufacture

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The continuous casting method is much less energy-intensive and has become the preferred process.[12] It is difficult to produce rollers with a gap fine enough to cope with the foil gauge, and to avoid this, as well as reducing tearing, increasing production rates, and controlling thickness,[13] for the final pass when producing thicknesses below 0.025 mm (1 mil), two sheets are rolled at the same time, doubling the thickness of the gauge at entry to the rollers. After the rollers, the two sheets are separated, which produces foil with one shiny side and one matte side.

The two sides in contact with each other are matte, and the exterior sides become shiny. The reflectivity of dull aluminium foil is 80%, while shiny embossed foil reflects about 88%.[7] The difference in thermal properties between the two sides is imperceptible without instrumentation. By Kirchhoff's law radiation, increased reflectivity decreases both absorption and emission of radiation.

Uses

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Aluminium foil is widely sold into the consumer market, often in rolls of 500 mm (20 in) width and several metres in length.[14]

Aluminium foil is also used for barbecuing delicate foods.[15]

As with all metallic items, aluminium foil reacts to being placed in a microwave oven. This is because of the electromagnetic fields of the microwaves inducing electric currents in the foil and high potentials at the sharp points of the foil sheet; if the potential is sufficiently high, it will cause electric arcing to areas with lower potential, even to the air surrounding the sheet. Modern microwave ovens have been designed to prevent damage to the cavity magnetron tube from microwave energy reflection, and aluminium packages designed for microwave heating are available.[16]

Environmental issues

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Some aluminium foil products can be recycled at around 5% of the original energy cost.[17]

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