Ocean Spray Selects Ball Corporation for Supplier of the Year Sustainability Award

BROOMFIELD, Colo., Oct. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Ball Corporation (NYSE: BLL) has received Ocean Spray's Supplier of the Year Award for sustainability. Ocean Spray chose Ball for the company's "overall commitment to environmental sustainability, long-running efforts in packaging reduction and lightweighting and the spirit of transparency" regarding Ball's sustainability initiatives.

The award is part of Ocean Spray's 2010 Strategic Supplier Partnership Awards. Ball supplies recyclable aluminum cans for a variety of Ocean Spray beverages.

Ocean Spray noted examples of Ball's recent sustainability success, including:

    --  Decreasing energy usage by 11 percent from 2007 to 2009 and increasing
        energy efficiency (energy used per 1,000 units produced) by 9 percent
        during the same period
    --  Achieving a 13 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in 2009
        compared to a 2002 baseline
    --  Decreasing absolute corporate water usage by 8.6 percent from 2007 to
        2009
    --  Converting to a new beverage can end that uses more than 10 percent less
        aluminum

Ball Corporation is a supplier of high-quality packaging for beverage, food and household products customers, and of aerospace and other technologies and services, primarily for the U.S. government. Ball Corporation and its subsidiaries employ more than 14,000 people worldwide and reported 2009 sales of more than $7.3 billion including discontinued operations. For the latest Ball news and for other information about sustainability at Ball, please visit http://www.ball.com/sustainability.

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SOURCE Ball Corporation