EXHIBIT 21.1

Published on March 30, 2000


Exhibit 21.1

SUBSIDIARY LIST (1)
Ball Corporation and Subsidiaries

The following is a list of subsidiaries of Ball Corporation (an Indiana
Corporation).



State or Country
of Incorporation Percentage
Name or Organization Ownership (2)

Ball Capital Corp. Colorado 100%
Ball Packaging Corp. Colorado 100%
Ball Asia Services Limited Colorado 100%
Ball Plastic Container Corp. Colorado 100%
Ball Metal Food Container Corp. Delaware 100%
Ball Metal Beverage Container Corp. Colorado 100%
Latas de Aluminio Ball, Inc. Delaware 100%
Ball Metal Packaging Sales Corp. Colorado 100%
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. Delaware 100%
Ball Aerospace - (Australia), Pty Ltd. Australia 100%
Ball Systems Technology Limited United Kingdom 100%
Ball Technology Services Corporation California 100%
Ball North America, Inc. Canada 100%
Ball Packaging Products Canada Corp. Canada 100%
Ball Asia Pacific Holdings Limited
(formerly FTB Packaging Limited) Hong Kong 97%
Beijing FTB Packaging Limited PRC 92%
FTB Tooling & Engineering Ltd. Hong Kong 97%
Fully Tech Industrial Ltd. Hong Kong 98%
Greater China Trading Ltd. Cayman Islands 97%
FTB Zhuhai Ends Manufacturing Co. Ltd. PRC 97%
Hubei FTB Packaging Limited PRC 89%
Ningbo FTB Can Company Limited PRC 73%
Zhuhai FTB Packaging Limited PRC 73%
Xi'an Kunlun FTB Packaging Limited PRC 58%
Ball Asia Pacific Limited (formerly
M.C. Packaging (Hong Kong) Limited) Hong Kong 97%
MCP Beverage Packaging Limited Hong Kong 97%
MCP Industries Limited Hong Kong 97%
Plasco Limited Hong Kong 68%
Hainan M.C. Packaging Limited PRC 87%
Panyu MCP Industries Limited PRC 87%
Shenzhen M.C. Packaging Limited PRC 58%
Tianjin M.C. Packaging Limited PRC 78%
Hemei Containers (Tianjin) Co. Ltd. PRC 66%
Suzhou M.C. Beverage Packaging Co. Ltd. PRC 53%
Tianjin MCP Cap Manufacture Company Limited PRC 78%
Tianjin MCP Industries Limited PRC 78%
Zhongfu (Taicang) Plastics Products Co. Ltd. PRC 68%
GPT Global Packaging Technology AB Sweden 100%





The following is a list of affiliates of Ball Corporation included in the
financial statements under the equity and cost accounting methods:


State or Country
of Incorporation Percentage
Name or Organization Ownership (2)

EarthWatch Incorporated Delaware 11%
San Miguel Yamamura Ball Corp. Philippines 6%
Lam Soon-Ball Yamamura Taiwan 8%
Latapack-Ball Embalagens Ltda. Brazil 50%
Centrotampa Embalagens Ltda. Brazil 50%
Thai Beverage Can Ltd. Thailand 40%

The following are owned indirectly through Ball Asia
Pacific Holdings Limited and Ball Asia Pacific Limited:

Sanshui Jianlibao FTB Packaging Limited PRC 34%
Zhongshan Yedao Drinks Limited PRC 25%
Norinco-MCP (Hong Kong) Limited Hong Kong 29%
Guangzhou M.C. Packaging Limited PRC 29%
Maoming Norinco MCP Company Limited PRC 22%
Qingdao M.C. Packaging Limited PRC 39%
Richmond Systempak Limited Hong Kong 32%
Shenzhen Norinco-MCP Company Limited PRC 29%
Beijing Shente Container Co. Ltd. PRC 22%
Hangzhou Cofco-M.C. Packaging Company Limited PRC 24%

(1) In accordance with Regulation S-K, Item 601(b)(21)(ii), the names of
certain subsidiaries have been omitted from the foregoing lists. The
unnamed subsidiaries, considered in the aggregate as a single subsidiary,
would not constitute a significant subsidiary, as defined in Regulation
S-X, Rule 1-02(w).

(2) Represents the Registrant's direct and/or indirect ownership in each of the
subsidiaries' voting capital share.