Household names choose Great China for packaging

Leading food and beverage brands worldwide choose Great China Metal Industry for their packaging needs because of the company's production capacity, technical expertise, innovation and complete line of safe, green and cost-effective products. Some of these clients have been with the company for more than 30 years.

As the leading manufacturer of packaging products in Taiwan, Great China offers two-piece aluminium cans and three-piece steel cans.

The company also supplies draw-and-redraw steel cans, can ends and plastic bottles and caps. "Many companies provide only a few items but we offer a full range of product line, including 250ml, 330ml, 350ml, 500ml and 1 litre for aluminium cans," says chairman Chiang Ching-yee.

While Great China was founded in 1973, the company's experience in can manufacturing goes back several decades when Chiang's father established his first can factory in Shanghai. The company has accumulated years of technological skill from its previous alliance with United States manufacturing giant Continental Can and a similar joint venture with leading Japanese can manufacturer Toyo Seikan Kaisha.

In its bid to protect the environment, the company's research department is working on ways to reduce wastewater and carbon footprint. "Companies should choose aluminium for their packaging needs because it helps sustain the environment as aluminium is 100 per cent recyclable," Chiang says. Aluminium cans are infinitely recyclable and take 95 per cent less energy to recycle than to create from new raw materials.

Clients rely on packaging supply from the company's seven factories across Taiwan, Vietnam and the mainland, all employing state-of-the-art equipment from Switzerland, Germany, the US, Italy, Britain, Canada and France. "We hope to reach a production capacity of 5 billion cans and 6 billion can ends in three to five years," Chiang says. "We plan to build three more factories in that time."