Current fact sheets from GDA covering various topics relating to aluminium can be found below. Amongst other things they include information on aluminium packaging (aluminium cans, bottles and foil) and bauxite.
GDA aktuell - Special Issue „Aluminium and Health“, 4th revised Edition (2020)
This special issue of GDA aktuell summarises the important aspects of this topic, offers member companies useful arguments and is intended to be a general contribution towards discussing this matter objectively.
FS8 Guidance for the introduction of new/modified lacquers (2017)
Together with lacquer manufacturers and fillers/brand owners, members of the GDA working group for tubes, cans and impact extruded articles have produced a guidance for the introduction of new/modified lacquers.
The aluminium
tube is characterised by unique
barrier properties. It prevents the ingress
of light, gases and odours, and provides protection against humidity and germs.
With
the aluminium spray can the industry
has created a customised form of packaging
that is particularly well suited to
sensitive cosmetic and pharma products
as well as for foodstuffs.
The aluminium bottle exhibits all the
advantages that the aluminium beverage
can has to offer, of course: it is
lightweight, practical, unbreakable, is
available in a range of sizes and can be
cooled quickly to drinking temperature.
There is barely any other material that is as versatile as aluminium foil for packaging food and drinks or barely any other packaging material that offers packaging solutions customised to the needs of brand owners and end users like aluminium foil.
Just as aluminium foil is indispensable where the packaging of foodstuffs is concerned, so too is it indispensable for the packaging of pharmaceutical products like tablets, ointments, drops or powders.
Aluminium foil describes rolled products that are less than 0.2 millimetres thick. One can find shiny, silvery, aluminium foil in practically every household.
Aluminium - long-life packaging material for contents with a short life
Aluminium is used in packaging primarily because of its excellent barrier properties, wich ensure that contents are afforded optimal protection with no loss of quality.
Behind the universally accepted blueprint for "Sustainable Development" lies the general requirement that the use of resources today should not create problems for future generations.
The question of the recycling content of aluminium products (i.e. the amount of recycled material used in aluminium products) is also not a suitable yardstick for assessing environmental compatibility.
The greenhouse effect has occupied science, research and politics for years. Perfluorinated hydrocarbons (PFCs) are regarded as contributing to the greenhouse effect.