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| About Us: History |
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More than 70 years working for our customers
2008 -
Alcoa’s Packaging Group was acquired by Rank Group Limited, a global packaging investment group, headquartered in New Zealand. As a result, our company name became Closure Systems International, commonly abbreviated as CSI.
Concurrently, CSI introduced the innovative “mini” family of closures. Designed for CSD, water and cold-filled beer markets, CSI “mini” closures reduce PET bottle finish weight and greatly assist sustainability efforts of bottlers and consumers. | |  |
| Alcoa CSI South America, the former Aluminio and Alusud closure businesses located in South America will become organizationally integrated with Alcoa CSI, headquartered in Chicago, IL starting January 1, 2004. The closure manufacturing locations include Lima, Peru; Bogotá, Colombia; Santiago, Chile; Buenos Aires, Argentina; and Alphaville and Itapissuma, Brazil. In addition to Alcoa CSI rotary compression technology, the South American group also has extensive injection molding capability and experience, most notably in the edible oil closures market in Brazil and Argentina. |
 | | In 2003 Alcoa CSI created a new central European headquarters in Barcelona, Spain, in order to centralize regional decision-making and to further enhance technology development. In addition the facility will include a new state-of-the-art technology research and development center. Alcoa CSI is creating a highly nimble, innovative and customer-focused organization to serve the specialized packaging, equipment, and technical service needs of Europe. |
2000's -
Alcoa CSI acquired MCG Closures, Ltd, expanding our presence throughout Europe. Acquired Southern Plastics - Kilgore, TX producer of injection molded closures to the food, dairy and personal care industry. | |  |
 | | 1990's -
The "Double-Lok" closure was developed to provide improved tamper evidence over existing designs. Alcoa CSI developed under-the-cap (UTC) video jet printing technology to provide high quality, low cost, flexible promotional capability. Aggressive expansion overseas continued with the addition of new plants in China, Bahrain, Hungary, and Russia. International expansion - Alcoa CSI adds European regional headquarters (London), regional sales office (Singapore), and a technical service center (Malaysia). Alcoa CSI developed a new line of water closures, including a push-pull sports cap. Other innovative developments including spout fitments for gable top juice containers and hot fill closures for isotonic drinks. |
1980's -
Alcoa CSI acquired H-C Industries, Inc., which had developed a patented compression molding process to make plastic closures for carbonated soft drinks. The first successful plastic closure for carbonated soft drinks was the "H-C Wing-Lok" design. With continuous updating and improvements in sealing and high-speed application, this design is still in demand in many regions of the world today. | |  |
 | | 1970's -
Alcoa CSI was created in through the unification of Alcoa's worldwide metal closure and capping equipment businesses. |
1960's -
The resealable 28mm aluminum roll-on closure was developed for the beer and soft drink industries. | |  |
 | | 1950's -
Aluminum tamper-evident liquor, pharmaceutical and motor oil closures dominated their markets. |
1940's -
Closure manufacturing operations began in Richmond, Indiana. At that time, the company was known as the Aluminum Seal Company. | |  |
 | | 1930's -
Aluminum closures were first developed at Alcoa's New Kensington, PA research lab. The first commercial aluminum closure was called a GOLDY, due to the bright gold coating. The first major customer was H. J. Heinz, which used the popular Goldy closure to seal sauces and ketchups. |
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