2026-09-08 12:37 UTC
A thing that gets many of us furious, is the lack of Canadian-made beverage cans. We make aluminum, send it to US, they make sheet aluminum in rolling mills, and punch out cans.
We make a paltry few cans in Canada, but even then, only with US sheet. Our only rolling mill closed in 2008.
A project in Quebec is spinning up a new rolling mill, with $10M funding helping it along.
Too little, too late. Seriously our gov should put $1B into this and fix this.
deets: https://canadianshieldinstitute.ca/updates/case-study-why-cant-canada-make-cans
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@ottaross@mastodon.social 2026-09-08 12:44
…I don't know this think tank that wrote this article, it's just one of the more complete and recent articles I was able to find on the subject with a brief duck search. There are lots of articles that echo my feeling of "this is ridiculous, why is nothing being done?" but not including any details on remedies or updates.