EDEN - Environmental Domed ENd

EDEN财团开发了一种高度创新的饮料罐端部（顶端）设计，具有固有的结构强度，比目前市场上最先进的饮料罐端部节省了30%的材料。然而，要在商业上实现这一点，需要对当今的平板铝制造工艺进行根本性的改变。EDEN将通过开发高度创新的自动化机械转换制造工艺来实现这一商业实施，以实现高产量：端缝几何形状;基于激光的面板刻痕和通过激光焊接的标签连接。EDEN技术的成功实施将使我们的供应链能够创建英国原产的新制造技术，可以直接或根据许可证在全球销售。EDEN将导致从制造到最终使用的整个产品生命周期中材料和能源使用以及温室气体排放的显着减少。将在全球范围内实现商业和环境效益。

The EDEN consortium have developed a highly innovative beverage can end (top end) design with inherent structural strength which saves up to 30% material over the most advanced beverage can end currently on the market. However, to realise this commercially requires a fundamental change to today’s flat sheet aluminium manufacturing processes. EDEN will enable this commercial implementation through the development of highly-innovative, automated, mechanical conversion manufacturing processes for high-throughput: end seaming geometry; laser-based panel scoring, and tab attachment through laser-welding.Successful implementation of the EDEN technology will enable our supply chain to create new manufacturing technologies of UK origin that can be sold globally both directly and under licence. EDEN will lead to significant reductions in materials and energy usage as well as greenhouse gas emissions throughout the product lifetime from manufacture to final use. The commercial and environmental benefits will be achieved globally.