The Flattened Can

Innovation to Save Freight

The Empire Canning Council, with headquarters in London, which is in vestigating canning problems in dif ferent portions of the Empire, has ex perimented in the export of cans in a flattened condition, to be reformed at the port of destination or place of fill ing. To complete the process, machi nery and can manufacturers in Eng land were induced to design compara tively inexpensive equipment for re forming the flattened bodies, with the result that canning operations, which hitherto have been impossible, may now be started in a small way in any remote part of the Empire. Standard sizes of cans may now be obtained by anyone anywhere without the prohibi tive cost of transport involved in the bulkiness of finished cans, and with out the difficulties of capital expendi ture and costly technical experts in volved in the local manufacture of cans.