• ricecake@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    7·
    4 months ago

    The weird thing is, they don’t actually sell the jars anymore. “Ball jars” are not made by the ball jar corporation after their antitrust lawsuits for being a fucking jar monopoly. So they sold the “ball jar” rights and now only do aluminum cans for food packaging and high end satellites and satellite launch systems.

    • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      4 months ago

      now only do aluminum cans for :

      • food packaging
      • high end satellites
      • satellite launch systems.

      I find this interpretation funny

    • metostopholes@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      4 months ago

      They don’t even do aerospace anymore. Ball Aerospace & Technologies was bought by BAE Systems earlier this year.

    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      On December 11, 1939, the U.S. Government sued the Ball Brothers, the Hazel-Atlas Glass Co., and the Owens-Illinois Glass Co. under monopoly charges based on the Hartford-Empire and Owens licensing agreements. The plaintiff claimed that small producers were being frozen out of business or prohibited from entering manufacture by the nature of the licenses. Almost a decade later, in 1947, the justices rendered a final verdict. The court prohibited the Ball Brothers from purchasing or otherwise controlling any other businesses engaged in the same manufacturing processes – in other words, the small jar producers. In addition, Ball had to divest itself of the Three Rivers Glass Co. (already closed for almost a decade) that Ball had acquired in 1936. Ball sold the property