• ricecake@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    7·
    17 days 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
      5·
      17 days ago

      now only do aluminum cans for :

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

      I find this interpretation funny

    • Metostopholes@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      17 days ago

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

    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      17 days 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