摘要 |
<p>A process for the production of aluminum cans to be used as beverage containers, in which the formed cans are cleaned with liquid acidic or alkaline cleaners to remove aluminum fines and other contaminants from at least the outside of said cans, the thus-cleaned cans are dried, and the dried cans are thereafter conveyed along a production line towards a station at which the thus-cleaned-and-dried cans are printed, lacquered and/or filled, in which in order to enhance the mobility of the cans along the production line one reduces the high coefficient of static friction of the dried exterior surface of the cans without preventing the adhesion of lacquer or printing ink thereto by applying to the exterior surface of the cans, before the last drying before the cans are printed, lacquered and/or filled, a water-soluble organic surface conditioner so as to form a film of the latter on the exterior surfaces of the dried cans.</p> |