now only do aluminum cans for :

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

I find this interpretation funny

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

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

oh thats good to know. i've got a few satellites lying around that i've been meaning to launch

I wasn’t aware of the jar monopoly situation. Maybe my old Balls will become collectible someday.

Came here to say this.

why is the government beefing with mason jar companies and not multi-billionaires