1.   Ball Corp., Muncie, Ind., formed a joint venture with Standard Can Co. of Bangkok to build a factory to make aluminum beverage cans in Thailand.

2.   Ball will be left with its plastic container, metal food and beverage can, and aerospace and communications businesses, said Harold Sohn, a Ball spokesman.

3.   Prices of a key finished product, sheet for beverage cans, have declined accordingly.

4.   Scrubbing every trace of coolant from a metal object is expensive, particularly when the object is an aluminum beverage can that must be absolutely clean.

5.   Sluggish U.S. demand this year from the beer industry for beverage cans is hurting Reynolds, analysts said.

6.   Some analysts expect Reynolds Metals to spin off its aluminum beverage can and packaging business and sell other units.

7.   Some analysts have speculated that Reynolds Metals spin off its beverage can and packaging business and sell other units.

8.   Some players in the rear of the plane were playfully tossing beverage cans and other dinner items back and forth.

9.   The layoffs at the Muscle Shoals, Alabama, mill, which makes aluminum sheet for beverage cans, will be completed by January.

10.   The Reynolds purchase was blocked only because the government feared Alcoa would close a plant amid an oversupply of aluminum sheet for beverage cans, they said.