Beverage can stock

EU-27 trade, 2005–2025

EU-27 imports and exports – with non-EU countries or within the EU (arrivals reported by EU countries and their dispatches to other EU countries) – in tonnes, euro or as unit value; the current year – monthly data (incomplete year).

extra-EU imports extra-EU exports gap (no figure, not zero) 2026* – data for 2026-01/2026-08 (incomplete year, hollow marker, no line)

Source: Eurostat, Comext DS-045409 (class CN8 codes, EU-27); compiled by ai-waw.com – products dataset 2.1.
Eurostat, Comext DS-045409 (annual data) – latest data: 2025; retrieved: 2026-10-26; next update: 2027-02 (period 2026)
Eurostat, Comext DS-045409 (monthly data) – latest data: 2026-08 (intra-EU: 2026-07); retrieved: 2026-10-26; next update: 2026-11-13 (period 2026-09)

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Figure data (table)

EU-27 trade – Beverage can stock – extra-EU, tonnes of product mass

Year	extra-EU imports	extra-EU exports	Balance
2005	gap – no figure, not zero
2006	gap – no figure, not zero
2007	gap – no figure, not zero
2008	gap – no figure, not zero
2009	gap – no figure, not zero
2010	gap – no figure, not zero
2011	gap – no figure, not zero
2012	gap – no figure, not zero
2013	gap – no figure, not zero
2014	gap – no figure, not zero
2015	gap – no figure, not zero
2016	gap – no figure, not zero
2017	gap – no figure, not zero
2018	gap – no figure, not zero
2019	84,022	331,533	247,512
2020	122,016	296,865	174,849
2021	110,802	307,257	196,455
2022	172,468	270,721	98,254
2023	89,886	276,201	186,315
2024	104,282	301,600	197,317
2025	159,604	342,451	182,848
2026 2026-01/2026-08	81,670	242,890	161,220

tonnes of product mass. Balance = exports − imports.

PRODCOM code group balance in the EU-27, 2025

EU-27 sold production (PRODCOM) and extra-EU imports make up supply; supply is apparent consumption plus extra-EU exports. Band widths are proportional to tonnes (one scale); intra-EU trade is a loop – it moves products between EU countries and does not change the EU-27 balance.

Source: Eurostat, PRODCOM DS-059358 and DS-059367, Comext DS-045409; compiled by ai-waw.com – products dataset 2.1. Production, imports, exports and apparent consumption – within PRODCOM code 24.42.24.30, 24.42.24.50, 24.42.25.00 (all classes of the code and the CN codes of its scope); intra-EU trade – the class CN codes. Production flag R – value rounded by Eurostat (R).
Eurostat, Comext DS-045409 (annual data) – latest data: 2025; retrieved: 2026-10-26; next update: 2027-02 (period 2026)
Eurostat, PRODCOM DS-059358, DS-059367 – latest data: 2025; retrieved: 2026-10-26; next update: 2027-07 (period 2026)

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Figure data (table)

EU-27 balance – PRODCOM group 24.42.24.30, 24.42.24.50, 24.42.25.00 (9 classes, including Beverage can stock), 2025

Balance item	Mass (t)
EU-27 sold production (code group)	6,940,000 (R)
Extra-EU imports (code group)	1,365,721
EU-27 supply (code group)	8,305,721
Extra-EU exports (code group)	1,322,090
Apparent consumption (code group)	6,983,631
Intra-EU trade (class)	714,888

PRODCOM production and apparent consumption

EU-27 sold production according to PRODCOM (codes 24.42.24.30, 24.42.24.50, 24.42.25.00) and apparent consumption = production + extra-EU imports − extra-EU exports. Eurostat flags above the bars: E – estimate, R – rounded value; C – confidential value (no bar, not filled in). The PRODCOM codes also cover classes: Aluminium sheet and strip (under 6 mm), Aluminium plate (6 mm and over), Painted and coated aluminium sheet and strip, Aluminium circles and non-rectangular sheet, Aluminium composite panels (ACP), Rolled aluminium foil, Further worked aluminium foil, Backed aluminium foil .

EU-27 sold production (t) Eurostat estimate (E) apparent consumption (t) E – Eurostat estimate, R – rounded, C – confidential (no bar), “–” – gap ; X – reliability check: EU-27 total recalculated without countries with an unreliable value (no bar – no figure)

Source: Eurostat, PRODCOM DS-059358 and DS-059367 (sold production), Comext DS-045409 (trade for apparent consumption); compiled by ai-waw.com – products dataset 2.1. Scope of PRODCOM codes 24.42.24.30, 24.42.24.50, 24.42.25.00 (classes: Aluminium sheet and strip (under 6 mm), Aluminium plate (6 mm and over), Painted and coated aluminium sheet and strip, Beverage can stock, Aluminium circles and non-rectangular sheet, Aluminium composite panels (ACP), Rolled aluminium foil, Further worked aluminium foil, Backed aluminium foil). Sold production (excluding production for own use). Years without figures – no EU-27 production (confidentiality, no code, unreliable value – X) or an ambiguous CN code.
Eurostat, PRODCOM DS-059358, DS-059367 – latest data: 2025; retrieved: 2026-10-26; next update: 2027-07 (period 2026)

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Figure data (table)

EU-27 sold production and apparent consumption – PRODCOM group 24.42.24.30, 24.42.24.50, 24.42.25.00 (9 classes, including Beverage can stock), 2005–2025

Year	Sold production (t)	Quantity flag	Value (EUR)	Apparent consumption (t)
2005	gap		–	–
2006	5,892,363		13,918,966,328	5,404,481
2007	6,155,014		15,084,853,690	5,807,040
2008	5,711,297		13,642,169,111	5,294,200
2009	4,832,804		9,822,417,955	4,368,049
2010	5,834,815		12,745,299,044	5,387,907
2011	5,972,022	ER	14,355,334,186	5,659,867
2012	5,840,822	R	13,641,618,577	5,407,206
2013	5,874,272	R	13,393,875,149	5,471,187
2014	6,063,507	R	13,872,896,179	5,719,056
2015	6,165,295	R	15,029,359,867	5,917,308
2016	6,517,648	R	14,706,758,233	6,188,136
2017	6,525,441	RX	15,915,920,855	6,138,571
2018	6,785,064	R	16,810,589,592	6,548,956
2019	6,627,439	R	15,793,386,342	6,436,769
2020	6,079,970	X	13,923,766,915	6,003,468
2021	6,960,000	R	17,800,000,000	6,932,519
2022	6,680,000	R	25,000,000,000	7,024,457
2023	5,366,218	ER	17,981,246,549	5,411,119
2024	6,490,000	R	21,120,000,000	6,471,130
2025	6,940,000	R	20,580,000,000	6,983,631

EU-27 countries, 2025

Mass balance of a country (exports − imports, all partners, including other EU countries) or the country share of exports or imports of the 27 EU countries. Plants of the class on a map – figure 8.

export surplus ≥ 242 thousand texport surplus 60.4 thousand t–242 thousand texport surplus < 60.4 thousand tbalance ≈ 0import surplus < 60.4 thousand timport surplus 60.4 thousand t–242 thousand timport surplus ≥ 242 thousand tnon-EU countries

Source: Eurostat, Comext DS-045409 (class CN8 codes, EU-27); compiled by ai-waw.com – products dataset 2.1. Trade of EU-27 countries with all partners (WORLD); share – of the 27-country total. Balance thresholds – 10% and 40% of the largest absolute balance. The country map uses the declarations of the country itself (its exports and imports), the flow map – import declarations of the partners (country of consignment); differences are asymmetries of intra-EU trade statistics (transit, triangular trade, confidentiality). Base map: Natural Earth (public domain), Lambert conformal conic projection.
Eurostat, Comext DS-045409 (annual data) – latest data: 2025; retrieved: 2026-10-26; next update: 2027-02 (period 2026)

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Figure data (table)

EU-27 countries in the trade of the class – Beverage can stock, 2025

Country	Imports (t)	Exports (t)	Balance (t)	Share of EU-27 imports (%)	Share of EU-27 exports (%)	Intra-EU dispatches according to partner declarations (t)
Germany	94,523	698,972	+604 thousand t	10.8	60.9	376,384
France	45,269	231,650	+186 thousand t	5.2	20.2	191,920
Greece	249	155,233	+155 thousand t	0.0	13.5	33,430
Latvia	10	1,956	+1,947 t	0.0	0.2	0
Bulgaria	1	6	+4.1 t	0.0	0.0	721
Cyprus	0	0	0 t	0.0	0.0	0
Estonia	0	0	0 t	0.0	0.0	2
Portugal	0	0	−0.1 t	0.0	0.0	2
Malta	0	0	−0.2 t	0.0	0.0	0
Croatia	2	1	−1 t	0.0	0.0	0
Luxembourg	27	4	−22.7 t	0.0	0.0	4
Slovenia	1,030	0	−1,030 t	0.1	0.0	47
Lithuania	1,267	96	−1,171 t	0.1	0.0	0
Ireland	2,503	0	−2,503 t	0.3	0.0	6
Belgium ‡	27,884	21,237	−6,647 t	3.2	1.9	54,362
Hungary	9,441	30	−9,411 t	1.1	0.0	167
Italy	22,232	7,398	−14.8 thousand t	2.5	0.6	3,599
Slovakia	18,114	559	−17.6 thousand t	2.1	0.1	352
Denmark	19,753	116	−19.6 thousand t	2.3	0.0	1,580
Romania	23,591	17	−23.6 thousand t	2.7	0.0	46
Finland	23,706	65	−23.6 thousand t	2.7	0.0	105
Sweden	27,400	7	−27.4 thousand t	3.1	0.0	0
Czechia	47,457	38	−47.4 thousand t	5.4	0.0	136
Austria	52,384	349	−52.0 thousand t	6.0	0.0	964
Netherlands	86,168	10,057	−76.1 thousand t	9.9	0.9	5,728
Spain	163,248	7,919	−155 thousand t	18.7	0.7	11,771
Poland ‡	208,233	11,795	−196 thousand t	23.8	1.0	33,563

‡ dispatches in the import declarations of partners more than twice the own exports of the country (difference > 2 thousand t) – an asymmetry of intra-EU trade statistics

Intra-EU flows, 2025

Arcs run from the country of consignment to the country of destination (arrivals reported by an EU country by country of consignment); width proportional to the square root of mass.

Arc: consignment → destination50.0 thousand t10.0 thousand t2,000 t

Source: Eurostat, Comext DS-045409 (class CN8 codes, EU-27); compiled by ai-waw.com – products dataset 2.1. Arrivals of EU countries by country of consignment (EU-27 partners); pairs sorted by mass, descending. Arc width – proportional to the square root of mass (reference widths in the legend). The country map uses the declarations of the country itself (its exports and imports), the flow map – import declarations of the partners (country of consignment); differences are asymmetries of intra-EU trade statistics (transit, triangular trade, confidentiality). Base map: Natural Earth (public domain), Lambert conformal conic projection.
Eurostat, Comext DS-045409 (annual data) – latest data: 2025; retrieved: 2026-10-26; next update: 2027-02 (period 2026)

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Figure data (table)

Intra-EU flows – Beverage can stock, 2025

Flow (consignment → destination)	Mass (t)	Value (EUR)
Germany → Poland	78,948	278,836,653
Germany → Spain	68,439	166,722,288
France → Spain	58,031	189,889,370
Germany → Netherlands	57,199	195,161,200
France → Poland	50,450	181,477,807
Germany → Austria	47,867	93,272,375
France → Germany	35,625	110,008,388
Germany → Czechia	32,002	109,267,102
Germany → France	30,094	108,321,050
Germany → Sweden	26,789	88,363,279
France → Netherlands	21,509	75,256,435
Belgium → Germany	21,337	81,366,855
Greece → Poland	20,126	96,626,135
Poland → Romania	19,785	68,859,635
Germany → Slovakia	17,348	58,762,723
Belgium → Poland	14,922	42,497,046
Spain → France	11,614	54,171,106
Poland → Finland	10,673	39,390,209
Germany → Italy	8,933	29,542,633
Greece → Spain	8,177	39,064,263
Belgium → Spain	7,898	7,034,726
Belgium → Czechia	7,072	25,616,031
France → Italy	6,640	22,370,062
Germany → Hungary	5,486	23,105,312
France → Belgium	5,465	19,448,810
France → Czechia	4,845	16,131,751
Netherlands → Poland	4,006	17,241,445

Non-EU partners, 2025

The ten largest non-EU suppliers and customers; arrows from the partner to the EU (imports) or from the EU to the partner (exports), width proportional to the square root of mass.

1. China* · 64.8 thousand t
2. Japan* · 34.5 thousand t
3. South Korea* · 31.5 thousand t
4. South Africa* · 11.4 thousand t
5. Saudi Arabia* · 11.0 thousand t
6. Switzerland · 4,601 t
7. United Kingdom · 737 t
8. Norway · 463 t
9. Jordan* · 392 t
10. Serbia · 110 t

Arrow from/to the EU-27 point (notional centre of the EU area); number – rank and mass50.0 thousand t10.0 thousand t2,000 t * country outside the frame – notional point on the map edge in the direction from the EU; arrow direction notional

Source: Eurostat, Comext DS-045409 (class CN8 codes, EU-27); compiled by ai-waw.com – products dataset 2.1. Shares and concentration – of extra-EU trade mass (including unspecified partners). Base map: Natural Earth (public domain), Lambert conformal conic projection.
Eurostat, Comext DS-045409 (annual data) – latest data: 2025; retrieved: 2026-10-26; next update: 2027-02 (period 2026)

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Figure data (table)

EU-27 imports by country of origin – Beverage can stock, 2025

#	Country	Mass (t)	Value (EUR)	Share (%)
1	China	64,782	211,117,200	40.6
2	Japan	34,452	111,873,889	21.6
3	South Korea	31,450	99,692,159	19.7
4	South Africa	11,380	49,668,052	7.1
5	Saudi Arabia	11,039	33,576,425	6.9
6	Switzerland	4,601	18,742,099	2.9
7	United Kingdom	737	2,490,890	0.5
8	Norway	463	2,058,602	0.3
9	Jordan	392	1,542,002	0.2
10	Serbia	110	368,601	0.1

Product chain

Place of the class in the processing chain: unwrought metal, preceding classes, the class, following classes and scrap. Nodes are classes of the dictionary (links); the current class – in the accent colour.

The scheme orders the classes of the dictionary by processing stage (family rules in the portal code: same material, a derived product after the non-derived one; links named explicitly – e.g. cans from can stock, die castings from casting alloys, coated steel from galvanizing alloys); an arrow does not mean deliveries between specific plants. Feed and scrap – CN headings of the metal, not dictionary classes.

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Figure data (table)

Product chain – Beverage can stock

Name	Stage	CN
Unwrought aluminium (feedstock)	Feedstock	7601
Beverage can stock	Class	7606 12 11 7606 12 19
Aluminium composite panels (ACP)	Following classes	7606 11 30 7606 12 30 7607 20 91
Backed aluminium foil	Following classes	7607 20 10 7607 20 99
Aluminium cans and containers	Following classes	7612 90 80
aluminium scrap	Scrap	7602

Figure 8. Map of plants

Source: ai-waw.com Companies register (entries from primary documents), as of 2026-10-25, version 2.40. plants without coordinates are not on the map. Base map: Natural Earth (public domain). Location of some plants: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

CSV (all years) JSON Metadata

Producers

Each entry from a primary document (class A/B/C and document page), with the verification date and the entity controlling the plant (GLEIF Level 2 or company documents).

3

producing plants (incl. outside the EU) of which in the EU-27: 3

3

companies

3

countries

0.0%

non-EU control – plants in the EU-27

Corporate groups (a company without a group counted separately): 3
Non-EU control – plants in the EU-27: 0 of 3 plants with an established controller (3 of 3 producing plants are in the EU-27; plants outside the EU are out of scope of the indicator; ownership control logic and area).
No document states a capacity for this class – no sum is computed.

Compare the first 3 producers

Plant country all FranceGermanyGreece

Entry status all producedplanned productionproduction ended

Ownership control all controller in the EU-27controller outside the EUcontroller not established

Capacity from a document all statednot stated

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Alloys and standards

Materials, product standards and synonyms of this class from the alloy and standard glossary.

Materials

Product standards

• EN 541 Aluminium and aluminium alloys - Rolled products for cans, closures and lids - Specifications

Synonyms

EN

body stock · rolled products for cans, closures and lids

DE

Bänder für Getränkedosenkörper, aus Aluminiumlegierungen, mit einer Dicke von > 0,2 mm (CN label (DE)) · Bänder für Getränkedosendeckel und Getränkedosenlaschen, aus Aluminiumlegierungen, mit einer Dicke von > 0,2 mm (CN label (DE)) · Walzerzeugnisse für Dosen, Verschlüsse und Deckel

Full alloy and standard glossary →

Related

• Flow analysis: EU-27 Aluminium Flows
• Country aluminium flow analyses: Aluminium Flows in Austria · Aluminium Flows in France · Aluminium Flows in Germany · Aluminium Flows in Italy · Aluminium Flows in Poland
• Ownership control of the producers: Ownership control (product filter)
• Companies list and map filtered to this class: Companies
• Production technologies: melting and casting · hot rolling · cold rolling · wire, bar and tube drawing · extrusion · heat treatment (annealing, solution treatment, ageing, brazing) · slitting and cutting to length · surface treatment and cleaning · quality control and materials testing · protective atmospheres, gases and utilities A picture of the supply market – not a commercial recommendation.

Data freshness

Eurostat, Comext DS-045409 (annual data)

latest data: 2025 · retrieved: 2026-10-26 · next update: 2027-02 (period 2026) full year 2026 – after the December data release (February 2027); annual data may be revised in later releases

Eurostat, Comext DS-045409 (monthly data)

latest data: 2026-08 (intra-EU: 2026-07) · retrieved: 2026-10-26 · next update: 2026-11-13 (period 2026-09)

Eurostat, PRODCOM DS-059358, DS-059367

latest data: 2025 · retrieved: 2026-10-26 · next update: 2027-07 (period 2026) first release of annual data in mid-July of the following year; revisions – mid-month (ESMS metadata prom_esms, item 8.1)

How to cite

Method note

Entry only from a primary document

A class is assigned to a plant only when a primary document names it – a product data sheet, an annual report, a register or a company page describing the product – with the document page and a reliability class (A, B or C). Press and company directories without a company document are not a basis for an entry.

Assignment from a location document

When a company document describes the product and only a location page points to the plant, the assignment of the product to the plant is an inference – the source then has class C and the entry awaits confirmation by a plant document.

“Full range” is not an entry

A general claim (“full range of copper products”) without the class, dimensions or alloys does not create an entry. A plant without an entry may make the class – the register does not know.

Capacity only from a document

Class capacity (kt) – only when a document states it; no estimates and no split of a whole plant’s capacity into classes. The sum covers only plants with a stated capacity and is a lower bound – always given with the number of plants it covers.

Entry status

Produced, planned production (investment announced in a document), production ended. A closed plant – production ended. Key figures – “produced” only.

Ownership control

The entity controlling the plant and its country – as in Ownership control (GLEIF Level 2, GLEIF exceptions, groups from company documents). The non-EU share is computed only among producers located in the EU-27 with an established controller (as the default area of Ownership control); a plant outside the EU – e.g. in Türkiye, the United Kingdom, Switzerland or Serbia – is out of scope of the indicator, although it counts among plants and countries.

Trade and production

Eurostat Comext: EU-27 extra-EU and intra-EU trade (arrivals reported by EU countries), CN codes of the class (sum of the codes), tonnes and euro, 2005–2025 plus the current incomplete year (hollow marker, no line); sold production – PRODCOM (a code may cover several classes); apparent consumption = production + extra-EU imports − extra-EU exports within the PRODCOM code scope. A CN code may cover products of other classes (e.g. rods and sections in one code) – trade describes CN codes, not the plants of the register.

Metals kept apart

Each class belongs to one metal (aluminium, copper, zinc). Each metal has its own page; the metals share a family layout – five semi-finished product families (wire rod and wire; bars and sections; plate, sheet and strip; foil; tubes), families outside semi-finished products (unwrought alloys – feedstock, powders and dust, chemical compounds, anodes and other articles – currently zinc only) and derived products; split by material within a family. A family without classes of a metal shows “–” with a description in the comparison table. Header figures and trade totals are given separately for each metal – tonnes of different metals are never added up. Derived products (e.g. winding wire, structures, cans, stranded wire, zinc-coated steel, die castings) are marked and are not semi-finished products; tonnes of coated steel are the mass of the product, not of zinc. A class outside the metal trade total (coated steel, zinc oxide, die castings without a CN code) carries a note with the reason.

Counterpart in the other metal

A copper ↔ aluminium substitution pair (e.g. wire, coiled tubes, strip, stranded wire) comes from the dictionary field or from the portal map of pairs. The comparison shows the figures of both classes side by side, without a total, and the application sentence has no figures; a pair does not mean interchangeability in every application.

Links by metal

Copper classes have a form in the R02 forecast and the EU copper flow analysis; aluminium classes – the EU aluminium flow analysis and the country analyses; zinc classes – the EU zinc flow analysis and the country analysis for Poland (the R01 and R02 forecasts cover copper only). An analysis link given with the class takes precedence.

Dataset scope

The dataset covers copper and aluminium semi-finished products and their alloys, and zinc products (titanium-zinc sheet, unwrought alloys, powders and dust, anodes, derived products) at plants of the Companies register. Counts of plants, countries and groups and the capacity sum are a lower bound of the market – they grow with further documents.

Pages and Markdown are open to text and data mining with attribution; JSON data – like the other JSON data of the register – are reserved as a database compilation. Trade data: Eurostat (reuse with attribution).

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