now only do aluminum cans for :

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

I find this interpretation funny

They really had that industry….by the Balls.

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

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

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

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