The weird thing is, they don’t actually sell the jars anymore. “Ball jars” are not made by the ball jar corporation after their antitrust lawsuits for being a fucking jar monopoly. So they sold the “ball jar” rights and now only do aluminum cans for food packaging and high end satellites and satellite launch systems.
now only do aluminum cans for :
- food packaging
- high end satellites
- satellite launch systems.
I find this interpretation funny
Aluminum cylinders only.
Not aluminum? Not interested. Not a cylinder? Not a chance.
Squared off glass cylinder? Legally prohibited.
They don’t even do aerospace anymore. Ball Aerospace & Technologies was bought by BAE Systems earlier this year.
Well then what would you say you do here
Let me tell you. bob.
BAE caught them slipping, huh?
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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
They really had that industry….by the Balls.
Maybe at a lemon party.
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
So, at the time (1930) ball jar actually would have qualified as big business in the sense that you mean.
Home canning was very popular and they consistently bought out smaller companies.
Since they were privately owned, it’s tricky to find specifics about value, but they were “found a university”, “own a company town or two”, “chairman of the federal reserve” levels of rich.So actually a pretty good use of government.
they’re literally this
Let’s not forget Hitachi
There’s also Delecta Ltd, which is an Australian sex toy maker and a mining company.
That’s almost as good as Aperture Science selling shower curtains and multidimensional portal devices.
Well, I don’t think they ever actually sold any of the portal guns…
BIC sells ball point pens, lighters, razor blades, and surfboards.
They do what they must because they can.
They wanted to sell the multidimensional portal device as a shower curtain.
Raspberry!
i guess we doin telescopes now
My coworker at Siemens was completing the trifecta: Ball, Cummins, Siemens. The perfect career trajectory
Even the space telescope looks shocked.
Me: pour me a guiness, please
Bartender: here you go mate
Me: by any chance do you know where I can get a record of the world’s longest mustache
Bartender: well you won’t believe this…
Me: Another Guinness please
Bartender: Here you go
Me: urgh what is this?
Bartender: A Stout. Why, is it bad quality?
Me: It seems so. Don’t you have a way of testing this beforehand?
Bartender: Now that you mention it…
The US government casually approaching heatshield fabrication company ltd. asking them to make nuclear warheads for the price of a gazillion dollars.
Government contract work is a funny thing.
You’re not going to believe this but Ball made all of the mirror … except the mirror itself.
Ball outsourced the optics, not really their specialty. Also made of toxic beryllium so preferable not to machine in-house!
Me: Man, that’s a pretty nice line of printers you have.
Brother: Thanks!
Me: Hey, you don’t happen to know where I can get a nice sewing machine do you?
Brother: You’re not going to believe this…
Me: Man, that’s a pretty tasty beer.
Coors: Thanks!
Me: Hey, you don’t happen to know where I can get precision ceramics for aerospace and medical applications do you?
The games introduce the portal gun as a prototype, and aperture falls apart without any indication it was ever anything but
Wait until OP learns about the chaebol system
or NintendoEdit: I was
drunkconfusing Nintendo with something it isn’t, I was wrong
