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Ball Corporation (NYSE: BLL) publishes 2010 Sustainability Report

1st July, 2010

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Ball Corporation [NYSE: BLL], a packaging and aerospace company, has published its 2010 sustainability report “Balancing Our Activities – Creating Shared Value.” It is available online at www.ball.com/sustainability. Ball’s second sustainability report outlines the company’s sustainability vision, five priority areas and long-term directions. It also includes performance indicators for each priority as well as measurable goals for the next reporting period. The priority areas were determined using a materiality process with Ball’s key stakeholders.

Some of Ball’s key achievements during 2008 and 2009 include:

Investments of more than $36 million in energy savings projects.

Reduction in total energy use of 11 percent and improved energy efficiency per 1000 units produced of 9 percent.

Reduction in total water use of 8.6 percent and improved water efficiency per 1000 units produced of 5.5 percent.

Improvement in recordable accident rate of 39 percent.

A decline of 13 percent in Ball’s normalized greenhouse gas emissions since 2005.

Additional information on Ball’s sustainability efforts, the company’s responses to the guidelines of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and contacts can be found at www.ball.com/sustainability. Requests for hard copies of the report are welcome via the website.

Ball Corporation is a supplier of high-quality packaging for beverage, food and household products customers, and of aerospace and other technologies and services, primarily for the U.S. government. Ball Corporation and its subsidiaries employ more than 14,000 people worldwide and reported 2009 sales of more than $7.3 billion.

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