LUCKNOW, Sept. 11 -- Delegations from Ball Corporation and Crown Holdings, two of the world's leading aluminium beverage can manufacturers, on Thursday met chief minister Yogi Adityanath in separate courtesy meetings as both companies advance their manufacturing plans in the state. Ball Corporation CEO Ron Lewis, along with the company's leadership team, met the chief minister. Its Indian subsidiary, Ball Beverage Packaging India Pvt Ltd, has selected land at the Integrated Manufacturing and Logistics Cluster (IMLC), Meerut, and proposed an investment of Rs 2,913 crore to set up a large aluminium beverage can manufacturing facility. The company has been extended incentives under the state's FDI/FCI, Fortune Global 500 and Fortune India 500 Companies Investment Promotion Policy 2023. Deepak Kumar, infrastructure and industrial development commissioner (IIDC) and CEO, UPEIDA, and Shashank Chaudhry, additional CEO, Invest UP, were also present during the meeting. The CM also met representatives of Crown Holdings-Djalma Novaes, EVP and COO, and Mark Ketcheson, president, Bevcan EMEA-following the groundbreaking of the company's first greenfield aluminium beverage can manufacturing facility at IMLC, Unnao, on Wednesday. The Crown project involves an investment of Rs 2,078.44 crore and is spread across nearly 40 acres at Plot No. 4 of the IMLC. The facility will manufacture aluminium beverage cans for India's growing beverage industry and is expected to create more than 200 direct jobs and over 1,500 indirect job opportunities. htc...