(All name-brand lids are made in the United States, so what did docks have to do with this?) We heard there was an aluminum shortage, which has nothing to do with a stainless steel lid with a silicon gasket. We instead found online excuses of a shortage of workers at the manufacturing plants (one of the few valid excuses for a slowdown in supply). We heard about a labor shortage in shipping and at the docks.
Manufacturing would be moved to Columbus, Ohio, and packing and distribution to Fishers, Indiana, according to "Iconic Ball plant in Muncie to close in 2019" by Katie Cox in the July 10, 2018, WRTV-Indianapolis blog.īut none of this information was getting out to home canners in 2020, 2021 or even now in 2022. When the 2020 pandemic created a huge demand for canning supplies, Newell Brands decided it would not try to sell Ball and Kerr products at every store handling canning supplies as in the past, but only through online giant Amazon and select major chains such as Walmart and Ace Hardware stores.Īs the blog stated, "We're dealing with a monopoly supplier, more or less."Ĭoinciding with the purchase of the brand names was the 2019 closing of the Muncie, Indiana, plant manufacturing Ball canning supplies for decades.
Since Ball and Kerr were just two more of multiple brands bought out by this company, consumer demands for any one product are not a priority for the mega-corporation. Over the past two decades, they've bought out over 100 well-known American brands, including Rubbermaid, Calphalon, Food Saver, Oster, Sunbeam, Crock Pot, Coleman, Parker, Sharpie and Elmer's Glue. Termed an American worldwide manufacturer, Newell Brands is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, and has 79 office locations in 20 countries, according to its official website. A few years before the pandemic, these companies had sold out to a mega-corporation called Newell Brands. What consumers didn't know was that canning lids (around since 1884) and canning jars (around since 1858) are no longer being made by Ball and Kerr, the two big manufacturers of American canning supplies. Consumers kept wondering why there there were so few lids available and why they became so expensive.
But the scarcity of canning jar lids didn't change throughout the pandemic. This was understandable during the first several months of the pandemic until the canning lid suppliers could catch up with the unprecedented demand.
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