Aluminum Shortage Impacting Cat Food & Beer

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Aluminum 1is in short supply and that¡¯s leading to shortages in both the 2cat food aisle and at your local 3brewery.

¡°We are actually having aluminum demand 4spikes within the United States and around the world.¡±

Seckin Ozkul, assistant professor of Supply Chain Management from the University of South Florida, says we can blame 5labor shortages, the pandemic and the on-going 6supply chain crisis. Production isn¡¯t meeting up with demand and China¡¯s 7pollution crackdown is driving aluminum manufacturing even further.

¡°Basically decrease the production by approximately 10 to 20% worldwide.¡±

Ozkul says 8pet adoptions soared during the pandemic and are still strong... raising that demand for cat food. And as some retailers take measures to 9eliminate aluminum packaging, aluminum isn¡¯t the only problem cat food sellers are dealing with.

¡°We don¡¯t have enough meat products that go into that cat food. And the main reason really for this is our workforce.¡±

The aluminum shortage and price increases are also having a major impact on small breweries across the country. Demand for aluminum 10canned products skyrocketed during the pandemic as alcohol consumption rose and breweries shifted to 11to-go models.

¡°Pretty much everything has gotten more expensive... most notably our packaging, so the aluminum cans, and lids and everything really everything we use connected to the canning of the product.¡±