Contact Us WHO WE ARE IS IN ALL WE DO About Ball Packaging Aerospace Sustainability Innovation Offer for Rexam Home / About Ball / Our History From Wood-Jacketed Tins To Aerospace The Ball Family Five brothers founded Ball in 1880 with a $200 loan from their Uncle George. In the beginning, they made wood-jacketed tin cans for products like paint and kerosene, but soon expanded their offerings to glass- and tin-jacketed containers. In 1884, the brothers began making glass home-canning jars, the product that established Ball as a household name. The brothers—Edmund, Frank, George, Lucius and William—moved the company from Buffalo, New York, to Muncie, Indiana, in 1887 to take advantage of abundant natural gas reserves essential to making glass. Ball grew rapidly in the ensuing decade and has been in more than 45 businesses since its founding. Ball no longer manufactures the ubiquitous canning jars, but we’ve expanded and grown into a worldwide metal packaging company that makes billions of recyclable metal containers, and a unique aerospace business that designs one-of-a-kind solutions to answer scientific and technical challenges. We manufacture on four continents and we’re based in Broomfield, Colorado. For a more detailed journey through Ball’s successes, visit our timeline. ABOUT BALL Drive for 10 Our History Timeline Locations Who We Are Month Who Is Ball? ABOUT BALL Drive for 10 Our History Timeline Leadership Locations Ball Foundation CAREERS PACKAGING Beverage Cans Food Cans Aerosol Cans Paint & General Line Cans Specialty Tins Product Catalog Sales Inquiries AEROSPACE SUSTAINABILITY Our Approach Packaging Aerospace Operations Employees Supply Chain Community Reporting Hub INNOVATION Technology Process Where It's Made Beverage Food Aerosol & Specialty RESOURCES Media Room Media Contacts Social Media Investor Contact FAQs Retiree Login Sales Inquiries Freight Careers Investors News Legal Notice | Privacy Statement | EU/Swiss Safe Harbor Privacy Policy | © 2015 Ball Corporation Contact Us