Ball Corporation announced it will cease production at its Birmingham, AL, Chatsworth, CA, and Longview, TX, beverage packaging plants in 2018. Existing customers will be supplied by other Ball facilities.   Ball also will begin construction on a new, state-of-the-art beverage packaging facility in Goodyear, AZ, which is expected to begin production in the second quarter of 2018 and will serve growing customer demand for specialty cans in the southwestern US.   “These transformational action...