Plans for $290M North Las Vegas manufacturing facility abandoned

Plans for a $290 million aluminium beverage can manufacturing facility in North Las Vegas have been nixed. Ball Corp., NYSE: BALL, announced in 2021 that it was planning to invest $290 million in the project to be built at Apex Industrial Park and create 180 jobs. The company said it had “permanently discontinued” plans for its facility in its third-quarter earnings report in November. A Ball Corp. spokesperson declined to comment further on its North Las Vegas decision. Ball Corp. — a Colorado-based packaging and aerospace company — was abandoning its plans for North Las Vegas to “maximize returns on invested capital and position…