Canned Food Demand Leads to Metal Container Demand
With soup and vegetables flying off supermarket shelves to feed stay-at-home consumers, canneries are bustling — and they really need metal containers.
The big General Mills plant that turns out cans of Progresso soup is still operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week, just as it was before the virus hit. It employs 1,000 people and is hiring to fill 50 openings.