Exhibit 21

SUBSIDIARIES OF BALL CORPORATION (1)

December 31, 2004
The following is a list of subsidiaries of Ball Corporation (an Indiana Corporation)

Name	State or Country of Incorporation or Organization	Percentage Ownership (2)
Ball Packaging Corp.	Colorado	100	%
Ball Asia Services Limited	Delaware	100	%
Ball Capital Corp. II	Delaware	100	%
Ball Metal Beverage Container Corp.	Colorado	100	%
Latas de Aluminio Ball, Inc.	Delaware	100	%
Metal Packaging International, Inc.	Colorado	100	%
Ball Asia Pacific Holdings Limited	Hong Kong	97	%
Ball Asia Pacific Limited	Hong Kong	97	%
Ball Asia Pacific Beijing Metal Container Limited	PRC	97	%
Hemei Containers (Tianjin) Co. Ltd.	PRC	67	%
Ball Asia Pacific Hubei Metal Container Limited	PRC	87	%
Ball Asia Pacific Shenzhen Metal Container Limited	PRC	97	%
Zhongfu (Taicang) Plastics Products Co. Ltd.	PRC	67	%
Ball Pan-European Holdings, Inc.	Delaware	100	%
Ball Holdings S.a.r.l.	Luxembourg	100	%
Ball European Holdings S.a.r.l.	Luxembourg	100	%
Ball (Luxembourg) Finance S.a.r.l.	Luxembourg	100	%
Ball (UK) Holdings, Ltd.	England	100	%
Ball Europe Ltd.	England	100	%
Ball Company Ltd.	England	100	%
Ball Packaging Europe Holding Ltd.	England	100	%
Ball Packaging Europe UK Ltd.	England	100	%
Ball Packaging Europe Managing GmbH	Germany	100	%
Ball Investment Holdings S.a.r.l.	Luxembourg	100	%
Ball Packaging Europe Holding GmbH & Co. KG	Germany	100	%
Ball Packaging Europe GmbH	Germany	100	%
Ball Packaging Europe Beteiligungs GmbH	Germany	100	%
Ball Packaging Europe Radomsko Sp.z o.o.	Poland	100	%
Recal Organizacja Odzysku S.A.	Poland	100	%
Ball Packaging Europe Belgrade d.o.o.	Serbia	100	%
Ball Packaging Europe Handelsges mbH	Austria	100	%
Ball (France) Holdings, S.A.S.	France	100	%
Ball (France) Investment Holdings, S.A.S.	France	100	%
Ball Packaging Europe Bierne, S.A.S.	France	100	%
Ball Packaging Europe La Ciotat, S.A.S.	France	100	%
Ball Packaging Europe Holding B.V.	Netherlands	100	%
Ball Packaging Europe OSS B.V.	Netherlands	100	%
Ball Packaging Europe Trading Sp.z o.o.	Poland	100	%
Ball Metal Food Container Corp.	Delaware	100	%
Ball Metal Food Container, LLC (formerly Ball Western Can LLC)	Delaware	100	%
Ball Metal Packaging Sales Corp.	Colorado	100	%
Ball Plastic Container Corp.	Colorado	100	%
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.	Delaware	100	%
Ball Solutions Group	Australia	100	%
Ball Products Solutions PTY LTD	Australia	100	%
Ball Services Solutions PTY LTD	Australia	100	%
Ball Systems Solutions PTY LTD	Australia	100	%
Ball Advanced Imaging and Management	Australia	100	%
Solutions PTY LTD	Australia	100	%
Ball AIMS (Malaysia) SDN BHD	Malaysia	100	%
Ball Technology Services Corporation	California	100	%
Ball North America Corp.	Canada	100	%
Ball Atlantic Enterprises, Inc.	Canada	100	%
Ball Nova Scotia Holdings LLP	Canada	100	%
Ball Packaging Products Canada Corp.	Canada	100	%

The following is a list of affiliates of Ball Corporation included in the financial statements under the equity or cost accounting methods:

Rocky Mountain Metal Container, LLC	Colorado	50	%
Vexcel Corporation	Colorado	50	%
DigitalGlobe, Inc.	Delaware	6	%
Lam Soon-Ball Yamamura	Taiwan	8	%
Latapack-Ball Embalagens Ltda.	Brazil	50	%
Recal Organizacja Odzysku S.A.	Poland	50	%
Sanshui Jianlibao FTB Packaging Limited	PRC	34	%
Thai Beverage Can Ltd.	Thailand	7	%

(1) In accordance with Regulation S-K, Item 601(b)(21)(ii), the names of certain subsidiaries have been omitted from the foregoing lists. The unnamed subsidiaries, considered in the aggregate as a single subsidiary, would not constitute a significant subsidiary as defined in Regulation S-X, Rule 1-02(w).

(2) Represents the Registrant’s direct and/or indirect ownership in each of the subsidiaries’ voting capital share.