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Exhibit 21.1

SUBSIDIARIES OF BALL CORPORATION

December 31, 2002

        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 Capital Corp.									Colorado	100%
Ball Packaging Corp.									Colorado	100%
	Ball Asia Services Limited								Delaware	100%
	Ball Metal Beverage Container Corp.								Colorado	100%
		Latas de Aluminio Ball, Inc.							Delaware	100%
		Ball Asia Pacific Holdings Limited (formerly FTB Packaging Limited)							Hong Kong	95%
			Ball Asia Pacific Limited (formerly M.C. Packaging (Hong Kong) Limited)						Hong Kong	95%
				Beijing FTB Packaging Limited					PRC	95%
				FTB Tooling and Engineering Ltd.					Hong Kong	95%
				FTB Zhuhai Ends Manufacturing Co. Ltd.					PRC	95%
				Fully Tech Industrial Ltd.					Hong Kong	70%
				Greater China Trading Ltd.					Cayman Islands	95%
				Hainan M.C. Packaging Limited					PRC	95%
				Hemei Containers (Tianjin) Co. Ltd.					PRC	66%
				Hubei FTB Packaging Limited					PRC	86%
				MCP Beverage Packaging Limited					Hong Kong	95%
				Ningbo FTB Can Company Limited					PRC	73%
				Plasco Limited					Hong Kong	95%
				Richmond Systempak Limited					Hong Kong	95%
				Shenzhen M.C. Packaging Limited					PRC	95%
				Suzhou M.C. Beverage Packaging Co. Ltd.					PRC	95%
				Tianjin M.C. Packaging Limited					PRC	95%
				Tianjin MCP Cap Manufacture Company Limited					PRC	95%
				Tianjin MCP Industries Limited					PRC	95%
				Xi'an Kunlun FTB Packaging Limited					PRC	95%
				Zhongfu (Taicang) Plastics Products Co. Ltd.					PRC	68%
				Zhuhai FTB Packaging Limited					PRC	95%
		Ball Pan-European Holdings, Inc.							Delaware	100%
			Ball Holdings, Sarl						Luxembourg	100%
				Ball European Holdings, Sarl					Luxembourg	100%
					Ball (Luxembourg) Finance, Sarl				Luxembourg	100%
					Ball (UK) Holdings, Ltd.				England	100%
						Ball Europe Ltd.			England	100%
						Ball Company Ltd.			England	100%
							Continental Can UK Holding Company Ltd.		England	100%
								Continental Can Company Ltd.	England	100%
					Ball (Germany) Verwaltungs GmbH (f/k/a/ LAGO Vierte GmbH)				Germany	100%
					Ball (Germany) GmbH & Co. KG				Germany	100%
						Ball (Germany) Acquisition GmbH			Germany	100%
						Schmalbach-Lubeca, GmbH			Germany	100%
							Schmalbach-Lubeca DC GmbH		Germany	100%
							Schmalbach-Lubeca Getrankedosen GmbH		Germany	100%
							Schmalbach-Lubeca Unterstutzungskasse GmbH		Germany	100%
							Schmalbach-Lubeca South East Europe d.o.o.		Yugoslavia	100%
							Continental Can Handelsgesellschaft mbH		Austria	100%
							Continental Can Poland Sp.z.o.o.		Poland	100%
					Ball (France) Holdings, SAS				France	100%
						Ball (France) Investment Holdings, SAS			France	100%
						Continental Can France SAS			France	100%
							Continental Can La Ciotat SAS		France	100%

				Ball Investment Holdings S.a.r.l.			Luxembourg	100%
				Ball (The Netherlands) Holdings, BV			Netherlands	100%
					Schmalbach-Lubeca Nederland BV		Netherlands	100%
						Continental Can Benelux BV	Netherlands	100%
						Continental Can Trading Sp.z.o.o.	Poland	100%
	Ball Metal Food Container Corp.						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
		Ball Services Solutions PTY LTD
		Ball Systems Solutions PTY LTD
		Ball Advanced Imaging and Management
		Solutions PTY LTD					Australia	100%
			Ball AIMS (Malaysia) SDN BHD				Malaysia	100%
	Ball Systems Technology Limited						United Kingdom	100%
	Ball Technology Services Corporation						California	100%
Ball North America, Inc.							Canada	100%
	Ball Packaging Products Canada Corp.						Canada	100%
GPT Global Packaging Technology AB							Sweden	100%

(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.

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Exhibit 21.1

SUBSIDIARIES OF BALL CORPORATION December 31, 2002