Property, Plant and Equipment, Net

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2023

Property, Plant and Equipment, Net.

Property, Plant and Equipment, Net

10.     Property, Plant and Equipment, Net

	March 31,		December 31,
($ in millions)	2023		2022
Land	$	189	$	187
Buildings		2,185		2,159
Machinery and equipment		7,397		7,277
Construction-in-progress		1,633		1,504
		11,404		11,127
Accumulated depreciation		(4,201)		(4,074)
	$	7,203	$	7,053

Depreciation expense amounted to $127 million and $140 million for the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively.

During 2022, the company completed an evaluation of the estimated useful lives of its manufacturing equipment, buildings and certain assembly and test equipment. The company utilized a third-party appraiser to assist in the evaluation, which was performed as a result of the company’s experience with the duration over which its equipment can be utilized. Effective July 1, 2022, Ball revised the estimated useful lives of its equipment and buildings, which resulted in a net reduction in depreciation expense of approximately $25 million ($19 million after tax, or $0.06 per diluted share) for the three months ended March 31, 2023, as compared to the amount of depreciation expense that would have been recognized by utilizing the prior depreciable lives. This change in useful lives is expected to reduce depreciation expense by approximately $51 million ($39 million after tax, or $0.12 per diluted share) for the six months ending June 30, 2023.

As discussed in Note 4, in the second quarter of 2022, Ball recorded a non-cash impairment charge related to its Russian long-lived asset group, of which $296 million related to property, plant and equipment associated with the company’s Russian aluminum beverage packaging business, which resulted in fully impairing the assets that were subsequently disposed through the sale of the Russia aluminum beverage packaging business. See Note 4 for further details.