Crown Holdings

Name

Crown Holdings

Legal name

Crown Holdings, Inc.

Website

https://crowncork.com

Company type

Public

Founded year

1892

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

5,001–10,000 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Metal Packaging

NAICS

Metal Can Manufacturing (332431), Metal Can, Box, and Other Metal Container (Light Gauge) Manufacturing (33243), Metal Crown, Closure, and Other Metal Stamping (except Automotive) (332119)

SIC

Metal Cans (3411)

akta.pro primary industry

Beverage Cans (Aluminum & Steel) (IMALADAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Beverage Packaging (Bottles, Cans, Cartons, Kegs) (IMALAHAD), General Line Cans (Chemical, Paint, Specialty) (IMALADAI), Metal Closures & Caps (Crown Caps, Lug/Twist Caps, ROPP) (IMALADAF)

Keywords

• Metal packaging products
• Aluminum beverage cans
• Food cans manufacturing
• Aerosol packaging solutions
• Transit protective packaging

Headquarters

HQ city

Yardley

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Infrastructure, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Beverage Can Sales: Manufacture and sale of aluminum beverage cans to major consumer brands including beer, soft drinks, energy drinks, and RTD cocktails. Revenue generated through long-term supply agreements with customer commitments. Q1 2026 net sales of $3,259 million with 5% global volume growth in beverage cans.
2. Food Can and Aerosol Packaging: Production of metal food cans for canned food products and aerosol cans for personal care, household, and industrial products. Includes North American tinplate businesses and closures operations.
3. Transit Packaging: Transit and protective packaging products, equipment and services including strapping, bundling solutions, and packaging optimization for industrial end markets.
4. Tooling and Equipment: Beverage tooling and equipment operations in the U.S. and United Kingdom, providing manufacturing equipment and related services to beverage production facilities.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Crown Holdings manufactures and sells metal rigid packaging products including aluminum beverage cans, food cans, aerosol cans, closures, promotional tins, and transit/protective packaging solutions. The company sells directly to consumer marketing companies globally through long-term supply agreements and dedicated account management, with multi-year customer partnerships across alcoholic beverages, soft drinks, energy drinks, food, personal care, and industrial sectors. Operations span manufacturing facilities across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, South America, and Africa.

Product overview

Crown Holdings is a leading global supplier of rigid packaging products, operating as a single unified product portfolio organized around metal packaging solutions. The core offerings include Beverage Cans (in Standard, CrownSleek®, and Slim profiles across 22+ size variants from 5.1oz to 18.6oz), Beverage Ends, Tabs, and Caps for the beverage industry. The Aerosol & Food Packaging division produces Aerosol Cans (with 14+ decorative finishes), Food Cans, Closures, and Promotional Tins. Transit Packaging provides strapping and bundling solutions. Key product technologies include CrownSleek® contoured can shaping, Accents™ Color decoration, and various can end/tab innovations. The company serves consumer marketing companies across alcoholic beverages, soft drinks, energy drinks, food, personal care, and industrial sectors.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• CrownSleek: Premium aluminum beverage can product line
• CrownCork
• Twentyby30

Products and services

• Beverage Cans Aluminum beverage cans in various sizes from 5.1oz to 18.6oz, available in Standard, CrownSleek, and Slim profiles, serving alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverage segments including wine, cocktails, seltzer, soda, craft beer, energy drinks, water, coffee, and juice. Sold to major consumer brands worldwide.
• Beverage Ends Easy-open can ends designed for beverage cans, providing consumer convenience and secure sealing for beverage packaging applications.
• Tabs Can tabs for easy opening of beverage cans, engineered for consumer convenience and consistent performance.
• Caps and Other Offerings Closure solutions for beverage packaging, providing secure sealing and consumer functionality for various beverage containers.
• CrownSleek Aluminum Beverage Cans Proprietary aluminum can profile technology featuring a sleek, contoured shape for premium beverage positioning. Available in multiple sizes including 9.1oz, 10.4oz, 10oz, 11.3oz, 12.7oz, 12oz, 7.5oz, 8.5oz, and 8oz formats for craft beer, RTD cocktails, energy drinks, and premium alcoholic beverages.
• Aerosol Cans Metal aerosol packaging for beauty products, household essentials, and industrial applications. Offers various decoration finishes including Crackle, Fine Sparkle, Finestone, Fluorescent, Glitter, Gloss, Glow in the Dark, HoloCrown, Matte, Matte/Gloss, Pearlescent, Silveglow, and Sparkle.
• Closures Innovative closure technologies engineered to protect products and perform at scale, with ergonomic features for product protection and convenience across food, beverage, and personal care applications.
• Food Cans Dynamic and protective metal food packaging providing extended shelf life across various format sizes with added consumer convenience for canned vegetables, fruits, soups, and ready-to-eat meals.
• Promotional Tins Custom promotional tin packaging combining strong sealing closure technologies with ergonomic features for brand promotion and consumer convenience.
• Transit Packaging Transit and protective packaging solutions including strapping and bundling products that optimize packaging to ensure goods arrive damage-free, serving industrial end markets with packaging equipment and services.

Quantifiable outcome

• 20% reduction in water withdrawal across global operations while increasing production levels, achieving 2025 water stewardship goal
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered flagship and core.

• DammflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 3 June 2026Collaboration for 150th anniversary celebration of Estrella Damm beer with limited-edition cans featuring Accents™ Color technology. Damm's Barcelona-inspired illustrations of landmarks, culture, sports, and beaches showcase Crown's premium decoration capabilities.
• United Breweries Limited (Heineken)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 23 April 2026Long-term customer partnership supporting Crown's entry into the Indian market with a new two-line beverage can facility in Northern India. The facility will serve growing demand for aluminum cans across alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverage segments, with United Breweries providing committed volumes to support the project's capital investment.
• GallocoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 16 December 2025Long-standing partnership expanded to include new product launches including High Noon Vodka Iced Tea RTD cocktails and Montucky Cold Snacks craft beer. Crown provides packaging design and manufacturing support for Gallo portfolio of ready-to-drink beverages and craft beer products.
• San Juan Beverage CompanycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 2 September 2025Partnership to deliver premium RTD cocktails in CrownSleek® aluminum cans. Collaboration emphasizes sustainability, innovation, and growth of the ready-to-drink category with clean-label craft cocktail products.
• TCP Group (N'Wely)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 22 August 2025Joint venture plant Crown TCP Beverage Cans Company Limited in Nong Khae, Saraburi, Thailand supplies premium juice beverages for TCP Group's N'Wely brand. Crown TCP received Outstanding Supplier Award at TCP Group's Sustainability Forum 2025.
• Helvetia Packaging AGcoreOthers · 4 October 2023Acquisition of Helvetia Packaging AG's beverage can and end manufacturing facility in Saarlouis, Germany. Acquisition adds approximately one billion units of annual can capacity and includes customer base and contracts, with 200 employees transitioning to Crown.
• MatutacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership to redefine Brazilian cachaça spirit in aluminum beverage cans, introducing traditional spirit to modern consumption formats with sustainable packaging.
• MomentcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with botanical beverage brand to elevate 'Modern Soda' to new sustainability levels through aluminum can packaging that aligns health-conscious products with eco-conscious packaging.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Silgan Holdings: Silgan is a diversified packaging manufacturer with a closures business and metal food container operations that overlaps with Crown's food can and closures portfolio. It is a broader incumbent across multiple packaging substrates serving similar CPG customers.
• Amcor: Amcor is a global diversified packaging manufacturer serving the same CPG customers as Crown across flexible and rigid packaging. While primarily flexible plastic and flexible packaging focused, it competes for shelf-share and customer wallet in food and beverage end markets.

Direct peers

• Trivium Packaging: Trivium Packaging is a European-focused producer of metal packaging including food cans and aerosol cans, directly competing with Crown in metal food and aerosol packaging across Europe and the Americas.
• Ardagh Metal Packaging: Ardagh Metal Packaging is a major direct competitor in beverage cans, serving similar global and regional beverage brands across Europe, North America, and South America. Its product portfolio and customer base closely mirror Crown's beverage can business.
• Ball Corporation: Ball Corporation is the largest global manufacturer of aluminum beverage cans and aerosol cans, directly competing with Crown across the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Ball and Crown are the two dominant players in metal beverage packaging and frequently compete for the same global brand-owner contracts.
• Sonoco Products (Eviosys): Sonoco acquired Eviosys, a major global metal food can and aerosol packaging manufacturer, making it a direct competitor in Crown's food can and aerosol segments. The deal materially expanded Sonoco's metal packaging exposure to overlap with Crown's portfolio.
• CANPACK: CANPACK is a privately held global manufacturer of aluminum beverage cans, metal food cans, and glass packaging. It directly competes with Crown across beverage cans in Europe, South America, and increasingly Asia, and has announced its own capacity expansion plans.

Regional players

• CPMC Holdings: CPMC Holdings is one of China's largest metal packaging manufacturers producing beverage cans, food cans, and aerosol cans for domestic and international brands. It is a regional competitor in Asia, relevant to Crown's APAC expansion strategy.
• Daiwa Can Company: Daiwa Can is a major Japanese metal packaging manufacturer producing beverage cans, food cans, and aerosol cans. It competes regionally in Asia with Crown's growing APAC platform, particularly in Southeast Asia and Japan.
• Envases Universales: Envases Universales is a Latin American metal packaging producer with operations in Mexico and Central/South America. It competes directly with Crown's South American beverage can operations, particularly in Mexico and Brazil.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/crown-holdings

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Subsidiaries3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds6 records

Investors1 record

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M&A6 records

Investments

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