Philadelphia, PA – May 18, 2017. To meet demand for even more environmentally friendly packaging from European food and beverage brands, CROWN Food Europe, a business unit of Crown Holdings, Inc. (Crown) ( www.crowncork.com) has launched metal closure technology featuring a PVC-free compound. Produced in Crown’s facility in Aprilia, Italy, the new closures are available in Ø53 and Ø63 formats...

Food manufacturers can add flexibility to their product packaging portfolio with new metal closures from Crown Holdings, Inc., the leading supplier of metal packaging products worldwide, that are compatible with polyethylene terephthalate (PET) containers.

Crown’s primary product – the iconic can – is both the source of our identity as well as the embodiment of sustainability. There is a compelling parallel between the infinite recyclability of metal packaging and the never-ending journey that is sustainability.

Crown Holdings, Inc. has published its third Sustainability Report. Titled ‘Perpetual Progress,’ the 2015 report documents Crown’s continued advancement in the economic, environmental and social dimensions of sustainability. It also underlines Crown’s broad efforts in fiscal years 2013 and 2014 to improve its sustainability footprint, resource use and emissions per standard unit, even as the Company has seen global volume growth and expanded its geographic reach.