PHILADELPHIA, March 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK) today announced that Peter C. Collier has been named Vice President of the Company's European Metal Closures Division. Collier has worked in the packaging industry for 20 years, all of which have been with Crown Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiary companies. Previously, Collier served as Head of Mergers & Acquisitions...

PHILADELPHIA, March 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK) announced today that the European Patent Office ("EPO") upheld Crown's European SuperEnd(TM) beverage end patent (EP 0 828 663 B1), with slight modification, against an opposition lodged by a competitor. The EPO Opposition Division upheld claims covering Crown's commercial SuperEnd(TM) beverage ends and its proprietary seaming technology. This decision reinforces...

PHILADELPHIA, March 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK) announced that today marks the 25th anniversary of Federal regulations prohibiting the further use of chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) propellants in almost all aerosol products manufactured and sold in the United States. Despite this environmental achievement most Americans aren't aware that it happened. Twenty-five years after the Federal regulation took effect, 60%...

PHILADELPHIA, March 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK), announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc., has accepted for purchase and payment, pursuant to its offer to purchase, all of the notes which were validly tendered and not validly withdrawn as of the expiration of the offers at 12:01 a.m., New York City...