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Silgan Holdings
Headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, USA, Silgan Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: SLGN) is a leading manufacturer of consumer goods packaging products with annual net sales of $2.9 billion in 2007. The company operates 69 manufacturing facilities in North and South America, Europe and Asia. In North America, the company is the largest supplier of metal containers for food products and a leading supplier of plastic containers for personal care products. In addition, the company is a leading worldwide supplier of metal, composite and plastic vacuum closures for food and beverage products.
Silgan White Cap
As a leading global supplier of metal, plastic and composite vacuum holding closures, Silgan White Cap offers innovative solutions for the food and beverage industries worldwide. Silgan White Cap’s designers focus on easy-to-open, easy-to-reseal and tamper-evident closures, for all types of containers, glass, plastic and metal. The quality products are accompanied by a state of the art service.
Silgan White Cap operates 16 factories worldwide employing more than 2.000 employees. The Twist-Off® and PT metal cap as well as the Plasti-Twist® plastic business represent more than 20 billion in closure volume, half of it is being consumed in Europe.
The headquarters for the American continent are located in Downers Grove, Illinois, USA. The headquarters for the Europe/Asia business are based in Hannover, Germany.
President: Peter Konieczny
Head Office:
Silgan White Cap Europe/Asia
Hansastraße 4
D-30419
HANNOVER
GERMANY
Tel. +49 (0) 511 7905 - 0
Fax. +49 (0) 511 7905 - 4512
marketing@silganwhitecap.com
Silgan White Cap Americas
1140 31st Street
Downers Grove
Illinois 60515
Tel: +001 - 800-515-1565
andy.nackovic@silganclosures.com
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1926
1957
1984
1991
2001
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2003
2006
2007
2008 |
White Cap founded
Continental Can acquires White Cap
Peter Kiewit acquires Continental Can
Schmalbach-Lubeca acquires Continental Can's European Operations and White Cap (USA) from Peter Kiewit
Schmalbach-Lubeca forms Joint Venture with Silgan Holdings
to create White Cap, LLC
Amcor Limited (Australia) acquires Schmalbach-Lubeca’s PET &
White Cap Closures Businesses
Silgan Holdings Purchases Amcor Limited's Portion of White Cap, LLC;
name changed to Silgan Closures LLC
Silgan Holdings purchases Amcor White Cap Europe/Asia & South America, re-unification of the White Cap businesses; name changed to Silgan White Cap Americas & Silgan White Cap Europe/Asia
Silgan White Cap Americas & Silgan White Cap Europe/Asia combined into a
Worldwide closure business
Silgan Holdings acquires the metal closure producer VEM de Tapas Metálicas S.A. (Spain)
and VacVem (China) |
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