Silgan Closures GmbH
Silgan Closures GmbH is a global manufacturer of rigid packaging for shelf-stable food and other consumer goods products and offers innovative solutions for the food and beverage industry worldwide.
| Silgan Closures GmbH | |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Munich, Germany |
| Website | www.silgan-closures.com |
Silgan Holdings Inc. is the company‘s is headquarter in Stamford, Connecticut.
Operating 88 manufacturing facilities in North and South America, Europe and Asia, the company is a leading worldwide supplier of metal, composite and plastic closures for food and beverage products.
Silgan Closures GmbH focus on easy to open, easy-to-seal closures, for all types of containers, glass, plastic and metal. The quality of the products goes hand in hand with a state of the art service.
Products / Technology
- Metal Twist-Off closures for food items
- Metal PT (press-on twist-off) closures for food items
- Cap feeder
- Sealing machines
- Dud detector (vacuum test)
History
- 1926 - the White Brothers founded White Cap in Chicago/USA
- 1957 - Continental Can acquires White Cap
- 1984 - Peter Kiewit acquires Continental Can
- 1991 - Schmalbach-Lubeca acquires Continental Can's European Operations and White Cap (USA) from Peter Kiewit
- 2001 - Schmalbach-Lubeca forms Joint Venture with Silgan Holdings to create White Cap, LLC
- 2002 - Amcor Limited (Australia) acquires Schmalbach-Lubeca’s PET & White Cap Closures Businesses
- 2003 - Silgan Holdings Purchases Amcor Limited's share of White Cap, LLC
- name changed to Silgan Closures LLC
- 2006 - 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
- 2008 - Silgan Holdings acquires the metal closure producer VEM de Tapas Metálicas S.A. (Spain) and VacVem (China)
- 2011 - Silgan Holdings Poland completes the acquisition of the assets of the Polish metal closure producer “DGS-TO” Spółka z ograniczoną odpowiedzialnością
- 2012 - Silgan Holdings Austria (SMP) acquired the leading metal packaging producer (cans and metal closures) Öntas Öner Teneke Ambalaj located in Izmir, Turkey
- 2013 - Silgan Holdings acquires the metal vacuum closure assets from Amcor, Australia
- acquisition of Portola Packaging Ltd producing plastic closures for the food and beverage industry
References
PETplanet Insider Articles
Issue 09 / 2017: Sealing solutions
Issue 08 / 2017: Variety of caps for a variety of beverages
Issue 09 / 2013: Silgan to aquire Portola packaging
Issue 04 / 2011: Silgan aquires Graham Packaging