Company: SLGN
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000849869-25-000029
Chunk: 92

Company: SILGAN HOLDINGS INC
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 92
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 and specialty closures that ensure closure quality and safety, as well as state-of-the-art capping/sealing equipment and detection systems to complement our specialty closures product offering, and our global presence, we believe we are uniquely positioned to serve the fragrance and beauty, food, beverage, personal and health care, home care and lawn and garden product companies for all of their dispensing and specialty closure needs.

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METAL CONTAINERS BUSINESS

Of the commercial metal container manufacturers, Crown Holdings, Inc., Sonoco Products Company (including its recent acquisition of Eviosys Packaging Switzerland GmbH), Trivium Packaging and Envases Group are our most significant competitors.  Our competitors also include other regional suppliers. As an alternative to purchasing containers from commercial can manufacturers, customers have the ability to invest in equipment to self-manufacture their containers. Additionally, customers can choose to use other types of packaging for their products, such as plastic, paper, glass and composite containers. 

Because of the high cost of transporting empty containers, our metal containers business generally sells to customers within a 300 mile radius of its manufacturing plants. Strategically located existing plants give us an advantage over competitors from other areas, but we could be potentially disadvantaged by the relocation of a major customer.

Although metal containers face competition from plastic, paper, glass and composite containers, we believe that metal containers are superior to plastic, composite and paper containers in applications, where the contents are prepared at high temperatures or packaged in larger consumer or institutional quantities or where long-term storage of the product is desirable while maintaining the product’s quality. We also believe that metal containers are more desirable generally than glass containers because metal containers are more durable and less costly to transport. In addition, metal containers are one of the most recycled packages in the world and are infinitely recyclable. 

CUSTOM CONTAINERS BUSINESS

Our custom containers business competes with a number of large national and global producers of custom containers for the pet and human food, consumer health and pharmaceutical, personal care, home care, lawn and garden and automotive markets. These competitors include Alpla Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co. KG, Amcor plc, Berry Global Group, Inc., Cebal Americas, Altium Packaging LLC, Graham Packaging Company, Plastipak Holdings, Inc. and Pretium Packaging LLC. In addition to our rapid response to our customers’ design, development and technology support needs and our value-added, diverse product line, we strive to remain current with and, to some extent, anticipate innovations in resin composition