Slated to be operational in the third quarter of this year, the new line will help the company to meet the increasing customer requirements in the pet food, bean and soup segments of the food can market
Crown is set to expand food can production capacity at Owatonna facility. (Credit: Pixabay)
Crown Holdings has unveiled plans for the expansion of its food can production capacity at its Owatonna facility in Minnesota, US.
The company will install a new line to expand food can production capacity at the facility.
Crown will use the new line to meet the increasing customer requirements in the pet food, bean and soup segments of the food can market.
Slated to be operational in the third quarter of this year, the new line will help create 40 new jobs at the new facility.
Crown offers a range of food packaging solutions for different markets, including fruit, vegetables, dairy, fish, meat, ready meals, pet food, infant milk powder and other dry food products.
The company’s food can product portfolio consists of round cans, bowl cans and food ends. It also offers food can services.
Its two and three-piece steel and aluminium cans are suitable for food packaging, while bowl cans are used for canned fish such as salmon.
Via its subsidiaries, Crown Holdings supplies rigid packaging products to consumer marketing companies, as well as transit and protective packaging products, equipment and services to different end markets.
In September last year, Crown announced plans to build a new aluminium beverage can manufacturing facility in Nevada.
The new 355,000ft² two-line facility, which is being built in Mesquite, will produce standard and speciality beverage cans for the firm’s customers in various categories such as carbonated soft drinks, sparkling water, energy drinks, hard seltzers, beer and ready-to-drink cocktails.