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Crown to Build Beverage Can Plant in Casablanca, Morocco
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Operational in late 2009, the plant will produce aluminum beverage cans with an initial capacity of 700 million cans a year. The facility is being designed to accommodate the future installation of additional production lines as market demand grows. This investment is part of the Company's 2009 capital program.
The new beverage plant in
About Crown Holdings, Inc.
Crown Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiaries, is a leading supplier of
packaging products to consumer marketing companies around the world. World
headquarters are located in
For more information, contact:
In Europe: Caroline Archer-Reed, Marketing Director;
Tel; +33 1 49 18 40 43; Email: caroline.archer-reed@eur.crowncork.com
In the United States: Tom Hughes, Marketing Manager; Tel: (215) 698-5298;
Email: thomas.hughes@crowncork.com
For editorial inquiries: Michael F. Dunleavy, Vice President of Corporate
Affairs and Public Relations; Tel: (215) 698-5051; Email:
mdunleavy@crowncork.com
For investors: Timothy J. Donahue, Senior Vice President - Finance,
(215) 698-5088.
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