Company's Chairman's Sustainability Awards
recognize initiatives including water consumption reduction,
workplace safety improvements and significant disaster
response
TAMPA,
Fla., Nov. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Crown
Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK) (Crown) (www.crowncork.com) has
announced the latest winners of its annual Chairman's
Sustainability Awards, which honor individual manufacturing
facilities within the Company's global network for exemplary
contributions across three categories – Environmental, Safety and
Social. This year's awards cycle marks the 10th anniversary of the
program and celebrates the collective effort of its widespread team
throughout the last decade.
Winners of the 2023 awards are as follows:
Crown's LaCrosse, Wisconsin beverage can plant won the
Environmental Sustainability Award, which recognizes
excellence in environmental protection by minimizing the impact of
the Company's operations, reducing material consumption or
improving recycling or reuse of resources. The facility received
this award for optimizing overflow processes to reduce washer water
usage, not only saving 8.4 million gallons of water in 2022 but
also avoiding a projected 170,000 pounds of landfill waste
generated by water consumption. The effort directly supports the
Company's Twentyby30™ goals to reduce
water usage by 20% by 2025 and to send zero waste from our
operations to landfill.
Two plants received this year's Sustainability Award for
Safety for their efforts to prioritize employee health, improve
accident prevention and ensure a safe working environment: Crown's
Ponta Grossa, Brazil beverage can
plant and the Bengaluru, India
(Prime Bulk) facility in the Company's Transit Packaging Division.
The Ponta Grossa team made several new changes: the addition of
gates, guardrails, lifelines and anchor points to increase work
safety at various heights; and the implementation of an automated
tilting system for employees emptying large containers of coatings
or other chemicals, lowering the risk of injury and of chemical
spillage during the process. The facility also added a new device
to replace the need for using a sledgehammer during maintenance
activities, reducing the risk of hand injuries and improving
process safety. As a result of these changes, the plant has
achieved a 49% decrease in recordable incidents from 2021
performance. Similarly, the Prime Bulk facility enacted several
production changes to improve employee conditions, including
installing a safe ladder and water level sensors to minimize
falling hazards, applying new safety features to forklifts and
adding new sensors and safety barricades for sealing and cutting
machines. As of December 31, 2022,
the plant maintained a total recordable incident rate (TRIR) of 0
and 1,871 consecutive accident-free days.
Receiving special honor this year is Crown's Osmaniye,
Turkey beverage can plant, which
earned the Social Sustainability Award for activities that
significantly impact the well-being of the workforce and the local
community. The team demonstrated tremendous compassion and
resilience following the unprecedented devastation of the
Maraş-Turkey earthquakes in early
2023. In the aftermath of the disaster, the team sheltered 168
people in the facility to provide a safe refuge for displaced
employees and their families, providing hygiene and nutritional
support along with temporary housing.
"From making critical process improvements that boost workplace
safety and reduce our environmental footprint to going above and
beyond in the face of tragedy to protect their colleagues in need,
our employees continue to astound us with their determination—even
after 10 years of this awards program," said Timothy Donahue,
President, CEO & Chairman of the Board at Crown Holdings. "We
are grateful for our regional teams' continued commitment to
our Twentyby30™ program and the even more
impressive impact we see across our global organization as a
unified group. Congratulations to the winners of our 2023
Chairman's Sustainability Awards and to all the teams working
diligently to help us continue to become the best steward
possible."
To learn more about Crown's sustainability progress, read its
2022 Sustainability Report or visit
https://www.crowncork.com/sustainability.
About Crown Holdings, Inc.
Crown Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiaries, is a leading
global supplier of rigid packaging products to consumer marketing
companies, as well as transit and protective packaging products,
equipment and services to a broad range of end markets. World
headquarters are located in Tampa,
Florida. For more information, visit www.crowncork.com.
For more information,
contact sustainability@crowncork.com.
For editorial inquiries: Emily
Hogan, Senior Account Executive, FINN Partners; Tel: (630) 248-5232;
Email: emily.hogan@finnpartners.com.
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press release consists of forward-looking statements within the
meaning of federal securities law. These forward-looking statements
involve a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors that may
cause actual results to be materially different from those
expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements. Important
factors that could cause the statements made in this release or the
actual results of operations or financial condition of the Company
to differ are discussed under the caption "Forward Looking
Statements" in the Company's Form 10-K Annual Report for the year
ended December 31, 2022 and in
subsequent filings. The Company does not intend to review or revise
any particular forward-looking statement in light of future
events.
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