Silgan Holdings (SLGN) FY2025 results: revenue $6.5 billion, up 10.7% on the year

Silgan Holdings makes rigid packaging for consumer goods: dispensing and specialty closures, steel and aluminum containers for food and general line products, and custom designed plastic containers. It is a Delaware holding company that works through operating subsidiaries, founded in 1987 by R. Philip Silver and D. Greg Horrigan, and it has acquired forty-one businesses since then. As of February 1, 2026 it operated 121 manufacturing facilities in 25 countries across North America, Europe, Asia and South America. It reports three businesses, dispensing and specialty closures, metal containers and custom containers.

Dispensing and specialty closures

This business makes dispensing systems and specialty closures for fragrance and beauty, food, beverage, personal and health care, home care and lawn and garden products, along with capping and sealing equipment and detection systems. It has 63 manufacturing facilities serving over 100 countries, three joint ventures in countries it does not serve directly, and licenses for its metal closure technology with five other manufacturers. It forms plastic closures and dispensing parts such as triggers, actuators, valves and overcaps by compression and injection molding, and it makes twist-off, lug style and press-on steel closures and aluminum roll-on closures from 18 to 110 millimeters in diameter. On October 15, 2024 it acquired Weener Packaging, which makes dispensing products for personal and health care and food and had 19 facilities, mainly in Europe and the Americas, and approximately 4,000 employees.

Metal containers

This business has 37 manufacturing facilities in the United States, Europe and Asia serving over 50 countries, and it makes steel and aluminum cans for pet and human food and general line products. The filing states that it is the largest maker of metal food containers in North America, with more than half of the U.S. market by unit volume in 2025, up from approximately ten percent in 1987. It makes two-piece cans by the draw and redraw or drawing and ironing processes and three-piece cans with a welded side seam, along with its Quick Top easy-open ends. Because empty containers are costly to ship, it generally sells to customers within a 300 mile radius of its plants.

Custom containers

This business has 21 manufacturing facilities in the United States and Canada and makes plastic containers for pet and human food, consumer health and pharmaceutical, personal care, home care, lawn and garden and automotive products. It makes bottles by extrusion blowmolding and injection stretch blowmolding, thermoforms bowls, trays and tubs, and decorates containers by in-mold labeling and post-mold methods such as silk screen, pressure sensitive, heat transfer and shrink sleeve labels.

Raw materials

The filing states that supplier consolidation leaves it dependent on a limited number of suppliers for steel, aluminum, certain resins, coatings and compound. Its metal container supply agreements pass through changes in metal costs, and its closures and custom container agreements pass through metal and resin cost changes, in many cases with a lag for resin.

Competitors

In closures it names Amcor, AptarGroup, Bericap, Closures Systems International, Crown Holdings, Sonoco Products, Guala Dispensing, Massilly and Tecnocap. In metal containers it names Crown Holdings, Sonoco Products, Trivium Packaging, Envases Group, Can Corporation of America, Canpack, Massilly and Ideal Can, and customers can also make their own containers or switch to plastic, paper, glass or composite packaging. In custom containers it names Alpla, Amcor, Altium Packaging, Axium Packaging, Graham Packaging, Plastipak, Pretium Packaging and Winpack.

People

As of December 31, 2025 it employed approximately 4,400 salaried and 12,800 hourly employees full-time. Approximately 31 percent of its hourly plant employees in the United States and Canada were represented by unions, as were most of its hourly employees in Europe, Asia, South America and Central America, and its labor contracts expire at various times between 2026 and 2031.

From Silgan Holdings' annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended 31 December 2025. The filing

Written from the 10-K filed 26 February 2026: read the full 10-K.