# Crown Holdings > Crown Holdings has a material system with a built-in advantage: metal packaging can cycle repeatedly without losing material quality. Its 2025 reporting describes a 20% reduction in water withdrawal while production increased, closed-loop scrap systems and work to strengthen aluminum collection and can-to-can recycling. The next decision is one region and one can stream where scrap, energy, collection and remelt output are visible together. - Industry: Packaging, Paper & Glass - Collection: Active - Materials: Aluminum, Water - Processes: Recycling, Sorting - Evidence through: 2026-09-18 - Canonical URL: https://www.materialtransition.com/library/crown-holdings ## Material inputs to resolve Metal packaging, aluminum circularity and closed-loop can manufacturing Crown's 2025 sustainability materials describe its Twentyby30 program across climate, water, circularity and resource efficiency. Crown reports achieving a 20% reduction in water withdrawal across operations while increasing production, and it describes closed-loop scrap systems and industry work to strengthen aluminum can-to-can recycling. Public reporting does not establish one regional can-level ledger connecting scrap source, recycled content, collection rate, remelt quality and customer allocation. **20%** 2025 water-withdrawal reduction while production increased **Twentyby30** 20 objectives targeted by or before 2030 **Closed loop** Scrap systems described in manufacturing operations **Can to can** Aluminum circularity focus in regional industry work - Aluminum sheet, coatings, inks, ends, tabs, lubricants, energy and packaging inputs - Production scrap, customer specifications, collection systems and remelt supply - Post-consumer cans, sorting, baling and aluminum recovery routes ### Outputs and residuals to resolve - Beverage cans, food cans, aerosol cans and specialty metal packaging - Manufacturing scrap, used cans, coatings, wastewater and packaging residuals - Regional collection, remelt quality and recycled-content allocation remain open **First decision:** Choose one Crown can format and one market. Map aluminum input, plant scrap, collection, sorting, remelt, can qualification and customer allocation. ## Material signal Crown describes metal packaging as recyclable repeatedly without loss of quality. #### Water signal Crown reports a 20% reduction in water withdrawal across operations while increasing production. #### Factory signal Crown describes lightweighting, operational upgrades and closed-loop scrap systems. #### Evidence boundary Group progress does not establish one market-level can-to-can material balance and collection result. ### Decision boundary The public record supports one bounded next move: Choose one Crown can format and one market. Map aluminum input, plant scrap, collection, sorting, remelt, can qualification and customer allocation. It does not establish a buyer, commercial approval or supply agreement. ## Material flow map | Material or stream | Qualification gate | Process or destination | Evidence still needed | |-|-|-|-| | Aluminum sheet and scrap | Alloy, recycled content, gauge and surface performance | Can body or end production | Supplier, scrap, melt route and specification | | Coatings and inks | Food contact, cure, performance and recovery compatibility | Printing and can conversion | Formulation, test and residuals | | Used cans | Collection, sorting, contamination and baling quality | Remelt and new can production | Market, rate, yield and allocation | This is a public screening map. It separates company-disclosed flows from open qualification work. It does not convert a destination into a buyer or an announced ambition into operating capacity. ## Three defensible entry lanes #### Make can-to-can regional The loop is physical and local. It needs a defined market, collector, sorter, remelter and can specification. **Next evidence:** Select region, can, scrap source, collection route, remelt and buyer. #### Turn scrap systems into customer proof Closed-loop plant scrap is valuable when its recovered grade and next use are documented. **Next evidence:** Join scrap stream, treatment, alloy, test, can line and avoided primary input. #### Connect lightweighting to recovery Less material only wins when the package still performs and remains recoverable. **Next evidence:** Compare gauge, performance, material weight, collection and remelt outcome. ## Evidence register - **2025 sustainability report announcement** Crown Holdings, official company release https://www.crowncork.com/news/crown-holdings-announces-publication-its-2025-sustainability-report-delivering-sustainability [1] - **Sustainability reports** Crown Holdings, official report library https://www.crowncork.com/sustainability/reporting/all-reports [2] - **Sustainability Report 2025** Crown Holdings, official report PDF https://www.crowncork.com/sites/default/files/2026-06/CrownHoldings\_SustainabilityReport\_2025\_0.pdf [3] - **Resource efficiency progress** Crown Holdings, official Twentyby30 progress page https://www.crowncork.com/sustainability/twentyby30-goals/resource-efficiency [4] - **Twentyby30 goals** Crown Holdings, official sustainability goals https://www.crowncork.com/sustainability/twentyby30-goals [5] Source hierarchy: filings and company disclosures first. The brief states what those sources support and leaves the unresolved plant, grade, permit, buyer and mass-balance questions explicit. ## Material Transition editorial interpretation The next useful working session starts with: Choose one Crown can format and one market. Map aluminum input, plant scrap, collection, sorting, remelt, can qualification and customer allocation. ## Sources - [1] 2025 sustainability report announcement - https://www.crowncork.com/news/crown-holdings-announces-publication-its-2025-sustainability-report-delivering-sustainability - [2] Sustainability reports - https://www.crowncork.com/sustainability/reporting/all-reports - [3] Sustainability Report 2025 - https://www.crowncork.com/sites/default/files/2026-06/CrownHoldings_SustainabilityReport_2025_0.pdf - [4] Resource efficiency progress - https://www.crowncork.com/sustainability/twentyby30-goals/resource-efficiency - [5] Twentyby30 goals - https://www.crowncork.com/sustainability/twentyby30-goals From the Material Transition company brief library: https://www.materialtransition.com/library/crown-holdings