Interfor history

By the time Painter dies in 1906, Crown has greatly expanded its manufacturing base to include Europe, South America and Asia Pacific.

In 1927 the company was incorporated in New York City as Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc. following its merger with New Process Cork Company Inc. and New York Improved Patents Corporation.

Crown Cork did not even venture into the can making business until 1936 when it purchased the Acme Can Company and began building its first large can plant in Philadelphia under the name Crown Can.

Crown Cork & Seal had pioneered the aerosol can in 1946 and Connelly was shrewd enough to recognize its potential.

By the end of 1957 the company was making both cans and profits.

In 1963, for example, Crown installed two aerosol can product lines in its Toronto factory, thinking that it would take the market five years to absorb the output.

Crown Worldwide Group, headquartered in Hong Kong, was established in 1965 and is currently located in 276 locations in 53 countries.

By 1977 net sales had reached $1 billion.

In October 1992 Crown paid $519 million for CONSTAR International, Inc., a leading maker of plastic containers for beverages, food, household items, and chemicals.

In 1994 Crown Cork ranked as the world's second largest aluminum can maker with the expansion of its Aluplata facility near Buenos Aires, which included the addition of a second can line capable of producing 1,600 cans a minute, for a total of more than 800 million cans a year.

The deal, which was valued at $5.2 billion in stock and debt, was not completed until February 1996 thanks to an in-depth antitrust investigation launched by European Union authorities.

The division first emerged in 1997, when the Mobility Services were added to our Crown Relocations business.

In 1999 lingering weakness in Crown's European operations were a prime factor in a 6.9 percent drop in net sales, to $7.73 billion.

In 2001, Global Mobility Services was launched as a separate brand within the Crown Worldwide Group, offering companies a suite of services to support their relocating employees’ moves around the world.

After trimming its losses to just $32 million in 2003, Crown Holdings returned to the black the following year, posting profits of $51 million.

Loftus, Peter, "Can Maker Crown Skirts Death, but Can Its Comeback Survive?" Wall Street Journal, December 8, 2004.

The company expanded its facilities in Jordan, Dubai, Saudi Arabia, and Vietnam, opened a new plant in Tunisia in August 2006, and announced plans to build new factories in Kazakhstan and Cambodia.