# Crown Holdings to build $147M beverage can plant in Bowling Green, Kentucky

CROWN Cork and Seal USA celebrated the groundbreaking of a 327,000 sq ft beverage can plant in Bowling Green, Kentucky, investing $147 million and creating 126 direct jobs. The plant is scheduled to be operational by Q1 2021.

- Type: New facility
- Announced: 2020-02-28
- Where: Bowling Green, Kentucky, United States
- Value: $147.0M
- Jobs: 126
- Status: under construction
- Capacity: 1.3 billion cans per year
- Products: beverage cans

## Companies

- [Crown](https://endata.com/companies/535.md)
- [Crown Cork & Seal USA](https://endata.com/companies/5457.md)

## Sources

- [globenewswire.com](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2020/02/28/1992894/25819/en/CROWN-Cork-and-Seal-USA-Inc-Breaks-Ground-in-Bowling-Green-s-Kentucky-Transpark.html), 2020-02-28: "The company will invest $147 million to build a 327,000 square-foot facility creating 126 direct jobs."
- [areadevelopment.com](https://www.areadevelopment.com/newsitems/3-2-2020/crown-cork--seal-usa-bowling-green-kentucky.shtml), 2020-03-02: "Crown Holdings Inc.'s subsidiary, CROWN Cork & Seal USA Inc., started construction on a 327,000 square-foot beverage-can manufacturing facility, costing nearly $150 million."
- [nasdaq.com](https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/crown-holdings-latest-kentucky-plant-to-grow-on-can-demand-2020-03-03), 2020-03-03: "Crown Holdings, Inc. CCK will build a new beverage can manufacturing plant in Bowling Green, KY, to support the rising demand for beverage cans in North America."

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