# Crown opens greenfield beverage can plant in Nichols, New York

Crown Holdings celebrated the opening of a new two-piece aluminum beverage can plant in the Tioga County Industrial Park in Nichols, New York, on May 9, 2017, expected to create more than 160 jobs by 2018.

- Type: New facility
- Announced: 2017-05-01
- Where: Nichols, New York, United States
- Value: $150.0M
- Jobs: 160
- Status: completed
- Capacity: 7,000 cans a minute
- Products: two-piece aluminum beverage cans, specialty cans

## Companies

- [Crown](https://endata.com/companies/535.md)

## Sources

- [prnewswire.com](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/crown-opens-first-greenfield-beverage-can-facility-in-the-united-states-in-over-20-years-300456988.html), 2017-05-12: "The state-of-the-art plant, which marks the industry's first greenfield facility in the United States in more than 20 years, will support the country's growing demand for specialty beverage cans."
- [packagingstrategies.com](https://www.packagingstrategies.com/articles/89691-crown-opens-greenfield-beverage-can-facility-in-us), 2017-06-01: "The state-of-the-art plant, which marks the industry's first greenfield facility in the United States in more than 20 years, will support the country's growing demand for specialty beverage cans."
- [packaging-gateway.com](https://www.packaging-gateway.com/projects/crown-beverage-can-manufacturing-facility-nichols-new-york/), 2018-04-10: "Crown Holdings opened a new beverage can plant in Nichols in Tioga County, New York, US, in May 2017."

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