Frameworks and Standards

Meeting Global Industry Classification Standard

As the leader in metal and transit packaging technology, our GICS (Global Industry Classification Standard) code, managed by MSCI and S&P Global, is 15103010 - Materials, Containers, and Packaging. Per GICS, "the Materials sector includes companies that manufacture chemicals, construction materials, glass, paper, forest products and related packaging products, and metals, minerals and mining companies, including producers of steel." As this is a wide description of manufacturing activities it's important to elaborate on what manufacturing activities Crown engages in and those which we do not.

What We Do

• Manufacture rigid metal packaging
• Manufacture glass packaging
• Manufacture machinery for the metal can manufacturing 
• Manufacture equipment for transit packaging application
• Employ over 26,000 people in 40 countries 
• Manufacture transit packaging using paper, plastic, and steel
• Improve our employees' workplace safety through the adoption of the ISO 18001 or 45001 occupational health and safety management system. The percentage of our operations certified to OHSAS 18001 is 29% and counting
• Minimize environmental damage in our operations through the adoption of the ISO 14001 environmental management system
• Monitor our suppliers' ISO 14001 environmental management system adoption rate, which is at 73% and counting 
• Monitor our primary raw suppliers' (value denotes all aluminum and steel suppliers) ISO 1400 environmental management system adoption rate, which is at 91%
• SEDEX SMETA audits have been completed at 36 of our locations
• EcoVadis has certified 64 of our locations
• Monitor any incidents of significant spills for which the Company is legally responsible, whose value was two for the year 2020*, remediate and take action to prevent any future incidents (*value includes any spills required to be reported per local, state, or national law and/or those which exceed 200 liters)
• Focus on waste reduction; view our waste data
• Complementing our Zero Waste by 2030 goal, Crown has a company-wide hazardous waste disposal program. The goal of this program is to direct all hazardous waste to proper disposal routes. 
• Complementing our Zero Waste by 2030 goal, Crown has a business waste management program including the recycling of business or office waste, including paper and other office items.

What We Don't Do

• Manufacture chemicals
• Manufacture construction materials
• Mine metals and/or minerals
• Produce steel or aluminum
• Operate in such a manner as to create tailing ponds or underground reinjection
• Operate in such a manner as to require disturbance or reclamation of disturbed lands