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We are also a leading manufacturer and supplier of metal containers in North America and Europe, and in North America we are the largest manufacturer of metal food containers with a unit volume market share in the United States in 2025 of more than half of the market. Our leadership in these markets is driven by our high levels of quality, service and technological support, our low cost producer position, our strong long-term customer relationships and our proximity to customers through our widespread geographic presence. We have 37 metal container manufacturing facilities located in the United States, Europe and Asia, serving over 50 countries throughout the world. Additionally, we believe that we have the most comprehensive equipment capabilities in the industry. For 2025, our metal containers business had net sales of $3.1 billion (approximately 48.4 percent of our consolidated net sales) and EBIT of $243.4 million (approximately 37.7 percent of our consolidated EBIT excluding corporate expense).

Additionally, we are a leading manufacturer and supplier of custom containers in North America for a variety of markets, including the pet and human food, consumer health and pharmaceutical, personal care, home care, lawn and garden and automotive markets. Our success with custom containers is largely due to our demonstrated ability to provide our customers with high levels of quality, service and technological support, along with our value-added design-focused products and our extensive geographic presence with 21 manufacturing facilities in the United States and Canada. We produce custom containers from a full range of resin materials and offer a comprehensive array of molding and decorating capabilities. For 2025, our custom containers business had net sales of $637.6 million (approximately 9.8 percent of our consolidated net sales) and EBIT of $81.1 million (approximately 12.5 percent of our consolidated EBIT excluding corporate expense).

Our customer base includes some of the world’s best-known branded consumer products companies. Our philosophy has been to develop long-term customer relationships by acting in partnership with our customers by providing market leading innovation and reliable quality, service and technological support and utilizing our low cost producer position. The strength of our customer relationships is evidenced by our large number of multi-year supply arrangements, our high retention of customers’ business and our continued recognition from customers, as demonstrated by the many quality and service awards we have received. We estimate that in 2026 approximately 90 percent of our projected metal container sales and a majority of our projected dispensing and specialty closures and custom container sales will be under multi-year customer supply arrangements.

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Our objective is to increase shareholder value by efficiently deploying capital and management resources to grow our business through acquisitions and organically, reduce operating costs and build sustainable competitive positions, or franchises. We believe that we will accomplish this goal because of our leading market positions and management expertise in acquiring, financing, integrating and efficiently operating consumer goods packaging businesses.

OUR HISTORY

We are a Delaware corporation. We were founded in 1987 by R. Philip Silver and D. Greg Horrigan. Since our inception, we have acquired forty-one businesses. Through acquisitions and organic growth, we have become a leading worldwide manufacturer and supplier of dispensing and specialty closures for the fragrance and beauty, food, beverage, personal and health care, home care and lawn and garden markets, with net sales for the dispensing and specialty closures business of $2.7 billion in 2025, representing a compound annual growth rate of approximately 12.4 percent since our acquisition of the White Cap closures operations in the United States in 2003. As a result of the benefits of acquisitions and organic growth, we have become a leading manufacturer and supplier of metal containers in North America and Europe, with net sales for the metal containers business of $3.1 billion in 2025, representing a compound annual growth rate of approximately 6.8 percent since 1987, and have increased our overall share of the metal food container market in the United States from approximately ten percent in 1987 to more than half of the market in 2025. We have also grown our market position in the custom container business since 1987, with net sales for the custom container business increasing to $637.6 million in 2025, representing a compound annual growth rate of approximately 5.3 percent over that period. The following chart shows our acquisitions since our inception:

Acquired BusinessYearProducts

Nestlé Food Company’s metal container manufacturing division
1987Metal food containers

Monsanto Company’s custom container business1987Custom containers

Fort Madison Can Company of The Dial Corporation
1988Metal food containers

Seaboard Carton Division of Nestlé Food Company
1988Paperboard containers

Aim Packaging, Inc.1989Custom containers

Fortune Plastics Inc.1989Custom containers

Express Plastic Containers Limited1989Custom containers

Amoco Container Company1989Custom containers

Del Monte Corporation’s U.S. can manufacturing operations
1993Metal food containers

Food Metal and Specialty business of American National Can Company
1995Metal food containers and

metal closures

Finger Lakes Packaging Company, Inc., a subsidiary of Birds Eye Foods, Inc.
1996Metal food containers

Alcoa Inc.’s North American aluminum roll-on closures business
1997Aluminum roll-on closures

Rexam PLC’s North American custom container business1997Custom containers and plastic closures

Winn Packaging Co.1998Custom containers

Campbell Soup Company’s steel container manufacturing business
1998Metal food containers

Clearplass Containers, Inc.1998Custom containers

RXI Holdings, Inc.2000Custom containers and plastic closures, caps, sifters and fitments

Thatcher Tubes LLC2003Custom containers

Amcor White Cap, LLC2003Metal, composite and plastic closures

Pacific Coast Producers’ can manufacturing operations
2003Metal food containers

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Acquired BusinessYearProducts

Amcor White Cap (Europe, Asia and South America)
2006 - 2008Metal, composite and plastic closures

Cousins-Currie Limited2006Custom containers

Grup Vemsa 1857, S.L.’s metal closures operations in Spain and China2008Metal closures

IPEC Global, Inc. and its subsidiaries2010Plastic closures

Vogel & Noot Holding AG’s metal container operations2011Metal containers

DGS S.A.’s twist-off metal closures operations2011Metal closures

Nestlé Purina PetCare’s metal container manufacturing operations
2011Metal containers

Öntaş Öner Teneke Ambalaj Sanayi

ve Ticaret A.S.
2012Metal containers and metal closures

Rexam High Barrier Food Containers, Inc., Rexam PLC’s thermoformed food container operations2012Thermoformed food containers

Amcor Packaging (Australia) Pty Ltd's metal closures operations in Australia2013Metal closures

Portola Packaging, Inc. and its subsidiaries2013Plastic closures

Tecnocap S.p.A.'s and Tecnocap LLC's metal closures operations in the U.S.2013Metal closures

Van Can Company's metal container manufacturing assets
2014Metal containers

Injected Plastics Co.'s plastic closures operations
2015Plastic closures

WestRock Company's dispensing and specialty closures business2017Dispensing and specialty closures

Cobra Plastics, Inc.2020Plastic and specialty closures

Albéa Group's dispensing operations2020Dispensing systems and specialty closures

Gateway Plastics LLC2021Dispensing systems and specialty closures

Unicep Packaging LLC2021Precision dosing dispensing systems

Easytech Closures S.p.A. (Easytech)2021Easy-open and sanitary metal ends

Weener Plastics Holding B.V.2024Dispensing systems and specialty closures

On October 15, 2024, we acquired Weener Plastics Holding B.V., or Weener Packaging, a leading producer of differentiated dispensing solutions for personal and health care and food products. Weener Packaging operates a global network of 19 facilities predominantly in Europe and the Americas, with approximately 4,000 employees and proprietary manufacturing technologies including significant clean room capabilities. This acquisition further broadened our extensive dispensing products portfolio in the personal and health care and food markets, expanded our product innovation capabilities, enhanced our advanced manufacturing technologies and added to our strong customer relationships.

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OUR STRATEGY

We intend to enhance our position as a leading manufacturer and supplier of consumer goods packaging products by continuing to aggressively pursue a strategy designed to achieve future growth and increase shareholder value by focusing on the following key elements:

SUPPLY “BEST VALUE” PACKAGING PRODUCTS WITH HIGH LEVELS OF QUALITY, SERVICE AND TECHNOLOGICAL SUPPORT

Since our inception, we have been, and intend to continue to be, devoted to consistently supplying our sustainable rigid packaging products with the combination of quality, price and service that our customers consider to be “best value.” In our dispensing and specialty closures business, we emphasize market leading innovation and high levels of quality, service and technological support. We believe our dispensing and specialty closures business is the premier innovative dispensing and specialty closures solutions provider to the fragrance and beauty, food, beverage, personal and health care, home care and lawn and garden markets. We manufacture throughout the world a wide range of highly engineered dispensing systems for fragrance and beauty, personal and health care, home care, lawn and garden and food products. We also offer customers an extensive variety of metal and plastic specialty closures for food and beverage products, as well as proprietary equipment solutions such as cap feeders, capping/sealing equipment and detection systems, to ensure high quality package safety. In our metal containers business, we focus on providing high quality and high levels of service and utilizing our low cost producer position to supply our customers with metal containers, which are infinitely recyclable and one of the most recycled packages in the world. We have made and are continuing to make significant capital investments to enhance the competitive advantages of metal containers, and we offer our customers value-added features such as our family of Quick Top® easy-open ends for our metal food containers, shaped metal food containers and alternative color offerings for metal food containers as well as a more sustainable solution for their packaging needs. In our custom containers business, we provide high levels of quality and service and focus on value-added, custom designed containers to meet changing product and packaging demands of our customers. We believe that we are one of the few businesses that can custom design, manufacture and decorate a wide variety of custom containers, providing the customer with the ability to satisfy more of its packaging needs for custom containers through one supplier. We will continue to supply customized products that can be delivered quickly to our customers with superior levels of design, development and technological support. We also have made and continue to make strategic investments to enhance the competitive position of our custom containers business.

MAINTAIN LOW COST PRODUCER POSITION

We will continue pursuing opportunities to strengthen our low cost position in our businesses by:

•maintaining a flat, efficient organizational structure, resulting in low selling, general and administrative expenses as a percentage of consolidated net sales;

•achieving and maintaining economies of scale;

•prudently investing in new technologies to increase manufacturing and production efficiency;

•rationalizing our existing plant structure; and

•serving our customers from our strategically located plants.

Through our dispensing and specialty closures facilities, we manufacture an extensive variety of highly engineered dispensing systems and metal and plastic specialty closures for the food, beverage, health care, garden, home, personal care, fragrance and beauty industries throughout the world utilizing state-of-the-art technology and equipment, and we also provide customers for our specialty closures with state-of-the-art capping/sealing equipment and detection systems. Through our metal container facilities, we believe that we provide the most comprehensive manufacturing capabilities in the industry. Through our custom container facilities, we have the capacity to manufacture customized products across the entire spectrum of resin materials, decorating techniques and molding processes required by our customers. We intend to leverage our manufacturing, design and engineering capabilities to continue to create cost-effective manufacturing systems that will drive our improvements in product quality, operating efficiency and customer support.

In late 2023, we announced a comprehensive cost reduction initiative to achieve $50 million of cost savings over the following two years from footprint rationalizations and other cost reduction actions in all of our businesses. As part of this initiative, we closed three dispensing and specialty closures manufacturing facilities, two metal container manufacturing facilities and two custom container manufacturing facilities, relocating volumes from such facilities to other facilities. In addition, as part of this initiative we optimized production at several other

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manufacturing facilities across our network. We completed this initiative and realized approximately $20 million of cost savings in 2024 and approximately $30 million of additional cost savings in 2025. Additionally, apart from this initiative, in late 2025 we announced optimization plans for our metal closure operations in Europe primarily to reduce costs, which include the planned closing of one manufacturing facility.

MAINTAIN AN OPTIMAL CAPITAL STRUCTURE TO SUPPORT GROWTH AND INCREASE SHAREHOLDER VALUE

Our financial strategy is to use reasonable leverage to support our growth and increase shareholder returns. Our stable and predictable cash flow, generated largely as a result of our long-term customer relationships and generally recession resistant business, supports our financial strategy. We intend to continue using reasonable leverage, supported by our stable cash flows, to make value enhancing acquisitions. In determining reasonable leverage, we evaluate our cost of capital and manage our level of debt to maintain an optimal cost of capital based on current market conditions. If acquisition opportunities are not identified over a long period of time, we may use our cash flow to repay debt, repurchase shares of our common stock or increase dividends to our stockholders or for other permitted purposes. In October 2024, we funded the purchase price for Weener Packaging with €868.0 million of term and revolving loan borrowings under our senior secured credit facility, or as amended our Credit Agreement, including a €700.0 million incremental term loan, and cash on hand. In November 2024, we amended our Credit Agreement to extend maturity dates to November 2029 for revolving loans and November 2030 for term loans, to refinance term and revolving loan borrowings which were used to fund the purchase price for Weener Packaging with a new €900.0 million term loan and to provide us with additional flexibility to pursue our strategic initiatives. In September 2025, we issued €600.0 million aggregate principal amount of our 4¼% Senior Notes due 2031, or the 4¼% Notes, and used the net proceeds to repay outstanding Euro revolving loan borrowings under our Credit Agreement that were utilized to fund the repayment of our 3¼% Senior Notes due 2025, or the 3¼% Notes, in March 2025. You should also read Notes 3 and 9 to our Consolidated Financial Statements for the year ended December 31, 2025 included elsewhere in this Annual Report.

EXPAND THROUGH ACQUISITIONS AND ORGANIC GROWTH

We intend to continue to increase our market share in our current markets and related markets through acquisitions and organic growth. We use a disciplined approach to make acquisitions and investments that generate attractive cash returns. As a result, we expect to continue to expand and diversify our customer base, geographic presence and product lines. This strategy has enabled us to increase our net sales and EBIT since our founding.

We are a leading worldwide manufacturer and supplier of dispensing systems and specialty closures for the fragrance and beauty, food, beverage, personal and health care, home care and lawn and garden markets. Since 2003, following our acquisition of the White Cap closures operations in the United States, net sales of our dispensing and specialty closures business have increased to $2.7 billion in 2025 as a result of both acquisitions and organic growth, representing a compound annual growth rate of approximately 12.4 percent over that period. We intend to pursue further acquisition opportunities in the dispensing and specialty closures markets, including in dispensing systems, such as our acquisition of Weener Packaging. Additionally, we expect to continue to generate organic growth in our dispensing and specialty closures business, particularly in dispensing systems. In making investments to pursue organic growth, we use a disciplined approach to generate attractive cash returns.

We are a leading manufacturer and supplier of metal containers in North America and Europe, primarily as a result of our acquisitions but also as a result of growth with existing customers. During the past 37 years, the metal food container market in North America has experienced significant consolidation primarily due to the desire by food processors to reduce costs and focus resources on their core operations rather than self-manufacture their metal food containers. Our acquisitions of the metal food container manufacturing operations of Nestlé Food Company, The Dial Corporation, or Dial, Del Monte Corporation, or Del Monte, Birds Eye Foods, Inc., or Birds Eye, Campbell Soup Company, or Campbell, Pacific Coast Producers, and Nestlé Purina PetCare's steel container self-manufacturing assets, or Purina Steel Can, reflect this trend. We estimate that approximately seven percent of the market for metal food containers in the United States is still served by self-manufacturers.

We have expanded our metal containers business and increased our market share of metal containers primarily through acquisitions and growth with existing customers with net sales increasing to $3.1 billion in 2025, representing a compound annual growth rate of approximately 6.8 percent since 1987. We have also made, and are continuing to make, significant capital investments in our metal containers business to enhance our business and the competitive advantages of metal packaging for food, and we offer our customers value-added features such as our family of Quick Top® easy-open ends for metal food containers, shaped metal food containers and alternative color offerings for metal food containers as well as a more sustainable solution for their packaging needs.

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We have grown our market position for our custom containers business since 1987, with net sales increasing to $637.6 million in 2025, representing a compound annual growth rate of approximately 5.3 percent over that period. We achieved this improvement primarily through strategic acquisitions as well as through organic growth. The custom containers segment of the consumer goods packaging industry continues to be highly fragmented, and we may pursue further acquisition opportunities in this market. We also expect to continue to generate organic growth in our custom containers business. As with acquisitions, we use a disciplined approach to pursue organic growth to generate attractive cash returns. Through a combination of these efforts, we intend to continue to expand our customer base in the markets that we serve, such as the pet and human food, consumer health and pharmaceutical, personal care, home care, lawn and garden and automotive markets.

ENHANCE PROFITABILITY THROUGH PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENTS AND COST REDUCTIONS

We intend to continue to enhance profitability through investment of capital for productivity improvements, manufacturing efficiencies, manufacturing cost reductions, and the optimization of our manufacturing facilities footprints. The additional sales and production capacity provided through acquisitions and investments have enabled us to rationalize plant operations and decrease overhead costs through plant closings and downsizings. From 2020, we have closed four dispensing and specialty closures manufacturing facilities, seven metal containers manufacturing facilities and two custom container manufacturing facilities in connection with our continuing efforts to streamline our plant operations, reduce operating costs and better match supply with geographic demand.

We expect that most future acquisitions will continue to enable us to realize manufacturing efficiencies as a result of optimizing production scheduling and other benefits from economies of scale and the elimination of redundant selling and administrative functions. In addition to the benefits realized through the integration of acquired businesses, we have improved and expect to continue to improve the operating performance of our plant facilities by investing capital for productivity improvements, manufacturing efficiencies and manufacturing cost reductions. While we have made some of these investments in certain of our plants, more opportunities still exist throughout our system. We will continue to use a disciplined approach to identify these opportunities to generate attractive cash returns.

In late 2023, we announced a comprehensive cost reduction initiative to achieve $50 million of cost savings over the following two years from footprint rationalizations and other cost reduction actions in all of our businesses. As part of this initiative, we closed three dispensing and specialty closures manufacturing facilities, two metal container manufacturing facilities and two custom container manufacturing facilities, relocating volumes from such facilities to other facilities. In addition, as part of this initiative we optimized production at several other manufacturing facilities across our network. We completed this initiative and realized approximately $20 million of cost savings in 2024 and approximately $30 million of additional cost savings in 2025. Additionally, apart from this initiative, in late 2025 we announced optimization plans for our metal closure operations in Europe primarily to reduce costs, which include the planned closing of one manufacturing facility.

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BUSINESS SEGMENTS

We are a holding company that conducts our business through various operating subsidiaries. We operate three businesses: our dispensing and specialty closures business; our metal containers business; and our custom containers business.

DISPENSING AND SPECIALTY CLOSURES—49.8 PERCENT OF OUR CONSOLIDATED EBIT IN 2025

We are a leading worldwide manufacturer and supplier of dispensing and specialty closures for the fragrance and beauty, food, beverage, personal and health care, home care and lawn and garden markets. Our dispensing and specialty closures business provides customers with an extensive variety of innovative dispensing system solutions, including integrated dispensing packaging solutions, and proprietary metal and plastic specialty closures that ensure closure quality and safety, as well as state-of-the-art capping/sealing equipment and detection systems to complement our specialty closures product offering. We have 63 dispensing and specialty closures manufacturing facilities located in North America, Europe, Asia and South America, from which we serve over 100 countries throughout the world. We also have three joint ventures for dispensing and specialty closure products in countries that we do not serve directly. In addition, we license our technology to five other manufacturers for various markets that we do not serve directly. For 2025, our dispensing and specialty closures business had net sales of $2.7 billion (approximately 41.8 percent of our consolidated net sales) and EBIT of $321.5 million (approximately 49.8 percent of our consolidated EBIT excluding corporate expense). Since 2003, following our acquisition of the White Cap closures operations in the United States, we have grown our dispensing and specialty closures business through acquisitions and organic growth, with net sales increasing at a compound annual growth rate of approximately 12.4 percent.

Our dispensing and specialty closures business manufactures dispensing systems for the precision dosing of fragrance and beauty, personal and health care, home care, lawn and garden and food products, such as perfume and other fragrance and beauty products; skin care, lotion, cosmetic, health care nasal spray and other topical application, deodorant, soap, hair care and other bath and body products; hard surface cleaning, professional cleaning and air and fabric care products; lawn care and other garden products; and condiments and other food products. With our acquisition in 2020 of the Albéa Dispensing Business, we expanded our dispensing systems portfolio, including for highly engineered pumps, sprayers and foam dispensing solutions for the beauty, fragrance and personal care markets. With our acquisition in 2021 of Gateway Plastics LLC, or Silgan Specialty Packaging, we further grew our dispensing systems portfolio with integrated dispensing packaging solutions offerings. Our acquisition in 2021 of Unicep Packaging LLC, or Silgan Unicep, complemented our global dispensing and specialty closures business by expanding and extending our precision dosing capabilities and comprehensive product offering into new and existing markets and broadened our exposure to health care and Point-of-Care diagnostics markets. With our acquisition in October 2024 of Weener Packaging, a leading producer of differentiated dispensing solutions, we further broadened our extensive dispensing products portfolio in the personal and health care and food markets, expanded our product innovation capabilities, enhanced our advanced manufacturing technologies and added to our strong customer relationships, putting us in a position to be the dispensing solutions partner of choice for our markets. We also manufacture metal and plastic specialty closures, many of which maintain a vacuum for safety and extended shelf-life purposes, for food and beverage products, such as ready-to-drink teas, sports and enhanced drinks, dairy products, juice drinks, tomato sauce, salsa, pickles, baby food, ketchup and other condiments, preserves, soup, cooking sauces, gravies, fruits and vegetables. We provide customers for our specialty closures with custom formulations of sealing/lining materials, designed either to minimize removal torques and enhance openability of our closures or to maintain sealability of our closures, in each case to meet the unique needs of our customers while also meeting applicable regulatory requirements. We offer our customers an extensive range of decorating options for our dispensing and specialty closures for product differentiation. We also provide customers with sealing/capping equipment and detection systems to complement our specialty closures product offering. As a result of our extensive range of dispensing and specialty closures, our geographic presence and our focus on providing market leading innovation and high levels of quality, service and technological support, we believe that we are uniquely positioned to serve the fragrance and beauty, food, beverage, personal and health care, home care and lawn and garden markets for all of their dispensing and specialty closure needs.

METAL CONTAINERS—37.7 PERCENT OF OUR CONSOLIDATED EBIT IN 2025

We are a leading manufacturer and supplier of metal containers in North America and Europe, and in North America we are the largest manufacturer of metal food containers with a unit volume market share in the United States in 2025 of more than half of the market. Our metal containers business is engaged in the manufacture and sale of steel and aluminum containers that are used primarily by processors and packagers for food products, such

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as pet food, vegetables and fruits, soup, proteins (e.g., meat, chicken and seafood) and other miscellaneous food products, as well as general line metal containers for products such as promotional products. With our acquisition in 2021 of Easytech, we increased our manufacturing capacity for easy-open ends for metal containers. We have 37 metal container manufacturing facilities located in the United States, Europe and Asia, serving over 50 countries throughout the world. For 2025, our metal containers business had net sales of $3.1 billion (approximately 48.4 percent of our consolidated net sales) and EBIT of $243.4 million (approximately 37.7 percent of our consolidated EBIT excluding corporate expense). Since 1987, we have grown our metal containers business through acquisitions and organic growth, with net sales increasing at a compound annual growth rate of approximately 6.8 percent. We estimate that approximately 90 percent of our projected metal container sales in 2026 will be pursuant to multi-year customer supply arrangements.

Although metal containers face competition from plastic, paper, glass and composite containers, we believe metal containers are superior to plastic, paper and composite containers in shelf-stable applications where the contents are prepared at high temperatures, or packaged in larger consumer or institutional quantities, or where the long-term ambient temperature storage of the product is desirable while maintaining the product’s quality. In addition, metal containers are one of the most recycled packages in the world and are infinitely recyclable. We also believe that metal containers are generally more desirable than glass containers because metal containers are more durable and less costly to transport. We have increased our market share of metal food containers in the United States primarily through acquisitions and growth with existing customers, and have enhanced our business by focusing on providing customers with high quality, high levels of service, a more sustainable solution for their packaging needs and value-added features such as our family of Quick Top® easy-open ends, shaped metal food containers and alternative color offerings for metal food containers. In addition, we have made and continue to make significant capital investments to enhance the competitive advantages of metal containers for food.

CUSTOM CONTAINERS—12.5 PERCENT OF OUR CONSOLIDATED EBIT IN 2025

We produce custom containers from a full range of resin materials and offer a comprehensive array of molding and decorating capabilities. We are one of the leading manufacturers of custom designed high density polyethylene, or HDPE, and polyethylene terephthalate, or PET, containers in North America for the markets that we serve. We are also a leading manufacturer in North America of thermoformed barrier and non-barrier bowls and trays for shelf-stable food products. We operate 21 custom container manufacturing facilities in the United States and Canada. For 2025, our custom containers business had net sales of $637.6 million (approximately 9.8 percent of our consolidated net sales) and EBIT of $81.1 million (approximately 12.5 percent of our consolidated EBIT excluding corporate expense). Since 1987, we have improved our market position for our custom containers business, with net sales increasing at a compound annual growth rate of approximately 5.3 percent.

We manufacture custom designed and stock plastic containers for food and beverage products, including peanut butter, salad dressings, condiments, spices, dairy products and liquor; consumer health and pharmaceutical products, including respiratory products, gastrointestinal products, tablets, antacids, mouthwash and other health and pharmaceutical products; personal care products, including shampoos, conditioners, hand creams, lotions, liquid soap and other cosmetics and toiletries; home care products, including cleaning products; lawn and garden products; and automotive care products. In addition, we manufacture thermoformed barrier and non-barrier bowls and trays for food products, such as pet food and soups and other ready-to-eat meals, as well as thermoformed tubs for food products. We also manufacture plastic closures, caps, sifters and fitments for food and household products, including salad dressings, condiments, peanut butter, spices, liquid margarine, powdered drink mixes and arts and crafts supplies.

Our leading position in the custom container market is largely driven by our rapid response to our customers’ design, development and technology support needs and our value-added, diverse product line. This product line is the result of our ability to produce custom containers from a full range of resin materials using a broad array of manufacturing, molding and decorating capabilities. We also strive to remain current with and, to some extent, anticipate innovations in resin composition and applications and changes in the technology for the manufacturing of custom containers. We benefit from our large scale and nationwide presence, as significant consolidation is occurring in many of our customers’ markets. Through these capabilities, we are well-positioned to serve our customers, who demand customized solutions as they continue to seek innovative means to differentiate their products in the marketplace using packaging.

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MANUFACTURING AND PRODUCTION

As is the practice in the industry, most of our customers provide us with periodic estimates of products and quantities pursuant to which commitments are given. These estimates enable us to effectively manage production and control working capital requirements. We schedule our production to meet customers’ requirements. Because the production time for our products is short, the backlog of customer orders in relation to our sales is not material.

As of February 1, 2026, we operated a total of 121 manufacturing facilities in 25 different countries throughout the world that serve the needs of our customers.

DISPENSING AND SPECIALTY CLOSURES BUSINESS

We utilize two basic processes to produce dispensing systems and plastic closures. In the compression molded process, pellets of resin are heated, extruded and then compressed to form a shell. The shell can include a molded linerless seal or a custom formulated, compression molded sealing system. The shell can then be slit and printed depending on its end use. In the injection molded process, pellets of resin are heated and injected into a mold, forming either a shell or other dispensing systems component, such as a trigger, decorative shroud, actuator, valve or overcap. The shell can include a molded linerless seal or a custom formulated sealing system. The shell can then be slit and printed depending on its end use. In the case of a dispensing system, the dispensing system components are assembled into the dispensing system and can be printed depending on the end use of the dispensing system. To a lesser extent, the business also utilizes injection stretch blowmolding, extrusion blowmolding and injection blowmolding to manufacture integrated dispensing packages.

The manufacturing operations for metal closures include cutting, coating, lithographing, fabricating and lining. We manufacture twist-off, lug style and press-on, twist-off steel closures and aluminum roll-on closures for glass, metal and plastic containers, ranging in size from 18 to 110 millimeters in diameter. We employ state-of-the-art multi-die presses to manufacture metal closures, offering a low-cost, high quality means of production. We also provide customers of our dispensing and specialty closures business with custom formulations of sealing/lining materials, designed to optimize torque removal and enhance the openability of our closures while meeting applicable regulatory requirements.

METAL CONTAINERS BUSINESS

The manufacturing operations of our metal containers business include cutting, coating, lithographing, fabricating, assembling and packaging finished cans. We use three basic processes to produce cans. The first two methods of producing cans start by forming a shallow cup that is then formed into the desired height using either the draw and iron process or the draw and redraw process. Using the draw and redraw process, we manufacture steel and aluminum two-piece cans, the height of which generally does not exceed the diameter. For cans the height of which is greater than the diameter, we manufacture steel two-piece cans by using a drawing and ironing process. The third method is the traditional three-piece method that requires three pieces of flat metal to form a cylindrical body with a welded side seam, a bottom and a top. High integrity of the side seam is assured by the use of sophisticated electronic weld monitors and coatings that are thermally cured by induction and convection processes. We manufacture can bodies and ends from thin, high-strength aluminum alloys and steels by utilizing proprietary tool and die designs and selected can making equipment. We also manufacture our Quick Top® easy-open ends from both steel and aluminum alloys in a sophisticated precision progressive die process. We regularly review our Quick Top® easy-open end designs for improvements for optimum consumer preference through consumer studies and feedback.

CUSTOM CONTAINERS BUSINESS

We utilize two basic processes to produce custom containers. In the extrusion blowmolding process, pellets of resin are heated and extruded into a tube. A two-piece metal mold is then closed around the tube and high pressure air is blown into it causing a bottle to form in the mold’s shape. In the injection and injection stretch blowmolding processes, pellets of resin are heated and injected into a mold, forming a preform. The preform is then blown into a bottle-shaped metal mold, creating a bottle.

Our thermoformed bowls, trays and tubs are manufactured by melting pellets of resin into an extruded sheet. The sheet is then formed in a mold to make the bowl, tray or tub.

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We have state-of-the-art decorating equipment, including several of the largest sophisticated decorating facilities in the United States. Our decorating methods for custom containers are in-mold labeling, which applies a plastic film label to the bottle during the blowing process, and post-mold decoration. Post-mold decoration includes:

•silk screen decoration which enables the applications of images in multiple colors to the bottle;

•pressure sensitive decoration which uses a plastic film or paper label with an adhesive;

•heat transfer decoration which uses a coated label applied by heat; and

•shrink sleeve labeling.

RAW MATERIALS

Based upon our existing arrangements with suppliers and our current and anticipated requirements, we believe that we have made adequate provisions for acquiring our raw materials for the foreseeable future. As a result of significant consolidation of suppliers, we are, however, dependent upon a limited number of suppliers for our steel, aluminum, certain resin, coatings and compound raw materials. Increases in the prices of raw materials have generally been passed along to our customers in accordance with our multi-year customer supply arrangements and through general price increases.

DISPENSING AND SPECIALTY CLOSURES BUSINESS

We use resins in pellet form, such as homopolymer polypropylene, copolymer polypropylene and HDPE, thermoplastic elastomer lining materials, processing additives and colorants in the manufacture of dispensing systems and plastic closures. We use tinplate and tin free steel (TFS), aluminum, organic coatings, low-metallic inks and pulpboard, plastic and organic lining materials in the manufacture of metal closures. Although no assurances can be given, we believe we have made adequate provisions to purchase sufficient quantities of these raw materials to meet our customers' requirements for the foreseeable future, despite the significant consolidation of suppliers and facility closings by suppliers and absent unforeseen events such as hurricanes or other extreme weather conditions.

Our supply agreements with our dispensing systems and specialty closures customers generally provide for the pass through of changes in our metal and resin costs, subject in many cases with respect to resin to a lag in the timing of such pass through. For our dispensing systems and specialty closures customers without long-term agreements, we have also generally increased prices to pass through increases in our metal and resin costs.

METAL CONTAINERS BUSINESS

We use tinplated and chromium plated steel, aluminum, copper wire, organic coatings, lining compound and inks in the manufacture and decoration of our metal container products. Our material requirements are supplied through agreements and purchase orders with suppliers with whom we have long-term relationships. If our suppliers fail to deliver under their arrangements, we would be forced to purchase raw materials on the open market, and no assurances can be given that we would be able to purchase such raw materials or, if we are so able, that we would be able to purchase such raw materials at comparable prices or terms. Although there has been significant consolidation of suppliers and facility closings by suppliers, we believe that we have made adequate provisions to purchase sufficient quantities of these raw materials to meet our customers' requirements for the foreseeable future.

Our metal container supply agreements with our customers provide for the pass through of changes in our metal costs. For our metal container customers without long-term agreements, we have also generally increased prices to pass through increases in our metal costs.

CUSTOM CONTAINERS BUSINESS

The raw materials we use in our custom containers business are primarily resins in pellet form such as virgin HDPE, virgin PET, recycled HDPE, recycled PET, polypropylene and, to a lesser extent, low and medium density polyethylene. Our resin requirements are acquired through multi-year arrangements for specific quantities of resins with several major suppliers of resins. The price that we pay for resin raw materials is not fixed and is subject to market pricing, which has fluctuated significantly in the past few years. Our custom container supply agreements with our customers provide for the pass through of changes in our resin costs, subject in many cases to a short lag in the timing of such pass through. For our custom container customers without long-term agreements, we have also generally increased prices to pass through increases in our resin costs.

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We believe that we have made adequate provisions to purchase sufficient quantities of resins to meet our customers' requirements for the foreseeable future, absent unforeseen events such as significant hurricanes or other extreme weather conditions.

SALES AND MARKETING

Our philosophy has been to develop long-term customer relationships by acting in partnership with our customers, providing reliable quality and service. We market our products primarily by a direct sales force, including manufacturer's representatives, and for our custom containers business, in part, through a network of distributors. Because of the high cost of transporting empty containers, our metal containers business generally sells to customers within a 300 mile radius of its manufacturing plants.

Approximately 14 percent, 13 percent and 13 percent of our consolidated net sales were to Nestlé S.A., or Nestlé, in 2025, 2024 and 2023, respectively. No other customer accounted for more than 10 percent of our total consolidated net sales during those years.

You should also read “Risk Factors—Risks Related to Business, Operations and Certain Financial Matters—We face competition from many companies and we may lose sales or experience lower margins on sales as a result of such competition” included elsewhere in this Annual Report.

DISPENSING AND SPECIALTY CLOSURES BUSINESS

We are a leading worldwide manufacturer and supplier of dispensing systems and specialty closures for the fragrance and beauty, food, beverage, personal and health care, home care and lawn and garden markets. We have 63 dispensing and specialty closure manufacturing facilities located in North America, Europe, Asia and South America, from which we serve over 100 countries throughout the world.

Our largest customers of our dispensing and specialty closures business include Beiersdorf AG, British American Tobacco AB, Campbell, The Coca-Cola Company, Colgate-Palmolive Company, Coty, Inc., Dairy Farmers of America, Estée Lauder Companies, The Kraft Heinz Company, or Kraft Heinz, L'Oréal S.A., LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, Mizkan Holdings Co., Ltd., Molson Coors Brewing Company, Natura & Co., Nestlé, O Boticário, PepsiCo Inc., The Procter & Gamble Company, Puig, S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc., The Scotts Company LLC, Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc., STADA Arzneimittel AG, Treehouse Foods, Inc. and Unilever, plc. We have multi-year supply arrangements with many of our customers in the United States. Outside of the United States, the dispensing and specialty closures business has had long-term relationships with most of its customers. While we have multi-year supply arrangements with some of our dispensing and specialty closures customers outside of the United States, as is common practice, many supply arrangements with customers outside of the United States are negotiated on a year-by-year basis.

We also have joint ventures in each of Indonesia, South Africa and Thailand for dispensing and specialty closure products, each with a facility located in such country. In addition, we license our technology for metal closures to five other manufacturers who supply products in Israel, South Korea, South Africa, the Indian Ocean Islands, the Philippines, Thailand and Peru.

METAL CONTAINERS BUSINESS

We are a leading manufacturer and supplier of metal containers in North America and Europe, and in North America we are the largest manufacturer of metal food containers with a unit volume market share in the United States in 2025 of more than half of the market. We have 37 metal containers manufacturing facilities located in the United States, Europe and Asia, serving over 50 countries throughout the world. Our largest customers for these products include Austria Pet Food GmbH, Campbell, Conagra Brands, Inc., Eagle Family Foods Group LLC, General Mills, Inc., Goya Foods, Inc., Hill's Pet Nutrition, Inc., Hormel Foods Corporation, Kraft Heinz, Mars, Incorporated, Nestlé, Nortera Foods Inc., O-AT-KA Milk Products, LLC, Pacific Coast Producers, Stanislaus Food Products Company and Tony Downs Foods Co.

We have entered into multi-year supply arrangements with most of our customers for our metal containers business. We estimate that approximately 90 percent of our projected metal container sales in 2026 will be pursuant to multi-year customer supply arrangements. Historically, we have been successful in continuing these multi-year customer supply arrangements. In Europe, our metal containers business has had long-term relationships with many of its customers, although, as is common practice, many supply arrangements are negotiated on a year-by-year basis.

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Since our inception in 1987, we have supplied Nestlé with substantially all of its U.S. metal food container requirements. Our net sales of metal food containers to Nestlé in North America and Europe in 2025 were $799.8 million. We also supply Nestlé with dispensing solutions and metal and plastic closures in North America and Europe and plastic containers in North America. In 2024, we entered into long-term supply agreements with Nestlé that run through 2032 for the supply of all of Nestlé’s North American metal food container requirements for pet food and other food products and to support growth initiatives of Nestlé. These long-term supply agreements replaced previous supply agreements with Nestlé. Each of these long-term supply agreements provide for certain prices and specify that those prices will be increased or decreased based upon price change formulas.

Our metal containers business’ sales and income from operations are dependent, in part, upon the vegetable and fruit harvests in the midwest and western regions of the United States and, to a lesser extent, in a variety of national growing regions in Europe. The size and quality of these harvests varies from year to year, depending in large part upon the weather conditions in those regions. Because of the seasonality of the harvests, we have historically experienced higher unit sales volume in the third quarter of our fiscal year and generated a disproportionate amount of our annual income from operations during that quarter. You should also read “Risk Factors—Risks Related to Business, Operations and Certain Financial Matters—The seasonality of the fruit and vegetable packing industry causes us to incur short-term debt” included elsewhere in this Annual Report.

CUSTOM CONTAINERS BUSINESS

We are one of the leading manufacturers and suppliers of custom designed and stock plastic containers sold in North America for a variety of markets, including the pet and human food, consumer health and pharmaceutical, personal care, home care, lawn and garden and automotive markets. We are also a leading manufacturer and supplier in North America of thermoformed barrier and non-barrier bowls and trays for shelf-stable food products and pet food products. We market our custom containers in most areas of North America through a direct sales force and a large network of distributors. We also market certain stock plastic containers through an on-line shopping catalog.

Our largest customers for our custom containers business include Badia Spices Inc., Berlin Packaging LLC, Conagra Brands, Inc., General Mills, Inc., Kraft Heinz, Lactalis Canada Inc., Mars, Incorporated, McCormick & Company, Incorporated, Nice-Pak Products, Inc., Perrigo Company plc, The Procter & Gamble Company, Sazerac Company, The Scotts Company LLC, TricorBraun, Inc. and Winland Foods, Inc.

We have arrangements to sell some of our custom containers to distributors, who in turn resell those products primarily to regional customers. Custom containers sold to distributors are generally manufactured by using generic and custom molds with decoration added to meet the end users’ requirements. The distributors’ warehouses and their sales personnel enable us to market and inventory a wide range of such products to a variety of customers.

We have multi-year supply arrangements with the majority of our customers for our custom containers business. In addition, many of our supply arrangements with our customers are for custom containers made from proprietary molds.

COMPETITION

The packaging industry is highly competitive. We compete in this industry with manufacturers of similar and other types of packaging, as well as fillers, food processors and packers who manufacture containers for their own use and for sale to others. We attempt to compete effectively through the quality of our products, competitive pricing and our ability to meet customer requirements for delivery, performance and technical assistance.

DISPENSING AND SPECIALTY CLOSURES BUSINESS

Our dispensing and specialty closures business competes primarily with Amcor plc, AptarGroup, Inc., Bericap Holding GmbH, Closures Systems International, Inc., Crown Holdings, Inc., Sonoco Products Company, Guala Dispensing Mexico, S.A. de C.V., Massilly Holding SAS and Tecnocap S.p.A. With our ability to manufacture an extensive range of dispensing systems and specialty closures that ensure closure quality and safety, as well as state-of-the-art capping/sealing equipment and detection systems to complement our specialty closures product offering, and our global presence, we believe we are uniquely positioned to serve the fragrance and beauty, food, beverage, personal and health care, home care and lawn and garden product companies for all of their dispensing and specialty closure needs.

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METAL CONTAINERS BUSINESS

Of the commercial metal container manufacturers, Crown Holdings, Inc., Sonoco Products Company, Trivium Packaging, Envases Group, Can Corporation of America, Canpack S.A., Massilly Holding SAS and Ideal Can Inc. are our most significant competitors. Our competitors also include other regional suppliers. As an alternative to purchasing containers from commercial can manufacturers, customers have the ability to invest in equipment to self-manufacture their containers. Additionally, customers can choose to use other types of packaging for their products, such as plastic, paper, glass and composite containers.

Because of the high cost of transporting empty containers, our metal containers business generally sells to customers within a 300 mile radius of its manufacturing plants. Strategically located existing plants give us an advantage over competitors from other areas, but we could be potentially disadvantaged by the relocation of a major customer.

Although metal containers face competition from plastic, paper, glass and composite containers, we believe that metal containers are superior to plastic, composite and paper containers in applications, where the contents are prepared at high temperatures or packaged in larger consumer or institutional quantities or where long-term storage of the product is desirable while maintaining the product’s quality. We also believe that metal containers are more desirable generally than glass containers because metal containers are more durable and less costly to transport. In addition, metal containers are one of the most recycled packages in the world and are infinitely recyclable.

CUSTOM CONTAINERS BUSINESS

Our custom containers business competes with a number of large national and global producers of custom containers for the pet and human food, consumer health and pharmaceutical, personal care, home care, lawn and garden and automotive markets. These competitors include Alpla Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co. KG, Amcor plc, Altium Packaging LLC, Axium Packaging Inc., Graham Packaging Company, Plastipak Holdings, Inc., Pretium Packaging LLC and Winpack Ltd. In addition to our rapid response to our customers’ design, development and technology support needs and our value-added, diverse product line, we strive to remain current with and, to some extent, anticipate innovations in resin composition and applications and changes in the technology for the manufacturing of custom containers and closures.

SILGAN TEAM

As of December 31, 2025, we employed approximately 4,400 salaried and 12,800 hourly employees on a full-time basis. Approximately 31 percent of our hourly plant employees in the United States and Canada as of that date were represented by a variety of unions, and most of our hourly employees in Europe, Asia, South America and Central America were represented by a variety of unions or other labor organizations. In addition, as of December 31, 2025, Campbell provided us with approximately 120 hourly employees on a full-time basis at one of the facilities that we lease from Campbell.

Our labor contracts expire at various times between 2026 and 2031. As of December 31, 2025, contracts covering approximately 6 percent of our hourly employees in the United States and Canada will expire during 2026. We expect no significant changes in our relations with these unions.

We believe our success is a result of our unrelenting focus on our core strategies and mission statement principles, which have been consistent since our founding and are captured in our mission statement. We focus on meeting the unique needs of our customers, pursuing growth where we have a competitive advantage and responding where we do not. Critical to our success are the contributions and efforts of the entire Silgan team who meet this challenge to compete and win in the markets we serve. Accordingly, investing in our people is vital for us. At each of our locations, we provide competitive compensation and benefits and strive to provide a safe, rewarding, diverse and inclusive workplace for our employees. The safety of our entire team is a top priority for us, as evidenced by our industry leading, low lost time incident and recordable rates.

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GOVERNMENTAL REGULATIONS

We are subject to federal, foreign, state and local governmental laws and regulations, including environmental laws and regulations and health and safety related laws and regulations.

In general, environmental laws and regulations limit the discharge of pollutants into the environment and establish standards for the treatment, storage, and disposal of solid and hazardous waste. We believe that we are either in compliance in all material respects with all presently applicable environmental laws and regulations or are operating in accordance with appropriate variances, schedules under compliance orders or similar arrangements.

In addition to costs associated with regulatory compliance, we may be held liable for alleged environmental damage associated with the past disposal of hazardous substances. Those that generate hazardous substances that are disposed of at sites at which environmental problems are alleged to exist, as well as the owners of those sites and other classes of persons, are subject to claims for clean-up and natural resource damages under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, or CERCLA, regardless of fault or the legality of the original disposal. CERCLA and many similar state and foreign statutes may hold a responsible party liable for the entire clean-up cost at a particular site even though that party may not have caused the entire problem. Other state statutes may impose proportionate rather than joint and several liability. The federal Environmental Protection Agency or a state or foreign agency may also issue orders requiring responsible parties to undertake removal or remedial actions at sites.

We are subject to the Occupational Safety and Health Act and other federal, foreign, state and local laws regulating noise exposure levels and other safety and health concerns in the production areas of our plants.

While management does not believe that any of the regulatory matters described above, individually or in the aggregate, will have a material effect on our capital expenditures, earnings, financial position or competitive position, we cannot assure you that a material environmental or other regulatory claim will not arise in the future.

RESEARCH AND PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Our research, product development and product engineering efforts relating to our dispensing and specialty closures business are conducted at our research facilities in Downers Grove, Illinois, Grandview, Missouri, Spokane, Washington, Mequon, Wisconsin, Hannover, Germany, Waalwijk, Netherlands, Ede, Netherlands, Bogota, Columbia and Limerick, Ireland. Our research, product development and product engineering efforts relating to our metal containers business are conducted at our research facilities in Brookfield, Wisconsin. Our research, product development and product engineering efforts with respect to our custom containers business are performed by our manufacturing and engineering personnel located at our custom containers manufacturing facilities. In addition to research, product development and product engineering, these sites also provide technical support to our customers. The amounts we have spent on research and development during the last three fiscal years are not material.

We rely on a combination of patents, trade secrets, unpatented know-how, technological innovation, trademarks and other intellectual property rights, nondisclosure agreements and other protective measures to protect our intellectual property. We do not believe that any individual item of our intellectual property portfolio is material to our business. We employ various methods, including confidentiality agreements and nondisclosure agreements, with third parties, employees and consultants to protect our trade secrets and know-how. However, others could obtain knowledge of our trade secrets and know-how through independent development or other means.

AVAILABLE INFORMATION

We file annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and current reports on Form 8-K, proxy statements and other information with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or the SEC. The SEC maintains a website that contains annual, quarterly and current reports, proxy statements and other information that issuers (including the Company) file electronically with the SEC. The Internet address of the SEC’s website is http://www.sec.gov.

We maintain a website, the Internet address of which is http://www.silganholdings.com. Information contained on our website is not part of this Annual Report. We make available free of charge on or through our website our annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and current reports on Form 8-K (and any amendments to those reports) and Forms 3, 4 and 5 filed on behalf of our directors and executive officers as soon as reasonably practicable after such documents are electronically filed with, or furnished to, the SEC.

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