Silgan Closures: Closures for the Food & Beverage Industry

Metal, Plastic and Composite closures for glass and plastic containers for hot fill, cold fill, aseptic, pasteurization and retort applications.

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Silgan Closures

Feb 28th, 2005

Metal closures have vacuum safety buttons. Plastic closures have tamper-evident safety bands and composite closures can have both vacuum safety buttons and T-E safety bands.

Silgan Closures

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