15 Jul 2022 --- The European Commission (EC) has imposed a fine collectively totaling €31.5 million (US$31.5 million) on metal packaging giants Crown and Silgan for participating in a cartel that broke EU antitrust laws through sales of metal cans and closures in Germany. The breaches occurred over three years, from March 2011 until March 2014, when the EC claims an individual employed by a German subsidiary of Silgan, who retired in 2017, exchanged historic annual overall unit volumes for the previous year for metal closures and supplied them to certain customers in Germany with Crown.
