According to the research report “Global Metal Packaging Market Outlook, 2030” published by Bonafide Research, the global Metal Packaging market is projected to reach market size of USD 187.84 Billion by 2030 increasing from USD 150.15 Billion in 2024, growing with 3.88% CAGR by 2025-30.

Top Six Companies Global Metal Packaging Market 

Ball Corporation: Ball Corporation is an American aluminum manufacturing company headquartered in Westminster, Colorado, United States. It is best known for its early production of glass jars, lids, and related products used for home canning. Ball Corp (Ball) is a provider of aluminum packaging solutions for the beverage, personal care, and household products industries. Its product portfolio includes aluminum beverage containers, extruded aluminum aerosol containers, recloseable aluminum bottles, beverage bottles, aerosol cans, beverage bottles, aluminum slugs, and aluminum cups. Ball's products are used by large multinational beverage, personal care, and household products companies. The company maintains long-term relationships with its customers, which include major consumer packaging and beverage companies. Ball Corporation is one of the world’s leading companies in metal packaging, mainly known for its aluminum beverage cans, bottles, cups, ends, and other sustainable packaging formats. The company serves major beverage, personal care, and household product brands by offering lightweight, recyclable, and high-volume aluminum packaging solutions. In the metal packaging market, Ball Corporation’s strength comes from its large global manufacturing network, strong customer base, innovation in can design, and focus on circular packaging. Aluminum packaging is important because it is durable, easy to transport, protects product quality, and can be recycled repeatedly, making it suitable for carbonated drinks, beer, energy drinks, juices, ready-to-drink beverages, water, and other packaged products.

• Established: 1880

• Headquarters: Colorado, United States

• Employees: 13,000

• Revenue: USD 13,161 Million

Crown Holdings, Inc: Crown Holdings, Inc. is an American multinational packaging company headquartered in Tampa, Florida, that designs and manufactures rigid-metal packaging including aluminum beverage cans, metal food cans, aerosol cans, and specialty packaging. Crown Holdings Inc (Crown) is a provider of packaging solutions. It manufactures metal cans and ends for the beverage, food, and aerosol industries, as well as transit packaging products. The company's major products include aluminum and steel cans, glass bottles, steel crowns, aluminum caps, and various transit packaging solutions. Crown's products are used by manufacturers and marketers of packaged consumer goods, including beverage companies such as Anheuser-Busch InBev, Coca-Cola, and Pepsi-Cola. Crown Holdings, Inc. is a major global player in metal packaging, offering rigid packaging solutions mainly for beverages, food, aerosols, closures, and promotional tins. The company’s metal packaging portfolio includes aluminum beverage cans and ends, food cans, aerosol cans, metal closures, and specialty metal containers used by beverage brands, food processors, personal care companies, household product manufacturers, and other consumer goods businesses. Crown has a strong position in the market because its packaging provides product protection, longer shelf life, strong sealing performance, attractive decoration options, and high recyclability.

• Established: 1892

• Headquarters: Pennsylvania, United States

• Employees: 23,000

• Revenue: USD 12,365 Million

Sonoco Products Company: Sonoco Products Company is an American provider of diversified consumer packaging, industrial products, protective packaging, and packaging supply chain services and the world's largest producer of composite cans, tubes, and cores. Sonoco Products Co (Sonoco) manufactures, develops, and designs sustainable packaging products. Its main activities include producing consumer and industrial packaging products. Sonoco's major products consist of metal packaging, rigid paper containers, and uncoated recycled paperboard. Sonoco's engineers and scientific specialists offer a range of design and testing solutions. The company serves food, beverage, household, personal care, pet food, and aerosol product manufacturers by providing durable metal containers that protect product quality, improve shelf life, support strong sealing performance, and offer good shelf appeal. Sonoco’s metal packaging portfolio includes two-piece and three-piece steel food cans, aerosol cans, easy-open ends, peelable membranes, sanitary ends, steel can bottoms, and metal closures.

• Established: 1899

• Headquarters: South Carolina, United States

• Employees: 22,000

• Revenue: USD 7,518 Million

Henkel AG & Co KGaA: Henkel AG & Co KGaA (Henkel) is a diversified company with a presence in adhesive technologies and consumer products segments. The company provides adhesives, sealants, and functional coatings. It also offers consumer products such as detergents, cleaning products, fabric softeners, and hair care products. Henkel markets its products under the Technomelt, Dial, Syoss, got2b, Pattex, Pritt, Loctite, Schwarzkopf, and Persil brands. The company provides contract manufacturing services through its subsidiary, Henkel Corp. It serves diverse industries, including aerospace, automotive, electronics, manufacturing, medical, paper and packaging, power, telecom, and metals. Henkel AG & Co. KGaA is an important supporting company in the metal packaging market, mainly through its Adhesive Technologies business rather than as a can manufacturer. The company provides surface technologies, cleaners, lubricants, conversion coatings, sealants, and functional coatings used in the production of aluminum and tinplate packaging. Henkel’s solutions are applied in beverage cans, food cans, aerosol cans, drums, pails, and other metal containers, helping can makers improve corrosion protection, coating adhesion, sealing performance, production efficiency, food safety, and sustainability. Its BONDERITE and Darex technologies are used across can manufacturing lines to support washing, pretreatment, forming, sealing, and process control.

• Established: 1876

• Headquarters: Düsseldorf, Germany

• Employees: 47,000

• Revenue: USD 23,845 Million

Mauser Packaging Solutions: Mauser Packaging Solutions is a global leader in solutions and services across the packaging lifecycle, providing large and small metal, plastic, fiber and hybrid packaging worldwide to companies in industries from food, beverage, personal care and pharmaceuticals to chemicals, petrochemicals, agrochemicals and paints. Bringing together the very best of its four legacy companies - BWAY, MAUSER Group, NCG and ICS-Mauser Packaging Solutions offers its customers true sustainability at scale of natural resources, supply chains, packaging performance and growth opportunities. Mauser Packaging Solutions is a leading company in the metal packaging market, especially in industrial metal packaging such as steel drums, steel pails, buckets, and other rigid containers. The company serves industries including chemicals, petrochemicals, paints, coatings, lubricants, agricultural chemicals, food and beverage, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, construction, and automotive. Its metal packaging products are used for storing, handling, and transporting both standard and hazardous materials because steel packaging provides high strength, durability, impact resistance, secure closure, and strong protection across the supply chain. Mauser offers open-head and tight-head steel drums, specialty drums, and 1-gallon to 7-gallon steel pails, including UN-rated options for demanding industrial applications. The company also supports sustainability through reusable, reconditioned, and recyclable packaging solutions, while its steel pails contain recycled content and are recyclable after use.

• Established: 1896

• Headquarters: Georgia, United States

• Employees: 11,000

• Revenue: USD 3,300 Million

Grief, Inc: Greif, Inc. is a global leader in industrial packaging products and services based in Delaware, Ohio. Originally a manufacturer of barrels, the company is now focused on producing steel, fiber and plastic drums, IBCs, jerrycans, plastic bottles, closures, containerboard, corrugated products and adhesives. Greif Inc (Greif) is a producer of industrial packaging products and services. The company's primary activities include the production and sale of rigid industrial packaging products, containerboard, corrugated sheets, and other products. Its product portfolio includes steel, fibre, and plastic drums, rigid intermediate bulk containers, jerrycans, closure systems for industrial packaging products, transit protection products, and water bottles. It also provides remanufactured and reconditioned industrial containers. Greif offers services such as container life cycle management, filling, logistics, warehousing, and other packaging services. The company provides large, intermediate, and specialty steel drums used for storing, handling, and transporting liquids, dry goods, hazardous materials, and non-hazardous industrial products. Greif’s metal packaging is widely used across industries such as chemicals, lubricants, petrochemicals, paints, coatings, inks, food ingredients, agriculture, and industrial goods. Its steel drums are valued because they provide strong mechanical resistance, corrosion protection, secure closure, leakage control, and safe transportation performance. Greif also offers UN-approved steel drums, which are suitable for demanding hazardous and regulated product applications. The company supports sustainability through reconditioning, reuse, and recycling of steel drums, helping customers reduce packaging waste and improve circularity.

• Established: 1877

• Headquarters: Ohio, United States

• Employees: 14,000

• Revenue: USD 4,354 Million