After two years of its five-year initiative to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, Crown Holdings has exceeded one of its two targeted 2020 sustainability goals. In 2016, the packaging company announced plans to reduce energy consumption by 5 percent per billion standard units of production from 2015 levels by the end of 2020.
As of December 31, 2017, Crown has surpassed this goal, reducing energy consumption by 5.1 percent per billion standard units. Absolute energy consumption energy consumption has increased by 1.6 percent while the company increased production by over 7.1 percent.