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Ball and Crown commit USD 523m (INR 50bn) to aluminium can plants in Uttar Pradesh

Ball Corporation and Crown Holdings are investing a combined USD 523m (INR 50bn) in two aluminium beverage can projects at Uttar Pradesh's integrated manufacturing and logistics clusters. Crown has started construction of a two-line plant at Unnao costing USD 220m (INR 21bn), first announced in April 2026 and due on stream in the second half of 2027. Ball Beverage Packaging India has selected a site at Meerut for a plant with a proposed investment of USD 303m (INR 29bn), granted incentives under Uttar Pradesh's 2023 policy for FDI and Fortune-listed investors.

Why this mattersTwo can makers building in one Indian cluster, with Canpack alongside, adds domestic can supply from 2027 and cuts beverage brands' dependence on imports.

  • Ball Corporation and Crown Holdings are investing a combined USD 523m (INR 50bn) in two aluminium beverage can projects in Uttar Pradesh.
  • Ball Beverage Packaging India has selected a site at the Meerut cluster for a plant with a proposed investment of USD 303m (INR 29bn).
  • Crown Holdings has begun construction of a two-line plant on nearly 40 acres at Unnao, investing USD 220m (INR 21bn).
  • Crown's Unnao plant was announced in April 2026, is due to start in the second half of 2027 and is expected to make about 2.2 billion cans a year once fully operational.
  • Crown expects the plant to create more than 200 direct and over 1,500 indirect jobs, with United Breweries, part of Heineken, among its long-term customers.
  • Canpack India is building a plant of about 26 hectares at Unnao with capacity of about 1.3 billion cans a year, taking the three companies' combined commitment to about USD 685m (INR 65.66bn).
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Sources AL Circle biginfo.in industrialfront.com
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Updates

  • 2026-09-14 · Edited before publication: Summary implied both companies are already building; the source says Ball has only selected a Meerut site, while Crown has started construction at Unnao. Summary rewritten; other fields grounded and unchanged.
  • 2026-09-16 · Further coverage added: biginfo.in
  • 2026-09-17 · Update: Canpack has joined Ball Corporation and Crown Holdings in the Uttar Pradesh can-making cluster, investing about INR 1,574.62 crore (USD 165m) in a 130-crore-can-a-year plant in Unnao, taking the three companies' combined commitment to about INR 6,566 crore (USD 688m).
  • 2026-09-21 · Edited before publication: Arithmetic error: INR 6,566 crore (INR 65.66bn) at the given rate of INR 95.88 to the dollar is USD 685m, not USD 688m. Summary and key facts cited INR amounts without conversion or with the currencies in the wrong order; house style puts USD first with the original in brackets. Eight key facts cut to six. Ball Corporation and Crown Holdings are the can makers, not the s