Bosses at the site in Perrywood, Worcester, are in talks with its 116 staff and have recently begun a 90-day consultation process.
Sales decline
The site, which is one of four the firm run in the UK, produces two piece and three piece cans and ends for the food market. A Crown spokesman said that food packaging sales were declining.
Crown said that supply across the four sites now exceeded demand and restructuring needed to be looked at but added that no decision on the site’s future has been taken.
In a statement about the issue, a Crown spokesman said: “I can confirm that we have announced the start of a consultation process at our Perrywood site in Worcester. We are now in talks with Trade Union representatives about options for the future of the site, as part of a wider review of our UK and Ireland manufacturing and business support facilities.
“Changes within the food packaging sector have caused a consistent decline in sales and our manufacturing capacity across our four UK and Ireland Food sites now unfortunately exceeds demand. To protect the future of the wider business and its employees, we therefore need to consider proposals for restructuring.
“No decisions have yet been made. Further information will be provided when the consultation process is complete.”
Crown Food Europe is a business unit of metal firm Crown Holding. It also operates aluminium and metal UK food packaging sites in Braunstone, Neath and Wisbech.