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Houston Plant Status – Customer Announcement Regarding Hurricane Ike

Ross H. Bushnell Senior vice President, Sales & Marketing Silgan Plastics Corporation

P.O. Box 1080 Chesterfield, MO 63006-1080 Telephone: (314) 469-4642

September 15, 2008

Dear Valued Customer:

We wanted to give you some initial information on the status of our Houston facility after Hurricane Ike.

The building itself sustained relatively minor damage to the roof, resulting in some isolated water on the floors in various parts of the facility. Production equipment, computers, records, etc. were not impacted and have been secured.

We have been able to get into our adjacent finished goods warehouse and confirm that inventory stored there is safe and secure.

The biggest issues throughout the entire Houston area are power, transportation, fuel availability and communications. There is currently no estimate as to when power may be restored and areas of Houston are still under a dusk to dawn curfew. Communications are hampered by a general overload of cell phone towers and the unreliability of land lines.

We are currently making arrangements to have people in place at the warehouse to support shipping, for those trucks that can make it to the plant. Our tentative hours of operation will be:

Monday (Sept. 15) 1PM – 5PM Tuesday thru Friday (this week) 9AM – 4:30PM

In lieu of communicating with the Houston plant, please direct inquiries to our Corporate Customer Service Center in Chesterfield, MO. Until further notice, your customer service contacts will be Beth Marx and Bret Dresser. Their contact information is:

Beth’s Office phone: 314-469-4625 Beth’s E-mail: beth.marx@silganplastics.com Bret’s Office phone: 314-469-4631 Bret’s E-mail: bret.dresser@silganplastics.com

We appreciate your patience as we work through the aftermath of this storm. We will provide updates regarding shipping and production capability as more information becomes available.