Coverage requirements
Metal Can Manufacturers
Last updated August 2026 · Maintained and reviewed by the Advocate Insurance Consultants coverage research team.
Overview
What an adequately protected Metal Can Manufacturers program looks like
Can manufacturers produce metal cans used to store food and beverages. Automobile liability and property are the leading exposures, including long-haul transport and metal dust that can burn or ignite spontaneously. With those hazards in view, this Advocate Standard profile assembles the priority coverages for metal can manufacturers, including Auto Liability, General Liability, Pollution Liability, Worker's Compensation, Fidelity Bond, and grounds them in limit, deductible, and carrier-strength benchmarks to keep operations resilient.
Key takeaways
- Spans 166 published requirements across 49 coverage type-peril pairs.
- Applies to 2 asset types: Manufacturer, Manufacturing.
- Covers 17 coverage types and 19 distinct perils.
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Completion score
9 of 49 WIM pairs required
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Required limits by coverage type and peril
Requirements
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Compliance
Who requires Metal Can Manufacturers
- Metal can manufacturers insurance is required by the equipment lenders and mortgage holders financing high-speed forming lines and plant real estate, who demand property and business income coverage naming them as loss payee.
- Commercial auto and general liability carriers, along with their reinsurers, scrutinize long-haul fleet exposure and the products-completed operations risk of improperly sealed seams.
- Brokers placing coverage for metal can manufacturers coordinate workers' compensation, pollution, and terrorism layers, while beverage and food packaging customers require certificates of insurance with additional insured status before awarding supply contracts.
- Investors and acquirers reviewing a metal can manufacturer's balance sheet lean on these coverages to confirm catastrophic fire, machinery, and product-defect losses are transferred.
Carrier standard. Carrier must have AM Best rating >= A- and size >= VII.
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Exclusions
What Metal Can Manufacturers does not cover
- Metal can manufacturers insurance built around general liability, property, and pollution typically excludes several exposures.
- Product recall and withdrawal costs, including inspecting, retrieving, and replacing defectively sealed cans, are not paid by general liability and require a dedicated recall policy.
- Directors and officers liability, employment practices liability (EPLI), and manufacturer's errors and omissions sit outside this coverage.
- Gradual pollution and long-term contamination often fall outside limited pollution wording.
- Property forms commonly exclude flood and earthquake unless separately scheduled, and ordinance or law costs to rebuild to current code are frequently sublimited.
- Combustible metal dust deflagration may face property carve-outs where housekeeping standards are unmet.
Risk advisory
Typical coverage gaps in Manufacturing & Industrial
Metal can manufacturers face recurring gaps that deserve action.
- Combustible metal dust from stamping and grinding can ignite or explode, so confirm no dust-related exclusion applies and align housekeeping with NFPA combustible dust standards to protect the property claim.
- Add product recall and contamination coverage, since general liability will not fund the retrieval of improperly sealed cans.
- Review business interruption limits against realistic rebuild and machinery lead times for specialized forming presses.
- Verify ordinance or law coverage (A, B, and C) so a partial loss does not trigger uninsured demolition and code-upgrade costs.
- For long-haul distribution, confirm hired and non-owned auto and adequate combined single limits.
- Finally, add or increase cyber coverage, since production controls and customer data create ransomware exposure that property and crime forms will not answer.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
What insurance do metal can manufacturers need?
Metal can manufacturers need property, business income, general liability with products-completed operations, commercial auto for long-haul fleets, workers' compensation, pollution liability, and crime or fidelity coverage. Because combustible metal dust and product-defect claims drive severity, most also add equipment breakdown, product recall, and cyber coverage to close gaps that standard general liability leaves open.
Does general liability cover a metal can recall?
General liability does not cover a metal can recall. Metal can manufacturers must buy separate product recall and contamination insurance to fund inspecting, retrieving, and replacing improperly sealed or defective cans. General liability responds only to third-party bodily injury or property damage the defective product causes, not the manufacturer's own cost to withdraw product from the market.
Why do metal can manufacturers need pollution coverage?
Metal can manufacturers need pollution coverage because standard general liability and property policies exclude pollution claims. Coatings, solvents, lubricants, and metal-finishing residues create soil and water contamination exposure. Environmental impairment liability funds cleanup costs, third-party claims, and regulatory defense that would otherwise hit the balance sheet directly.
Do lenders require insurance for can manufacturing equipment?
Lenders require insurance for can manufacturing equipment as a condition of funding. Metal can manufacturers must carry property or all-risk coverage equal to at least the financed value and name the lender as loss payee. No certificate of insurance means no loan release, and business income coverage is often required to protect debt service after a loss.
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