4 Landmark Square
    Suite 400
    Stamford, CT  06901
 
    Telephone:  (203) 975-7110
    Fax:  (203) 975-7902
 
July 8, 2010        
 
 
VIA EDGAR
 
Sherry Haywood, Esq.
Staff Attorney
Division of Corporation Finance
United States Securities and Exchange Commission
Washington, D.C. 20549-4631
 
 
RE:
Silgan Holdings Inc.
Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2009
Filed March 1, 2010
Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A
Filed on April 29, 2010
File No. 22117
 
Dear Ms. Haywood:
 
This letter will confirm that, pursuant to your discussion today with our counsel, you have agreed to extend the time for Silgan Holdings Inc.
(the “Company”) to respond to the comment letter, dated June 30, 2010, to Anthony J. Allott, Chief Executive Officer of the Company, regarding
 the Company’s above-referenced Form 10-K and Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A, for a period of two weeks following the initial
 response date of July 15, 2010.  The Company will respond on or before the revised due date of July 29, 2010.
 
                Sincerely,
 
 
 
                /s/ Frank W. Hogan, III           
                Frank W. Hogan, III
                Senior Vice President, General
                Counsel and Secretary
 
 

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