NEW YORK (Standard&Poor's) May 5, 2009--Standard&Poor's Ratings Services said today that it assigned issue-level and recovery ratings to Crown Americas LLC and Crown Americas Capital Corp. II proposed joint offering of $250 million of senior unsecured notes due 2017. The issue rating on the notes is 'BB-' (one notch lower than the 'BB' corporate credit rating on the parent, Crown Holdings Inc.). The recovery rating is '5', which indicates our expectation for modest (10%-30%) recovery in the event of a payment default. (For the latest complete recovery rating report, see Standard&Poor's recovery rating profile on Crown Holdings published May 5, 2009.) The corporate credit rating on Crown Holdings Inc. (BB/Stable/--) and all other issue-level