EXHIBIT 99.2


                                                           OMB Number: 3235-0569
                                                       Expires: January 31, 2003


STATEMENT  UNDER  OATH  OF  PRINCIPAL  EXECUTIVE  OFFICER  REGARDING  FACTS  AND
CIRCUMSTANCES RELATING TO EXCHANGE ACT FILINGS


I, D. Greg Horrigan, President and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Silgan Holdings
Inc. (the "Company"), state and attest that:

(1)  To the best of my knowledge,  based upon a review of the covered reports of
     Silgan  Holdings  Inc.  and,  except  as  corrected  or  supplemented  in a
     subsequent covered report:

     o    no covered report  contained an untrue statement of a material fact as
          of the end of the period  covered by such  report (or in the case of a
          report on Form 8-K or definitive  proxy  materials,  as of the date on
          which it was filed); and

     o    no covered  report  omitted to state a material fact necessary to make
          the statements in the covered  report,  in light of the  circumstances
          under which they were made, not misleading as of the end of the period
          covered  by such  report  (or in the case of a  report  on Form 8-K or
          definitive proxy materials, as of the date on which it was filed).

(2)  I have reviewed the contents of this  statement  with the  Company's  audit
     committee.

(3)  In this statement under oath, each of the following,  if filed on or before
     the date of this statement, is a "covered report":

     o    the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended  December 31,
          2001 (Commission File Number 000-22117) of Silgan Holdings Inc.;

     o    all reports on Form 10-Q,  all reports on Form 8-K and all  definitive
          proxy  materials of Silgan  Holdings  Inc.  filed with the  Commission
          subsequent to the filing of the Form 10-K identified above; and

     o    any amendment to any of the foregoing.



                                            Subscribed and
                                            sworn to before me
                                            this 7th day of
                                            August, 2002.
/s/ D. Greg Horrigan
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Signature                                   /s/ Eileen M. Sullivan
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                                            Notary Public
D. Greg Horrigan
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Name                                        My Commission Expires:

August 7, 2002                              November 30, 2006
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