News Desk

Honeywell recently reported that it will form a joint venture with Avangard Innovative to build an advanced recycling plant in Texas.

ePac Flexible Packaging has opened its third European facility, ePac Poland North, near the cities of Poznan and Bydgoszcz.

Wisconsin-based Vonco Products LLC recently reported that it has bought Flex-Pak Packaging Products Inc. of Batavia, Illinois.

Sun Chemical recently bought SAPICI as part of its integrated supply strategy in the packaging market.

Bar Graphic Machinery (BGM) has expanded its facility in Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK, more than doubling its production capacity, according to a published report.

Duraco Specialty Tapes, a manufacturer of pressure-sensitive tapes and specialty materials, recently bought 3 Sigma, a provider of pressure-sensitive products and specialty coatings.

Paper Converting Machine Company (PCMC) will open a Packaging Innovation Center at its headquarters in Green Bay, Wisconsin, that will serve as a hub for demonstrations, training, education, industry trials, and research and development.

Sung An Machinery Co. (SAM) recently named Joon Shin, its former executive director, as the South Korean company’s new CEO.

Amcor recently opened a packaging facility in Tuas, Singapore, that will be dedicated to health care packaging.

The Wall Street Journal reported Nov. 28 that Ancora Holdings Inc., an activist shareholder, wants Berry Global Group Inc. to sell.

Presto Products has started construction on an expansion of its plant in Waupaca, Wisconsin, with a completion date expected in July 2022, the company recently reported.

ProAmpac reported earlier this month that it bought Irish Flexible Packaging and Fispak from their parent company, IFP Investments Limited.

Davis-Standard, LLC, is being bought by Gamut Capital Management, L.P., a New York-based middle-market private equity firm.

Graphic Packaging Holding Company of Atlanta, Georgia, recently completed its purchase of AR Packaging Group AB, Europe’s second-largest producer of fiber-based consumer packaging. “The acquisition accelerates Graphic Packaging’s growing position serving consumer packaged goods companies around the world with sustainable fiber-based packaging alternatives,” the company says in a news release about the deal that was […]

Pennsylvania-based C-P Flexible Packaging said recently that it is buying Sycamore Sales, which does business as Preferred Packaging in Norcross, Georgia.  Preferred Packaging makes multilayer flexible films and thermoformed containers, and it is a supplier of tray sealing equipment for meal solution providers and school systems. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. C-P said […]

Fortis Solutions Group, LLC, reported recently that it has bought Quality Tape and Label of Georgia.