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WILKESBORO, N.C. (May 16, 3:35 p.m. ET) -- Flexible packaging convertor Interflex Group Inc. has been purchased by private equity firm Nicolet Capital Partners LLC of Chicago. Interflex was previously by Red Diamond Capital Inc., a private equity firm based in New York.
May 16, 2012
WORMS, GERMANY (May 16, 3:15 p.m. ET) -- German plastic films producer Renolit AG is reinforcing its position in the global medical sector by acquiring the medical films division of China-based Austar Pharma & Medical Consumables.
May 16, 2012
ELK GROVE VILLAGE, ILL. (May 15, 5:40 p.m. ET) -- D&W Fine Pack LLC has purchased Clear Lam Packaging Inc.’s thermoforming division. The thermoforming division has annual sales of approximately $80 million and is a major supplier of PET and PLA food packaging. The sale includes facilities in Elk Grove Village; Vernon, Calif.; and Nanjing, China.
May 15, 2012
CHICAGO (May 14, 5:30 p.m. ET) -- Container and closures supplier Berlin Packaging LLC has acquired Lerman Container, a packaging distributor based in Naugatuck, Conn.
May 14, 2012
MASON, MICH. (May 14, 3:55 p.m. ET) -- From a cinder block building in Mason, the Dart family built an industrial monolith from humble beginnings and a humble product: the foam cup that lets a person hold hot coffee. But while that ever-reliable cup, made from expandable polystyrene foam, has served Dart Container Corp. well over the past 50 years, a question mark looms large as the company begins the next 50.
May 14, 2012
WILMINGTON, DEL. (May 11, 3:45 p.m. ET) — DuPont Co.’s annual Awards for Packaging Innovation honored breakthroughs from both industry powerhouses and smaller startups. “The common thread was a focus on collaboration,” said lead juror Brian Wagner, vice president of Packaging & Technology Integrated Solutions.
May 11, 2012
WASHINGTON (May 11, 2:20 p.m. ET) -- Four more communities, three of them in California, have banned single-use plastic carryout bags, bringing the number of communities with plastics-related bans in the United States to 74 -- almost two-thirds of them in California.
May 11, 2012
HEMSWELL, ENGLAND (May 11, 1:45 p.m. ET) -- Environment minister Lord Taylor officially opened the 15 million pound ($24.1 million) Continuum Recycling Ltd. plant in Hemswell on May 10, declaring the joint venture between Coca-Cola Enterprises Ltd. and Eco Plastics as “an innovative partnership.”
May 11, 2012
WASHINGTON (May 10, 5 p.m. ET) -- The American Chemistry Council has released a report that analyzes energy consumption, air and water pollution and solid waste from injection molded and thermoformed packaging. The report covers the North American production of injection molded and thermoformed packaging products such as lids, cups and containers like yogurt tubs and butter bins.
May 10, 2012
EVANSVILLE, IND. (May 9, 3:45 p.m. ET) -- Berry Plastics Corp. will spend $4.4 million to expand production at its Richmond, Ind., injection molding plant. The company will purchase additional equipment and add 10 jobs at the facility.
May 9, 2012
ATLANTA (May 9, 3:30 p.m. ET) -- Coca-Cola Co. intends to use less secondary packaging and produce more of its bottles from plant-based materials, according to the company’s seventh Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (CRS) report.
May 9, 2012
NEW DELHI (May 8, 4:30 p.m. ET) -- The Supreme Court of India is urging India’s central and state governments to ban plastic bags, in the interest of rights of the people and animals. The court said bags are choking lakes, ponds and urban sewers, creating a threat to the next generation that is greater than the atom bomb.
May 8, 2012
BOLIVAR, OHIO (May 7, 3:05 p.m. ET) -- Primary Packaging Inc., a manufacturer and designer of heavy-duty polyethylene films and bags, has been purchased by an affiliate of Field Ventures LLC. The deal was announced May 7. No purchase price was disclosed.
May 7, 2012
MASON, MICH. (May 4, 5:30 p.m. ET) -- Dart Container Corp. today completed its acquisition of Solo Cup Co. for $1 billion. The deal creates a company with estimated combined thermoforming sales of $1.27 billion and total sales of more than $3 billion.
May 4, 2012
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (May 4, 2:55 p.m. ET) -- Exopack LLC is ending production at its Seymour, Ind., plant. The facility primarily makes paper pet-food bags, a market that has been shrinking as more customers switch to plastic packaging, said Chris Swalm, corporate marketing manager, in a May 3 phone interview.
May 4, 2012
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