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months of each company's fiscal year. For fiscal years that
correspond to calendar-year 2006 the following average annual
rate was used: C$1=US$0.88.
All companies' fiscal years correspond the calendar-year
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a) Cadence Innovation LLC signed a letter of intent to buy nine plants from Collins & Aikman Corp.
a) Cadence Innovation LLC signed a letter of intent to buy nine plants from of Collins & Aikman Corp.
b) Private equity firms Apollo Management LP and Graham Partners acquired Berry Plastics Corp. in fall 2006. Berry announced in March 2007, that it will enter flexible packaging by merging with Bedminster, N.J.-based Covalence Specialty Materials Holding Corp., formerly Tyco Plastics and Adhesives. The merged company will be called Berry Plastics Group Inc.
c) Delphi Corp. has a nonbinding agreement to sell its interior and closures unit to Renco Group Inc.
d) Lear Corp.’s interiors division is slated to spin off into W.L. Ross & Co. LLC’s international automotive group in 2007. Renco Group Inc. plans to buy out Lear’s seating and electronics operations, which will keep the Lear name.
e) Magna International Inc.’s data and sales include Magna-owned auto interior injection molding companies Decoma International Corp. and Magna Donnelly Corp., which previously were ranked separately.
f) Plastech Engineered Products Inc. has taken manufacturing responsibility at four Johnson Controls Inc. plants.
g) In mid-2006, Siegel-Robert Inc. sold its plastics packaging subsidiary in Elberton, Ga., to private equity firm ADF Capital Partners LLC.
h) Owens-Illinois Inc. is reviewing strategic options for its plastics packaging business, including a possible sale.
i) Meridian Automotive Systems Inc. emerged from Chapter 11 in late 2006.
j) Nampac’s parent, Bway Corp., is planning an initial public offering.
k) MeadWestvaco Corp. paid $710 million to buy Calmar Inc. from Cie. de Saint-Gobain in July 2006. Calmar now operates as MeadWestvaco Calmar.
l) Ropak Packaging sold its pallet and bulk container business to Orbis Corp. in Dec. 2006.
m) Blue Water Automotive Systems Inc. acquired the automotive business of Injectronics Inc. in 2006.
n) Flex-N-Gate Corp. plans to acquire a former Visteon Corp. plant in Milan, Mich.
o) Home Products International Inc. filed for Chapter 11 in December, and consolidated its El Paso, Texas, operation into its Chicago campus.
p) ADAC Plastics Inc. changed its name to ADAC Automotive Inc.
q) Clarion Technologies Inc. has closed plants in Ames, Iowa, and Caledonia, Mich. The firm is merging Caledonia production into its Greenville, Mich., site.
r) Revere Industries LLC data includes a Poplar Bluff, Mo., operation that formerly was part of Titan Plastics Group Corp. Charter Oak Capital Partners LP owns both Titan and Revere.
s) Silgan White Cap Americas previously was listed as Silgan Closures LLC. The name was changed after Silgan Holdings acquired Amcor Ltd.’s White Cap closures businesses in China, the Philippines and Venezuela.
t) In 2006 Medical Action Industries Inc. of Hauppauge, N.Y., acquired Medegen Medical Products, comprising plants in Northglenn, Colo., and Galloway, Tenn. Medical Action has said it will close the Northglenn site in summer 2007 and consolidate those operations into Galloway.
u) A&E Products Group LP was acquired in 2006 by Mainetti Group of Secaucus, N.J.
v) Victor Plastics Inc. data reflects its 2006 acquisition of Kincses Tool & Molding Corp.
w) Risdon International Inc., formerly called Crown Risdon, was acquired by Shanghai-based private equity firm Teahouse Partners Ltd., in late 2006.
x) Private Swiss company Habasit Holding AG boosted its stake in plastic conveyor-belt production with the purchase of publicly held Summa Industries. The former Summa operation is now listed as Habasit Holding USA Inc.
y) Century Mold Co. Inc. recently acquired a plant in Chihuahua, Mexico, from Creative Engineered Polymer Products LLC.
z) Moll Industries Inc.’s sales reflect its downsizing after ending its relationship with Whirlpool Corp.
aa) Nippon Sheet Glass Co. Ltd. bought Pilkington North America Inc. in 2006.
bb) Ball Corp. Atlanta Packaging Division is the new name of the former injection molding operations of U.S. Can Corp., which Ball acquired.
cc) Lenco Inc.-PMC data includes Pro Corp. of Florence, Mass., which parent PMC Group Inc. will close in 2007.
dd) Carolina Precision Plastics LLC data reflects its 2006 acquisition of Augros Inc.
ee) Bway Corp. acquired Industrial Containers Ltd. in July 2006. Bway plans to hold an IPO.
ff) Adkev Inc.’s data includes a Monticello, Ind., operation it bought from Berry Plastics Corp.
gg) Genesis Plastics and Engineering LLC data reflects the firm’s 2006 acquisition of injection molder and mold maker Kellems & Coe Tool Corp.
hh) Polienvases SA de CV has been renamed ISGO Plastics.
ii) The owner of Sipco Molding Technologies is buying Multi-Plastics Inc.
jj) Syntec Technologies Inc. was renamed Syntec Optics.
kk) Acrotech Southwest Inc. was renamed Atek Plastics.
ll) Viking Plastics Inc.’s CEO and president, Kelly Goodsel, purchased the company in 2006 at a public sale.
mm) Hi-Tech Molding & Tooling was renamed Hitech Mold & Tool LLC.
nn) Metro Mold & Design Inc. acquired previously listed Imperial Custom Molding Inc.
oo) Wilden Plastics (USA) LP’s parent, Wilden AG, has been acquired by pharmaceutical packaging firm Gerresheimer Group GmbH.
pp) Modern Plastics Corp. merged with formerly listed Plastic Masters Inc. The firms have common ownership.
qq) Recto Molded Products Inc. acquired 4 Sands Industries Inc. of Lebanon Ohio.
rr) Titan Plastics Group Corp. $30E does not include the Poplar Bluff, Mo. Plant formerly positioned with Titan Plastics Group Corp., a separate investment of Charter Oak Capital Partners LP which also owns Revere.
ss) Nicholas Plastics Inc. sold its injection molding operation, N-K Manufacturing Technologies LLC, in mid-2006 to the co-owners and management team of the business in Grand Rapids, Mich.
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