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Nekoosa Coated Products buys owner of RTape and CET Films


April 24, 2013 4:19 pm ET

NEKOOSA, WIS. — Nekoosa Coated Products has acquired IGI Corp. — owner of plastic tape maker RTape Corp. and plastic film maker CET Films Corp. — for an undisclosed price.

Film converter Kendall Packaging expanding in Wisconsin


April 24, 2013 1:49 pm ET

MEQUON, WIS. — Kendall Packaging Corp. is breaking ground on a 56,000 square foot expansion of its Jefferson, Wis., facility on April 26 to increase its production capacity and double its storage capacity.

Toray Plastics adds coating equipment


April 23, 2013 11:46 am ET

NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. — Toray Plastics (America) Inc. is installing new coating equipment to make films with advanced specialty layers.

German packaging and film sales remain stable


April 23, 2013 11:43 am ET

BAD HOMBURG, GERMANY — Sales of plastic packaging and films in Germany stayed relatively stable in 2012, showing only a 0.4 percent decrease from 2011, according to trade association IK Industrievereinigung Kunststoffverpackungen.

Catching up on awards, VIP visits and a new blog


April 17, 2013 11:04 am ET

Let's catch up on some bloggable news today from Pereles Bros. Inc., Paragon Films Inc., Chroma Corp., Plastics Group of America and Uponor Inc.Pereles Bros., a Milwaukee-based injection molder, gets a shout for winning a Central City Business Award from The Business Journal, a weekly newspaper in my favorite Midwest city. Pereles was honored in...

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OdorNo bag eliminates smell, and distributors are buying it


April 16, 2013 2:52 pm ET

CLEVELAND — Garret Fortune's success might just be in the bag. Not just any bag, though. To paraphrase Fortune, a smell-proof poop bag. "Not even a dog can smell through my bags," said the colorful Fortune, between laughs and smiles as he...

Sonoco makes crush tester for high-speed films


April 12, 2013 2:03 pm ET

HARTSVILLE, S.C. — Sonoco Products Co. is making its radial crush tester — which measures the radial strength of paper cores for winding strength and shrink film — commercially available.

Sealed Air closing Rotorua, New Zealand, plant


April 11, 2013 2:35 pm ET

ROTORUA, NEW ZEALAND — A New Zealand plastic packaging manufacturer will phase down production at its Rotorua manufacturing plant and aims to close the site by mid-2014.

Rollprint investing $1.25M in new pouch line


April 10, 2013 5:01 pm ET

ADDISON, ILL. — Rollprint Packaging Inc. is investing $1.25 million in a multi-configuration pouch manufacturing line to make products primarily for sterile medical applications.

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Degradable PE agricultural film nearing commercialization


April 3, 2013 11:51 am ET

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA — A degradable polyethylene film that helps crops grow better is likely to be commercially available within the next couple of years.

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