Berry Plastics Corp.
A new five-year agreement will supply wind and solar power to four locations.
The plastics processor, one of the largest in the world, is not sure whether it wants to keep the Health, Hygiene and Specialties division, a business that brought in 22 percent of Berry's sales in 2022.
The Evansville, Ind.-based company said the Woodstock, Ill., facility will no longer make closures and overcaps.
The Evansville, Ind.-based company's new CEO Kevin Kwilinski will take over for retiring CEO Tom Salmon later this year.
The Berry that Kevin Kwilinski takes over is a different company than what Salmon inherited from former CEO Jon Rich in 2017.
A monthslong search for a new CEO at Berry Global Group Inc. has led the company to Kevin Kwilinski, who led label maker Multi-Color Corp.
The company is not commenting, calling the report "speculation."
The Evansville, Ind.-based plastics processor indicated earlier this year that 15 or more sites would be closing as the company looked to cut costs. That number has now reached 20 facilities.
A new initiative out of Berry Global Group Inc.'s hometown of Evansville, Ind., will divert about 500 pounds of plastics each week from landfill disposal.
The packaging company seeks to cut greenhouse gas emissions associated with its operations and is giving itself nearly three decades to pull the move off.
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