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Novolex™, a portfolio company of The Carlyle Group and an industry leader in packaging choice and sustainability, announced it has acquired Zenith Specialty Bag, a leading provider of specialty paper food packaging products, effective today......
Huhtamaki has entered into an agreement to acquire the majority of Everest Flexibles (Pty) Limited (“Everest”), a privately-owned flexible packaging manufacturer in South Africa. With the acquisition Huhtamaki will expand its flexible packaging...
A local business plant that prints aluminum foil and other flexible types of product packaging is shutting down within the next two months. Constantia Colmar employees were told this week about the closing, then given...
Fortis Solutions Group LLC, a portfolio company of Main Post Partners, and a leading provider of labels, flexible packaging, shrink sleeves, cartons, and applicators, is pleased to announce the expansion of its national network of...
Stora Enso’s Board of Directors has appointed Annica Bresky, 44, as the new President and CEO of the company as of 1 December 2019. Until then, Stora Enso’s current CEO Karl-Henrik Sundström continues in his...
Globally operating Austrian packaging producer Constantia Flexibles has completed its acquisition of a majority stake in the Russian group of companies TT. Now known as Constantia TT, the plant in Voskresensk mainly produces packaging for...
Amcor plc (NYSE: AMCR, ASX: AMC) announces today that Ms. Eva Cheng will be retiring as a non-executive director on November 5, 2019. Ms. Cheng is retiring after over five years of service to the...
Fort Dearborn Company, a leading North American supplier of high-impact prime labels for the consumer goods industry, has made a multi-million dollar purchase of five new high-performance HP Indigo labels and packaging presses, more than...
EPac Flexible Packaging’s new UK digital printing production facility will be up and running next month. The US-headquartered group specialises in custom-printed flexible packaging and pouches and has expanded rapidly in the States, growing from......
Atlantic Capital & Equipment Finance arranged $1.75 million in financing for Epac Flexible Packaging to purchase new equipment for three of its manufacturing plants located in Madison, WI, Miami and Boston. The new equipment will...
Flexible packaging company Licaplast Industries – Emballages (Licaplast) has acquired Canadian polyethylene product converter M’Plast for an undisclosed amount. Licaplast is a portfolio company of Charter Oak Equity and Fonds de solidarité FTQ...
Toray Plastics (America), Inc., has been named by the Providence Business News a 2019 Healthiest Employers® of Rhode Island winner in the award category of those with 2,000 to 4,900 employees. Lisa A. Ahart, Toray’s...
A Virginia-based company announced it would invest $22 million and create 50 new jobs in Orangeburg County, development officials say. INDEVCO North America, Inc. is developing a new, 100,000-square-foot industrial facility at 715 Prosperity Drive,...
Hillview Real Estate, the UK regional office investor, has sold the complex to the long-standing tenant, Transcontinental Advanced Coatings (TAC). The 79,000 sq ft complex on Ash Road North, Wrexham Industrial Estate, has been occupied...
N Mohammad Plastic Industry, a concern of Chattogram-based N Mohammed Group, plans to make a fresh investment of around Tk 500 crore to expand business for increasing its market share alongside exports. Bangladesh currently manufactures...
Stora Enso signs a new EUR 700 million revolving credit facility (RCF) agreement with a syndicate of 12 banks to refinance its existing EUR 600 million facility. The five-year facility has two one-year extension options...
Nobelus, an unsupported film and thermal laminate supplier that offers premium products to the packaging industry, is now launching a dedicated line of print web films designed specifically for flexible packaging applications. These unsupported films...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a term that's frequently heard in today’s industrial world, often in the context of Generative AI. However, AI encompasses much more and has been around for several decades. For converters—companies transforming...