3:50 min
Management
Constar adds three to sales team as it eyes expansion in specialty food and beverage markets
Constar, a leading producer of PET bottles, jars and preforms, has announced the hiring of three new team members: regional sales managers Mark Cooper and Mark Hubbuch along with design engineer Ryan Lee. Constar is ramping up hiring in anticipation of its emergence from Chapter 11 ...
2:44 min
Management
Berkshire Partners and OMERS Private Equity to acquire Husky International
Berkshire Partners LLC, the Boston based private equity firm, and OMERS Private Equity Inc., the private equity arm of the OMERS Worldwide group of companies, today announced that they have signed a definitive agreement to jointly acquire Husky International Ltd. and its subsidiaries ...
5:80 min
Facts & Figures
Krones back in the fast lane for success
Despite a less-than-easy macro-economic environment, Krones, the world’s market leader for beverage filling and packaging technology, finished the 2010 business year in good shape. The company benefited not only from the general recovery on many of its sales markets following the ...
2:19 min
Management
APPE scores market first with pan European BRC certification
APPE (Artenius PET Packaging Europe) is the first leading PET producer to gain the BRC/IOP Global Standard for Packaging and Packaging Materials across all of its European plants, underlining its commitment to safeguarding quality in the food industry. Developed by retailers, The BRC ...
1:37 min
Management
Graham Packaging to acquire assets of Techne - Technipack Engineering Italia, S.r.l.
Graham Packaging Company Inc. (NYSE: GRM) today announced that its subsidiary, Graham Packaging Company Italia S.r.l., has committed to acquire the assets of Techne - Technipack Engineering Italia S.r.l. (Techne), for total consideration of euro 8.8 million.Techne manufactures ...
0:50 min
Management
New Chief Technical Officer
Anton Huber will support the newly appointed management – consisting of Managing Partner Angelika Huemer, Sales Director Herman Adrigan and Chief Financial Officer Wolfgang Stidl – in the areas engineering and production.“In Anton Huber we have found a new technical ...
4:11 min
Management
Graham Packaging Company to be acquired by Silgan Holdings
Graham Packaging Company Inc. (NYSE: GRM) today announced the signing of a definitive merger agreement under which Graham Packaging will be acquired by Silgan Holdings Inc. in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at $19.56 per share, or a total of approximately $4.1 billion including ...
2:80 min
Management
New Head of Division Greiner Assistec at Greiner Packaging
At the beginning of 2011, the 43-year old Franz Dilly from Gmunden took over sole responsibility for the Division Greiner Assistec at Greiner Packaging. He followed Harald Rammerstorfer who had opted for a career change. ”Primarily, my responsibilities include the further development ...
2:56 min
Facts & Figures
Fiscal 2010: Profitable Growth
The global Buhler Technology Group has once again grown markedly in its anniversary year 2010. Order intake increased 21% to CHF 2160 million, sales revenue (turnover) 11% to CHF 1907 million, and operating profits (EBIT) at a higher-than-proportional rate to 10.6% of total sales. ...
