1:10 min Markets and Management, Management
Rebranding

Consolidated Container Company announces rebrand to Altium Packaging, Tri State Distribution rebranded to Altium Healthcare

This morning Consolidated Container Company (CCC), a leading packaging solutions company, announced that it has rebranded the company as Altium Packaging. Further, Tri State Distribution, a pharmaceutical packaging manufacture that CCC acquired in June 2019, will be rebranded as ...
3:29 min Markets and Management, Facts & Figures
Update

Avantium provides update on the FDCA flagship plant final investment decision process

Avantium N.V., a leading technology company in renewable chemistry, delivers an update on its final investment decision (FID) process concerning the construction of its FDCA flagship plant, planned to be built in Delfzijl, The Netherlands. Due to the global COVID-19 crisis, ...
1:10 min Markets and Management, Management
Launch

Graham Packaging introduces new website and brand identity

Graham Packaging, a global leader in the design and manufacturing of innovative and sustainable packaging solutions, launches a new website and corporate identity. Founded more than 50 years ago, the company is reintroducing itself to reinforce and elevate its commitment to smart, ...
1:49 min Markets and Management, Management
Enhancement

SACMI, Rigid Packaging Technologies B.U. established

All of SACMI’s closure, preform, container, computer vision system and ...
0:55 min Markets and Management, Management
Appointment

KraussMaffei: Bharat Sharma Vice President of Asia-Pacific Region

Bharat Sharma is KraussMaffei Group’s new head of the Asia-Pacific region, based in Singapore, from 1 January 2021. In this role, he will be responsible for both the New Machine Business and Digital & Service Solutions. Sharma will report to Nadine Despineux, Executive Vice ...
2:23 min Markets and Management, Management, PET films, trays, cups, …
Sheets & Films

Lacerta Group partners with SK Capital to drive next phase of growth

Strategic investment from SK Capital to support Lacerta’s continued leadership in providing innovative and sustainable packaging solutions to a rapidly growing market - Lacerta Group, Inc. (“Lacerta” or the “Company”), a leading designer and manufacturer of specialty thermoformed ...
0:53 min Markets and Management, Management
Acquisition

IPEG acquires conveying system firm Phoenix Systems

Conair parent company IPEG Industrial Group has acquired Phoenix Systems Corp., a Tustin, Calif., company that produces high-volume conveying systems for plastic pellets and powders. IPEG did not share financial terms of the deal, which was finalized on Dec. 21.
0:51 min Markets and Management, Management, Regions, …
Exhibition

NPE 2021 cancelled

Due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS) gives the following update on their decision to cancel the in-person components of NPE2021:
0:59 min Markets and Management, Management
Acquisition

HUBER Packaging Group moves under the umbrella of the Envases Group

Envases Europe A / S, a company of the Envases Group, a leading global manufacturer of consumer goods packaging, has signed an agreement to acquire Huber Packaging Group. The acquisition, which is still pending review by the competition authorities, is expected to close in the first ...
0:47 min Markets and Management, Management
Appointment

Julia Große-Wilde becomes managing director of the GKV

Julia Große-Wilde, attorney at law, will be the new managing director of the Gesamtverband Kunststoffverarbeitende Industrie e. V. (GKV). Ms. Große-Wilde takes over the tasks of Dr. Oliver Möllenstädt, who is leaving the GKV on December 31, 2020 at his own request in order to ...