Rayonier Advanced Materials has acquired Canadian paper company Tembec for $807m to expand its business into packaging and forest products. The acquisition resulted in the creation of a global company providing high purity cellulose, ...
US-based specialty packaging and dispensing products manufacturer Comar has acquired Shore Plastic Technologies to expand its design and engineering capabilities to better serve its customers. Design and engineering firm Shore Plastic ...
Zhejiang Geely, the Chinese automaker that owns Volvo, has agreed to acquire Terrafugia, a US-based startup company working on the development of a flying car. Terrafugia was founded in 2006 by five Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...
Packaging firm Coveris has introduced a new recovery system, Recoveris, which allows the delamination and separation of label stock from silicone backing paper for reprocessing. The company has deployed the new recovery system at its ...
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Paine Schwartz Partners has completed a strategic investment in Lyons Magnus, a developer and manufacturer of fruit and flavor solutions for the foodservice, healthcare and dairy industries. Financial terms of the transaction were not ...
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French automaker Groupe PSA has signed a joint venture (JV) agreement with three Algerian partners to build cars in the North African country. The Algerian partners include Condor Electronics, Palpa Pro and Entreprise Nationale de ...
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Frutarom Industries has signed an agreement with AB Biotics of Spain for the acquisition of the activity of AB-Fortis with its patent-protected micro-encapsulation technology that facilitates delivery of iron with increased biological ...
Arla Foods has decided to sell its 8% share in Brazilian dairy company Vigor with immediate effect following a change in ownership of the latter. Brazil’s leading dairy company Vigor S.A. (“Vigor”) has been sold by ...
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Sun Chemical has acquired the assets and business of Transitions Digital Graphics. Based in Santa Barbara, Calif., Transitions Digital Graphics is a leader in the development of changeable advertising signage and displays which utilize ...
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Littlejohn & Co has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Strategic Materials, Inc., a leading environmental services company and the largest glass recycler in North America, from Willis Stein & Partners and Vision Capital. Financial ...
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Anchor Glass Container has announced the following additions to the Anchor Glass Senior Leadership Team. Steve Stout has been named as Vice President-Engineering. Steve will be responsible for strategic capital investments and developing ...
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Clearwater Paper Corporation has reported financial results for the third quarter of 2017. The company reported net sales of $426.5 million for the third quarter of 2017, down 2.0% compared to net sales of $435.3 million for the third ...
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GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada – a fabless developer of gallium nitride (GaN)-based power switching semiconductors for power conversion and control applications – has made available the GS61004B-EVBDC evaluation ...
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United Caps, a Luxembourg-based high performance cap and closure systems manufacturer, is set to acquire the plastic closures division of Closures4you. The acquired assets include 28mm caps for re-usable glass bottles as well as for ...
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Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA – a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) – has launched the UltraCMOS PE29102 high-speed FET driver. With a ...