Packaging firm Cascades has acquired four containerboard packaging plants in Ontario, Canada from Coyle family. The firm has also acquired 33% ownership stake in Tencorr, a manufacturer of sheet stock for box producers, as well as ...
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Pratt Industries has designed a new packaging for Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams, as part of the ecommerce inside print packaging series. Jeni provides ice creams in 32 company-owned scoop shops across the US, in addition to shipping ...
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Corrugated shipping containers manufacturer Rusken Packaging has acquired Great Southern Industries. Founded in 1962, Great Southern Industries manufactures corrugated containers in its 189,000 square foot facility located in Mississippi. ...
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US-based corrugated packaging firm WestRock has completed the acquisition of Multi Packaging Solutions International (MPS) for a total enterprise value of $2.28bn. Under the deal, WestRock purchased all of the outstanding shares of MPS ...
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WestRock has agreed to acquire five corrugated converting facilities from U.S. Corrugated for about $192m. The deal includes facilities located in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Louisiana. The facilities are used to offer a suite of products ...
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A new study conducted by Franklin Associates has confirmed that IFCO reusable plastic containers (RPCs) are the sustainable choice for fresh produce packaging. The updated report, Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of Reusable Plastic ...
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Packaging and paper producer Mondi is set to invest in its Mondi Simet plant near Pozna, Poland to strengthen its heavy duty corrugated capabilities in Europe. The investment will see installation of a 2.8m corrugator with three single ...
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UK-based corrugated packaging supplier Cepac has unveiled plans to expand its facility in Doncaster. The company will install new machines and expand manufacturing space at the facility under the million pound project, which is expected ...
Packaging solutions provider Georgia-Pacific (GP) Corrugated has acquired Southern California-based Reliable Container, for undisclosed amount. The deal also includes Reliable Container's converting plants in Santa Fe Springs, California, ...
Corrugated packaging containers specialist Liberty Carton Company has expanded its business with the acquisition of Western Container Company. Based in Minneapolis, in the US state of Minnesota, Western Container manufactures a wide range ...
Valmet is to supply a CompactCooking G2 pulp cooking system to Siam Cellulose's pulp mill in Ban Pong, Thailand. Siam Cellulose already operates two CompactCooking plants at its mills in the country. The 2-vessel continuous cooking ...
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INDEVCO‘s subsidiary INDEVCO Plastics has forayed into Texas, US, with its first manufacturing plant in Longview to produce petrochemical packaging products. The investment is part of INDEVCO's strategy to meet the expected surge in ...
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Corrugated packaging provider Green Bay Packaging (GBP) has acquired Great Lakes Packaging Corporation and Midland Container Corporation from MidCon Holdings, a portfolio company of Arbor Investments, for an undisclosed amount. MidCon is ...
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South Carolina-based packaging products firm Sonoco has begun operation of a fully automated Material Recycling Facility (MRF) to process kerbside collected dual stream residential and commercial waste materials from the Raleigh and Wake ...
IFCO SYSTEMS, the global leader in Reusable Plastic Containers (RPCs) for fresh products, today announced the expansion of its life cycle assessment research comparing RPCs and display-ready corrugated boxes used to ship fresh produce to ...
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