Industry Watch

Companies

TricorBraun expanded its presence in the beverage packaging market with the acquisition of Zuckerman Honickman and Vessel Packaging.

Mold-Rite Plastics celebrated its Ohio facility’s 50th anniversary.

Following the recent merger between Arjobex and MDV, the new group will be known as Polyart.

Beckhoff’s TwinCAT automation software turned 25.

Ranpak Holdings Corp. expanded its cold chain packaging solutions with the acquisition of Recycold Cool Solutions BV.

Oliver Inc. acquired Professional Image and aspecialtybox.com.

ProAmpac acquired Prairie State Group, an SQF-certified provider of flexible packaging and labeling services, strengthening its flexible and sustainable packaging offerings for the food and pet food markets and expanding its labeling capabilities.

With the acquisition of SAPICI, a manufacturer of high-performance polyurethanes for coatings, flexible packaging, and industrial adhesives, Sun Chemical will add to its capabilities to develop and produce polymers for its portfolio.

Printpack invested in Nexus Circular’s commercial scale up of its proprietary advanced recycling process.

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People

Buffy Hagerman was appointed Marketing Communications Manager for Key Technology, a Duravant brand.

Formost Fuji Corp. promoted Derek Dietrich to Service Manager and David Korsmo to Assistant Service Manager. Bob McHenry will fill a new position within the department as Service Resource Specialist.

Greg Rousselot was appointed Strategy and Business Development Manager for PTI.

Vuk Trivanovic was named CEO of Shurtape Technologies.

Chris Nothnagle was appointed Senior Director, New Business Development for Toray Plastics.

Rohrer Corp. added Chris Rautner, Chief Human Resources Officer, Gary Starks, Senior Vice President of Operations, and Martin Layding, Chief Financial Officer to its leadership team. It also acquired Jay Packaging Group.

Lee Ralph was appointed Commercial & Supply Chain Manager for Eco Flexibles.

Garrett Guinn joins SOMIC Packaging as Western Regional Sales Manager.

In Memoriam

Laura Rowell and Elisabeth Comere passed away in October 2021. They were instrumental in establishing environmentally focused packaging organizations and initiatives such as AMERIPEN, The Sustainable Packaging Coalition, The Recycling Partnership, and the Carton Council of North America.

Bernie Lerner, founder of Automated Packaging Systems, passed away on December 11, 2021.

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