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Amcor Offers To Buy Parts of Alcan Packaging

Amcor Ltd. has offered to acquire parts of Alcan Packaging for $2,025 million from Rio Tinto, including Alcan Packaging Global Pharmaceuticals, Alcan Packaging Food Europe, Alcan Packaging Food Asia, and Alcan Packaging Global Tobacco

TAPPI Group To Aid Newcomers

TAPPI's newest committee will be aimed at helping industry students and those beginning their careers by linking newcomers with experienced professionals

New Packaging Study Offered

Allied Development Corp. offers a new global study on packaging for disposable medical devices

Bemis To Acquire Alcan Packaging Food Americas

Neenah, Wi | Bemis Co. will acquire the Food Americas operations of Alcan Packaging for $1.2 billion. The acquisition includes 23 flexible packaging facilities

PTI To Produce Small Quantity Prototypes

Holland, OH | Plastic Technologies Inc. (PTI) has the ability to produce small quantity extrusion prototypes for multilayer cast film and sheet products

Plastic Film Study

A new study from The Freedonia Group concludes that demand for plastic film in the US is projected to grow 2.6% annually to more than 16 billion lbs in 2012

Locking in Paper Supply

Mondi has entered into a long-term supply contract for sack paper with the Semen Gresik Group, said to be the largest cement producer in Indonesia.

PVC Keeps Tanks Fit

A Fab-Seal Industries PVC liner system kept deteriorating water tanks from leaking.

Flexible Packaging Wipes Out Waste

New flexible packaging for cleaning wipes from Method Products offers a 60% reduction in plastic compared to the canisters

Flex-Pack Summit

Norcross, Ga | TAPPI PLACE announces the 2009 Flexible Packaging Summit, to be held in Columbus, OH, April 28-30. Included will be the two-day Consumer

Green Guarantee

Plastics recycler CSIPLASTICS, Holden, MA, has designed a reusable bag that is guaranteed 100% fully recyclable

A Hybrid Vehicle

Bemis Paper Packaging Div., Omaha, NE, says its HybriCore poly/paper hybrid bag integrates the benefits of both paper and plastic, making it one of the strongest, most versatile bags in the marketplace

Candy Assortment

Ideal for a range of sweets, a new line of products from Noble Gift Packaging, Cedar Grove, NJ, offers marketers an array of style, color, size, and strength options from resilient to delicate packages, many of which can be custom-designed with branded messages

Curwood Turns 50

Oshkosh, WI | When businessmen Howard Curler and Bob Woods launched Curwood Inc. in a small garage in 1958, their vision was to develop polymer extrusion

Press a Perfect Fit

Bristol, TN | The Robinette Co., a full-service flexible packaging and specialty converting manufacturer, is making way for a new 52-in., eight-color

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