ISO 9001 certification: Atlas Box & Crating (Sutton, MA); Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. (Chicago, IL), for its Columbus, IN, Keokuk, IA, Little Rock, AR, and San Jose, CA, corrugated plants.
Rothschilds (London, England), on behalf of Valmet Converting PLC (Helsinki, Finland), will offer £86 million in cash for Atlas Converting Equipment (Bedford, England).
ISO 9002 certification: Atlas Electric Devices Co. (Chicago, IL); The Reynolds Co. (Greenville, SC) for the manufacture of water-based, hot melt, and dry-blended adhesives, as well as specialty industrial coatings.
HK Systems, Inc. (Milwaukee, WI) has acquired the Material Handling Systems division and VantageWare Software subsidiary of Western Atlas Inc. (Hebron, KY).