Supplier news: Domestic acquisitions, agreements

Additional- ly, Westvaco has completed the acquisition of a Temple-Inland Inc. (Evadale, TX) bleached paperboard mill. Westvaco has also completed its previously announced acquisition of Mebane Packaging Group (Mebane, NC).—Cargill Dow Polymers (Minnetonka, MN), a 50:50 joint venture between Cargill Inc. (Minneapolis, MN) and Dow Chemical Co. (Midland, MI), has unveiled a new packaging polymer made from annually renewable resources.—Honeywell Engineered Applications & Solutions (Morristown, NJ), is a new business that was formed out of the AlliedSignal Inc. (Morristown, NJ) and Honeywell Inc. (Freeport, IL) merger in December.—Roper Industries, Inc. (Tucson, AZ) has acquired Motion Analysis Systems Div. (San Diego, CA) from the Eastman Kodak Co. (San Diego, CA) and Redlake Imaging Corp. (Morgan Hill, CA).—Nichols Paper Products (Nichols, WI) has acquired the assets of Hi-Tech Film (Kaukauna, WI), which has been renamed Hi-Tech Plastics Inc.—Berlin Packaging (Chicago, IL) announced its merger with Knap-Pac, Inc. (New York, NY).—Mobil Chemical Co.’s Film Div. (Macedon, NY) has become the Films Business of ExxonMobil, following Mobil’s merger with Exxon Corp. (Houston, TX).—Menasha Corp. (Neenah, WI) recently acquired the assets of Comark Bates (Elk Grove Village, IL).