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Domestic acquisitions, agreements

GE Fanuc Automation (Charlottesville, VA) and Phoenix Contact (Harrisburg, PA) have made an agreement where GE Fanuc will employ Phoenix Contact’s low-density I/O product, Inline, as the foundation for its own I/O product, VersaPoint™.

—Barry-Wehmiller Co., Inc. (St. Louis, MO) has acquired the assets of the Label Equipment Group (Los Angeles, CA) of CCL Industries. and —MWS (Milwaukee, WI). Paperloop.com (San Francisco, CA) has finalized the acquisition of Resource Information Systems, Inc. (Bedford, MA). —The Mead Corp. (Dayton, OH) has completed the acquisition of the carbonless coating operations of Moore Corp. Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario, Canada). —An investor group, lead by B. Joseph Rokus, the former owner of Reid Plastics, Inc., has acquired Berkley Industries, LLC (La Mirada, CA). —Tuscarora (New Brighton, PA) has agreed in principle to acquire Technapack, Inc. (Hillsboro, OR). —HK Systems, Inc. (Milwaukee, WI) and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY) have partnered to develop new technology for the material handling industry.

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