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Industry Watch—May 2016

A quick look on the latest supplier news, mergers, expansions, and people as listed in the May 2016 issue of Packaging World.

Companies

Schneider Packaging Equipment Co. built a state-of-the-art training laboratory at its headquarters in upstate New York.

Petainer expanded its North American distribution network by partnering with ProStar, which will sell petainerKeg™ products exclusively.

Aplix Inc. earned certification for compliance with the British Retail Consortium (BRC).

Tekni-Plex, Inc. signed an agreement to acquire Sancap Liner Technology, Inc.

Massman Automation Designs, LLC acquired Elliott Mfg.

Dynamic Conveyor celebrates its 25th Anniversary this year.

LSI Labeling Systems was selected to join Systech’s Unisolve™ Partner Ecosystem. Systech offers its Unisolve serialization software as a fully integrated turnkey solution with LSI’s labeling hardware.

CSP Technologies, Inc. announced plans to acquire Maxwell Chase Technologies, LLC.

Klöckner Pentaplast announced plans to expand its Gendorf, Germany film production site. Completion is scheduled for early 2017.

People

Domino North America appointed Michael Barron Sector Development Manager—Medical Devices and David Deagle Sector Development Manager—Food Canning. Also, Paul Doody was appointed Global Marketing Director at Domino Printing Sciences.

Mary Dahl, Past President and Member Emeritus of the NACD, was chosen by the Board of Directors to be inducted into the NACD Hall of Fame; Dahl passed away on February 12, 2016.

Kevin Kelly was hired as a Service Technician and Ham Diaz was hired as a Quality Control/Inspection Technician for All-Fill Inc.

Goran Adolfsson was hired by Romaco North America to focus on business development.

Lisa Graessle was hired as Northern Midwest Regional Sales Manager for Ossid, div. of Pro Mach.

Michael May was hired as Senior Vice President of Operations for ADCO Mfg.

Engage Technologies Corp. announced the following new hires: Jim Mueller, Director of Sales and Marketing for Small Character Technologies; and John Mylrea and David Hanneken, District Sales Managers.

Achievement

Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics, a business unit of the Dow Chemical Co., was awarded the Label Life Sustainability Award 2016 by UPM Raflatac.

Pro Mach was named to the 2015 Inc. 5000 and the 2015 Deloitte 100 lists for top private companies in the U.S. and Cincinnati region.

In Memorium

Luther “Red” Hamrick, CEO, Hamrick Mfg. & Service, passed away on March 3, 2016.

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