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International agreements

Cinven (London, England) has signed a contract to acquire the companies of Klöckner-Werke AG (Duisburg, Germany). —VantagePoint Group (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) has entered into a strategic agreement with Pivotal Corp.

(North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) to launch eSolutions Customer Relationship Management for Packaging. —Evergreen Packaging Equipment (Cedar Rapids, IA) and Senzani Brevetti S.r.l (Florence, Italy) announce a strategic partnership in which Evergreen will represent Senzani in sales in North America. —Arpac-Great Lakes (Schiller Park, IL) has become the official North American master distributor for Hanagata (Japan).

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