Industry watch: Companies

—BluePrint Automation B.V. (Woerden, the Netherlands), with U.S. operations headquartered in Colonial Heights, VA, held an open house at its Woerden facility as a way to introduce its latest innovations in end-of-line packaging automation.

Clariant Masterbatches (Charlotte, NC)
Clariant Masterbatches (Charlotte, NC)

—Clariant Masterbatches (Charlotte, NC) has relocated its Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, facility to a new facility in Lone Oak Court, Etobicoke, represented in this artist rendering. —Wurzburg, Inc. (Memphis, TN) and Atlantic Corp. (Charlotte, NC) have become members of Afflink (Tuscaloosa, AL). —Molins PLC (Milton Keynes, England) has acquired Rose Forgrove, formerly of Wakefield, England. Rose Forgrove horizontal wrapping machines will be handled out of Lancaster, PA, and Richmond, VA. —Packaging Aids Corp. (San Rafael, CA) has purchased the assets of TechnaSeal/Vertrod (Livermore, CA). —Barry-Wehmiller (Cuyahoga Falls, OH) has added Marquip (Phillips, WI) to its family of companies. —DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers (Clinton, IA) has acquired all of RPC Technology’s (Hayward, CA) Broadbeam® technology covering electron beam processors. —Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. (Chicago, IL) has completed the purchase of an Atlanta, GA, preprint facility from Advance Packaging Corp. (Atlanta, GA). —Amcor (Melbourne, Australia) will construct a new plastic closure plant in Ontario, CA. —Cargill Dow LLC (Minnetonka, MN) and Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (New York, NY) will collaborate on the further business development of PLA, a polymer made from annually renewable resources. Cargill Dow opened a new plant in Blair, NE, to produce polylactide, or PLA, polymers. —Bradman Lake (Brislington, Bristol, England) has entered into a mfg. and marketing agreement with Propack Processing and Packaging Systems Inc. (Toronto, Ontario, Canada). —Chevron Phillips Chemical Co., LP (Houston, TX) has created a new branding system for its line of polyethylene products called CPChem, which will help integrate the core products of Chevron and Phillips Petroleum Co. (Houston, TX) into two major product families. —Tocco/Feco (Boaz, AL) has acquired all intangible assets of Moco Thermal Industries (Romlus, MI). —Owens-Illinois Inc. (Toledo, OH) is shifting PET development to its headquarters and is retiring the names of two of its major subsidiaries: Continental PET Technologies Inc., and Owens-Brockway Plastic Products Inc

List: Digitalization Companies From PACK EXPO
Looking for CPG-focused digital transformation solutions? Download our editor-curated list from PACK EXPO featuring top companies offering warehouse management, ERP, digital twin, and MES software with supply chain visibility and analytics capabilities—all tailored specifically for CPG operations.
Download Now
List: Digitalization Companies From PACK EXPO
Conveying Innovations Report
Editors report on distinguishing characteristics that define each new product and collected video demonstrating the equipment or materials as displayed at the show. This topical report, winnowed from nearly 300 PACK EXPO collective booth visits, represents a categorized, organized account of individual items that were selected based on whether they were deemed to be both new, and truly innovative, based on decades of combined editorial experience in experiencing and evaluating PACK EXPO products.
Take me there
Conveying Innovations Report