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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

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