International agreements

(Seoul, Korea).—Omega Design Corp. (Exton, PA) will become an exclusive North and South American distributor for Bauman (Barcelona, Spain) unscramblers.—Power Packaging (St. Charles, IL) has acquired a Sweet Ripe Drinks Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) hot-fill bottling facility.—Trexel Inc. (Woburn, MA) has entered into a licensing agreement with Arburg, Inc. (Lossburg, Germany) to supply injection-molding equipment with MuCell® foam technologies.—BarCode Express (Mississauga, Ontario, Canada) has signed a letter of intent to purchase the internet start-up UPCSmart.com (Toronto, Ontario, Canada).—Modular Packaging Systems, Inc. (Pine Brook, NJ) has been appointed North American distributor for Rudolf Deckert (Schwabisch Hall, Germany).—MBP Associates (Green Bay, WI) has become the exclusive representative in North America for gravure labels produced by Dixie Toga (São Paulo, Brazil).—Nova Chemicals Corp. (Calgary, Canada) announced its acquisition of Royal Dutch Shell’s (London, England) polystyrene business.—Elite Converting Machinery Ltd. (Taunton, U.K.) and Cameron Equipment (Taunton, United Kingdom) have combined to form Elite Cameron Ltd.