International agreements

Hassia USA (Morganville, NJ) has joined forces with Erca-Formseal (Les Vlis, France) and A+F (Kirchlengern, Germany) to offer thermoformer flexibility and end-of-line packaging to their customers.

—Imaje SA (Bourg-lès-Valence, France) has acquired Markpoint Holding AB (Göteborg, Sweden). —Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. (Chicago, IL) has purchased Corporación Durango’s (Durango, Mexico) bag packaging facility in Eastman, GA. —Pactiv Corp.’s (Lake Forest, IL) Sengewald business unit in Halle, Westfalen, Germany, is joining forces with Rollprint Packaging Products, Inc. (Addison, IL) to share medical packaging technology.

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