Jim Johnson
Senior Staff Reporter at Plastics News
Senior Staff Reporter at Rubber News
Reporter with Crain Communications Inc.
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3 days ago |
plasticsnews.com | Jim Johnson
Sealed Air Corp. sees little impact from the ongoing tariff battle the U.S. government has been waging. The Charlotte, N.C.-based food packaging and protective products maker recently told investors the company is largely shielded from the impact of tariffs due to the location of most of the company's customer base.
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1 week ago |
plasticsnews.com | Jim Johnson
There's a new alliance in Alliance. Alliance, Ohio, that is. A private equity firm called MPE Partners, also known as Morgenthaler Private Equity, is merging two packaging companies in Alliance, Central Coated Products Inc. and Sun America LLC, the latter which has a fleet of 11 thermoforming lines. Both companies also make a wide variety of paper-based packaging and will continue to operate out of their existing locations with no changes to daily operations, MPE said May 1.
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2 weeks ago |
plasticsnews.com | Jim Johnson
Amcor plc is expecting to slash hundreds of millions of dollars in costs now that the company has completed the takeover of Berry Global Group Inc. And there will be a major focus on pressuring resin makers to cut their prices for the global packaging behemoth. Zurich-based Amcor, through the Berry deal, is now a $23 billion company with about 400 locations around the world making flexible and rigid plastic packaging.
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2 weeks ago |
plasticsnews.com | Jim Johnson
Hamilton Plastics Inc. is being sold to Soteria Flexibles Corp., according to a mergers and acquisitions adviser involved in the deal.
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2 weeks ago |
plasticsnews.com | Jim Johnson
A pair of rigid plastic packaging makers are joining forces to create a transatlantic business with more than $1 billion in annual sales. IPL Group makes rigid plastic products for the food, consumer, environmental and agricultural segments, mostly for customers in North America. But the Dublin-based company also has a large presence in England and one site in Belgium.
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