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WestRock announces Rajiv Banavali as Senior Vice President, Science and Innovation. In a newly created role, Banavali will expand the materials science capabilities for creating new products, processes and services…

Valmet has entered into an agreement to acquire PMP Group in Poland. The enterprise value of the acquisition is approximately €64m, plus a conditional and capped earn-out component. The acquisition…

Phillip Mack, Vice President of Young Shin USA, has announced the latest addition to the company’s comprehensive die-cutter product line – the fully-automatic SuperFeed series of pre-feeders. Designed to seamlessly…

 JM Heaford has appointed a new agent for Colombia. Chemisolutions SAS has assumed responsibility for sales and support of Heaford mounters and proofers for the Colombian flexible packaging and corrugated industries….

Juan Pablo Perez Chavez, Chief Financial Officer for Smurfit Kappa Americas, has been elected as president of ACCCSA, the Association of Corrugators of the Caribbean, Central, and South America. Juan…

Inkmaker srl has acquired Germany-based SWESA, a company specialised in customised dosing-systems. The acquisition is Inkmaker’s third since 2019, acquiring Rexson Systems Ltd and Vale-Tech Ltd in the United Kingdom and Tecnopails…

France-based sheet feeder CGW has confirmed the commercial availability of D flute corrugated sheets. The company are also able to combined D flute with other flutes, such as DC (5.6mm)…

DS Smith and Laithwaite’s Wine, one of the UK’s largest online wine merchants, have joined forces to certify a closed loop recycling system across the two companies’ supply chains. Using…

Livestream shopping grew by 150% and was watched by 400 million shoppers in China last year. The home delivery expert ParcelHero says Amazon Live is already streaming in the USA…

Esko has extended a multi-million dollar in-kind donation to support college and university students in their packaging engineering and technology studies. Through this donation, students will be able to design and…

Highcon has confirmed that its shareholders appointed Amichai Steimberg as Chairman of the Board.  Amichai retired in March 2020 as the Chief Executive Officer of Orbotech, a leading global supplier of…

Metsä Board has started operations in its new Excellence Centre at the bioeconomy site in Äänekoski, Finland, to develop solutions for packaging, today and into the future. The centre aims…

Compack is introducing an online solution that enables brand owners to compare and choose suppliers who provide on-demand custom packaging services for both primary and secondary packaging. Available for folding…

Marbach is working at full speed on various digitalization and Industry 4.0 projects. Marbach Marketing Manager Tina Dost, explains, “We have been intensively involved with the subject of digitalization even…

Teufelberger Strapping has appointed Daren Spice as its new area sales manager for Scandinavia and Benelux. “I’m delighted to join Teufelberger’s Fibers & Plastics division, a world class manufacturer of…

DS Smith has issued a trading update in respect of the period since 1 May 2019. The company says that business continues to progress well despite, as expected, continued macroeconomic…