SCA Tissue North America names Don Lewis president.
Alcan Packaging, a division of Rio Tinto Alcan, name Michael Rubenstein, currently president of the Global Pharmaceutical Packaging Business, to the newly created position of chief growth and innovation officer and Mike Schmitt, who continues as president of Food Packaging Americas, as president, Global Pharmaceutical Packaging.
DE-STA-CO promotes Bill Crusey to vp and general manager for Industrial Motion Control, LLC.
DataLase hires Joan Cekovsky-Kaza as vp of sales and marketing, North America.
Smyth Companies, Inc. names Bill Denzen general manager of Smyth's Minneapolis roll-fed division.
Weber Marking Systems names Thomas Michaelsen marketing director.
Fujifilm Graphic Systems U.S.A., Inc.promotes Masahiro Ota to president and CEO, replacing Hiro Tada, who has taken a new position as president and CEO with Fujifilm's Medical Imaging Div. In addition, Todd Zimmerman and Phil Kane have been promoted, respectively, to vp, field sales and vp, national equipment sales.
Multisorb Technologies appoints Robert Sabdo business development leader—food and beverage packaging.
WAGO Interconnect Div. welcomes Cory Thiel as product manager.
GROWING AND MOVING
BASF SE expands production of the biodegradable plastic, Ecoflex®, at the company's Ludwigshafen site from the current 14,000 to 60,000 metric tons/year.
Smurfit Kappa Group closes 130,000 tons of container board capacity at its Valladolid, Spain recycled container board mill.
Sandvik Coromant adds 40 new employees, which will increase the size of its research and development department by nearly 20 percent.
Shorewood Packaging, a business of International Paper, forms a joint venture with Corporativo Cartograf S.A. de C.V., Aguascalientes, Mexico, which produces folding cartons.
The Association for Operations Management relocates its corporate headquarters from Alexandria, VA, to Chicago.
BUYING AND SELLING
Applied Manufacturing Technologies, Inc. acquires K-R Automation.
Alfa S.A.B. de C.V., parent company of DAK Americas LLC, acquires the PET resins businesses of Eastman Chemical Co. in both Argentina and Mexico. They provide additional capacity of 407 million lb/year and 330 million lb/year, respectively.
Henkel acquires the Adhesives and Electronic Materials businesses from National Starch for 3.7 billion euros.
Silgan Holdings completes the acquisition of the White Cap closures business in Brazil.
Clear Lam Packaging, Inc. sells its MAP Systems Equipment Div. to OYSTAR Packaging Technologies of Davenport, IA.
Rockwell Automation, Inc. acquires Incuity Software, Inc., a privately held company that supplies enterprise manufacturing intelligence software.
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