Newsmakers
-- Packaging Digest, 12/1/2007
MOVERS & SHAKERSLenze-AC Tech appoints Christine Clancy customer-service manager.
B&R Industrial Automation hires Jerry Golden as manager, end users
Linda Ray Nordson Corp.
Nordson Corp. hires Linda Ray as global business-development manager for new markets in the Adhesive Systems Group.
Display Pack, Inc. hires Kelly Ritter as advanced purchasing manager and Tim Harms as controller.
Trevor Jones Motoman, Inc.
Motoman, Inc. hires Trevor Jones as senior general manager of Yaskawa Motoman Canada.
Georgia-Pacific, LLC names William A. “Bill” Frerking vp and chief sustainability officer.
Michael J. Brown Domino Printing Sciences
SATO America, Inc. names Greg Simmons technical support supervisor for its operations in the Americas and appoints Cynthia Jameson technical writer.
Printing Sciences p.l.c appoints Michael J. Brown president, North American Operations.
John R. Davis Great Northern Corp.
Huston Patterson Corp. promotes Lee Tirey to a new client services manager position representing the Mid-Atlantic region, which includes NJ, PA, VA and WV.
Crown Holdings, Inc. promotes James D. Wilson to president, CROWN Aerosol Packaging USA.
William A. Raaths Great Northern Corp.
Great Northern Corp. promotes John R. Davis to the position of corporate CEO in addition to his role as president of the Packaging Group, and William A. Raaths, CEO since 2002, will become chairman of the board. The changes will be implemented at the annual meeting in April 2008.
Milacron, Inc. hires Brian T. Bishop as vp of marketing, global plastics machinery.
GROWING & GOINGVacuum Barrier renovates and expands its Woburn, MA headquarters.
Sonoco's Matrix Packaging unit opens a new rigid plastic container plant in St. Louis. in the first quarter of 2008 to produce extrusion blow-molded bottles for household chemical and personal care markets.
Amcor expands its Apriso FlexNet deployment into its Flexibles Division.
BUYING AND ALLYINGMarkem Corp. (Keene, NH) and Imaje S.A. (Bourg-lès-Valence, France), two of Dover Corp.'s Dover Engineered Systems companies, combine to become Markem.Imaje, and Serge Kral is the newly appointed president of Markem.Imaje.
Bemis Co., Inc. partners with Plantic Technologies, Ltd., an Australian company specializing in starch-based biopolymers, to develop and sell renewably resourced flexible films using patented Plantic® technology.
Cloud Packaging Solutions, LLC acquires Automated Packaging, Inc. and Nature Clean Products, LLC lo-cated in Winder, GA.
Rockwell Automation, Inc. buys Pavilion Technologies, Inc., which is headquartered in Austin, TX.
Multi-Color Corp. acquires Collotype Intl. Holdings Pty., Ltd., which is headquartered in Adelaide, Australia.
International Paper acquires Fidelity Container Corp.
WS Packaging Group, Inc. purchases SenecaSalem, Inc.
CHEERSAlcan Packaging's president and CEO, Ilene S. Gordon, is named to Fortune Magazine's “Global Power 50,” which recognizes the most powerful women executives in international business.

















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