Matt Wicks FKI Logistex®

FKI Logistex appoints Matt Wicks vp of systems engineering for the Manufacturing Systems Group and adds Alfredo Villacorta Ramos as service manager at its Mexico City office

PneumaticScaleAngelus promotes Paul Kelly to executive vp from his current position of vp of operations.GMG Americas, the U.S. office of Germany-based GMG, hires Paulo Monteiro as manager, Latin America.

Paul Kelly PneumaticScaleAngelus

Multivac names Jeffrey Winkler and Michael Barron as regional sales managers within the Medical-Consumer-Industrial Division and James Stillinger as regional sales manager handling clients in the food industry. Rollprint Packaging Products, Inc. names Tony Paolino vp of sales and marketing.

Jeffrey Winkler Multivac

Barry-Wehmiller Companies, Inc. hires David VanderMolen as leader of organizational leadership development.

TecTubes hires Christopher D. Willey as director, sales and marketing.

Surefil LLC hires Susan Weaver as a purchasing manager.

Michael Barron Multivac

Crown Holdings, Inc. selects Raymond L. McGowan, Jr. to replace Frank J. Mechura as president of its Americas Division.

James Stillinger Multivac

Marsh, Inc. promotes Matt DeRhodes to director of production in Cincinnati.

Chemidex LLC appoints John Repko as chief technology officer, Tim Kelley as vp of operations, David Vranicar as vp of business development and finance and Wayne Kaufmanschmidt as chief creative officer.

Matt DeRhodes Marsh, Inc.

Bosch Packaging Technology appoints Sören Bräutigam as global marketing director.

Sören Bräutigam Bosch Packaging Technology

Advanced Handling Systems promotes Larry L. Boroff to project manager.

ACH Foam Technologies opens a new plant in McCarran, NV.

Barry-Wehmiller Companies, Inc. integrates Central Bottling International, Ltd., Doncaster, England, a Barry-Wehmiller business unit, as an operating group within sister division FleetwoodGoldcoWyard. Thomas Thistlethwayte continues as managing director and Richard Cranston joins as director of U.K. operations.

Printpack constructs a converting facility in Kutno, Poland.

Mettler-Toledo Safeline, Inc. opens an expanded product test lab in its Tampa, FL headquarters.

Advance Polybag, Inc. builds $50 million, 175,000-sq-ft plant in Sugar Land, TX.

Shorewood Packaging, a business of International Paper, transitions its setup box manufacturing from Waterbury, CN to its Thorofare, NJ, display and fulfillment operation.

Graham Packaging Company, L.P. opens a new plant in Tuzla, Turkey, producing polyethylene, polypropylene and polyethylene terephthalate bottles.

INEOS Films opens rigid films production site in Delaware City, DE.

Tidland expands manufacturing facility in Keene, NH.

Applied Manufacturing Technologies, Inc. reorganizes its engineering groups and establishes a practice area dedicated to general industry and systems-integrator accounts. Tim Noppe, a robotics industry veteran, joins AMT to head up the new business.

Cereplast expands bio-plastic production with a new, 500-million-lb capacity facility in Seymour, IN.

Balluff Gmb, Neuhausen, Germany, parent company of Balluff Inc., acquires SIE Sensorik Industrie GmbH, Viernheim, Germany.

NJM/CLI appoints Pack & Process, based in Mexico City, as sales agent for Mexico and Central America.

Adept Technology, Inc. signs AutoMotion Technologies, Lake City, FL to serve FL and PR and Innovative Automation Solutions, Platte City, MO to cover MO, KS, and NE.

ROVEMA Global Packaging Group (RGPG), LLC acquires ROVEMA Verpackungsmaschinen GmbH. Klaus Krämer, who had been the president of the American subsidiary, ROVEMA US, LP, is named CEO of RGPG. He is joined by Constantine Dantoulis, the group's chief financial officer, as well as existing members of the management board of ROVEMA Verpackungsmaschinen GmbH, who together will lead the new company.

Naturally Iowa, Inc. acquires PLA Supply Co.

PolyOne Corp. acquires GLS Corp.

Degrava Systems forms a strategic partnership with Printing Solutions, a subsidiary of OKI Data Corp. of Japan, in which OKI becomes the exclusive distributor for the Degrava P-8500 printer within the European, Middle East and African markets.

Pregis Corp. acquires Besin International B.V. for approximately $18 million and appoints Kevin J. Baudhuin as president, Protective Packaging North America.

United flexibles founding members PAWAG Verpackungen and Reuther Verpackung add LEIPA Georg Leinfelder GmbH of Schrobenhausen, Germany.

American Packaging Corp. is awarded the “Best Workplace in the Americas designation, Best of the Best - 2007” by the Printing Industries of America/Graphic Arts Technical Foundation.

Smurfit-Stone joins the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.