Newsmakers 215

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Plastic Technologies, Inc. (PTI) promotes Craig S. Barrow to president.

Hardy Instruments, Inc. appoints Ric Rummel as director of global sales.

NJM/CLI appoints Richard Gauthier as production and service manager.

Norwood Marking Systems/Allen Coding Systems appoints Jasper Bruinsma as regional account manager based in Torrance, CA.

PDC International Corp. names Dan Capell as western regional sales manager in Anaheim, CA.

York Label names John P. McKernan as president and CEO.

Barry-Wehmiller Intl. promotes Balachandran “Bala” Anantharama to partner, enterprise consulting.

Sonoco promotes Jim W. Brown to division VP and general manager, South America.

GROWING 

WeighPack Systems, Inc. opens a midwest systems center in Chicago and promotes Mark Conforti as manager of the center.

Flexicon Corp. (Australia) Pty. Ltd. opens new sales offices in Sydney. 

O-I launches its Ideation Center in Perrysburg, OH, where O-I collaborates with customers to create innovative breakthroughs in glass packaging.

BUYING & ALLYING

Delkor Systems joins Rockwell Automation PartnerNetwork™.

Alliance, a RockTenn co., and QPSI open a 192,000 sq-ft contract-packing facility in Iowa City, IA.
 
DAK Americas, LLC  acquires the technology from E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. (DuPont) to manufacture a select group of 2GT-based polyester-resin products formerly produced under the Crystar® trade name. 

HK Systems, Inc. partners with Dexion. Ltd., located in North Ryde, Australia, to expand offerings in Australia and New Zealand.

International Petroleum Investment Co. acquires Nova Chemicals Corp.

CELEBRATING

Saint-Gobain Containers, Inc. is named, along with its parent company, Saint-Gobain, as a 2009 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year by the U.S. EPA.

CALL FOR PAPERS

PMMI seeks presentations for the 2009 Conference at PACK EXPO, which will be held Oct. 5–7, 2009.