Packaging Briefs – TUESDAY JUNE 8

Graham Packaging announces management changes
Graham Packaging Company Inc. today announced the following management changes. Ashok Sudan, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Global Food and Beverage, has resigned his position at Graham Packaging effective June 30, 2010. Peter Lennox has been appointed to succeed Mr. Sudan. Mr. Lennox's previously served as the company's Senior Vice President, General Manager of Household Chemical and Automotive, Personal Care/Specialty and South America and has been with Graham since 2000. Mr. Lennox has previously run the company's European business, PET Business Unit, and most recently the company's Household Chemical and Automotive, Personal Care, and South American Business units.

PAKIT Inc. formalizes manufacturing agreement with ATS
PAKIT Inc., is a step closer to full-scale production of its PAKIT100™ fibre molding machines, thanks to a strategic alliance with Ontario-based ATS Automation Tooling Systems Inc. Over the past 10 years, PAKIT's scientists have designed, refined, and sought support for the commercialization of a technology that can turn cellulose fibre into recyclable and biodegradable molded board for the packaging industry. Locally-sourced raw materials – such as grass, agricultural waste, or newsprint – can be transformed by PAKIT's patented technology into virtually any shape, from compartmentalized food containers to mobile phone packaging.

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