NEWSMAKERS January 2011

MOVERS & SHAKERS
Winpak Heat Seal Packaging names Sandra Luciano as account executive, healthcare. 

Adhesives Research promotes Scott Knorr to vp and GM.

Sonoco names M. Jack Sanders as president and COO.

Stäubli Robotics hires Daniel Chu as sales engineer for the Southwest Pacific region.

Mauser Group names Martine Willems as corporate sustainability manager.

Crown Holdings Inc. elects James Miller to its board of directors.

Flambeau Industrial Markets & Packaging Group hires Randy Thomas as industrial markets manager.

Alcoa Inc. names Julia Steyn and George King as VPs and co-managing directors of its business development group.

Daymon Worldwide appoints Carla Cooper as CEO and president.

Staco Energy Products Co. hires Jim Hall as marketing manager. 

Clarifoil hires Angela Cackovich as business line director.

Spirol Intl. elects Jeffrey Koehl as chairman and CEO and William Hunt as president and COO of Spirol International Corp.—North America.

Demptos Glass appoints Daryl Eklund as sales manager.

GROWING & GOING
Pratt Industries opens a new recycling operation in Winston-Salem, NC. The company will use recovered paper at its Conyers, Ga., corrugate box manufacturing plant and will sell metal and plastic to users of those recycled materials.

Coating Excellence Intl. opens its third flexible packaging facility, located in Appleton, WI. 

The Wittenstein Group opens a new $16 million production site in Gruesch, Switzerland.

International Packaging Systems, Crailsheim, Germany, part of the Gerhard Schubert Group, launches a new product division that offers individual engineering services relating to the production and packaging process.

BUYING & ALLYING
Pacific Packaging Machinery Inc. buys Pack West Machinery.

Silgan Holdings Inc. acquires the food can business of Vogel & Noot Holding AG, Vienna, Austria.

Staples Print Solutions, a division of Staples Inc, acquires PRINTSouth Corp.

Ardagh Glass Group acquires Impress Coöperatieve U.A. for €1.7 billion. The organization will be known as Ardagh Group.

Ryt-way Industries acquires Robert's Packaging Inc.

Alpha Packaging acquires Progressive Plastics Inc., Cleveland, OH.

Beckhoff Automation and Fertig Motors enter a product development partnership.

O-I acquires the glass container manufacturing business of Hebei Rixin Glass Group Co. Ltd. that includes two plants in the Beijing/Tianjin region of Hebei province.

Spiroflow Systems Inc. represents UL-based Pacemaker Services in North and South America.

ACCORDS
The Velcro Companies introduces a new logo that will be used on packaging and all other collaterals across both consumer and business-to-business units globally. 

CELEBRATING
DDL celebrates 20 years in business.