COVERIS

Purchase of UK caps manufacturer Closures / Raising PET film capacity in Poland

COVERIS

Introducing new plastics packaging giant / Outcome of five-company merger including Exopack, Britton and Kobusch

PACCOR

Price increases inevitable / Drive to stay competitive and sustainable

EXOPACK

Five packaging companies merge into sixth-largest global plastics packaging player / Luxembourg new base / All entities belong to private equity company Sun Capital Partners

PACCOR

Development and innovation centre opened at German headquarter

THIN WALLED PACKAGING

Consolidation changes face of European market / Producers react to falling profitability / AMI study

PACCOR

Rising polymer costs force product price increases / No alternative despite major investment / Business will be adjusted if necessary

VERIPLAST

Packaging production shifted from Durham in UK to the Netherlands / Faerch Plast buys site

PREGIS

Kobusch-Sengewald flexible film business sold to Sun Capital / Latest plastics packaging company to join US holding

SUN EUROPEAN PARTNERS

Flexible and rigid packaging businesses established / Portfolio companies combined to create pan-European specialist units