SONOCO

Agreement to acquire fellow US packaging producer Tegrant Corporation / USD 550m deal to be wrapped up this year / Birth of a North American protective packaging giant / Sector continues to consolidate

PLASTICS PACKAGING

Unbroken global growth for flexible and rigid packaging / Plenty of potential in the health and cosmetics sector / Amcor has highest sales in Europe / Further consolidation in the industry / AMI report

CONSTANTIA FLEXIBLES

Merger with parent company Constantia Packaging / Ambitious growth plans

FLEXIBLE PACKAGING

Modest growth expected up to 2016 / US still largest consumer, but China catching up / Asia likely to take more than half of global output / Plastics the dominant substrate / Pira study

PLASTIC PACKAGING MARKET

Germany, Austria and Switzerland dominated by SMEs / Highly fragmented industry / Sales and earnings slump in 2009 / Business starts to rebound in 2010 / Market analysis of 100 leading players

CONSTANTIA

Sales and operating profit improve in first half of 2010 / Stable development in flexible packaging

CONSTANTIA

Takeover of Amcor's Spanish packaging subsidiary Tobepal