CAPS AND CLOSURES

Rising demand for dispensing and child-resistant products boosts US sales / US market to expand by 3.9% per year to 2020 / Freedonia report

SIG COMBIBLOC

Onex investment fund acquires carton packaging manufacturer / Deal to close in Q1 2015

REYNOLDS

Takeover of Graham Packaging is wrapped up

PLASTICS PROCESSING IN GERMANY

IKB bank still sees considerable insolvency risk among plastics processors / Sales of German rubber and plastics industry back at 2007 level next year / Producers follow converters to growth regions