Duravant, a Downers Grove, Ill.-based engineered equipment manufacturer serving the food processing, packaging and material handling sectors, acquired Mespack, a Barcelona, Spain-based manufacturer of flexible packaging equipment.
Protein products presented in patty or sliced form often depend on interleaving and stacking prior to being packaged in film on a form-fill-seal machine or loaded into trays or cartons.
Klöckner Pentaplast Group, Gordonsville, Va., and Berry Plastics Group, Inc., Evansville, Ind., entered into a marketing alliance to offer innovative form-fill-seal packaging solutions on a global basis to the food industry.
PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, Reston, Va., introduces PACK EXPO East, scheduled for Feb. 16-18 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia.
Clear Lam Packaging announced plans to open a new 25,000-square-foot co-packing facility and innovation center at its Elk Grove Village, Ill., headquarters and manufacturing operation in spring 2015.
Switzerland-based ILAPAK expanded its U.S. manufacturing with the development of a new state-of-the-art production facility in Lowell, Ark., to serve its North American customer base.