Originally Published PMPN December 2005
News
Industry Briefs
INEOS (Delaware City, DE), a manufacturer of specialty and intermediate chemicals, has changed the name of its films business, EVC Films to INEOS Films. The goal of the name change is to further identify and integrate the blister films supplier with the INEOS Group. The name change will in no way affect the company’s day-to-day business activities.
Anderson Packaging Inc. (Rockford, IL) has matched its employees’ contribution of $11,000 to the Red Cross for a total contribution of $22,000 for Hurricane Katrina victims. Anderson’s parent company, AmerisourceBergen (Chesterbrook, PA), and its employees raised more than $700,000 to donate to the Red Cross’s hurricane relief efforts through a corporate match program.
Applied Tech Products’ (ATP; Radnor, PA) Engineered Rubber and Plastics Group has entered into a joint venture with Hopeful Rubber Group (Hong Kong). ATP-Hopeful Rubber Company, Ltd., will operate in Foshan City, Guangdong Province. The company will mainly manufacture compression-molded parts, but plans to branch out into liquid-silicone injection molding and mold making.
Europack (Beccles, Suffolk, UK), a member of the Bradman Lake Group, has designed, manufactured, and integrated three end-of-line packing machines for Abbott Laboratories’ (Abbott Park, IL) pharmaceutical production plant in Queensborough, Kent, UK. One Europack machine combined a cartoner with a side-load case packer. It collates blister packs in cartons into groups of five, 30 times per minute, then loads them into cartons, collates again, and packs them into corrugated cases. The second machine that Abbott integrated into its system was Europack’s Swiftpack line, which uses pick-and-place robotics to top-load cases at speeds up to eight per minute. The machine can be changed over in 30 minutes. Europack also integrated its bottom-loading case packer for Abbott’s anesthetic product line. With this machine, bottles either stand alone or are cartoned before being loaded into cases. Various sizes of cartons can be used, and inserts can also be incorporated with this case packer.
Rigid-packaging manufacturer TricorBraun Design Group (St. Louis) has acquired Cal-West Tool & Mold (Corona, CA), a custom designer and manufacturer of blow molds. As a result, TricorBraun Design Group has changed its name to TricorBraun Design & Engineering. The company now offers integrated, single-source rigid-packaging design and development services.
Celanese Corp. (Dallas) has announced that it will sell its cycloolefin copolymer business to Daicel Chemical Industries Ltd. (Osaka, Japan) and Polyplastics Company, Ltd. (Tokyo). Daicel and Polyplastics intend to form a joint venture in Germany to which all employees, as well as production and research facilities, will be transferred.
Copyright ©2005 Pharmaceutical & Medical Packaging News
