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Packaging - 1997
Low & Bonar is selling its European polyethylene film business to British Polythene Industries for £7.7m, and also announced a £13m restructuring of its UK carton and North American plastic sack businesses.
02-Dec-1997
Britton Group, the plastics and packaging company, has agreed to a £198m takeover offer from ACX of the US.
26-Nov-1997
Hall Engineering is selling Improved Marking & Label Company, the maker of labels and name plates, to a new company called Inhoco 648 for £3m.
08-Oct-1997
Delta Print and Packaging is planning a £17m investment in its full-colour carton manufacturing factory in Belfast, creating 150 jobs.
02-Oct-1997
British Vita, the foams and plastics company, is acquiring Crest Foam Industries of the US and Silvergate Plastics, the UK colour compounding company, for a total of £15m.
09-Sep-1997
McCorquodale Confidential Print has been sold by Rexam to a management buy-out for £2.1m, which means that Rexam's programme of disposals is now 75% complete.
19-Aug-1997
Bunzl is to acquire Grocery Supply Systems, the US supplier of disposable supermarket products, from Unisource Worldwide for £54m.
16-Aug-1997
Low & Bonar, the packaging company, has acquired Nuway, the flooring business, from BTR for £11m, and plans to make further acquisitions over the next year.
12-Aug-1997
Field Group has bought Tudor Labels, the maker of self-adhesive labels, for an initial £5m.
08-Aug-1997
Rexam has sold William Clowes, the book printer, to management for £4.4m, as part of its continuing programme of disposals.
23-Jul-1997
Tinsley Robor is acquiring Lenteweg, the Dutch packaging company, for an initial £11.4m.
12-Jul-1997
Rexam has sold five more businesses for £18m, including Rexam Cartons and Flexible Packaging of the US, which was sold to a management team, and Dispenser, which was sold to Lindal Ventil of Germany.
04-Jul-1997
Bunzl is to acquire AFC, the US plastics extrusion and fibres business, for £108m.
03-Jul-1997
Adare Printing is acquiring the security print division of Kalamazoo Computer for £12m.
03-Jul-1997
Valmet of Finland is acquiring Atlas Converting Equipment, the packaging equipment maker, for £86m.
05-Jun-1997
Carrs Paper, the West Midlands-based paper and packaging concern, has been acquired by institutional investors for £24.4m.
08-Apr-1997
Rexam has sold four more subsidiaries for a total £24.4m - Goodhead Group has bought Benham & Company, Cookson has bought Tactus International, and Silgen Plastics has bought Rexam Containers in North America.
08-Apr-1997
Bunzl is acquiring American Filtrona, the US filter and fibre business, for £45m.
21-Feb-1997
Rexam has sold Otis Specialty Papers to Wausau Paper Mills of the US for £36m, and PT Rexam Mulox, the Indonesian maker of chemical containers, to a management buy-out for £1.3m.
13-Feb-1997