Sonoco’s president and CEO, M. Jack Sanders, will retire on April 2, 2018, following a 30-year career with the company. Sonoco’s Board of Directors has named Robert C. Tiede, who currently serves as the company’s executive vice president and COO, as CEO-elect. Tiede will join the board of directors upon Sanders’ retirement.
MacDermid Graphics Solutions (MGS), a division of MacDermid Performance Solutions, has appointed Alicia Gibson as global strategic marketing and portfolio manager.
The Society of Plastic Engineers (SPE), with support from Davis-Standard, is encouraging high school students to explore plastics applications and engineering through the PlastiVan program in November and December.
INDEVCO Plastics has acquired an equity stake in ePac. The partnership is designed to accelerate ePac’s leadership position in the rapidly growing short- and medium-run digital packaging market. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
The Sustainable Green Printing Partnership (SGP), the leading authority in sustainable printing certifications for print manufacturers, has elected two new members to its Board of Directors in addition to making two reappointments.
Bibo Barmaid of Annandale, New Jersey, recently partnered with Bemis Co., Inc. to produce individually-sized cocktail mix pouches for the first at-home cocktail machine that produces the drink in less than 20 seconds
The 500th machine of W&H's MIRAFLEX series, a MIRAFLEX II CM8, has been purchased by the Pakistani packaging manufacturer Packages Limited, marking a milestone for the flexo printing press family that was initially launched at Drupa 2008.