The UPM, Michelman and BOBST collaboration highlights a practical question for paper packaging teams: barrier paper must be evaluated through coating performance, converting conditions, food-contact evidence and recycling claims.
Spain’s Saica Group is acquiring Germany’s Thimm Group. This post unpacks why family-owned consolidation in the European corrugated packaging market is accelerating, and what Korean exporters and packaging buyers should watch.
International Paper has acquired a corrugated converting facility from Delmarva Corrugated Packaging in Dover, Delaware. The deal may look smaller than a paper mill acquisition, but it points to a key packaging supply-chain issue: the ability to turn board into customer-specific boxes, structures, print, and logistics-ready packaging close to demand.