Category: Members
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Keith Strope Honored as 2024 Hall of Fame Inductee
The NACD Board of Directors is pleased to announce Keith Strope as the 2024 Hall of Fame Inductee. Strope, appointed Executive Chairman of TricorBraun in 2017, is a renowned leader in the global packaging industry. Prior to this role, Strope, a 43-year veteran of TricorBraun, served as the company’s President & CEO for 15 years.…
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Dawn Nowicki Honored as 2024 Distinguished Service Award Recipiant
The NACD Board of Directors is pleased to announce the 2024 Distinguished Service Award will be presented to Dawn Nowicki from MRP Solutions. Dawn has served on the Industry Advisory Council and has organized countless presentations and webinars for the NACD. Dawn is the Vice President of Marketing and Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) for…
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Veritiv Corporation Acquired by Private Investment Firm CD&R
NACD Member Veritiv Corporation announced this week that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by an affiliate of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice. This private investment firm has managed the investment of more than $40 billion in over 100 companies. Sal Abbate, Chief Executive Officer of Veritiv says: “This agreement is a pivotal moment in Veritiv’s…
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Plastics News Recognizes PHOENIX’s Katherine Trost
Congratulations to Katherine Trost, Director of Sales at PHOENIX, who was named a Woman Breaking the Mold by Plastics News: Although she is now on the sales side — as the director of sales for Aurora, Ill.-based Phoenix Closures Inc., which specializes in injection molded closures — Trost said she still loves being out on…
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MRP Unveils New Solutions Center
MRP Solutions’s new corporate offices in Lake Forest, IL are now open, extending their mission of providing specialized solutions across health & wellness, specialty food, and other sectors. The recent grand opening event welcomed customers and suppliers for a day of celebration. The event featured a ribbon-cutting ceremony in the Solutions Center space, where CEO…
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Novvia Group Acquires JF Shelton’s Packaging Distribution Division
Novvia Group has acquired the packaging distribution division JF Shelton from Ravago Group. JF Shelton Packaging Distribution is a Washington-based distributor of bottles, drums, IBCs, and other rigid packaging solutions. Operating out of facilities located in Kent, Washington and Portland, Oregon, JF Shelton Packaging Distribution has been a supplier of rigid packaging products to the…
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Join NACD’s Efficient, Valuable Zoom Networking
NACD will host online speed networking February 6-9. Take advantage of private meetings scheduled for your company with packaging suppliers. We’ll organize an agenda of 25-minute Zoom calls from between 10 AM and 3:30 PM Central with breaks in the day. All you need to do is choose the companies you’d like to meet with and…
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Novvia Group Acquires Innovative Container
Novvia Group (C.L. Smith, Inmark) has acquired Innovative Container, a California-based distributor of plastic, metal, glass, and corrugated containers. Since 2009, Innovative Container has supplied the Southern California market with a range of rigid packaging solutions, including pails, drums, bottles, jugs, jars, and cans. Operating out of a 20,000 square-foot distribution facility in La Mirada, California,…
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TricorBraun acquires Merlot Packaging
TricorBraun announced that it has acquired Vancouver-based Merlot Packaging, further expanding its presence in Canada. Merlot Packaging is a rigid packaging distributor specializing in high-quality closures, serving customers in the nutraceutical segment for nearly a decade. “Our acquisition of Merlot Packaging continues our long history of strategic investment and growth in Canada,” said Court Carruthers,…
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Mold-Rite is Now MRP Solutions
Mold-Rite Packaging, a NACD Supplier of Excellence, announced a corporate rebrand including a name change to MRP Solutions. Drawing on more than 70 years of manufacturing experience, MRP has established itself as a trusted provider of packaging solutions. With nearly 13,000 SKUs produced annually, the Company specializes in child resistant, continuous thread and dispensing closures,…