Puerto Rico

During the last five years, Clondalkin Group has by organic and acquisitive investment expanded its network of leading pharmaceutical and healthcare packaging companies to include suppliers such as Keller Crescent, Catalent Printed Components, Pharmagraphics Guy, Cartonplex, Kenilworth Products, Harlands, and Boxes Group.

CCL Industries announced that it has acquired Thunder Press Inc., a privately owned label company located near Chicago that produces patient instructional leaflets for leading pharmaceutical customers in the United States.

Clondalkin Group and Catalent Pharma Solutions announced that Clondalkin has agreed to acquire the Printed Components business of Catalent. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed, and closing is subject to receipt of regulatory approval. In addition, at closing Clondalkin and Catalent will enter into a long-term supply agreement which ensures that Catalent will continue to be able to provide customers of its market-leading commercial packaging business with high-quality printed components. With annual sales in excess of $100 million (€75 million), Printed Components manufactures secondary packaging products for the pharmaceutical and healthcare markets at four production locations

Tailored Solutions, developer and supplier of Label Traxx print business management software for flexographic and digital narrow web label printers and converters, has named Betty Grande to conduct business development in Latin America and the Caribbean. A graduate of the Printing Management program at Rochester Institute of Technology, Grande is based in Puerto Rico. Before joining Label Traxx, she held technical sales and business development positions with Intermarket Corporation, a major Latin American distributor of flexographic products such as the HP Indigo press and DuPont Cyrel. Label Traxx president Ken Meinhardt, commenting on the appointment, said: "Label

Wal-Mart has clout—there’s no doubt about that. When Wal-Mart speaks, people listen—especially its suppliers. The company created a real buzz for RFID a few years ago, when it announced that it was mandating the use of this technology from its suppliers. Although this effort has faded from the limelight and has been largely redefined in scope, RFID technology received more attention during a two-year period than it would have gotten in a decade. RFID technology still has a ways to go in terms of reliability and cost, but Wal-Mart’s initiative probably did a lot to advance its development.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—Clondalkin Group, an international producer of flexible and specialist packaging products with more than 40 production locations throughout Europe and North America and annual sales in excess of $1 billion, has acquired the Direct Plastics Group—one of Canada’s leading privately held converters of flexible packaging. Direct Plastics, located in Orangeville, Ontario, is an integrated producer and converter of flexible packaging products serving customers in Canada and in the United States of America since 1988. Utilizing its well invested manufacturing and converting technologies, Direct Plastics supplies high-quality packaging products to the frozen food, confectionery, horticulture and animal care markets. The acquisition expands Clondalkin’s presence