Domtar Corp. has entered into an agreement with PrintEco, where it will be the exclusive paper company sponsor of PrintEco's flagship product. Domtar EarthChoice messaging incorporated into the program will allow PrintEco users to learn how their responsible choices made throughout the fiber lifecycle can lead to a more sustainable world.
Blue Wolf Capital Partners and Atlas Holdings have reached an agreement to acquire a controlling interest in Twin Rivers Paper from Brookfield Asset Management. Together, both companies have a depth of experience in successfully collaborating with stakeholders to build investee companies into sustainable, highly competitive enterprises in both Canada and the United States.
KPS announced in April it was acquiring Thilmany Papers, which has mills in Kaukauna (WI) and De Pere (WI), from Packaging Dynamics. It announced previously it was buying Wausau Paper’s specialty paper business.
KPS now has definitive agreements to buy both operations it said in a statement Monday. The deal is expected to close by summer. “We are very excited to create Expera,” said Raquel Palmer, a representative with KPS, a New York-based private equity firm.
She said the combined operations of Wausau Paper and Thilmany will make Expera a leading manufacturer of specialty paper.
Consolidated Graphics executives provide an overview of their company and examine how changing technologies impact the M&A landscape.
This week International Paper announced that it is in talks with Unisource regarding a proposed merger of xpedx, International Paper's distribution business, and Unisource. So what will this mean?
Would a NewPage acquisition help Quad maximize its customers’ print ROI? Does it help them lower their costs? From my vantage point, it does nothing on to help its customers, and I don’t see much effect on its costs either. We have two mature companies, neither of which has strategies that complement the other, and they’re both looking at a “bet the company” deal. It doesn’t make much sense to me.
Duplo USA has entered into an exclusive agreement with Photobook Technology PBT to distribute the latter’s Mitamax, Mitabook, and Mitacase products in North America. Duplo will host an open house event on Jan. 23-25, 2013, at its showroom in Suwanee, GA, to demonstrate these solutions.
After finally emerging from bankruptcy protection, with a much lighter debt load, NewPage Corp. clearly has merger on its mind. Why else would North America’s largest maker of coated paper choose as its chairman Mark A. Angelson, the U.S. printing industry’s Great Consolidator?
Further consolidation of the paper industry is inevitable, but could Angelson & Co. have something more radical in mind? Like maybe a marriage with a printing company? Like maybe Quad/Graphics, the continent’s #2 printer?
The idea that the two Wisconsin-centric companies are natural allies has been around for years. Quad...proposed an unusual alliance with a NewPage predecessor
EFI has acquired Technique, a provider of MIS/ERP software products for the publication, commercial and direct marketing printing industry segments. The Technique management team and employees will join EFI as part of its Productivity Software Business Unit.
FutureMark Paper Group has been launched as the umbrella group for the two recycled paper producers that previously operated as Manistique Papers and FutureMark Paper. FutureMark Paper Group is strategically aligning the talents of its Manistique and FutureMark Alsip teams to accelerate product development, spark innovation and enhance the business value it delivers to customers.
