Indian packaging company Essel Propack is in talks to acquire a packaging unit of Canada’s Alcan, according to sources in the know. Montreal-based Alcan reportedly indicated it wants to sell its ...

PARIS, FRANCE- May 29, 2007 - Alcan Packaging Kreuzlingen announced today that it passed the new ISO quality standard 15378:2006 certification in February 2007. Alcan Packaging Kreuzlingen is the ...

Just because Alcan Inc. and Pechiney Group have created one of the world's largest packaging companies does not mean the companies plan to sit still. ``Organic growth is our top priority, but ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Bemis Co., whose clear plastic packages hold everything from batteries to burgers, said late Sunday it is paying $1.2 billion for the global packaging business of Rio Tinto PLC. Buying ...

Australian packaging giant Amcor Ltd. has become an even larger flexible plastics behemoth by snagging parts of Alcan Packaging from Rio Tinto plc for a little more than $2 billion. Melbourne-based ...

CENTRALIA, Ill. – Aluminum producer Alcan Inc. said Wednesday it will close its plastic packaging plant here by March and lay off all 221 employees, the latest large exodus of jobs from this ...

One of the companies involved in the purchase of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.'s RJR Packaging LLC division plans to build a plant in Winston-Salem. The site and other details of the proposed packaging ...

Rio Tinto said Tuesday has completed the almost $2 billion sale of some divisions of its Alcan business to Amcor, taking another step toward cutting its debt load. By Dealbook The sale, to the ...

NEW YORK -- Bemis Co., whose clear plastic packages hold everything from batteries to burgers, said late Sunday it is paying $1.2 billion for the global packaging business of Rio Tinto PLC. Buying the ...