Packaging

DS Smith Packaging is proposing to move its Bradford-based retail and display and manufacturing arm, Multigraphics, into its Ely, Cambridgeshire facility.

Private equity firm Carlyle Group has bought the paperboard operations of global packaging group Chesapeake from Irving Place Capital and Oaktree Capital Management.

In the 12 months to 30 April, UK packaging group DS Smith achieved underlying pre-tax profits of 165m (2011: 111m), boosted by its acquisition of SCA Packaging.

Industrial Inkjet has added a robotic option to its XYPrint 200 printing system.

Benson Group has won top marks from Leicester College for supporting education and training on its four-year apprentice scheme.

Videojet Technologies says its new 1620 and 1650 ultra high-speed continuous inkjet printers will deliver more code content for high-speed packaging firms.

Graphic Packaging International (GPI) is to close its GPI Gillingham site six months after buying it from Contego Packaging, putting 170 jobs at risk.

Wrapping and inserting machinery manufacturer CMC won the award for Most Innovative Processing or Packaging Machine at the 2013 PPMA Group Industry Awards on Tuesday (4 June).

Managed print services provider InnerWorkings has acquired Yorkshire-based Professional Packaging Services (PPS) for an undisclosed sum.

CRP Print and Packaging has worked with brewer Miller Brands UK to develop a corrugated retail beer case that expands when opened and holds ice to chill beer bottles.