FMN | December 9th, 2019

Koenig & Bauer Awarded “Company To Watch”

Flexo Market News

At the recent fifth annual Digital Packaging Summit 2019 in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, Koenig & Bauer was honored to be recognized with the “Company to Watch” award.The Digital Packaging Summit 2019, a three-day, invitation-only gathering in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, played host to 95 printing/packaging executives hoping to expand their knowledge of dig- ital technology as it relates to their package printing and associated businesses. On hand were 43 solution providers, including Koe- nig & Bauer,who presented to and interacted with the packaging executives, sharing case studies and first- hand reactions by users of the sponsoring companies’ technologies. Label and packaging executives at this year’s summit voted Koenig & Bauer as the “Company toWatch”basing their decision on what they see in the market and what they hear at the summit. UPM Raflatac Opens Distribution Center In Russia UPM Raflatac has opened a new labelstock slitting and distribution terminal in Chelyabinsk, Russia to ex- pand its offering in the Ural region. The new facility features two-meter-wide slitting ca- pabilities and allows UPM Raflatac to offer an expand- ed range of sustainable paper, film and special prod- ucts to customers in the Ural region. The new terminal joins UPM Raflatac’s Russian Ter- minal Network, which includes facilities in St. Peters- burg and Moscow region that opened in 2009 and 2011, respectively. Europe’s Packaging Industry Sees M&A Rise Europe’s packaging industry saw a rise of 3.2 per- cent in overall deal activity during Q3 2019, when compared to the four-quarter average, according to GlobalData’s deals database. A total of 32 deals worth $411.04 million were an- nounced for the region during Q3 2019, against the last four-quarter average of 31 deals. Of all the deal types, M&A saw most activity in Q3 2019 with 22, representing a 68.8 percent share, fol- lowed by private equity with ten deals, representing a 31.3 percent share, for the region. In terms of value of deals, private equity was the leading category in Europe’s packaging indus- try with $315.14 million, while M&A deals totaled $95.9 million.

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