Sonoco Completes Conitex Joint Venture Acquisition Sonoco, Hartsville, South Carolina, has completed the acquisition of the remaining 70 percent interest in the joint venture of Conitex Sonoco, a vertically in- tegrated global manufacturer of paper-based cones and tubes. The Conitex Sonoco joint venture was formed in 1998 between Texpack, Inc., a Spanish- based global provider of paper-based packaging products, and Sonoco’s former North America textile cone business. Sonoco acquired the remaining 70 percent interest from Texpack, Inc., along with a composite can plant in Spain for $143 million in cash. In 2017, the joint venture produced total sales of approximately $245 million.
People & Places
Hamillroad Software Andy Cave, Hamillroad Software’s CEO, received the Technical Innovation award at the Future of Flexo, Join the Network Gala 2018, for his innovative work
developing products for the graph- ics, prepress and print industry, most recently the multi-award winning Bellissima DMS for f lexographic printing. Held on September 26, in Rose- mont, Illinois, coinciding with Label- Expo Americas 2018, the Future of Flexo inaugural Join the Network Gala, hosted more than 400 C-Suite executives, business decision makers
Andy Cave
and thought leaders from around the world to con- nect, discover and support the future health of flexo. “The 2018 Gala is not just a celebration of the suc- cesses of our giving community,” Claudio Semenza, the Future of Flexo chairman noted, “but a celebra- tion of the recipients of the donations that our com- munity makes. These recipients include young people involved in the study of flexography.” Graduating from the University of Bath with a BSc in Mathematics and Computing, and before founding Hamillroad Software Limited, Andy Cave was the Chief Designer at Harlequin (now Global Graphics) for more than 12 years where he established the RIP division and was responsible for the design and im- plementation of the Harlequin RIP. Hamillroad’s Digitally Modulated Screening (DMS) technology,Auraia DMS for offset and Bellissima DMS for flexo, were developed by Cave.
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