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Avery Dennison Corporation announced today that it has formalized a company-wide policy to promote responsible paper sourcing and procurement. The policy will be available in the Reports and Downloads section of the company’s sustainability website.

Intelligrated Customer Service & Support is offering a new Rate Your Operation and Maintenance Program survey, an online assessment tool designed to help operators identify any distribution center inefficiencies and performance gaps.

To support global food and beverage manufacturers locally, Eagle combines company experts specializing in x-ray inspection and fat analysis technology and a wide network of distributors, with presence in Europe, North America, Latin America, Africa and Asia. The company has extended its reach to China with a new sales and service presence to best serve the country’s fast-developing food manufacturing industry. Additions to its existing sales teams in the US and service capabilities in Latin America will ensure the company continues to support existing and new customers in 2013 and beyond.

The “Hybrid Chill Roll” was designed by the Menges Engineering Team to overcome inner chamber concerns seen in typical chill rolls (which are double-shelled and filled with a thermal transfer liquid). On a standard chill roll, the interior chamber is susceptible to oxidation (rusting), scaling (mineral deposits), and corrosion. This is because, with a traditional design, steel is used on the inner surface of the outer shell, the outer surface of the inner shell, and on the attached spiral wrap. When this material breaks down inside the roller, it leads to loss of thermal transfer performance (the roll doesn’t get as hot/cold as it should), and poor-quality output for the converter.

Portola Packaging, Inc. is announcing a $12 million capital expenditure in its Kingsport, TN and Tolleson, AZ facilities. The investment is being made to accommodate growing market demand for its hot-fill and aseptic beverage closures and increased dairy business market share.

Klöckner Pentaplast’s line of SmartCycle post-consumer recycled content polyester films produced in North America has been granted a “Certificate of Verification” by NSF International, an independent, third party, not-for-profit organization. The certificate verifies the recycled content claims of kp’s line of SmartCycle polyester films produced in North America and allows customers who use these films to be confident that the PCR-content claim is true and valid.

Cama USA, Inc., a subsidiary of Cama Group, announces the hiring of the following two new employees to their growing North American subsidiary:

PMMI, the owner and producer of PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2013, announces the Center for Trends & Technology: Improving Production through Innovation, sponsored by Rockwell Automation and its PartnerNetwork Program. Rockwell Automation is the sole sponsor of this new highlight featured on the PACK EXPO show floor.

Delkor has appointed Bernard McDowell as the new Sales Manager for Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana effective February 2013.

The M&G Group, one of the three leading producers in the Americas of PET for packaging applications, announces that it has signed a one billion dollar engineering, procurement and construction contract with Sinopec Engineering Co., Ltd. for the turnkey construction of the world’s largest single line PET plant with a capacity of 1 million tons per year, integrated with the largest western world’s single line PTA plant with a capacity of 1.2 million tons per year. The plan will be located in Corpus Christi, TX.