Appleton, Appleton, Wis., USA, has completed the sale of C&H Packaging, Merrill, Wis., to InterFlex Group Inc., based in Wilkesboro, N.C. Terms of the sale were not disclosed.
This past July, Appleton announced its intention to explore options to sell C&H Packaging, a wholly-owned subsidiary it acquired in April 2003. C&H Packaging prints and converts flexible plastic packaging materials for companies in the food processing, household, and industrial products industries. It employs approximately 80 people.
Appleton's CEO, Mark Richards, said that Appleton intends to focus its performance packaging operations on film production. Appleton's film-producing facilities include American Plastics in Rhinelander, Wis., and New England Extrusion in Turners Falls, Mass., and Milton, Wis.
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