Packaging

Rigid packaging distributor TricorBraun has opened a new office in Mexico City. The company’s 34th office will focus operations on rigid packaging design, development, and distribution for markets in Mexico, South and Central America, and the Caribbean. Peter Retos, senior vice president for global strategies, and Carlos Acedo-Moreno, the general manager, will head up the company’s first facility in Mexico. . . . BridgeNet Solutions (Chicago) has been certified by the ISO, holding the supply-chain logistics management company to internationally accepted standards.

Charles Smart has been appointed director of engineering in the curing equipment department of Dymax Corp. (Torrington, CT). Smart will report to Terry Woldorf, sr. VP of global sales and marketing, and will be responsible for leading the engineering team to continue to support sales and marketing in the design and development of light-curing adhesive equipment. Smart has more than 20 years experience in the areas of automation, manufacturing, and design as well as being the sole and joint inventor on 10 US Patents. . . . Unicep Packaging Inc.

Worldwide demand for pharmaceutical packaging is projected to increase 6.3% each year to reach US$62.3 billion in 2013, reports The Freedonia Group in a new study. The United States will remain the largest consumer of pharmaceutical packaging as its advanced drug-producing sector introduces new sophisticated therapies with specialized packaging needs, the report claims.