Packaging: RPC consolidates personal-care business

 (Higham Ferrers, England), one of the largest such processors in Europe with captive blowmolding, injection molding, and thermoforming facilities, is consolidating its cosmetics and personal-care operations. Its RPC beauté facilitiy in Mozzate, Italy, which molded packaging for make-up and perfumes, will be closed, with its operations transferred to the French site of Marolles, which will become part of the firm’s large German site, RPC Bramlage-Wiko.

RPC’s business in processing packaging of fragrances, color cosmetics, personal-care items, and toiletries is consolidated under the leadership of Alfons Böckmann, longtime boss at RPC Bramlage-Wiko. The new RPC Bramlage-Wiko operation will have sales of euro 250 million, with 11 production sites in Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and the U.S., as well as partnerships in Russia and Thailand.—[email protected]