Placon Corporation Strengthens Position as Leading Provider of Medical Packaging with Acquisition of Barger Packaging

Placon Corporation of Madison, Wisconsin announces the acquisition of Barger Packaging, Inc., a thermoform manufacturer of packaging for the medical and pharmaceutical industries.

Nov 2, 2011

With the acquisition, family-owned Placon becomes one of the top three medical thermoformers” … To view the rest of the press release, please click on the attachment.

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