Rio Tinto is reportedly set to announce the sale of Alcan's non-beauty aluminum packaging assets to Australia's Amcor Ltd. for $2 billion US. Trading of Amcor's shares was halted Monday pending an ...

Australian packaging giant Amcor Ltd. has become an even larger flexible plastics behemoth by snagging parts of Alcan Packaging from Rio Tinto plc for a little more than $2 billion. Melbourne-based ...

AMERICAN CANYON ? There are now two manufacturers of screw caps for wine bottles planning to start making caps in Napa Valley. Alcan Packaging, a division of Rio Tinto Alcan of France, recently ...

NEW YORK -- Bemis Co., whose clear plastic packages hold everything from batteries to burgers, said late Sunday it is paying $1.2 billion for the global packaging business of Rio Tinto PLC. Buying the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Amcor is poised to cement its position as one of the world’s largest packaging businesses as its finalises ...

Australian packaging firm Amcor on Tuesday launched a 2.025 billion US dollar takeover offer for parts of resources giant Rio Tinto's Alcan business. Amcor said it had offered to buy four Alcan ...

Amcor (Australia) has made an offer of $2025 million for parts of Alcan Packaging (France), including the company's global pharmaceuticals division. Amcor (Australia) has made an offer of $2025 ...

Just because Alcan Inc. and Pechiney Group have created one of the world's largest packaging companies does not mean the companies plan to sit still. ``Organic growth is our top priority, but ...

Rio Tinto is set to sell its Alcan packaging business to Australia's Amcor for $2bn (£1.2bn) as the miner continues the divestment programme stalled by the global credit crunch. The deal – which ...

One of the companies involved in the purchase of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.'s RJR Packaging LLC division plans to build a plant in Winston-Salem. The site and other details of the proposed packaging ...