Packaging Acquisitions in New Jersey

ACR (AmerCareRoyal), a portfolio company of HCI Equity Partners, has acquired Mat-Pac, Inc., a supplier of paper, plastic, aluminum and sustainable packaging solutions for the North American foodservice and janitorial/sanitation markets. The add-on strengthens ACR's product portfolio, expands its reach across foodservice and JanSan end markets, and retains the Mat-Pac leadership (the Jimenez family) in an ongoing role.

The Ohio Art Company has acquired 100% of the assets of Allstate Can Corporation, a century-old specialty tinplate packaging manufacturer headquartered in New Jersey. The acquisition brings complementary metal lithography, printing and can-making capabilities together to expand Ohio Art's in-house packaging services and better serve a broad set of end markets.

Novvia Group, a national rigid container and life-sciences packaging distributor backed by Kelso & Company, has acquired JWJ Packaging LLC, a Millstone Township, New Jersey-based supplier of drums, pails and other rigid containers. Financial terms were not disclosed; JWJ will be combined with Novvia's existing New Jersey subsidiary, Rahway Steel Drum, as part of Novvia's Northeast U.S. expansion.

Glenview, Illinois-based Envoy Solutions has acquired Hillside, New Jersey-based Mooney-General Paper Co., a family-run distributor of industrial packaging, foodservice and sanitary maintenance supplies. The deal expands Envoy Solutions' footprint and capabilities in the densely populated Northeast, giving Mooney-General access to a national platform and broader product portfolio.

B2B Industrial Packaging, a GenNx360 portfolio company, has acquired Next Press, a corrugated packaging and printing specialist based in Mahwah, New Jersey. The deal is an add-on acquisition intended to expand B2B's product and printing capabilities and strengthen its coast-to-coast distribution and service offering.

Novvia Group, a Kelso & Company-backed national packaging platform, has acquired Rahway Steel Drum Company, a Cranbury, New Jersey-based distributor of drums, pails, IBCs and other rigid packaging solutions. The deal — financial terms not disclosed — expands Novvia's geographic footprint into the Northeast and adds distribution, reconditioning and dedicated logistics capabilities to its national platform.

Berlin Packaging L.L.C., a portfolio company of Oak Hill Capital Partners and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, has acquired Jansy (Jansy Packaging) from Eureka Equity Partners. The deal expands Berlin Packaging’s health & beauty packaging capabilities in North America; all Jansy employees and locations will be retained.

Austin-based private equity firm CenterGate Capital has acquired United Envelope, a Ridgefield, New Jersey-based manufacturer and printer of transactional and direct-mail envelopes. United Envelope's CEO Ken Bernstein will remain in place as CenterGate partners with management to support growth, expand capabilities, and continue serving the company's blue-chip customers across financial services, healthcare, government and nonprofit markets.

GenNx360 Capital Partners has made a platform investment in Nutra-Med Packaging, a Whippany, New Jersey-based contract packaging company serving the pharmaceutical, health & wellness and medical devices markets. The investment will support Nutra-Med's next phase of accelerated growth; founder Mahesh Gupta will move to an advisory role and Kunal Gupta will lead the company as CEO.

Premium Label & Packaging Solutions (a portfolio company of Dunes Point Capital) has acquired Luminer Converting Group, a converter of pressure-sensitive and booklet labels with manufacturing facilities in Lakewood, New Jersey and Red Lion, Pennsylvania. The acquisition is an add-on to PLPS to expand its label converting and manufacturing capabilities across pharmaceutical, medical, cosmetics/beauty and other end markets.

TricorBraun, a global packaging distributor based in St. Louis, has acquired New Jersey-based SGB Packaging Group, a full-service sales representative and supplier for cosmetics, skin care, fragrance and personal care packaging. The acquisition expands TricorBraun's supplier network and strengthens its presence in prestige and masstige personal care end markets; SGB will continue operating out of Hackensack, New Jersey with its management team in place.

CORE Industrial Partners portfolio company TCG Legacy has acquired MedLit Graphics, a Windsor, New Jersey-based provider of pharmaceutical packaging and labeling solutions. The add-on expands TCG Legacy's manufacturing footprint and capabilities across pharmaceutical production and marketing packaging, creating over 80,000 square feet of combined production space.

SupplyOne, a Wellspring Capital Management-backed supplier of corrugated and value-added packaging, has acquired Bell Container Corp., a century-old custom corrugated manufacturer headquartered in Newark, New Jersey. The deal expands SupplyOne's manufacturing capabilities and geographic reach in the greater New York metropolitan area while enabling Bell Container to offer SupplyOne's engineered packaging, automation and national sales programs.

Premium Label & Packaging Solutions (PLPS), a portfolio company of Dunes Point Capital (DPC), has acquired Label Graphics Manufacturing, Inc. (LGM), a New Jersey-based converter of custom pressure-sensitive labels and shrink sleeves. LGM operates manufacturing facilities in Little Falls and Fairfield, New Jersey, employs approximately 40 people, and serves pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, cosmetics/beauty and other end markets.

Akoya Capital Partners and Tecum Capital Partners acquired Primetac Corporation in partnership with the company's founders and management. The private equity investors plan to grow Primetac — a distributor of industrial packaging materials — by expanding sales coverage, service and product offerings and pursuing add-on acquisitions to build a national platform.

Bain Capital Private Equity has acquired World Wide Packaging LLC, a US-based cosmetics packaging provider, and simultaneously purchased a Chinese cosmetics packaging manufacturer with plans to merge the two into an integrated global solutions provider. The transaction keeps WWP's senior management in place and aims to combine US customer-facing design and sales capabilities with manufacturing scale in China to expand service offerings and access high-growth Asian markets.