February 27: Independent Can, the leading US decorative canmaking firm that last month celebrated its 80th anniversary, is to close its Bertels Can plant at Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania (pictured).
The plant was acquired in 2007 when the two firms realised they were in the same line of 50T popcorn cans and Independent moved some of its lines to Wilkes Barre.
Equipment from Bertels will be transferred next month to Independent Can’s factory at Fort Madison, Iowa, which was opened in 2008.
