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Combining strengths
AMB ACQUIRES UK FOOD PACKAGING BUSINESS
From left to right: Mark Prinn, MD of TDX, Bruno Marin, CEO of AMB & Giles Peacock, COO of AMB
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MB Spa, San Daniele del Friuli, Italy, a leader in rigid and flexible packaging solutions has acquired TDX (Europe) Limited, Newcastle (UK). TDX is a market leader in PET, RPET and laminated rigid films for the food and packaging industry. The acquisition will create a pan-European leader in the rigid and flexible plastic film and packaging solutions market enabling local manufacturing to serve local markets. The business partnership is complementary, creating a one-stop-shop offering of products and services, from tooling and concept design, product specification, print design and application, allowing the group to deliver new products and services to customer needs so that they can create onesupplier relationships with them. Giles Peacock, COO of AMB, said, “This is a highly complementary acquisition that will help AMB widen our European footprint to be more local to our clients in Northern Europe. We have always had a clear vision, and part of the vision is to create a group that can offer a complete end to end process for food packaging customers. A very exciting time for the market”. Visit:www.tdx-tss.com
Orange has completed the acquisition of 100% of SecureLink, the leading independent cybersecurity player in Europe.
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ith more than 660 employees, SecureLink reported revenues of 248 million euros in 2018. Today, the company serves more than 2,100 customers from a wide range of industries. SecureLink offers its customers
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E.ON invests in start-up company HoloBuilder T
aking a look at a construction site in Berlin from the Ruhr area together with a Bavarian colleague to see whether the civil engineering work has already been completed and when the new pipes were delivered: E.ON and its business customers are now able to do all this with ease – using 360° images and artificial intelligence to visualize construction sites. The company has invested in German-American start-up HoloBuilder, an, in doing so, is contributing to the further digitization of the energy industry, optimizing construction processes and simplifying customer communication during the construction phase. E.ON will use the HoloBuilder-solution in the future to build network projects such as substations and switchgears, as well as large city energy projects. Thomas Birr, Head of Strategy and
Innovation at E.ON, says: “As a future-oriented, innovative company, we have to reinvent ourselves continuously, constantly optimize our processes and digitize our business. The digitization of construction projects offers a high, yet unexploited potential. By investing in HoloBuilder, we are ideally positioned to implement projects for the energy transition in a more digital way – and thus more efficiently, faster, and more customer-oriented.” Visit: holobuilder/com
WINGAS sells its biomethane business
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part of its reorientation and further integration into the GAZPROM Group, WINGAS GmbH has decided to optimize and focus on its core business, the sale of
specialist services in cybersecurity consulting, security maintenance and around-the-clock support from its “CyberSOCs” (Cyber Security Operations Centers), as well as advanced incident detection and response capabilities. Thanks to SecureLink’s strong presence in Europe, Orange is significantly strengthening its ability to support customers across their regional footprints, while developing a unique
conventional natural gas, and has consequently initiated the sale of its biomethane business to E.ON Bioerdgas GmbH. WINGAS has been supplying its customers with biomethane since 2010. Last year, the company delivered around 300 GWh of biomethane to its customers. In Essen-based E.ON Bioerdgas GmbH, WINGAS has found a company that will continue its existing biomethane contracts and reliably and competently supply its customers with biomethane in the quality they require. E.ON is thus expanding its customer base in this area with tailor-made solutions and a versatile and highly flexible product range. Visit: www.wingas.com scale in the industry. SecureLink’s teams based in Sweden, Belgium, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark and Norway, along with their four CyberSOCs, represent a key asset for Orange Cyberdefense in its ambition to become the European leader in this market, where ensuring a local presence is now essential for customers. visit: www.orange.com
