The Netherlands-based Aarts Packaging delivers luxury packaging solutions for the beauty, food, medical and pharmaceutical end markets
TriMas acquires Aarts Packaging. (Credit: Laura Mitulla on Unsplash)
US-based product packaging firm TriMas has snapped up the Netherlands-based luxury packaging solutions provider Aarts Packaging for an undisclosed sum.
Aarts Packaging provides packaging solutions to customers in the food and life sciences end markets and beauty and lifestyle brands.
The acquisition adds Aarts to TriMas Packaging’s group of businesses, which consists of Rieke, Affaba & Ferrari, Rapak, Taplast, Intertech and Omega Plastics.
TriMas president and chief executive officer Thomas Amato said: “We are excited to announce the addition of Aarts Packaging to the TriMas Packaging family of businesses.
“This acquisition will broaden TriMas Packaging’s presence in beauty applications, adding a variety of cosmetic dispenser closures and beauty packaging design solutions. Aarts Packaging also provides products for food packaging and medical applications, expanding our existing presence in those core end markets.
“We expect Aarts Packaging’s customers to benefit from TriMas Packaging’s broad product offering, expanded design resources, global manufacturing footprint and continued investment in Aarts Packaging’s production capabilities.”
Aarts Packaging delivers packaging solutions for the cosmetics, food, pharmaceutical, and medical industries.
The US-based product packaging firm said that the business’s manufacturing plant has robotic production, highly automated injection moulding machines, and in-house finishing capabilities including decorative metallisation.
Additionally, the facility has earned certifications for ISO 9001 and the British Retail Consortium’s (BRC) Global Standard for Food Safety. EcoVadis, an independent source of sustainability assessments, has also awarded the facility a silver grade.
Aarts Packaging creates distinctive, highly-customised items such as upscale beauty and fragrance caps and closures, pharmaceutical jars and dosage containers, and food-related jars, scoops, and capsules using its advanced methods and expertise.
TriMas Packaging president Fabio Salik said: “We are pleased to welcome the management team and employees of Aarts Packaging to TriMas.
“We look forward to working together to serve our existing and new customers with our expanded product offering and expertise, while leveraging the innovative focus of Aarts Packaging’s technical, design and production teams to accelerate opportunities for global growth for TriMas Packaging.”