{"id":10700,"date":"2025-12-08T00:00:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T05:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=10700"},"modified":"2025-12-08T00:00:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T05:00:43","slug":"nelipak-completes-acquisition-of-merrills-packaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=10700","title":{"rendered":"Nelipak Completes Acquisition of Merrill\u2019s Packaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Nelipak\u00ae Corporation (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.packagingstrategies.com\/articles\/105220-nelipak-corporation-opens-first-north-american-production-site\" id=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Nelipak<\/a>), a leading global provider of healthcare packaging solutions, announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Merrill\u2019s Packaging.<\/p>\n<p>Merrill\u2019s Packaging specializes in custom thermoformed packaging solutions for medical device, pharmaceutical, life science, and other demanding applications. Merrill\u2019s also offers complementary products and services such as die-cut pouch\/mounting cards and value-added design, development, and tooling services. Merrill\u2019s operating footprint includes production sites in Burlingame, California, and Alajuela, Costa Rica, which are ISO 13485-certified and equipped with ISO Class 8 cleanrooms.<\/p>\n<p>Merrill\u2019s Packaging was founded in 1961 and over more than six decades has grown to become a leader in custom thermoforming by focusing on the unique needs of its customers and consistently delivering quality, service, innovation, and professional attention. Merrill\u2019s growth milestones include entering the Costa Rica market in 2010 and opening a new larger Costa Rica site in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited to welcome the Merrill\u2019s Packaging team to the Nelipak family,\u201d said Pat Chambliss, CEO of Nelipak. \u201cWe have tremendous respect for their history of growth, innovation, and customer focus. Nelipak will benefit from Merrill\u2019s dedicated and talented team, custom thermoforming capabilities, strong customer relationships, and well-located production sites in California and Costa Rica.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an incredible growth opportunity for Merrill\u2019s employees and customers\u201d said Rick Schulz, Merrill\u2019s CEO. \u201cWith access to Nelipak\u2019s global capabilities and broad suite of rigid and flexible product solutions, we look forward to exploring new ways to deliver value to our customers.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4><strong>About Nelipak<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Nelipak is a leading global provider of healthcare packaging solutions including rigid and flexible sterile-barrier packaging for medical device, diagnostic, pharmaceutical drug delivery, and other demanding applications. To support the development of innovative sustainable packaging solutions, Nelipak\u00ae offers in-house design, prototyping, tooling, simulation, validation, laboratory, and other value-added services as well as a line of tray sealing equipment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With over 1,600 employees, Nelipak operates at 14 sites globally, including eight sites in the Americas (United States, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.packagingstrategies.com\/articles\/105652-nelipak-corporation-to-open-new-production-site-in-costa-rica\" id=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Costa Rica<\/a>, Puerto Rico), five sites in Europe (Ireland, Netherlands, UK), and one site in Asia (Singapore).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.packagingstrategies.com\/articles\/106143-nelipak-completes-acquisition-of-merrills-packaging\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nelipak\u00ae Corporation (Nelipak), a leading global provider of healthcare packaging solutions, announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Merrill\u2019s Packaging. Merrill\u2019s Packaging specializes in custom thermoformed packaging solutions for medical device, pharmaceutical, life science, and other demanding applications. Merrill\u2019s also offers complementary products and services such as die-cut pouch\/mounting cards and value-added design, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[1079,90,1066,1586],"class_list":["post-10700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-packaging-news","tag-medical-device-packaging","tag-mergers-acquisitions-ma","tag-sterile-packaging-solutions","tag-thermoformed-packaging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}