# Kyoto Seisakusho acquires PMI Cartoning, forming PMI KYOTO Packaging Systems

Japan's Kyoto Seisakusho acquired PMI Cartoning, Inc. of Elk Grove Village, Illinois, to form PMI KYOTO Packaging Systems, which will keep operating from the Illinois site and offer cartoners, case packers, over-wrappers and palletizers.

- Type: Acquisition
- Announced: 2017-12-01
- Where: Elk Grove Village, Illinois, United States
- Status: completed
- Products: vertical and horizontal cartoners, case packers, over-wrappers, palletizers
- Sectors: [Packaging](https://endata.com/sectors/packaging.md), [Industrial Machinery](https://endata.com/sectors/industrial-machinery.md)

## Companies

- [Kyoto Seisakusho](https://endata.com/companies/3734.md) (acquirer)
- [PMI Cartoning](https://endata.com/companies/3735.md) (target)

## Sources

- [refrigeratedfrozenfood.com](https://www.refrigeratedfrozenfood.com/articles/95439-kyoto-seisakusho-acquires-pmi-cartoning-forms-pmi-kyoto-packaging-systems), 2018-08-15: "Kyoto Seisakusho Co., Ltd., Japan, acquired PMI Cartoning, Inc., Elk Grove Village, Ill., to create a new equipment manufacturing company called PMI KYOTO Packaging Systems."
- [packworld.com](https://www.packworld.com/home/press-release/13375657/pmi-kyoto-packaging-systems-formed-after-pmi-cartoning-acquired-by-kyoto-seisakusho-co-ltd), 2018-08-16: "In December 2017, Kyoto Seisakusho Co., Ltd. acquired PMI Cartoning, Inc."

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