# VPK Packaging takes stake in Viallon Emballage, French corrugated packaging maker

Belgian group VPK Packaging acquired part of the capital of family-owned French corrugated packaging firm Viallon Emballage, expanding into the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. The deal value was not disclosed.

- Type: Acquisition
- Announced: 2020-05-18
- Where: Saint-Just-Malmon, Haute-Loire, France
- Status: completed
- Products: corrugated cardboard packaging, POS displays
- Sectors: [Packaging](https://endata.com/sectors/packaging.md)

## Companies

- [VPK](https://endata.com/companies/344.md) (acquirer)
- [Viallon Emballage](https://endata.com/companies/6496.md) (target)

## Sources

- [printindustry.news](https://www.printindustry.news/story/33882/corrugated-board-the-belgian-vpk-group-and-auvergne-based-viallon-emballage-join-forces), 2020-05-18: "This operation allows a strategic expansion of VPK's network in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region and a broadening of the corrugated board division's range of products and services"

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