# Standard Investment acquires Quadient's automated packaging business, renamed Sparck Technologies

Dutch investment firm Standard Investment acquired Quadient's Automated Packaging Solution business and its Drachten, Netherlands production facility. The business has been rebranded Sparck Technologies and continues to sell CVP automated packaging systems.

- Type: Acquisition
- Announced: 2021-10-13
- Where: Drachten, Netherlands
- Status: completed
- Capacity: up to 1,100 packages per hour
- Products: automated packaging systems, CVP Everest, CVP Impack

## Companies

- [Quadient](https://endata.com/companies/6797.md) (partner)
- [Standard Investment](https://endata.com/companies/8499.md) (acquirer)
- [Sparck Technologies](https://endata.com/companies/8500.md) (target)

## Sources

- [mmh.com](https://www.mmh.com/article/packaging_by_quadient_rebrands_to_become_sparck_technologies), 2021-10-13: "Following the acquisition of Quadient's Automated Packaging Solution (APS) business and production facility based in Drachten, the Netherlands by Dutch investment firm Standard Investment, Packaging by Quadient has rebranded to Sparck Technologies."

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