An affiliate of CD&R completed its acquisition of Sealed Air, which is now privately held and headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. The deal has an enterprise value of $10.3 billion, with about $6.3 billion paid to shareholders.
The European Commission authorised the acquisition of Sealed Air Corporation by funds managed by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, finding no competition concerns under the EU Merger Regulation. The deal gives CD&R sole control of the food packaging provider.
Sealed Air agreed to be acquired by funds affiliated with CD&R in an all-cash transaction with an enterprise value of $10.3 billion, at $42.15 per share. The deal was announced on November 17, 2025.
Clayton Dubilier & Rice agreed in November 2025 to buy packaging maker Sealed Air at an enterprise value of $10.3 billion. Banks led by JPMorgan and Wells Fargo are reportedly preparing about $7.9 billion of debt financing, with completion expected by mid-2026.
Sealed Air has closed its previously announced acquisition of Liquibox, a Richmond, Virginia maker of bag-in-box liquid packaging, for $1.15 billion on a cash and debt-free basis.
Sealed Air (NYSE: SEE) signed a definitive agreement to acquire Liquibox, a manufacturer of Bag-in-Box sustainable packaging and dispensing solutions, for $1.15 billion on a cash-free, debt-free basis. Liquibox had estimated 2022 revenue of $362 million.
Sealed Air has announced the acquisition of Foxpak Flexibles, a digital-printing flexible packaging firm based in Collon, Ireland with 33 employees. The fee was undisclosed.
Panattoni Europe is converting 12,000 sqm at Panattoni Business Center Łódź III into a plant for Sealed Air producing PE foam packaging. Production is scheduled to start in November 2019 under a lease signed in April 2019.
Sealed Air signed a definitive agreement to acquire US-based automated bagging systems maker Automated Packaging Systems for a total consideration of $510 million on a cash and debt-free basis. The deal is subject to regulatory approval.
Kuraray America is investing approximately US$15 million to install plant-based high barrier resin production in Houston, Texas, supporting Sealed Air's Plantic packaging work.
Kuraray is investing approximately $15 million to install plant-based high barrier resin production in Houston, Texas, supporting its partnership with Sealed Air. The resin plant is scheduled for completion in September 2019 and operation in early 2020.
Sealed Air is investing about $24 million to add production of plant-based food packaging using Plantic resin at its Simpsonville, S.C. facility, with production scheduled to start in Q2 2020.
Austin Foam Plastics, a Sealed Air subsidiary, plans a 60,000-square-foot expansion of its Pflugerville, Texas facility with a $4.7 million investment and 22 new jobs. The deal was approved by the local development corporation pending city council approval.
Sealed Air has acquired the flexible packaging business of privately held MGM, based in Manila, to expand its printing and lamination capabilities in Asia Pacific. The deal is expected to close in April 2019, and terms were not disclosed.
Sealed Air signed a sales and marketing agreement with Cubisan to optimize its packaging operations, with Sealed Air offering automated fulfillment solutions.
Sealed Air Corporation acquired AFP, Inc., a privately held fabricator of foam, corrugated, molded pulp and wood packaging based in Pflugerville, Texas. The sale closed August 1, 2018, and AFP had 2017 net sales of $125 million.
Sealed Air acquired Austin Foam Plastics, Inc. (AFP, Inc.), a provider of engineered protective packaging, and will integrate it into its Product Care Division. AFP has six US facilities and a presence in Asia and Mexico.
Sealed Air selected PTC's ThingWorx platform to improve operational efficiency across its value chain and connect plant assets.
Sealed Air will supply Sun Basket with its recyclable TempGuard insulated box liners for perishable meal-kit deliveries, allowing a shipping box nearly 25 percent smaller. The announcement was made on January 18, 2018.
Sealed Air will invest $10.4 million over three years and create 25 jobs as it expands and renovates its packaging manufacturing facility in Lenoir, North Carolina.
Sealed Air agreed to acquire a 100% stake in Fagerdala Singapore, formerly Inducel Industrial Foams, for approximately 100 million dollars. Fagerdala makes polyethylene foam.
Sealed Air Corporation announced on August 2, 2017 its acquisition of Deltaplam Embalagens, a family-owned Brazilian flexible packaging manufacturer headquartered in Londrina, Parana. Terms were not disclosed.
XPO Logistics signed a new multi-year contract expanding its decade-long relationship with Sealed Air, providing warehousing and logistics management from a 550,000 sq ft facility in Sturtevant, Wisconsin, with about 150 staff.
Sealed Air opened a production line for Korrvu retention packaging at its Qingpu facility in Shanghai, with an investment of more than US$1 million, bringing the site to nine lines.
Sealed Air is selling its Diversey Care division and the food hygiene and cleaning business within its Food Care division to Bain Capital for $3.2 billion. The report is dated 29 March 2017.
Sealed Air's subsidiary CJSC Sealed Air Kaustik has started construction of a €9.5 million food packaging plant in Volgograd, Russia, within a renovated factory of partner JSC Kaustik. The plant will make multilayer PP film packaging for processed meat and employs 45 workers, with plans to grow to 68.