Packaging Dynamics

will close its Farmers Branch, Texas, flexible packaging plant during the first quarter of 2006 to cut costs. The company's food packaging production will be transferred to other facilities.

Hilex Poly

has purchased Vanguard Plastics, creating the largest retail carryout packaging manufacturer in the world. The combined firm now has a dozen manufacturing plants, also making agricultural and industrial packaging films.

Caraustar Industries, which produces paperboard from recycled paper, is selling its container and carton plant in Hunt Valley, Md., to

Green Bay Packaging. The sale will allow Caraustar's custom packaging group to focus on its core businesses of folding cartons and contract packaging.