Smurfit Kappa and WestRock concur to combine to produce packaging giant

Smurfit Kappa and WestRock concur to combine to produce packaging giant


A robot builds pallets of cardboard containers at the Smurfit Kappa March corrugated packaging manufacturing facility.

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Packaging groups Smurfit Kappa and WestRock have agreed to blend, the businesses said on Tuesday, with the U.S.-based mostly WestRock to get a overall thing to consider equivalent to $43.51 per share.

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