In today’s competitive food and beverage market, many companies are looking to reduce costs. One way to do this is to reduce the cost of packaging used in their production facilities. Even small savings on container costs can result in large overall savings because of the quantity of units processed. To accomplish this per-unit savings, containers are made more light weight by removing material.

Woburn, Mass.-based Vacuum Barrier Corp. announced the promotion of Mike Johnson to vice president of sales.

Vacuum Barrier Corp., Woburn, Mass., announced that Vice President of Sales Ed Hanlon will retire on Dec. 30.