Manchester Industries to Merge with PaperWorks

PaperWorks Industries, Inc. announced that Manchester Industries, a major North American converting company, has been acquired by Sun Capital Partners. Manchester ultimately will be merged into PaperWorks, itself an affiliate of Sun Capital Partners.

With five facilities in Michigan, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Texas, Manchester Industries provides large-scale sheeting, rewinding and cutting operations to commercial printers and packaging companies across the continent. The company's 180 employees will become part of the PaperWorks Paperboard Group.