The new North American company now combines OYSTAR USA, a New Jersey-based sales operation representing packaging machinery brands manufactured in Europe, as well as packaging equipment manufacturers OYSTAR Packaging Technologies, Davenport, Iowa; and OYSTAR Jones, Covington, KY.

The U.S. merger is a further result of the successful restructuring of the OYSTAR Group. “We began restructuring one and a half years ago,” explains OYSTAR CEO Tom Graf. “From the onset it was our goal to centrally manage individual product and customer groups, and no longer through several subsidiaries. The past financial year clearly shows that this was the right path.” Compared with the year before, the OYSTAR Group was able to more than triple its operating results in 2010.