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IPL Plastics Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides various packaging solutions primarily in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. It operates through three segments: Large Format Packaging and Environmental Solutions (LF&E), Consumer Packaging Solutions (CPS), and Returnable Packaging Solutions (RPS). The LF&E segment offers various pails, containers, and crates for the food and consumer, environmental, retail, agricultural, and industrial end-markets; and wheeled bins and related containers for the waste collection and recycling markets to municipalities, waste haulers, and retailers. The CPS segment provides specialty thin-wall injection molded containers, lids, overcaps, and custom packaging solutions for branded and private label food and consumer products customers. The RPS segment supplies bulk containers that are used in the agricultural sector; injection molded containers; and reusable and collapsible containers for the automotive logistics market. It also offers injection-molded plastic temporary flooring and roadway mats, which are used in the construction, military, oil and gas, and entertainment events markets. The company was founded in 1939 and is based in Montreal, Canada. As of October 15, 2020, IPL Plastics Inc. was taken private.

Karat Packaging Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and distribution of single-use disposable products in plastic, paper, biopolymer-based, and other compostable forms used in various restaurant and foodservice settings. It provides food and take-out containers, bags, tableware, cups, lids, cutlery, straws, specialty beverage ingredients, equipment, gloves, and other products under the Karat Earth brand. The company also provides new product development, design, printing, and logistics services. It offers its products to national and regional distributors, restaurant chains, retail establishments, and online customers. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Chino, California.