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SIG plastics buys Ryka Blow Molds. (Your Business in Brief).


Swiss-based SIG Beverages, parent of SIG Plastics Technologies (USA) Inc., North Branch, N. J., has acquired Ryka RYKÄ (or Ryka) is an athletic shoe brand that caters specifically to women. They are owned by the American Sporting Goods Corp., who also owns the Avia line of shoes.  Blow Molds Ltd. in Mississauga Mississauga (mĭsĭsaw`gə), city (1991 pop. 463,388), S Ont., Canada, 12 mi (20 km) W of Toronto on Lake Ontario. A residential suburb of Toronto and a growing transportation and industrial center, it is one of Canada's fastest-growing , Ont. The move strengthens SIG's role as an integrated supplier of blow molding equipment in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , providing it with its first tool-building capacity here for stretch-blow and extrusion blow molding.

Ryka designs and builds tools for one- and two-stage stretch-blow molding of PET, extrusion blown containers, and industrial parts.

In a separate move, SIG also plans to cease building SIG Kautex industrial blow molding machines (Woodworking) A planing machine for making moldings
(Founding) A machine to assist in making molds for castings.

See also: Molding Molding
 at its New Jersey facility, although it will maintain sales and service there, Kautex machines will be built only in Germany.
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