Amcor names Aluisio Ragazzi Fonseca vice president

Amcor, a supplier of flexible packaging in Buffalo Grove, has named Aluisio Ragazzi Fonseca vice president and general manager of its South America Flexibles business unit.

"We're pleased to welcome Aluisio to Amcor at an exciting time," said Amcor Flexibles Americas President Tom Cochran. "He's a highly successful business leader with extensive packaging industry knowledge from across the Americas.

"We expect Aluisio to help us accelerate business growth and enhance our ability to win for our customers and other stakeholders in this strategically important part of the world," he said.

Fonseca has held a broad range of responsibilities across his career, including during nearly two decades at Tetra Pak. His most recent role there was as senior vice president, Americas, responsible for profit-and-loss across the hemisphere's more than $500 million business. Previously, he led the company's successful integration of North, Central and South America into a single Americas business unit.

Earlier, as managing director of Tetra Pak's packaging and processing operations in Colombia and Ecuador, Fonseca led an expansion that created the company's Andean business unit - spanning Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela - and a 500-percent increase in regional volumes over six years.

Fonseca served as vice president, Packaging and Processing, for Beverages and Food in Brazil. In that role, he was responsible for start up of a polyethylene terephthalate plastic operation, and grew the overall business at an annual rate of 20 percent. He was a director on multiple Tetra Pak boards, including for Packaging and Processing, Global Processing and Cluster Central and South America.