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Sydney, Australia. CMA cited the company's investments in innovative product features and praised its goal of waste-free production. Romaco acquires Medipac KARLSRUHE, Germany— Romaco Group acquired Medipac, Hässleholm, Sweden, a manufacturer of machines that fill effervescent tablets into tubes. The company will become part of Romaco's Siebler brand of equipment, which specializes in strip packaging for effervescents. Romaco also supplies Innojet fluid-bed processors and Kilian tablet presses. Rondo-Pak merges with Contemporary Graphic Solutions NORRISTOWN, PA—Rondo- Pak, supplier of pharmaceutical car- tons, will merge with Contemporary Graphic Solutions (CGS), a printing and packaging provider based in Pennsauken, NJ. The merged com- pany will retain the Rondo-Pak name. Xertecs opens US office TOTOWA, NJ—Xertecs, a German supplier of pharmaceutical process equipment for oral solid dosage forms, has established a US subsidiary. The address is 999 Riverview Drive, Suite 201, Totowa, NJ 07512. The telephone number is 732 515 7390. John Carey, formerly with Glatt, was named managing director of sales and technical opera- tions for North America. 54 January 2016 Tablets & Capsules people news Robert Femia was named senior vice president for chemical medicines and general chapters at the United States Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) in Rockville, MD. USP also named the recipients of its 2015-2016 Global Fellowship awards.They are: Kelly M. Hines, senior fellow in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry at University of Washington; Katelyn Arnold, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Biology and Medicinal Chemistry at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and Julie L. Calahan, Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Pharmaceutical Science at University of Kentucky Research Foundation. Each will receive a $30,000 research grant. John Lawrence joined the Kansas State University Bulk Solids Innovation Center, Salina, KS, as its first research director. Duties include solving bulk solids movement chal- lenges, studying particle disintegration and segregation during pneumatic conveying, as well as developing beginner and advanced short courses in bulk solids. Raj Suryanarayanan, a professor of pharmaceutics and the William and Mildred Peters Endowed Chair at the University of Minnesota in Minnea- polis received the IPEC Foundation's 2015 Ralph Shangraw Memorial Award from the The American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS), Arlington, VA, dur- ing at the AAPS annual meeting in Orlando, FL.