* Custom coater/converter AzCoat, Inc., completes the final phase of its Y2K expansion project. Begun last fall, the plan first expanded offices and laboratories at the company's Scottsdale, Ariz., HQ. Phase two enhanced plant operations, and now AzCoat houses increased production capacity for wider-web coating and converting.
* Rock-Tenn may close Madison, Wis., plant: The Norcross, Ga.-based converter's folding-carton facility, where employees won a contract dispute in January to avoid 12-hr workdays, may close by year's end. Industry and corporate overcapacity, as we