Soenen Golfkarton's new corrugated cardboard factory in Lanklaar, Limburg started production on 1 March 2023 with a building of 132,500 m2. The site is one of the most modern in Europe and is expected to at least double the company's capacity.

Soenen Golfkarton has started building a 132,500 sqm corrugated box factory on the former Bekaert site in Lanklaar, Belgium, representing an investment of more than €120 million and about 200 jobs. The plant is planned to start in 2023.

Europal Packaging, part of the D.I. Group, has started up a new 2.5m doublewall Quantum corrugator line at its new factory in Blandain/Tournai, Belgium. The line was installed by Quantum Corrugated and Fosber Group.

Catalan packaging maker Alucan plans a new high-speed aluminium packaging line in Belgium with an annual capacity of 40 million units. COFIDES will provide a 3.7 million euro co-investment loan toward a total investment of 13.2 million euros.

Europal, a Belgian corrugated cardboard packaging supplier, will invest several million euros in a new greenfield plant in Tournai, to be fully operational by summer 2020. The plant is expected to create about 40 high-tech jobs.

Benepack Belgium, a joint venture of CPMC and Haoneng, is investing over EUR 50 million in a can production plant in Genk, Belgium, creating 150 jobs and receiving a EUR 3 million Flemish subsidy.

Chinese company CPMC plans to invest €60 million in a new beverage can factory in Genk, Limburg, on the site of Illochroma Haoneng, with production targeted to start by January 1, 2020; the agreement is not yet fully finalised.

Crown Europe opened a 23,000 square metre logistics hub in Puurs, Belgium, developed with Gilbert de Clercq transport company to serve food, beverage and aerosol customers in the Benelux region.