WestRock Brasil announced a R$ 10 million investment at its Pacajus corrugated packaging plant in Ceará to add new production equipment, including a corrugator, two printers and a material handling system, lifting capacity and quality.

JBS will invest about 100 million reais in building a metal packaging factory and modernising its Lins unit in Sao Paulo state, with about 80 million reais going to the new plant that will make steel and aluminium cans. Operation is planned for the first half of 2020.

Amcor is reinstalling a food packaging production line in Pouso Alegre, Minas Gerais, relocated from Goiania, to supply Unilever mayonnaise, ketchup and soup lines. Operations are expected to start in July 2019 with an estimated 70 to 100 direct and indirect jobs.

Klabin approved its largest-ever investment, the Puma II project, estimated at R$9.1 billion. It includes two kraftliner paper machines with integrated pulp production at its Ortigueira site in Paraná, with total capacity of 920,000 tonnes per year.

Westrock inaugurated a mega plant producing corrugated cardboard packaging in Porto Feliz, São Paulo state, Brazil.

Crown Embalagens Metálicas da Amazônia announced a beverage can factory in Rio Verde, Goiás, with investment of R$350 million and more than 600 direct and indirect jobs.

Smurfit Kappa invested R$24 million in its Uberaba plant in Minas Gerais, Brazil, boosting production by 30% through upgraded conversion equipment. The company plans a more aggressive investment programme in 2019.

BO Packaging do Brasil said it expects to invest US$1 million in new machines to expand production at its Ponta Grossa plant in the Distrito Industrial, following the new domestic paper supply deal.

Suzano began supplying paperboard to BO Packaging do Brasil for making paper cups at its Ponta Grossa plant. The partnership was celebrated at a ceremony on 7 November 2018.

Klabin is investing R$50 million in 2018 to buy a complete printing and bag production line at its Lages plant in Santa Catarina, increasing capacity by 10%.

WestRock announced approval of a US$345 million investment to expand its paper mill in Três Barras, Santa Catarina, boosting HyPerform kraft paper capacity to about 685k metric tons a year from about 470k. The announcement was made on 4 November 2018.

SIG expanded its long-term global partnership with Nestle by supplying a filling machine for 500, 750 and 1,000 ml combiblocMidi carton packs for Nestle Brazil's Molico and Ninho UHT milks.

Crown Holdings will invest R$343 million over 12 months to build its first plant in Brazil's Center-West in Goiás, expected to employ 600 people and start operating at the end of 2019. The municipality is to be announced.

Packaging maker Rio Bonito Embalagens will invest R$15 million to build a factory in Bonito, Pernambuco, making egg and poultry and fruit packaging. Works start in January 2019 and operations are planned for February 2020, creating about 1,100 direct and indirect jobs.

Ardagh Group opened a new can ends facility in Manaus, Brazil, with capacity to produce 12 million ends per day and more than 80 employees.

Brazilian paper producer Klabin is preparing a board decision by year-end on expanding its kraftliner paper capacity, integrated with a new 1 million tonnes per year pulp line. Studies are due to the board in August 2018.

Brazil's competition authority CADE approved a merger control agreement allowing Tredegar to sell its Brazilian flexible packaging business Terphane to Oben Group. Closing is planned for November 1, 2024, for a base consideration of $116 million.

Polish packaging maker Can-Pack invested about R$1 billion in Brazil, mainly in aluminum can and can-lid plants in Maracanau, Ceara. The aluminum can plant was set to start operations on April 20, 2018, and the lid plant in mid-August 2018.

Perlen Packaging AG, the packaging division of the CPH Group, agreed to acquire a 60% majority stake in Brazilian company Sekoya Industria e Comercio Ltda., effective retroactively from 1 January 2018, with formal closing planned for end of February. The price was not disclosed.

German company rose plastic started operations at a new R$21 million plant in Sorocaba, São Paulo, consolidating plastic packaging lines for several industrial segments and its Brazilian headquarters, with support from the state agency Investe São Paulo.

WestRock confirmed an investment of more than US$125 million to build a large corrugated cardboard plant in Porto Feliz, São Paulo state, with works starting in 2017 and completion expected in Q2 2019.

Coster Group announced the opening of a new production facility in Cabreúva, São Paulo, Brazil, as part of its expansion in South America. The news item is dated 5 March 2025.

WestRock announced plans to build a new corrugated box plant in Porto Feliz, Sao Paulo state, Brazil, to serve growing regional demand. Construction is expected to begin later in 2017 and finish in mid-2019.

Sealed Air Corporation announced on August 2, 2017 its acquisition of Deltaplam Embalagens, a family-owned Brazilian flexible packaging manufacturer headquartered in Londrina, Parana. Terms were not disclosed.

Can-Pack SA completed the acquisition of its first beverage can plant in South America from steelmaker Cia Siderurgica Nacional (CSN), the Metalic plant in Brazil.

Bemis inaugurated an expansion of its packaging plant in the Suape industrial port complex in Cabo de Santo Agostinho, Pernambuco. The R$31 million investment adds 8,000 square meters and is expected to double rigid packaging capacity and create more than 140 jobs.