Smurfit Westrock is investing about R$120 million to modernize its corrugated packaging site in Blumenau, Brazil, with new machinery, automated lines and a larger dispatch warehouse, from 2025 through 2027.

Zempack, a JBS subsidiary and one of Brazil's largest metal packaging manufacturers, has invested over R$350 million since 2015 in modernizing its plants in Lins and Guaiçara, São Paulo, focusing on automation and efficiency. The company has doubled production in ten years and now has capacity for over 1 billion units per year.

Smurfit Westrock plans to invest R$128 million to expand its industrial unit in Uberaba, Minas Gerais, creating 12 direct and 50 indirect jobs. The project is at an early study stage and was approved by the municipal economic development council.

Smurfit Westrock says it has put R$1 billion into Brazil in recent years to expand production capacity, modernize industrial units, and add automation, AI and innovation. All output from its Brazilian operations currently serves the domestic market.

Smurfit Westrock plans to invest more than R$800 million in its Brazilian mills to expand production of recyclable paper packaging and modernize its plants. The CEO of its Brazil unit, Manuel Alcalá, described the country as strategic.

Crown Holdings is increasing its beverage can manufacturing capacity in Brazil to meet growing demand from alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverage customers. The report is dated 2 June 2025.

Smurfit Westrock's board approved a US$150 million investment to expand and modernize its paper packaging operations in Brazil, to be executed over 18 to 22 months.

JBS will invest R$70 million in its metal packaging unit Zempack, raising output at the Lins plant by 180% for food packaging and at the Guaiçara plant for aerosol cans by 25%. The investment funds new production line machinery, with Lins capacity increase due by November 2024.

Yplastic, part of Grupo Telles, invested about R$12 million to modernize its Fortaleza plant, including a Husky HyPET preform production cell with capacity of 10 million preforms per month. The company has begun preform production.

Brazilian group Klabin will invest R$188 million at its Horizonte facility in Ceará state to add 80,000 tons per year of capacity from 2023, mainly serving the Northeast fruit market.

Owens-Illinois will invest $180 million in two new glass packaging factories in Brazil, starting operations in the third quarter of 2023 and adding more than 650 million units per year of capacity; exact locations are still being discussed.

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.

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.