Amcor is considering building a new factory in Jiangyin, Jiangsu province, to expand production of medical, pharmaceutical and food packaging, according to senior executives.

TriMas launched a new 225,000 square foot, highly automated packaging facility in Haining, China, consolidating its Hangzhou and older Haining plants. The site makes dispensing and lotion pumps, caps and closures.

Shanghai Baosteel Packaging Co. announced a total investment of about 452 million yuan to build an intelligent two-piece can production base in Tongan district, Xiamen, Fujian, with a design capacity of 1.1 billion cans per year. The project will be executed through a new subsidiary, Xiamen Baosteel Can Making Co., and takes about 16 months to build.

BNM (Zhejiang Bosun New Materials) held a groundbreaking for a new factory in Yueqing's Shanhuan New Park with a planned investment of about 200 million yuan, expected to be completed by end-2025 and create over 300 jobs.

BERICAP is investing in a new plant in Kunshan near Shanghai that will increase its production capacity by 50%. Production is planned to start in 2027, and the investment amount was not disclosed.

Taiwan-listed Forward-KY (8411) invested RMB 300 million in a two-line two-piece aluminum can plant in Xi'an, Shaanxi, opened June 30, 2023, with first-phase production planned before the mid-autumn season and annual capacity of 600 million cans.

Mauser Packaging Solutions opened a new manufacturing facility in the Haiyan Economic Development Zone near Shanghai, producing 230L and 250L plastic industrial drums, including recycled-resin models.

Amcor, an Australia-based packaging company, opened a flexible packaging manufacturing plant in Huizhou, China, in December 2022, built with an investment of about $100 million and expected to employ more than 550 people.

Shengxing Co. (002752.SZ) announced that it will establish subsidiary Shengxing (Ya'an) Packaging in the Ya'an economic development zone, Sichuan, to build an aluminum beverage can production project. The total estimated investment is about 180 million yuan, announced May 10, 2022.

COFCO Packaging (00906) plans a two-piece can factory in Shenyang with total investment of about RMB 600 million. Phase one is expected to start construction in the first half of 2022 with 1 billion cans a year capacity, and phase two adds 700 million cans a year.

Switzerland-based SIG has finished building its second production plant in China, a site near its Suzhou Industrial Park plant. By 2024 it is expected to produce eight billion carton packs a year.

Ourgin announced a plan to invest about RMB 510 million in a two-piece can production project in Zaozhuang, Shandong, built in two phases. Phase one is expected to produce 800 million cans a year, and phase two adds another 800 million.

Baosteel Packaging will build a new aluminum easy open can production line in Huaiyuan Industrial Park, Bengbu, Anhui. The first phase has an annual design capacity of 1.1 billion cans and an estimated total investment of RMB 440 million.

Shijiazhuang Guanling Packaging has opened a plant about 150km southwest of Beijing to make cans for infant formula. The line will eventually produce 75 million cans a year, with RMB 510 million in plant cost.

Gaosen Packaging is constructing its fourth beverage can plant in China at Xinzheng in Henan province, invested at RMB350 million (US$50m). It plans trial production of two-piece beverage cans by the end of the year.

Tetra Pak will invest 700 million yuan ($98.9 million) to build a large intelligent closure facility in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, expected to be operational next year. The plant will produce DreamCap closures with an annual capacity of 10 billion caps.

Packaging company Albéa is to open a new plant in Huai'an, China, which will manufacture metal tubes.

Gerresheimer officially opened a new plant in Changzhou, China, producing plastic primary packaging for pharmaceuticals. The facility operates in clean rooms of class 9 and 7 and has FDA registration for US-type containers.

Wenzhou Xifa Industrial is building a new factory in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, with a construction area of about 40,000 square meters and new high-speed weaving, printing and packaging machines. Completion of the building phase is expected in early November 2019.

SIG announced a second production plant in Suzhou, China, with a total investment of EUR 180 million and a 120,000 square meter site at Suzhou Industrial Park. It is expected to be operational in early 2021.

Gerresheimer will manufacture its Duma and Triveni plastic pharmaceutical containers at a new plant in Changzhou, China, with production starting in the second half of 2019.

SIG has opened a new Tech Centre close to its packaging plant in Suzhou, China, to help customers develop new product concepts and packaging solutions. The report is dated 7 February 2019.