Malaysia's Scientex agreed to acquire a 70% stake in Hunan-based flexible plastic packaging producer Mintpack for RMB 167.3 million (about USD 25 million), with completion expected by end-2026.

Hunan China Tobacco Industrial published winning-candidate results for its 2026-2027 cigarette plastic bag procurement and service tender worth RMB 6,010,515.20. Tongcheng Sunshine Plastic Industry is the first-ranked candidate with a bid of RMB 5,200,580, with Nanxiong Jinye and Anhui Guoding Packaging as the other candidates.

Hon Chuan signed a long-term on-site contract at a Guangdong plant for a European major, with annual capacity of 600 million preforms.

Dalian Roy Pump won the contract for the high-density polyethylene (HDPE) unit of Inner Mongolia Rongxin Chemical's 800,000 t/y olefins project in China, as announced on 2025-04-08.

Oerlikon Barmag Huitong Engineering signed a cooperation agreement with Turkish PET producer Köksan Group for Continuous Polycondensation technology with 400,000 tons per year capacity. The deal's value was not disclosed.

Köksan Group signed a cooperation agreement with Oerlikon Barmag Huitong Engineering for continuous polycondensation technology with 400,000 tons per year capacity at a new plant in Rudong County, Nantong. Production is scheduled to start in mid-2026.

Oerlikon Barmag Huitong Engineering signed a cooperation agreement with Türkiye's Köksan Group for a continuous polycondensation line with 400,000 tons per year capacity. The plant in Rudong County, Nantong, China will produce green polyester for packaging, with production scheduled for mid-2026.

Mauser Packaging Solutions added new equipment at its Haiyan, China facility to manufacture UN-certified intermediate bulk containers using recycled plastic. The expansion was announced on 21 January 2025 and no value was given.

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.

Shandong Furuida Biotechnology awarded three lots of its cosmetic plastic packaging container procurement project (lot 2) to Guangdong Mingdun, Zhejiang Ruichang and Shanghai Chuanhe. The award notice was published on 2024-09-14.

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.

In March 2023 SK Chemicals agreed a $100m asset transfer to acquire the chemically recycled BHET and PET business division of Chinese company Shuye.

Jiangxi Tobacco Company's Ganzhou branch named Nanxiong Jinye Packaging Materials Co. as the winning bidder for its 2022-2023 cigarette packaging heat-shrink film procurement, with a winning amount of 2,180,400 yuan.

Juhua Co. board approved two fixed-asset investment projects at its electrochemical plant: a 48kt/a VDF expansion (CNY 979 million) and PVDF projects (CNY 693 million), expected to be completed and operational in Q4 2023.

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.

HCT announced it has acquired 100% control of HCT Kent Packaging Ltd., a Chinese plant co-founded in 2006 with Taiwanese businessman Kent Lee. The 47,000 square metre facility makes plastic injection-moulded, extrusion-blow and injection-blow moulded packaging for beauty brands.

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.

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.

Subsidiaries of Suzhou Hycan Holdings won five-year contracts to supply plastic lubricant bottles to ExxonMobil's lube blending plants in Taicang, Jiangsu and Tianjin, China.

Chinese brewer Great Leap Brewing agreed to collaborate with British PET packaging provider Petainer on producing petainerKeg kegs next year at a new blow-moulding facility in Tianjin.

thyssenkrupp commissioned the world's first commercial plant using its PLAneo technology to make polylactide bioplastic in Changchun, China. The plant is operated by Jilin COFCO Biomaterial, a COFCO subsidiary, and started production in October 2018.

ContiTech opened a RMB70 million (about €10 million) plant in Changshu, China, producing 3D blow-moulded thermoplastic elastomer hoses for turbochargers used by automotive OEMs. The plant is Continental's fourth site with this technology and was set to start mass production in Q3 2018.

Anhui Guoding Packaging Co. was named first candidate in a public tender for 40 tonnes of PE heat-shrink film for the Guigang branch of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region tobacco company, with a bid of CNY 619,600. The candidate publicity period runs from August 21 to 23, 2018.

Volter (Guangzhou) Fluid Equipment Co. has approved plans to set up an injection molding workshop at its Guangzhou industrial park, adding three injection machines. Preparation is planned to take 90 days.

Hengan subsidiary Hengan Mega Jumbo Investments plans to acquire a 100% stake in Sunway Kordis Holding from Starmix for CNY 145 million ($23.05 million).

Pact Group has bought two Reynolds companies in Asia, according to Plastics News. The article gives no further details on location, price or date beyond December 5, 2017.

Toly Group announced a new expansion project in China, south of Shanghai, with no cost stated.

Amcor agreed to acquire Hebei Qite Packing, a Chinese flexible packaging company, for RMB 185 million (about USD 28 million). The deal is expected to expand Amcor's flexible packaging business in Asia.