Česká pošta awarded Van de Velde Packaging Unipap a.s. a supply contract for 29 types of carton packaging for CZK 1,962,372. The notice was published on TED on 30 July 2026.

German paper and packaging group Palm Group acquired a 50% interest in Power Packaging, which runs a corrugated cardboard packaging plant in Nýrsko, Czech Republic. The move aims to broaden Palm's tailored corrugated packaging capabilities. Reported on 26 November 2025.

Czech Competition Authority cleared the acquisition of corrugated cardboard packaging maker Van de Velde Packaging Unipap by MAM Finance, a joint investment vehicle of BHS Private Equity Fund, Versute Investments and MAM Private Equity fund SICAV.

Two Czech private equity funds, BHS Private Equity Fund and MAM Private Equity Fund, are acquiring equal stakes in Pardubice-based industrial paper packaging maker Unipap from Belgian owner Van de Velde Packaging. The deal value is reported as in the mid-to-high hundreds of millions of Czech crowns.

Panasonic reopened its upgraded and expanded heat pump factory in Pilsen, raising capacity by 250% to 140,000 m² and producing up to 1.4 million units per year from 2030. Panasonic says it invested €20 million in the expansion and refurbishment.

ZÁLESÍ a.s. is investing almost CZK 90 million in a new high-speed automated laminate tube line using Swiss SAESA 240 technology in Luhačovice, raising plant capacity by 45%. Serial production is planned for January 2026.

Zálesí is investing nearly CZK 90 million in a new high-speed automated laminate tube line from Swiss supplier Aisa at its Luhačovice plant, expected to raise site capacity by 45% with series production from January 2026.

Mondi started up a new extrusion line at Mondi Coating Štětí in the Czech Republic, part of a wider investment including a new production building, coating and slitting machinery, to expand FunctionalBarrier Papers output.

E. Hofmann Plastics acquired Czech packaging maker PAP Packaging from Italy's Manfreplast in Liquidazione in an auction linked to the seller's liquidation. The deal prevented insolvency and kept production running.

BOFILLEX, a contract beverage can filler in Sokolov, Czech Republic, is producing since February 2024 on a KHS line with up to 26,000 and 20,000 cans per hour; BIG SHOCK! is its first customer and investor.

Taco Europe built a new facility in Boršov, Czech Republic, producing high-performance circulators and heat interface units for heating, cooling and solar systems, plus a European distribution center. The plant expands capacity to meet growing demand.

Taco Inc. opened a new manufacturing plant in Boršov, Czech Republic, producing circulators and heat interface units, with a European distribution center. The plant expands Taco's Central European capacity alongside sites in Velešín and Garbe Park.

2JCP a.s. and its subsidiary 2JCP Třebíč a.s. merged into one legal entity on April 1, 2024, combining engineering and manufacturing for low-emission energy projects in Račice and Třebíč, Czech Republic.

Cardbox Packaging announced a €6.5 million investment in its new Czech subsidiary to buy a Koenig & Bauer Rapida 106 printing press and a Bobst Visioncut 106 LER die-cutter. The investment aims to raise production efficiency and capacity.

Toppan will build a 50,000 m² barrier film manufacturing facility in Most, Usti nad Labem region, Czech Republic, to produce its GL BARRIER transparent film for Europe. The ground-breaking took place in November 2023 and mass production is expected by late 2024.

STI Group is investing in an additional folding carton production plant at its Rumburk site in the Czech Republic, with a new printing press also going into operation in Hungary. The Rumburk site currently employs 80 people.

Semperit has held the groundbreaking for a hydraulic hose production expansion at its Odry plant in the Czech Republic. The investment is about EUR 110 million, adding roughly 32 million meters of annual capacity, for total capacity of almost 200 million meters, with completion planned in 2028.

Ball Corporation has started production of recyclable aluminium beverage cans at a new plant in Plzeň, Czech Republic, with an investment of over CZK 4 billion; it currently employs 150 and plans to reach 200.

Toppan is building a new factory in the Czech Republic for retort food packaging film, investing about 14 billion yen, with production of recyclable resin film packaging planned from the end of 2024.

Mondi approved a €400 million investment in a new paper machine at its Štětí mill in the Czech Republic, producing about 210,000 tonnes per year of sack kraft paper for its Paper Bags business. Start-up is expected in 2025.

Mondi has approved a €400 million investment in a new kraft paper machine at its Štětí mill in the Czech Republic.

Panasonic will invest about EUR 145 million through 2026 at its Plzen, Czech Republic plant to expand air-to-water heat pump production. It aims to raise annual capacity to 500,000 units by the fiscal year ending March 2026.

WestRock delivered its Cluster-Pak EvoTech fibre-based multipack packaging to Budějovický Budvar and Mattoni 1873 for the non-alcoholic beer BIRGO, deployed on a new production line with up to 50,000 cans per hour.

Van De Velde Packaging acquired Unipap A.S., a Czech maker of industrial corrugated packaging and foam products with about EUR 25 million revenue in 2021. The deal, advised by Adpario Partners, is Van De Velde's first step into the Czech market.

Semperit will invest around EUR 110 million to add a highly automated hall at its Odry hose factory, adding 32 million metres of hydraulic hose capacity to almost 200 million metres per year, with operations planned from 2025.

Ball Corporation has started construction of a new aluminium beverage can plant in Pilsen, Czech Republic, investing €170 million (CZK 4.5 billion) and creating up to 200 jobs. The plant is scheduled to start operating in early 2023.

Retigo completed construction of a new two-storey 6,000 m2 production hall at its headquarters in Roznov pod Radhostem, Czech Republic. The hall will be fitted with automation and new machines to raise output by the second half of 2022.

Industrial distributor Rubix, a portfolio company of Advent International, acquired SEALL s.r.o., a Chomutov-based hydraulics and pneumatics distributor with five Czech locations and 65 employees.

Smurfit Kappa plans to invest €20m to expand converting capacity at four corrugated plants in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The projects add more than 100 million boxes per year and are slated for completion by end of 2021.

Smurfit Kappa is investing €20 million in new converting equipment at four plants: Žebrák, Žimrovice and Olomouc in the Czech Republic, and Štúrovo in Slovakia. The investment adds over 100 million regular and offset printed boxes per year and is expected to be completed by the end of 2021.

Thimm, a packaging and display manufacturer, invested around ten million euros to expand its Všetaty plant in the Czech Republic with a new 134-metre MF-A corrugator from BHS Corrugated. The installation raised corrugated cardboard capacity at the site by up to 30%.

Mondi and Tesco Central Europe launched a partnership in which Mondi buys Tesco's warehouse corrugated waste to produce EcoVantage recycled paper for Tesco shopping bags, made at Mondi's mill in the Czech Republic.

Ball Corporation plans to begin construction in spring 2021 of a €170 million aluminum beverage can plant at Pilsen Digital Park, with operations due in October 2022 and up to 200 jobs.

Mondi has started up a new speciality kraft paper machine at its Štětí mill in the Czech Republic, an investment of €67 million able to produce up to 130,000 tonnes of speciality kraft paper annually for shopping bags.

Czech gas pipeline operator NET4GAS awarded MSA, a.s. a contract worth EUR 1,364,218 to supply ball and safety shut-off valves for its Moravia Capacity Extension high-pressure pipeline project. The notice was published January 8, 2021, though the record lists a later award date.

MPOWER Engineering reported delivering Globe Valves K01 and Check Valves K05 and K08 to ČEZ for the Počerady power plant in the Czech Republic, as listed in its 2020 deal highlights.

PaperFoam completed first test runs at its new Krupka plant in the Czech Republic and plans full production from September 2020. The plant adds a second European site and could raise global capacity by more than 30%.

Canpack has started commercial production of aluminum beverage cans at its greenfield plant in Stříbro, near Plzeň. The plant supplies Plzeňský Prazdroj and will produce about 1 billion cans a year, with an investment above EUR 100 million and over 140 jobs.

Colfax agreed to acquire CKD Kompresory a.s. of Prague from CKD Group for approximately $57 million including debt, to be merged into Howden as Howden CKD Compressors. Closing is expected in the fourth quarter.

Gerresheimer is expanding inhaler production at its plant in the Czech Republic as part of its 2020 capital expenditure program.

Polish group CANPACK is building an aluminium beverage can plant in Stribro with an investment of about CZK 2.5 billion, employing up to 160 people, with production planned to start in July 2020.

Canpack is starting a new investment in the Czech Republic, a can production line for one of the country's breweries, which will raise its production capacity by more than one third. The announcement is dated 16 September 2019.

DevCo Partners signed an agreement to acquire ARMATURY Group, a Czech industrial valve manufacturer with about 550 employees and revenue of about EUR 60m, to combine it with its Vexve valve business.

MSA, part of the Rimera group, won a tender to supply ball valves with NIWATEC and AUMA actuators to Czech gas transmission company NET4GAS, worth EUR 154 thousand. The article dates the delivery to March of the current year.

ARMATURY Group manufactured 67 ball valves, from DN 300 to DN 1400, for a 250 km gas pipeline run by NET4GAS from Hory Svaté Kateřiny to the Rozvadov border crossing. The contract was completed in March 2019.

Canpack announced a new investment in the Czech Republic, where a can production line will be launched to supply the Plzensky Prazdroj brewery, owner of Pilsner Urquell, in 2019.

Mondi plans a €30 million upgrade of its Bupak corrugated packaging facility in the Czech Republic, including a new state-of-the-art corrugator and a customer experience centre. Completion is scheduled for 2020, and the plant's production capacity will double.

Valeo will build a 4,000 square metre production hall in Žebrák, Czech Republic, for battery cooling modules for electric vehicles. The investment is 450 million CZK, with production due to start at the end of 2019 and up to 1.2 million modules a year.

Constellium supplies Czech aerosol can maker Moravia Cans with its Aeral aluminium solution for producing Unilever's Dove antiperspirant aerosols, using drawn and wall ironing technology.

VCES was awarded a Design&Build contract to construct a new production plant for German sensor maker Pepperl+Fuchs in Trutnov's Krkonošská industrial zone. The facility is scheduled to start construction in April 2019 and be production-ready around May 2020.