Antalis GmbH bought Hein Verpackungen GmbH, a family-owned packaging company in Traunfeld, Germany, and assigned it to its Antalis Verpackungen unit. The move is intended to secure the site and existing jobs.

Walki completed an investment of more than EUR 6 million in a new production line called The Bridge at its Steinfurt plant in Germany, to make recyclable fibre-based barrier board and flexible packaging.

Mitsubishi agreed a sales contract with Klingele Paper & Packaging Group for a four colour EVOL 100 flexo folder gluer with an MPF-M pre-feeder. The machine will be commissioned at Klingele's corrugated box plant in Werne, Germany, with delivery scheduled for summer 2025.

Zotefoams agreed with Südpack in Ochsenhausen, Germany, for Südpack to manufacture the extruded flexible polymer material used in ReZorce cartons, adding up to 100 million cartons of annual capacity. The initial agreement runs three years.

NOVAPOR is adding 2,000 square meters of warehouse and manufacturing area at its Kaltenkirchen, Germany facility, with completion scheduled for the end of 2024 to increase capacity and shorten delivery times.

Tricor, part of the Rengo/Tri-wall Group, held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new heavy duty corrugated packaging factory in Weeze-Goch, Germany, with production set to start in July 2025.

TRICOR Group held the groundbreaking for a €170 million heavy corrugated board plant in the Weeze-Goch region of Germany, expected to employ more than 200 people.

Israeli bag-in-box maker Aran Group is acquiring a majority stake in IBA Germany, a maker of flexible IBCs based in Luhne, Germany. The deal aims to open new markets and strengthen Aran's presence in Europe.

Bayern-Fass Group subsidiary Rhein-Fass expanded its Ludwigshafen production with new halls and an IBC cleaning line commissioned in July 2023, tripling daily reconditioning capacity.

Global packaging company TricorBraun announced it has acquired Germany-based glass packaging provider Glassland, expanding its German glass packaging business. The announcement was made on January 9, 2024.

Trioworld Group signed an agreement on December 30, 2023 to acquire Wentus GmbH from Clondalkin Group, which was owned through Egeria. MP Corporate Finance advised the seller on the sale.

Packaging maker Thimm is investing more than EUR 3 million in a new Mastercut 2.1 flat-bed die-cutter from Bobst at its Castrop-Rauxel site. The machine adds capacity of 25 million square metres of corrugated board per year.

Tricor Group named Philipp Kosloh, former COO of Progroup AG and general manager at Smurfit Kappa, as CEO effective 1 December 2023, succeeding Robert Wiblishauser.

Tricor Group plans to invest €170 million in a new plant near the Dutch border in the Weeze/Goch region, with start-up in Q3 2025 and capacity of up to 200 million square metres of corrugated board per year.

RHIEM Packaging & Print has invested almost EUR 2 million in new die-cutting machines at its Voerde site in Germany, raising production capacity by almost a third. The systems are now in production.

The Panther Group is building new halls and production lines at its Altonaer Wellpappenfabrik plant in Tornesch near Hamburg to expand production of folding box adhesive products. The project began in early 2023, a second folding box gluer is due in summer 2024, and the project is scheduled for completion in August.

Crown Holdings completed its acquisition of Helvetia Packaging AG, a beverage can and end manufacturing facility in Saarlouis, Germany. The deal adds about one billion units of annual can capacity and assumes 200 current employees.

RECUP GmbH took over reusable container manufacturer Crafting Future GmbH, which became its subsidiary, combining their reusable packaging expertise. The announcement is dated 28 September 2023.

Packaging specialist Papacks has opened a second hall at its Arnstadt, Thuringia site after investing around 14 million euros, and is planning a third gigafactory that will include a research institute. The company makes plastic-free, biodegradable packaging.

Saueressig is building a new company building at its site on Ottensteiner Straße in Vreden, Germany, investing €18 million and creating new jobs.

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) collaborated with Petainer to develop a standardized 1L 'Universal refPET Bottle' for its refillable system in the German market. The design supports fill speeds of 36,000 bottles per hour.

Crown Holdings announced the acquisition of Helvetia Packaging AG's beverage can and end manufacturing facility in Saarlouis, Germany, adding about one billion units of annual can capacity. Completion is expected by the end of 2023, subject to German antitrust approval.

PAPACKS opened its Gigafactory 2 in Arnstadt, Thuringia, more than doubling its production area with a completed extension. The company invested almost 30 million euros with state support of around 6 million euros.

thyssenkrupp Rasselstein will supply up to 3,000 tonnes of CO2-reduced bluemint packaging steel in 2023 to metal packaging maker Muhr & Söhne, which will use it for Sika Deutschland's tinplate pails.

Thimm Group has commissioned a CorruCUT rotary die-cutter from Koenig & Bauer at its Wolnzach site in Bavaria, investing about €5.5 million to add at least 30 million square metres of annual capacity.

Wellpappe Alzenau, part of Papierfabrik Palm, has begun ground surveys for a new corrugated board plant in the Alzenau-Nord industrial area, the first step of a project that also upgrades the existing city-centre site. The plant will consolidate the 250 employees of its Alzenau and Hasselroth-Gondsroth operations at one site.

Mondi plc completed the acquisition of the Western Europe packaging assets of Schumacher Packaging, adding corrugated converting and solid board operations in Germany, Benelux and the UK. The acquired plants include two mega box plants at Ebersdorf and Greven in Germany, and the deal adds over 1 billion square meters of capacity.

Statkraft and packaging maker ALPLA signed two long-term wind and solar power purchase agreements worth 76 GWh per year for 10 years, starting in 2024. The power comes from six solar parks in Bavaria and a wind farm in Schleswig-Holstein.

TIPA Compostable Packaging acquired Bio4Pack, a European compostable packaging maker, on May 4, 2023. The deal adds paper packaging, trays and nets to TIPA's range and brings sales staff and warehousing in the Netherlands and Germany.

Progroup held the topping out ceremony for its new corrugated sheetfeeder plant at Petersberg/Höheischweiler, Germany, with production scheduled to start in the first half of 2024. The company is investing more than EUR 90 million, and the plant will supply board sheets directly to neighbour G&G Preißer.

Rengo subsidiary TRICOR Packaging & Logistics will build a new automated corrugated board plant in Goch, North Rhine-Westphalia, with a total investment of about EUR 170 million. Completion is targeted for July 2025.

German packaging company Packners has ordered a Bobst Masterline DRO flexo printing and rotary die-cutting line, plus further machines, for its new Emsbüren factory in north-west Germany. The line is Bobst's 600th rotary die cutter installed worldwide.

Sofidel has entered into an agreement with Hakle GmbH to acquire the Hakle trademark and other consumer brands such as Dick&Durstig and Servus, with IP rights and domains. Hakle GmbH will keep producing at its Düsseldorf-Reisholz site under a new name; the deal takes effect after regulatory authorization.

DS Smith is investing €34 million to modernise and expand its corrugated board plant in Arenshausen, Thuringia, with groundbreaking held for the works. The investment is part of about €120 million spent across three German sites and is expected to create new jobs.

Stora Enso completed the sale of its Maxau paper production site in Germany and related assets to Schwarz Produktion.

DS Smith decided to close its Berlin plant, which can no longer be operated economically, following an analysis of its site portfolio.

DS Smith will invest almost EUR 120 million in expanding and modernising its plants in Nördlingen, Arenshausen and Arnstadt, including a new corrugator at Nördlingen, creating about 100 new jobs.

Jägermeister has moved its transit packaging from solid board to corrugated cases, now sourced from four family businesses in its home region. The change delivers an average 38.4% weight saving and an estimated 249 tons of CO2 savings a year.

SIG has announced the construction of a 10.25 MWp solar installation at its production site in Linnich, Germany. The announcement is dated 3 January 2023.

H.O.Persiehl acquired WB Verpackungen, a Bremen packaging maker with about 90 staff that supplies multipacks to breweries and folding cartons to food makers, effective retroactively from 1 January 2022.

SIG will secure physical power purchase agreements with energy supplier Enovos to power 100% of its German carton packaging production with renewable electricity from January 2023.

Weiss-Packaging invested in a new packaging printing facility in Simmerath, Germany, with the printing machine still being installed and production expected to start shortly.

Ellerhold AG is building a new 12,000 m² cardboard factory at its headquarters in Radebeul, Germany, with about EUR 20 million invested in the building and machinery. Completion is expected by end of 2022, and the plant will shift the company's focus toward packaging production.

Ellerhold AG is building a new cardboard factory of almost 11,000 square metres at its Radebeul headquarters near Dresden, investing EUR 20 million. Completion is planned by the end of 2022, shifting the company's focus from large posters to packaging.

Corrugated packaging producer Zerhusen Kartonagen, based in Damme in north-western Germany, announced a €100m investment. The article gives no detail on what the money will fund.

Thimm group expanded its folding box production capacity at its Wörrstadt, Germany site by installing a new production line, a few months after commissioning a new folder gluing machine.

Packaging manufacturer Thimm installed a new Bahmüller Turbox folder gluer and automated downstream equipment at its Wörrstadt site for EUR 4.2 million, to meet rising e-commerce packaging demand.

Dutch corrugated packaging producer De Jong Packaging Group acquired a controlling stake in Wellpappenfabrik Grünstadt-Sausenheim (WSG), a German corrugated sheet and folding box maker founded in 1937. Financial terms were not disclosed and the deal is subject to competition approval.

Mondi will supply German bike maker Diamant with pre-made recyclable paper Protector Bags to replace plastic bubble wrap on handlebars. The change is expected to cut Diamant's plastic use by about 16 tonnes a year, and Mondi produces the bags at its Trebsen plant in Germany.

Progroup has broken ground on a new corrugated sheetfeeder plant between Petersberg and Höheischweiler, investing more than EUR 90 million and creating 60 jobs. Production is set to begin in the second half of 2023.