AST Kunststoffverarbeitung is building a new production site near Eppingen in Baden-Württemberg, part of a company investment of about 30 million euros in 2018, with 15 million euros for this site.

AST Kunststoffverarbeitung plans to invest around 30 million euros in 2018 in several projects at its Erndtebrück headquarters.

RPC is buying Nordfolien GmbH, a maker of flexible packaging such as the NordiPure bag-in-bag, to build its flexible packaging platform. The article reports the deal on 2018-03-13 without stating a value.

Georg Menshen GmbH & Co KG and logistics provider Schäflein AG renewed their logistics cooperation through a multi-year follow-on contract. Menshen products are stored at Schäflein sites in Schwerte and Kitzingen, Germany, on 16,500 square metres.

WERIT Kunststoffwerke started production of EURO H1 plastic hygiene pallets at its Buchholz (Westerwald) site with a fully automated line, in an investment of undisclosed millions of euros. The article is dated 28 February 2018.

Auer Packaging of Amerang, Germany, won a Europe-wide tender from Volkswagen for around one million RL-KLT plastic small load carriers, worth three million euros. The containers will be delivered to Volkswagen suppliers across Europe.

HCP Packaging Group held a ground-breaking ceremony on 22 January 2018 for the first phase of a multi-year expansion at its Rusi site in Bechhofen, Bavaria, adding two production buildings and injection moulding and decoration equipment, expected to be fully operational by October 2018 and raising annual capacity by over 60%.

Auer Packaging GmbH is adding injection molding capacity at its Amerang, Germany site, with a second hall running 14 machines since 2016 and a third hall planned to reach 35 machines. The company produces about 35 million plastic containers per year.

Bayer sold a further 6.9 percent of Covestro shares for EUR 1 billion, reducing its direct stake to 24.6 percent and ending control via a control termination agreement effective September 30, 2017.

Constantia Flexibles has invested around EUR 6 million in new technology to make film-based flexible packaging at its Weiden site in Germany.

Bischof + Klein is adding production capacity for flexible packaging and technical films in 2017, including two new blown film lines and an extrusion coating line at its Lengerich main plant, plus a new hall with converting lines at Konzell.

Covestro started operations at a new coextrusion plant for high-quality multilayered flat films at its Dormagen site in Germany. The investment is around EUR 20 million and creates 15 new jobs.

Munich-based industrial holding Armira acquired PolyCine GmbH, a supplier of non-PVC PP films and tubes for pharmaceutical IV and blood bags with headquarters in Schiffweiler, Germany. MP Corporate Finance advised the founders on the succession sale.