Fernholz Verpackungen has commissioned another high-performance extruder at its film site in Schkopau, Saxony-Anhalt, and increased silo capacity by 75%. The end-2025 start-up completes its investment programme begun in 2022.

Südpack held a ground-breaking ceremony for new production space in Erolzheim for PharmaGuard recyclable blister packaging and a regranulation plant, with completion scheduled for Q3 2027 and around 50 jobs initially, up to 170 by 2030.

Bischof+Klein extended its clean room extrusion facility at Lengerich, Germany, with new blown film extrusion lines for packaging films, commissioned from December 2024 onward.

Plastics specialist Auer GmbH plans a fourth production hall with an attached picking hall at its headquarters technology park in Amerang, Germany, with construction possibly starting in 2026.

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.

Alpla Werke Lehner inaugurated a new production and warehouse hall at its Exter site in Vlotho, Kreis Herford, after investing about EUR 30 million in the site's modernisation and new building.

Closure maker Heinlein Plastik-Technik has built a new production hall in Ansbach for twenty more injection molding machines and assembly units. The project also upgraded energy supply and infrastructure, including water-cooled chillers and screw compressors.

PACCOR plans to invest more than 40 million euros in 2021 in capacity, automation, logistics and technology. The investment includes new injection molding capacity at its Ravensburg site in Germany for in-mold labeled PP cups and lids.

Mauser Packaging Solutions completed a new production space in Erkelenz, Germany in summer 2020, housing an IBC wash line and an automated IBC rebottle line, and increased post-consumer resin production.

Auer Packaging added a third production hall with 3,000 square meters of manufacturing space and nine new injection molding machines at its Amerang site in Bavaria. Four of the machines are expected to start up soon.

Liveo Research will add 20,000 tons of coating capacity for pharma blister packaging films at its Boetzingen, Germany site, with commissioning expected in Q3 2021 and total capacity above 50,000 tons.

Plastic container maker Auer Packaging is expanding its Amerang site with a third production hall, expected to go into operation in July 2020, bringing the site to three production halls and one warehouse.

Mauser Packaging Solutions broke ground on an expansion of its Erkelenz, Germany facility, adding warehouse space and new reconditioning and recycled resin processing lines.

Evonik Industries is expanding its capacity for organic dispersions used in heat seal lacquers at its Darmstadt, Germany site, with completion scheduled for the second half of 2021. The dispersions serve food and beverage flexible packaging.

Auer Packaging is building a third production hall of about 3,000 m² at its Amerang headquarters, due for completion in December 2019, to house eight new injection molding machines from February 2020.

Noreva GmbH is constructing a new 1,100 square metre production hall at its Mönchengladbach headquarters for high-performance plastic parts, investing about €4 million, with construction starting in Q2 2024.

H. Großekämper Kunststoffe plans to build an automated high-bay warehouse with about 10,260 pallet spaces and a loading hall at its plastic bucket plant in Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock, at a gross cost of €10.5 million, with construction in 2018–2020.

KP Linpac ordered a third Infrared Rotary Drum from Kreyenborg to expand thermoformed PET packaging capacity at its Beeskow site in Germany, with delivery planned for early 2019.

Auer Packaging is building a third block warehouse with 6,300 square metres of floor space at its Amerang site in Germany. The investment is about seven million euros and completion is planned for December 2018.

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.

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.

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.