Smurfit Westrock has completed a €54 million expansion at its Ibi facility in Alicante, Spain, doubling Bag-in-Box production capacity to meet European demand. The site has received €90 million in capital over the last decade.
Packaging maker Ondupack will invest more than EUR 3.6 million to expand its Almendralejo plant in Extremadura, Spain, creating 15 jobs with a EUR 905,791.50 government incentive. The announcement was made on 13 August 2026.
Ondupack, part of CL Grupo Industrial, will invest €9 million to add a production line at its Navalmoral de la Mata plant in Cáceres, raising annual capacity from 50 million to 90 million m2, with start-up planned for April 2026.
Resilux Ibérica Packaging is expanding its PET preform and packaging plant in Higuera la Real, adding capacity, storage and multilayer preform products with an investment above EUR 28 million. The works began in 2022 and completion is expected in 2025, creating 35 permanent jobs.
Hinojosa Packaging Group has finished a €30 million expansion of its Xàtiva plant in Valencia, adding 15,000 square metres and installing a 3.35-metre corrugator that raises capacity to two million boxes per day. The project began in 2022 and was announced on 14 May 2025.
Constantia Tobepal announced a €14.1 million investment in a new tandem extruder at its Burgos facility in Spain to boost pharmaceutical and food packaging capacity. The line is expected to be fully operational by mid-2026.
Hinojosa Packaging Group is rebuilding its PM 1 paper machine at Alquería, Spain with supplier Voith, raising containerboard output about 19% to 128,000 tons per year. The shutdown and restart are scheduled for Q1 2026.
Salinas Packaging Group opened a new sustainable printing and graphic arts facility in Spain, investing close to EUR 10 million. The plant serves its three rigid box plants near Alicante and its Barcelona plant, and is expected to raise capacity by 40% in 2025.
Smurfit Kappa will invest EUR 54 million to double the capacity of its Bag-in-Box plant in Ibi, Alicante, Spain, and create 200 jobs. The investment also improves waste management and energy efficiency.
Ondupet, which makes rPET packaging, is investing 11 million euros to expand its plant in Almendralejo, Extremadura, and plans to grow its workforce from 65 to 110.
Hinojosa Packaging is investing about €30m to expand its Xàtiva plant in Spain, adding a 7,500 m2 warehouse in the first phase and a 15,000 m2 building in a second phase. Works are due to finish by September 2024.
Huhtamaki completed a €20 million expansion of its Nules, Spain packaging site in November 2022, doubling its capacity and expected to create about 130 new jobs.
Huhtamaki inaugurated a 12,500 m2 extension to its Nules, Spain factory for paper-based packaging, a EUR 20 million investment with a EUR 2.2 million regional grant, doubling site capacity and creating around 130 jobs; production starts January 2023.
Damm is investing an additional 25 million euros to launch a new can packaging line at its El Prat de Llobregat brewery, creating 50 jobs during 2022. The line will package cans for all of the company's brands, with launch planned for May 2022.
Crown Holdings will build a new high-speed aluminum can line at its Agoncillo, Spain beverage can facility, with commercial production expected in Q1 2023 to serve growing demand in Northern Spain.
Papresa completed the rebuild of paper machine PM5 at its Errenteria mill in Spain, which produced its first jumbo roll of recycled containerboard on 29 March 2022. The machine's capacity rises to 205,000 tpy of testliner and fluting from 135,000 tpy of newsprint.
Damm has invested 25 million euros to expand its El Prat de Llobregat factory with an auxiliary building, a can packaging line and tank loading systems. The factory intends to create 50 new jobs during 2022, and the line starts in May.
Smurfit Kappa completed a €12 million investment adding a 4,300 m2 flexible material production area at its Bag-in-Box plant in Ibi, Spain, which began phased operations earlier in 2021.
Bemasa Caps plans a EUR 1.5 million first phase of works to expand its metal caps factory in Molina de Segura, Spain, to about 20,000 square metres, with completion expected later this year.
Insoca, operating as Cartonajes Izquierdo, has started work on a expansion in Soria, Spain, with a planned investment of at least EUR 25 million over the medium term. The first phase includes a two-level automated warehouse with a silo for 7,000 pallets and about 25 new direct jobs.
Emsur Madrid inaugurated a new 5,000 m2 production building with a high-speed rotogravure printing line and a laminator at its Alcalá de Henares headquarters in Spain. The project adds production capacity for flexible packaging, mainly for the dairy market.
Virospack, a maker of cosmetic droppers, recently started up a new production unit of 14,000 square meters in Badalona near Barcelona, with latest-generation machinery and automated production lines.