DS Smith is investing nearly €15 million to modernize its Saint-Jean-de-Bournay corrugated plant in France, including €5 million for autonomous conveyors and robotic warehousing. The investment aims to improve intralogistics and customer responsiveness.

SÜDPACK Medica officially opened its significantly expanded plant in Coulmer, France, on 17 July 2026. The site's clean-room production areas were almost doubled to make primary packaging for pharmaceuticals and medical devices.

SOREPACK was awarded a contract by the City of Lorient to supply 100% cellulose trays and lidding film for its municipal catering service, valued at EUR 600,000. The contract runs from June 2026 to June 2027.

JC Display Packaging completed a 3,000-unit order of customized cylinder boxes for an unnamed French skincare client. The boxes feature a teal design with the client's logo.

Smurfit Westrock will invest around €600 million in its French sites over the next three to five years to modernise and decarbonise plants, including a €40M expansion at Épernay and over €100M for the Facture paper mill.

Smurfit Westrock announced it intends to invest nearly €600 million in its French activities over three to five years. The plan includes a €40 million expansion of its Épernay site and €20 million for its corrugated plant in the Ardennes.

Smurfit Westrock announced plans to invest about €600 million across its French operations over three to five years to modernise, decarbonise and expand plants. Projects include a €40 million expansion at Épernay and €20 million at Vernon, plus over €100 million at its Facture paper mill.

Smurfit Westrock plans a EUR 20 million investment to further develop its corrugated board plant in Rethel, Ardennes, France.

Smurfit Westrock plans a EUR 40 million expansion and modernisation project at its Épernay site in the Marne region of France.

Smurfit Westrock announced a EUR 600 million investment programme over the next three to five years to modernise its industrial sites and decarbonise its activities in France.

CCL Industries signed a binding option agreement to acquire France-based shrink-sleeve label producer Sleever, which has 11 plants and about $213 million in 2025 sales. The deal, valued at about $151 million, is expected to close by mid-2026.

Italian SACMI, through SACMI Packaging & Chocolate, acquired a 65% majority stake in France's Groupe Emballage Technologies, which owns Etpack, Sermatec and Pactisoud. The deal was made official on 19 December 2025.

The French blood establishment (EFS) awarded a 48-month framework contract for secondary transport packaging to four suppliers, including Less France, LM Plastiques, Delema packaging ALMP and Hanova. The maximum value is EUR 1.7 million.

Hinojosa Packaging Group finalised the acquisition of ASV Packaging, a French folding carton manufacturer, adding about 200 employees in France. Hinojosa had held a 49% stake since July 2023.

The City of Reims awarded Raja a single-supplier framework contract for packaging and packing materials, with a maximum value of €215,000 excluding VAT.

Groupe Guillin, through its subsidiary WEFOLD DIFFUSION, entered exclusive negotiations to acquire the businesses of Cartonnerie Moderne, Défi Imprimerie and Alpes Emballages, which make food cardboard packaging with about EUR 13 million combined 2023 revenue and around 30 staff at three French sites.

PET preform maker SGT Group of Rezé, France, announced its acquisition of Axium Packaging, a Saint-Étienne injection and blow molding firm with 385 employees and production in France, the Czech Republic, Italy and Germany.

Japan Pulp and Paper submitted a binding proposal on September 24, 2024 to buy 100% of Inapa France from its insolvency administrator for EUR 25 million, based on an enterprise value of EUR 73.1 million. The offer competes with a EUR 20 million bid from Next Pack for the packaging business.

CARBIOS and French label maker SLEEVER signed an exclusive long-term contract to jointly develop Home Compost biodegradable shrinksleeve films, including a master supply agreement for CARBIOS Active enzyme for PLA biodegradation.

PSB Industries will acquire 100 percent of ALQP's share capital at €32 per share to merge Quadpack with its Texen business into one group. The combined group, with sales of €350 million, will have industrial presence in six countries.

Trioworld Group signed an agreement on June 25, 2024 to acquire Sopal SAS, owner of French food packaging companies Palamy and Beaudet et René Jean Emballage (BRJ), through a purchase of all shares. The deal is subject to closing conditions and French regulatory approvals.

DS Smith invested €6m in its La Chevrolière facility near Nantes, France, adding 4,000 square metres and a new 2,500m² workshop for Kaypal cardboard pallets. The workshop has capacity of 250,000 units and potential for up to 1.5 million pallets per year.

Wobz is investing €6 million to expand its Oyonnax plant with a 1,800 m² extension and three new production lines by May 2024, raising capacity from 120,000 to 500,000 customized containers per day.

Greif entered exclusive negotiations to acquire IPACKCHEM Group SAS, a maker of jerrycans and small plastic containers, from an affiliate of SK Capital Partners in a cash deal valued at $538 million. Closing is expected by the end of Greif's second quarter of fiscal 2024, subject to French consultation and regulatory clearances.

Europe Technologies built a semi-automated pilot assembly line for LivingPackets' The Box packaging in Nantes, and the partnership continues with planned mass-production lines of 500,000 to 1 million units a year.

Hinojosa Packaging Group closed a 49% shareholding agreement in ASV Packaging, a French maker of sustainable food and beverage packaging. The deal expands Hinojosa's presence in the French and Spanish markets.

Spanish carton maker Hinojosa Packaging entered exclusive negotiations to acquire a 49% stake in French corrugated packaging maker ASV Packaging, which has 210 employees and 64 million euros in revenue. The deal would also give the two groups joint control of Halopack tray production in Iberia and France.

Ardagh Metal Packaging is investing nearly EUR 80 million to add a third production line at its La Ciotat plant, launching in the first half of 2023, to make slim beverage cans previously imported from Germany.

British Euro Packaging Group (EP Group) reportedly will invest nearly €47 million in a new plant at the Port of Marseille Fos, France, to produce paper bags and packaging.

Ardagh Metal Packaging is investing in expanding its La Ciotat, France beverage can facility, supported by Bpifrance and Sud Attractivité, creating about 80 jobs with production expected to begin in the first half of 2023.

Berlin Packaging is acquiring Verrerie du Comtat, a glass packaging supplier in Sorgues, France, serving wine and olive oil producers. It is the second Berlin Packaging acquisition in EMEA in 2022, and all employees and locations will be retained.

Hébert Group became a PulPac licensee and will install the PulPac Modula Dry Molded Fiber production platform at PulPac's facilities in Orgelet, eastern France, this summer.

Axium Packaging has moved its headquarters and subsidiaries Acti Pack and Loire Plastic Industrie into a 22,000 sqm facility near Saint-Etienne, France, after a €16 million, six-month fit-out. Production capacity is reported to rise by 15%.

Coveris has installed a five-layer coextrusion extruder at its Montfaucon plant in France to increase capacity for shrink and stretch hoods with recycled content. The equipment was recently acquired and the site was redesigned to accommodate it.

French public buyer Siresco awarded mrnet a EUR 500,000 contract for disposable packaging materials, including film rolls and polypropylene and cellulose food trays, with the award dated 2021-11-22.

Selig Group, owned by CC Industries, has acquired Manufacture Générale de Joints (MGJ), a foam-based liner supplier headquartered near Lyon, France; MGJ will keep operating from its France facility.

Pacur, a Gryphon Investors portfolio company, signed a definitive agreement to acquire CAROLEX SAS, a French PETG sheet extruder, from epsotech Holding GmbH. The deal is expected to close by year end 2021 and terms were not disclosed.

Berlin Packaging has signed a binding commitment with O-I France SAS to acquire the Le Parfait glass jar and lid business and brands, with closing expected around year end 2021. Le Parfait glass jars are made at plants in Puy-Guillaume, France and Sevilla, Spain.

Private equity firms Azulis Capital and Arkea Capital entered the capital of Nantes-based packaging distributor Fidel Fillaud, which reported €76 million in 2020 sales, while founding family keeps control.

Lacroix Emballages will invest in its La Ferté-Macé site in Normandy, enlarging the building and diversifying its activity, with state support from the France Relance industrial investment fund. The investment will also create jobs and add solar panels.

The French city of Colomiers awarded supplier Sorepack a EUR 400,000 contract for compostable and biodegradable trays, films and labels for its municipal catering centre. The award was published on October 6, 2021.

Investment fund LBO France acquired a majority stake in Baobag, a French maker and distributor of large-capacity flexible packaging, alongside AfricInvest, BNP Paribas Développement and management. The deal was announced in Paris on 24 September 2021 and no value was disclosed.

Smurfit Kappa will invest 24 million euros to expand and modernize its corrugated plant in Rethel, north-east France, adding an 8200 square meter machine plant, with completion expected in 2023.

Guillin, a European food packaging group, has completed the acquisition of Gault et Frémont, a maker of paper bags, cardboard boxes and baking paper with four sites in France and Belgium, from UI Investissement. Gault et Frémont reported 2020 sales of 63 million euros.

Tetra Pak announced a EUR 100 million, three-year investment at its Châteaubriant plant in France to add about 30% manufacturing capacity and support the transition to tethered caps by 2024.

Norske Skog's board approved the final investment decision to convert one machine at its Golbey industrial site in France from newsprint to recycled containerboard, adding 550,000 tonnes of capacity. Golbey PM1 conversion costs about EUR 250 million, with production starting in Q4 2023.

In June 2021 Ardagh partnered with France-based beverage group Ogeu to invest in a beverage can filling line, which Ogeu will use to add new can formats to its drinks range.

JDE Peet's announced a €110 million investment at its Andrézieux-Bouthéon site in the Loire, France, to raise aluminium coffee capsule production capacity by more than 60%, with about 40 new hires planned by year-end and works finishing in 2022.

Mutares completed the acquisition of RDM La Rochette S.A.S. from the Reno De Medici Group. The Valgelon-La Rochette, France plant makes virgin-fibre folding boxboard for pharma and food packaging, with revenues near EUR 120 million and about 300 employees.

Klingele Paper & Packaging Group has acquired the Société Guadeloupéenne de Carton Ondulé corrugated board plant in Baillif, Guadeloupe, from International Paper, to operate as Klingele Cartonnerie de Guadeloupe.