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.

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%.

TUBES plans to open a facility in Bordeaux in the second half of 2020, and will prepare a production location in California from Q1 2021.

MR Cartonnage Numerique opened a second production site of 2,800 square metres in Saint-Ouen-L'Aumone, north-west of Paris, on January 2, 2019. The EUR 2 million site is equipped with an HP Indigo 30000 digital printer and a UV varnishing line.

SGT laid the first stone for a new 10,000 m2 factory in Chalon-sur-Saône making PET preforms, with an investment of nearly 28 million euros. The plant should be operational from spring 2019 and employ around forty people.

UNITED CAPS, a caps and closures manufacturer, held an open house on June 21, 2018 celebrating its extended R&D facility in Messia, France, featuring a new Nescafé Gold closure developed with Nestlé.