Collard Group has acquired a 40-acre rookery recycling facility near Fareham to expand its south coast operations.

Amcor agreed to supply Tiptree, the preserves brand owned by Wilkin and Sons, with RecyClass-certified collation shrink film and stretch wrap containing 30% post-consumer recycled content. The move prepares Tiptree for UK Plastic Packaging Tax changes from April 2027.

Cromwell Polythene Ltd was awarded a £68,000 contract by City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council for recyclable liners for food waste kitchen caddies. The award date is 23 August 2026.

Sellafield Limited appointed a single supplier to manufacture stainless steel and polymer SRP containers and consumables for nuclear material storage under contract C14801. The published total value range is £31.7M to £91.7M, and the award notice was published on February 6, 2026.

Nexus Packaging plans a second expansion phase at its Glasgow blow moulding facility, adding 1,858 sq m of storage and four new machines, with completion expected in 2027.

Biffa has completed the acquisition of Esterform, merging it with its PET recycling operations into a combined business trading as Esterpet. Esterform makes PET preforms and bottles at sites in West Yorkshire and Worcestershire.

Bulk container maker WERiT opened its expanded Irlam site after an £8m investment adding a 3,000 m2 warehouse, office complex and blow-moulding machinery. The investment created nine jobs, with more recruitment planned.

Coral Products acquired Arrow Film Converters from administrators through its subsidiary Film & Foil Solutions, for a stated £502,899.

Coral Products subsidiary Tatra Rotalac signed an exclusive three-year supply agreement with a UK distributor of BRC packaging containers to supply ice cream and food containers, worth up to £6m.

Dunstable-based Twinplast won a contract to design and manufacture custom corrugated polypropylene shipping containers for a UK Buckfast bee supplier and breeder. The containers are designed for safe transport of live bees.

Coveris is investing in its Winsford, Cheshire polyethylene extrusion site, adding a nine-layer blown EVOH barrier film line, a cast stretch film line and a 5,000-pallet warehouse. The cast line is set to start production in December 2024 and the warehouse is expected to be fully operational by the end of Q1 2025.

Aquapak Polymers, Maxim and N Brown announced a collaboration under which N Brown begins rolling out Hydropol-based garment bags for its own-label products. N Brown expects plastic use to fall by 44% once rollout is complete.

UK corrugated polypropylene manufacturer Twinplast has appointed Andrew Hawksley as its new Financial Director to support its growth strategy. He has 25 years of senior finance experience, including in the manufacturing sector.

Corrugated packaging specialist Twinplast invested £1.5 million (US$1.9 million) in a new extrusion line made by Omipa Extrusion Machinery in Milan, Italy, which will increase extrusion capacity three to four times while cutting energy use per ton by 40%.

Macfarlane Group agreed to acquire foam protective packaging specialist Polyformes in a £11.5 million deal, reported on 8 July 2024.

Packaging maker Venturepak has invested £3m in a new manufacturing facility in Manchester to produce injection-moulded plastic containers for a household brand's ice cream products, previously imported.

UK bioplastic firm Kelpi won a contract with fresh fruit company Blue Skies, backed by Waitrose, to develop seaweed-based packaging for fresh-cut fruit, starting with a prototype and a pilot next year in an 18-month project.

Jayplas will develop a plastic reprocessing facility at the former Toyoda Gosei factory in Swansea, capable of processing at least 100,000 tonnes of plastics a year. The £45 million investment will create over 100 jobs and is being developed in three phases.

Mitsubishi Chemical UK began construction of a new production line that will double capacity for its SoarnoL EVOH packaging polymer at Saltend Chemicals Park in Hull, a multi-hundred-million-pound investment. The line is expected to be operational by mid-2025 and create at least 30 direct jobs.

ALPLA Group acquired the iTEC Packaging (Mansfield) business, a producer of closures mainly for dairy, in the UK. The takeover was contractually agreed on 26 May 2023 and the staff will be taken over in full. Terms were not disclosed.

Coral Products has completed commissioning of in-house volume manufacturing for ECODECK floor grids after a £2.1 million investment in new machinery and re-tooling, allowing it to insource £3 million per year of previously outsourced products. The announcement was made on 20 March 2025 at its Wythenshawe site.

Coral Products subsidiary Tatra Rotalac signed an exclusive three-year agreement with a leading UK distributor of BRC packaging containers to supply ice cream and food containers, expected to generate £1.5-2.0 million in sales per year. The announcement was made on 20 March 2025 in Wythenshawe, Manchester.

Braintree District Council awarded Paramount Packaging (UK) Ltd a one-year supply contract of up to 5 million pink recycling sacks worth £122,500 on 22 May 2023.

Alongside the Esterpet deal, Biffa Polymers made a minority investment in its sister company Esterform, a manufacturer of PET preforms. The stake size and value were not disclosed.

Biffa Polymers announced the acquisition of Esterpet Ltd, a PET plastic recycler with a facility near Leeds that converts 25,000 tonnes of plastic flakes a year into pellets. The deal extends Biffa's recycled PET capability.

Liverpool-area logistics firm SSO Logistics Ltd signed a 12-month distribution deal with St Helens packaging supplier Venturepak, which makes injection-moulded food-safe plastic containers, using its Pallet-Track network.

Greiner Packaging UK & Ireland invested over £3,700,000 in a new PET decontamination and extrusion line at its Dungannon, Northern Ireland site to make food-contact recycled packaging. The site has also gained SSP and FSC certifications.

Greiner Packaging UK & Ireland announced new investments totalling over £10 million at its Dungannon, Northern Ireland site for new machinery, a new manufacturing hall and warehouse expansion, celebrating its 50th anniversary.

Mauser Packaging Solutions has invested in a new multi-layer extrusion blow molding machine at its Littleborough, UK plant to make 220-litre drums with recycled resin. The investment expands capacity for its Infinity Series products.

Constantia Flexibles acquired FFP Packaging Solutions, a Northampton flexible packaging maker with over 100 staff, for an undisclosed sum. It is Constantia's first consumer packaging plant in the UK.

The Samuel Grant Group has acquired Clingfoil, a Stockport-based distributor and manufacturer of protective packaging and stretch film with £7m annual sales, keeping its 21 staff.

Packaging firm Coveris invested £500,000 in new hi-tech equipment at its Hartlepool plant to produce branded tamper-evident bags for Covid-19 test kits, creating 20 new jobs.

Plastipak has teamed up with anaerobic digestion operator BioteCH4 in Hemswell, Lincolnshire, so that electricity generated by BioteCH4 is connected directly to Plastipak's Clean Tech PET recycling plant next door.

Berry BPI, a subsidiary of Berry Global, installed a wash plant and recycling facility at its Heanor, Derbyshire factory. The system can recycle flexible and rigid plastics and adds around 1,200 tonnes of recycling capacity a year.

Coveris acquired specialty bag manufacturer Initial Packaging, reported on March 4, 2021.

Esterpet, set up by Esterform management, secured £9m of asset finance from Shawbrook Bank to buy two Starlinger rPET production lines at Sherburn-in-Elmet, Leeds, each capable of over 13,000 tonnes a year.

Abbey Logistics has been awarded a recycled polymer logistics and materials handling contract by Viridor, the UK's largest recycling company. Abbey will receive, store and reformat recycled plastic flakes from Viridor's Skelmersdale facility at its bag-to-bulk site on the Wirral.

PFF Group invested over £2m in custom-built machines from Hanbury-Autogil and hired 100 staff at its Washington, Tyne and Wear site to make disposable polythene aprons under a UK Department of Health and Social Care contract for 360 million aprons. The announcement is dated 5 January 2021.

Trans-Continental Marketing invested over 3 million pounds to increase capacity at its UK manufacturing sites, completing an 18-metre roof extension to accommodate a new extrusion line, reported on 6 November 2020.

Wipak UK, a flexible packaging maker, is investing more than £5 million in new conversion equipment at its Welshpool site, with about 50 new jobs expected. The machinery is due to be operating by summer 2021.

Flexipol, a UK manufacturer of sacks, bags, liners and pouches, has invested in all three of its manufacturing sites, adding 25% capacity as it integrates with sister brands Synpac and Palagan within Synnovia.

AST Plastic Containers, based on the Wrexham industrial estate in North Wales, was awarded a contract by Yara to supply its 10 litre jerry cans for use with AdBlue.

Procter & Gamble signed a five-year contract with UK recycling company Viridor to buy recycled high-density polyethylene for its European Ariel laundry packaging, enough to make about 200 million bottles.

Biffa has opened a £27.5m ($35.8m) PET bottle recycling facility in Seaham, England, capable of processing 57,000 metric tons of PET per year and creating 100 full-time jobs.

Somerset-based thermoformed packaging firm Kingsmoor Packaging has started the year with fully refurbished design, pattern and tooling facilities.

US packaging firm Sonoco acquired Thermoform Engineered Quality (TEQ) and Stevenage-based Plastique Holdings from ESCO Technologies for about £145 million ($187 million).

Aegg is preparing to open its first major UK warehouse near Eye, Suffolk later in 2019, with a 60,000 sq ft facility and a planned plastic food packaging plant. GBP 3.1 million is being invested, creating 50 new jobs.

Berry Global completed its acquisition of RPC Group Plc for a purchase price of about $6.5 billion, creating a global plastic packaging leader with over 290 locations and about 48,000 employees.

Amcor signed a binding agreement to sell three former Bemis flexible packaging plants in the UK and Ireland to investment firm Kohlberg & Company for US$394 million cash, a divestment required by the European Commission. The plants generate about US$170 million annual sales.

Italian packager AMB has acquired TDX (Europe), a provider of PET, RPET and laminated rigid films, including its product design, prototype and tooling business. The deal expands AMB's European footprint, with the combined group having four sites in Europe and 430 employees.