Allpack Packaging (Allgroup LLP) was awarded a published £5,500,000 contract by YPO for packaging materials, machines and consumables, announced 17 June 2025.

UK central purchasing body YPO published a contract award notice on 17 June 2025 for its 001278 packaging materials and consumables framework, with six lots and two suppliers per lot.

Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation awarded its 84-month packaging materials and consumables contract, split into six lots, to Arrow County Supplies, Maxpack Group, Priory Business Group, Kite Packaging, Allpack Packaging and Victoria Grant in Wakefield, UK.

Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation awarded a packaging materials, machines and consumables supply contract to six suppliers, including Allpack Packaging, Arrow County Supplies, Kite Packaging Group and Maxpack, running from 2025 to 2032.

UK Research and Innovation awarded a below-threshold contract to Protective Packaging Ltd to supply foil packaging, worth £19,781.34 excluding VAT, with delivery from 1 to 16 May 2025.

Holden's Bottling agreed to acquire the small-pack packaging operations of South East Bottling (SEB), taking over its contract packaging volume. The deal was announced on April 28, 2025.

Engelmann & Buckham was selected to supply packaging lines, including filling and labeling systems, for Yara International's new production facility in Yorkshire, UK. The plant is slated to begin operations in early 2026.

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

Sustainable packaging firm Pulpex leased the 88,017 sq ft Westway 90 building from Canmoor on a 20-year lease in April 2025. It will host Pulpex's first commercial-scale fibre bottle manufacturing facility.

DS Smith has renewed its packaging partnership with Jaguar Land Rover, covering manufacture, storage and delivery of packaging for JLR's products worldwide from the Mercia Park site in Leicestershire, valued at £108 million. The extension was made official at the beginning of April 2025.

Grenadier Packaging announced the acquisition of Kentmere Packaging, a UK-based manufacturer of folding cartons, in March 2025. The deal's value was not disclosed.

DS Smith signed a £108 million, five-year contract to extend its fibre-based packaging supply to Jaguar Land Rover, including a just-in-time on-site service at JLR's Mercia Park plant in Appleby Magna, UK.

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.

DS Smith extended its five-year fibre-based packaging contract with Jaguar Land Rover worth £108 million, including an on-site one-stop-shop at JLR's Mercia Park facility in Appleby Magna, Leicestershire.

Saica Group's flexible packaging division Saica Flex unveiled a €7.1 million investment in new printing and conversion equipment at its Wigan site, aiming to create up to 20 local jobs.

DS Smith has extended its five-year, GBP 108 million contract to supply fibre-based packaging, warehousing and transport services to JLR's Mercia campus in Appleby Magna, Leicestershire.

MM Group sold its packaging subsidiary MM Bangor to Cordovan Capital, with MP Corporate Finance as exclusive financial advisor to the seller. MM Bangor had been acquired by MM Group in October 2022 as part of Essentra Packaging.

Packaging One, a family-run UK protective packaging maker, moved into a 44,000 sq ft site in Middlewich, Cheshire, increasing manufacturing capability by about 70%. The expansion followed a seven-figure funding deal from NatWest and aims to double the workforce to 80 people.

Saica Pack, the corrugated packaging division of Saica Group, is investing £10m in a new warehouse in Hartlepool with space for up to 9,000 pallets, with solar panels expected to supply up to 10% of energy needs. Construction is set to run through 2025 from 6 January 2025.

Packaging company Pulpex raised a £62 million Series D round led by the National Wealth Fund and the Scottish National Investment Bank. The funding will finance construction of its first commercial-scale manufacturing facility near Glasgow.

Schumacher Packaging Birmingham commissioned a Delta SPC 130 FlexLine Eco+ digital printing press from Koenig & Bauer Durst, starting commercial digital printing for corrugated packaging. The machine is part of a EUR 30 million investment in the Birmingham site.

The UK National Wealth Fund committed £43.5 million in direct equity to Pulpex, which will build a commercial-scale fibre bottle plant near Glasgow producing 50 million bottles per year. The Scottish National Investment Bank adds £10 million, bringing total funding to £62 million, and 35 jobs are expected.

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 £5 million to triple the production footprint of its St Neots packaging site in Cambridgeshire, UK, to about 3,158 sqm. The project, begun in October 2024, adds capacity for around 700 million recyclable food-to-go packs a year.

VPK UK and Ireland plans to close its corrugated packaging site in Leeds, UK, by 29 August 2025, affecting 59 employees. Operations will move to other VPK locations and consultation with unions has begun.

Paper and board maker April International appointed Scalderhurst Ltd as its sole distributor for the UK and Ireland, covering GC1 and GC2 folding box boards, art boards and cup stock boards. The announcement was made on 5 February 2025.

Schumacher Packaging Birmingham began full commercial digital production on a Koenig & Bauer Durst Delta SPC 130 single-pass press, the first six-colour FlexLine Eco+ installation in the UK. The installation is part of a €30 million investment that also upgrades its Birmingham plant and two nearby warehouses.

VPK UK & Ireland plans to close its Leeds corrugated packaging site by 29 August 2025, affecting 59 employees. Operations will move to other VPK locations.

Macfarlane Group acquired Scotland-based protective packaging maker Pitreavie Group for a maximum cash consideration of £18m, including an earn-out of up to £4m over two years, financed from its existing bank facility.

ESPO published a contract award notice for its packaging materials and pallet supply framework, with Lot 1 awarded to three suppliers. The notice confirms the awards made in the same procurement.

ESPO, a UK central purchasing body, appointed four suppliers to a packaging materials and pallet supply and collection framework worth £2,000,000, with a contract period from November 2024 to August 2026.

VPK Group revealed plans in early 2025 to close its Leeds facility on August 29, 2025, citing concerns over the plant's long-term commercial viability.

UK aluminium foil tray maker i2r Packaging Solutions has secured an exclusive sole supply agreement to supply Greencore with smoothwall aluminium products and wrinklewall containers, expanding an existing relationship.

Dutch company Nova Paper, affiliated with Turkey's Eren Holdings, acquired 100% of Wolverhampton-based Onboard Corrugated from Klingele Paper and Packaging Group and Paul Jundu. Onboard is completing a second BHS corrugator that will raise capacity to 250 million square metres a year.

McLaren Packaging is forming a 50/50 joint venture called McLaren Corrugate Limited with VPK Packaging UK & Ireland, combining its Port Glasgow corrugate plant with VPK's East Kilbride site to serve the Scottish corrugated market.

Spanish carton printing group Alzamora has acquired Offset Print & Packaging of Aylesford, near Maidstone, UK. The combined businesses will have 300 staff. The deal value was not disclosed.

2M Group of Companies signed a multi-year commercial supply agreement with Transcend Packaging to deploy Xampla's plastic-free Morro coating on paperboard packaging across the UK, manufactured at 2M's Milton Keynes facility, announced 5 December 2024.

Leidos Supply issued a prior information notice for a framework supplying packaging and soft consumables to the UK Ministry of Defence, estimated at £29 million to £73 million over up to four years from 2026. The notice is for market research only and is not a formal tender.

McLaren Packaging and VPK UK and Ireland launched a 50/50 joint venture, McLaren Corrugate Limited, combining McLaren's Port Glasgow corrugated plant with VPK's East Kilbride site. McLaren will hold operational management control.

McLaren Packaging and VPK UK & Ireland agreed to form a 50/50 joint venture, McLaren Corrugate Limited, combining McLaren's Port Glasgow corrugate plant with VPK's East Kilbride site to serve the Scottish corrugated market.

Italian packaging group Carton Pack has acquired Clifton Packaging Group, a Leicester-based maker of flexible food and drink packaging, backed by private equity firm A&M Capital Europe.

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.

Palm Group has completed the acquisition of 100% of John Hargreaves (Collyhurst & Stalybridge) Ltd, a corrugated products producer in Stalybridge near Manchester, in October 2024.

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.

Peak Packaging UK signed a supply agreement to provide bag-in-box packaging to Britvic Soft Drinks for its Leeds filling site, starting in 2025.

2M Group of Companies has signed a multi-year commercial supply agreement with Transcend Packaging to supply its plastic-free Morro Coating for paper board packaging across the UK. The coating will be manufactured at scale at 2M's Milton Keynes facility under its Sustainable Packaging Technologies venture.

Huhtamäki Oyj is expanding its fiber lid production capacity at its Lurgan site in Northern Ireland. The article provides few details beyond the headline.

2M Group of Companies signed a multi-year commercial supply agreement with Transcend Packaging to supply Xampla's plastic-free Morro Coating across the UK. The coating will be manufactured at scale at 2M's Milton Keynes facility under its Sustainable Packaging Technologies venture.

Coveris is investing £5 million in its St Neots packaging facility in Cambridgeshire, UK, to scale up recyclable food-to-go packaging production. The expansion starts in October 2024 and is due for completion in Q1 2025.

VPK Group acquired a minority stake of about 28% in Fencor Packaging Group, which wholly owns the Cambridgeshire corrugated sheet plant Manor Packaging. Fencor announced the deal on 26 September 2024.