Coveris announced a £5 million investment to triple the production space of its St Neots, Cambridgeshire, food-to-go packaging site from 1,000 to 3,158 square metres. The project starts this month and is expected to complete in Q1 2025.

Easypack POP/Displays Group, a maker of temporary point-of-sale displays, was acquired by Easypack Holdings from Fencor Packaging Group on 30 August 2024 as the businesses were demerged. Fencor announced the transaction on 26 September 2024.

Soft drinks maker Belvoir Farm invested £2 million in a new canning line at its on-farm factory in Leicestershire, equipped with a cartoning machine from T. Freemantle.

Cheshire firm Packaging One signed a contract worth about $2.5 million (£1.98 million) with a global phone and tech manufacturer to supply its MediaWrap protective cardboard packaging. The deal, signed in September 2024, led the firm to add 40 staff and take US warehouse capacity.

Northern Corrugated Cases has completed installation of a GTS Boxstar Heavy Duty 3000HD boxmaker at its Middlewich factory, allowing triplewall stock to be produced locally instead of shipped from Halifax.

UK corrugated box maker Sheard Packaging has invested £13 million in a fully automated Asahi flatbed die cutting line, Dücker pre-feeders and palletiser, and a Göpfert 5-colour HBL HQPP die cutter at its Halifax site.

Coppice Alupack acquired Telford-based flexible packaging maker Sirane and its assets from joint administrators in a secured sale, retaining the Emerald site and 22 remaining employees. Financial terms were undisclosed.

UK packaging maker Cepac has completed a phase of its £20m three-year investment plan, adding corrugating capacity and equipment for its Flutepac food packaging at its Darlington site.

Newry, Mourne and Down District Council's planning committee approved Saica Pack Ltd's plan to relocate from Warrenpoint Harbour and build a corrugated fibreboard factory at Invest NI's Carnbane Industrial Estate in Newry.

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.

On June 19, 2024 the 2M Group of Companies signed its first commercial agreement to exclusively supply Xampla's plastic-free Morro Coating to Huhtamaki for corrugate board foodservice containers, in a multi-year deal deployed at scale in on-the-go applications.

Post Office Limited awarded Kite Packaging Limited a contract to supply strapping consumables for note strapping machines and stretch wrap film for its National Distribution Centre, with a published value of £50,000.

Yorkshire Packaging Systems supplied a Mimi Uniblock 1123 sleeve wrapper that doubled packing capacity at a large UK corrugated board plant, and five more machines were later bought for the group's other UK sites.

Packaging supplier Invopak opened its first manufacturing plant in Hyde, Manchester, making tinplate containers such as UN-approved cans and lever lid tins. The EUR 5 million investment was made in response to post-Brexit supply chain issues.

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.

Independent packaging group Zeus has acquired The Weedon Group, an integrated corrugated manufacturer with over 250 staff at sites in Manchester and Staffordshire and revenues above £30 million. The deal lifts Zeus's expected annualised revenues to €560 million.

UK government agency FCDO Services awarded a single-supplier contract to The Alternative Pallet Company for recyclable cardboard pallets, crates and packaging elements. The contract is worth £250,000 and runs for 35 months from November 2023.

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.

UK packaging company Mondi reached an agreement in principle on a potential all-share offer for rival DS Smith valued at £5.14 billion, with Mondi shareholders owning 54% of the combined group.

Earthshot Prize winner Notpla signed a contract to supply an expected 75 million seaweed-based food packaging items to caterer Levy over three years for use in more than 50 UK sports venues.

UK logistics firm Europa Warehouse signed a contract to provide 3PL storage, fulfilment and transport from its Birmingham site to packaging distributor Paramount Global's European business.

Ablebox Ltd has acquired a 52,000 sq ft facility in Sherborne as its third site and is investing a GBP 6 million project, installing a rotary die-cutter and converting lines.

Logson Group, headquartered in Coalville, acquired East Sussex-based corrugated packaging manufacturer Challenge Packaging Ltd, which operates from a 10,000 sq m site near Hailsham.

NPP Packaging Systems Holdings completed its acquisition of Active Packaging Holdings NI Limited on 31 January 2024, with BHSM LLP advising.

McLaren Packaging has acquired Bathgate-based protective packaging maker Glenhaze Ltd for an undisclosed sum. The Bathgate premises and all 25 employees are being retained.

Kellanova invested £86m in new technology to produce a 90% paper-based Pringles tube, sold first exclusively in Tesco and One Stop stores in the UK from January 2024 and rolling out to other supermarkets later in 2024.

UK-based premium packaging provider CJK Packaging acquired eco-friendly food packaging and partyware company WF Denny to expand its premium and sustainable product range. The financial terms were not disclosed and the deal was reported on January 8, 2024.

Spanish packaging group Saica, through its UK subsidiary Saica Pack, lodged a full planning application for a 485,000 sq ft corrugated fibreboard factory on a 25-acre site at Invest NI's Carnbane Industrial Estate in Newry. The investment is expected to be in the tens of millions and will relocate its Warrenpoint operation.

Van Genechten Packaging has acquired 100% of its UK joint venture with CartonCare Group, a printed folding carton maker based in Northern Ireland with a combined turnover of EUR 30 million. The deal brings VGP to 12 sites in 9 countries.

Trebor Developments reached practical completion on Crown Packaging's £150 million, 632,000 sq ft beverage can plant at the former Mars Petcare site in Woodston, Peterborough, which will employ at least 280 people. Crown started production at the site as construction finished.

France-based Autajon Group acquired Simply Cartons, a folding carton maker with three sites in Nottingham, UK. The company will be renamed Autajon Packaging Simply Cartons, and its management team stays in place.

SCG Packaging completed a 100% stake acquisition of UK packaging firm Law Print & Packaging for GBP 10.68 million and an 85% stake in Italian medical supply firm Bicappa Lab for EUR 3.23 million.

VPK Group reached an agreement to acquire a minority share in Ribble, a UK corrugated cardboard company specialising in fanfold based in Oldham, Lancashire. The deal supports VPK's vertically integrated packaging model across Europe.

German carton and boxes specialist Carton Group acquired London-based luxury packaging company Wrapology for an undisclosed fee.

Broadland Drinks signed a contract with Frugalpac and Journey's End to fill and distribute Interpunkt wines in Frugal paper bottles, making it the largest UK filler of Frugal Bottles. Journey's End will expand the bottles into the UK and beyond.

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners announced a €35 million investment in a new high-speed canning line at its Wakefield site, capable of 2,000 cans per minute and due to be operational in 2024. The line will create 28 roles.

T.G. Nuttall Packaging Ltd signed a sales contract with GTS Europe for a two-colour Weipong Venus 820 casemaker, to be installed at its Manchester site in the second quarter of 2024.

Northern Ireland's Procurement and Logistics Service awarded a corrugated boxes supply contract to Diamond Corrugated Cases Limited for £860,005 (about €998,369), with three bids received.

Max Fame Group opened its first UK base in Trafford, Greater Manchester, leasing a 21,500 sq ft logistics building at Carrington Gateway with an initial £1m capital investment expected to create 100 jobs within three years.

Protective packaging company Glenhaze, based in Bathgate, Scotland, was acquired by McLaren Packaging in September 2023, according to a company profile page.

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.

Terinex Flexibles, part of OGM Holdings Group, signed to take 46,000 sq ft at Dove Valley Park in Foston, South Derbyshire, for a GBP 8m production, warehouse and R&D facility. The development completes its latest phase in January 2024.

All4Labels Global Packaging Group agreed to acquire Springfield Solutions, a UK supplier of digital packaging assets, subject to closing conditions. Terms were not disclosed.

Irish investment group Packaging Holdings has merged with Grafham Holdings, a UK maker and distributor of food packaging and DayMark printed labels with turnover of about GBP 30 million and around 120 employees. Grafham operates sites in Birmingham, Kent, Cheshire and Nottinghamshire. The deal was announced on 21 June 2023 and the price was not disclosed.

Zeus Group has acquired James Hamilton Group, a Northern Irish print and packaging business with annual sales of EUR 18 million and over 120 employees. The deal supports Zeus Group's 2023 growth strategy targeting group revenues above EUR 500 million.

Allpack and Eastpac Group announced a merger under the Allpack name, combining their packaging product ranges, production and warehouse capacity and distribution networks. The article does not give a deal value.

Cullen Eco-Friendly Packaging completed a £4.2 million extension of its Glasgow plant in Kelvindale to add energy-efficient machinery, creating 34 new jobs. The extension was officially opened in June 2023.

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 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.