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.

Omni-Pac opened a new 60,000 sq ft packaging site in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, after more than GBP 3 million of investment. The company plans to create 100 more jobs and double turnover over three to five years.

Compack Cartons officially opened a new GBP 13.5 million packaging operation in Livingston, Scotland, following an investment by McLaren Packaging. The investment creates 26 jobs and safeguards 59 existing jobs.

P. Wilkinson Containers and William Say are supplying three separate commissions of Coronation tins for The Royal Collection, Waitrose and Daylesford. The Royal Collection and Waitrose orders integrate with existing ranges.

Food and drinks packaging supplier Max Fame Paper Products agreed a new 10-year lease on a 21,500 sq ft logistics building at Carrington Gateway in Greater Manchester. The site will serve as a centrally located base to nearshore services for UK clients.

Macfarlane Group acquired 100% of A & G Holdings, owner of Gottlieb Packaging Materials, a Manchester-based protective packaging distributor, for a maximum cash consideration of £3.55 million including an earn-out.

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.

Macfarlane Packaging unveiled a £1.3m packaging innovation lab at its North West Regional Distribution Centre in Heywood, Greater Manchester, built by MC Construction. The 5,000 sq ft facility includes design, digital print and testing equipment and a packaging automation showroom.

Cullen Packaging plans a £15m expansion at its Glasgow facility, adding production lines and an innovation hub and creating more than 100 jobs. The expansion is due to start within months of the April 2023 announcement.

Ardagh Metal Packaging's planned £150 million can factory at Global Point Business Park in Newtownabbey has been delayed by at least a year, with construction now unlikely before 2024. The plant was expected to create around 160 permanent jobs.

Glasgow-based Cullen Eco-Friendly Packaging announced plans to increase production to one billion plastic-free moulded fibre and corrugated packaging units per year, building its own patented machines and tooling amid rising demand.

Wipak has invested over £5 million in a new production line at its Welshpool site, expected to create 50 new jobs. The investment is reported in a 14 March 2023 article about a related warehouse contract.

Macfarlane Group PLC announced the acquisition of A.E. Sutton Limited, trading as Suttons Performance Packaging, a specialist protective packaging business.

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.

Terinex Flexibles, part of the OGM Group, has started building a £8 million, 46,000 sq ft factory on a 3-acre site in Dove Valley Park near Derby. The OGM Holdings Group is funding the project, which will also move R&D from Oxford.

Scarborough-based packaging firm Duraweld acquired Prima, a Bradford designer and manufacturer of folding cartons, corrugated cartons and PVC products, for an undisclosed sum.

Cepac Group completed the acquisition of a majority shareholding in EW Cartons Ltd, a microflute corrugated food tray maker in Altham, Lancashire, which is being rebranded as Flutepac. The previous owner remains a shareholder and General Manager.

Cullen Packaging has announced a £15m expansion plan that will create 120 new green jobs across its business, growing its moulded fibre and corrugate operations. The article is dated 7 February 2023.

Encirc, the UK subsidiary of Vidrala, completed its purchase of the 'The Park' bottling and logistics site in Bristol from Accolade Wines for GBP 30 million, on the terms agreed in November 2022. A long-term glass supply contract with Accolade accompanies the deal.

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.

Graphic Packaging International is moving its Bristol, UK beverage packaging operations to a new 255,000-square-foot factory nearby, creating up to 30 new jobs. The site is expected to be fully operational in Q4 2023.

Packaging firm Coveris and UPM Raflatac will supply a recyclable label liner to UK food producer Cranswick, replacing PET release liner on cooked meat packs. The partners say the change cuts carbon emissions by 20%.

Saica Pack opened a new flagship corrugated packaging facility in Livingston, Scotland during 2023, with a total investment of over £50 million. The project began in 2020 and was delayed by COVID.

Nottingham-based packaging firm Wilkins Group unveiled a multi-million pound 50,000 sq ft extension to its Colwick factory, built by Lindum Group. The extension is expected to add investment in new machines and increase turnover.

Packaging maker Caps Cases placed an order for a JS Printer 924 five-colour open and close casemaker, to boost high-quality print capacity at its Newmarket site in Scotland. The machine follows a flexo printer and digital printer installed in 2021 and 2022.

Encirc's glassworks in Elton, Cheshire, UK will begin glass production in 2027 in a hybrid hydrogen-powered furnace, aiming to produce 200 million net zero spirits bottles for Diageo brands.

Encirc, a Vidrala company, and Diageo announced a hydrogen-powered hybrid glass furnace at Encirc's Elton plant in Cheshire, to be fully operational by 2027. It aims to produce up to 200 million net zero bottles annually by 2030.

Crown Bevcan is building a 625,000 square foot aluminium beverage can factory on the former Mars Petcare site in Woodston, Peterborough, with more than £150 million invested. The factory is expected to be operational by the end of 2023 and will create 280 vacancies.

The UK Ministry of Defence awarded Austin Hayes Group the DGM/1958 General Munitions Packaging Support Solution contract, valued at £44,978,000 over four years. The award was made on 17-18 November 2022 and published on 1 December 2022.

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.

Boxshop Ltd is investing in an HQPP converting line built around a BOBST EXPERTFLEX six-colour printer, to be installed in March 2023 to serve customers across Scotland. The article gives no monetary value.

Logson Group will build a new sheet feeding facility for Board24 at the Euro-Central business park in Motherwell, Scotland, with a new BHS Corrugated line and material handling system. Completion is expected in December 2023.

French container maker Verallia acquired UK glass packaging manufacturer Allied Glass. The article gives the deal value as GBP 315 million in the body, while its headline says GBP 350 million.

Van Genechten Packaging completed a 50:50 joint venture with UK-based CartonCare Group, which has three packaging companies with three locations in the UK and combined annual turnover of about EUR 30 million.

Greiner Packaging announced a £10 million expansion programme at its Dungannon, Northern Ireland plastics packaging site as part of a goal to reach £100m annual turnover within three years.

Diageo will invest GBP 16 million at its Runcorn, England site to significantly upgrade the bottling line and expand warehousing capacity.

Diageo has begun work on a GBP 24.5 million expansion of its Belfast, Northern Ireland packaging site, converting warehouses into a canning line capable of 72,000 cans per hour, expected to be fully operational in 2023.

Cullen Eco-Friendly Packaging is investing £15m in a new innovation and design hub and an additional factory at its expanded Glasgow site. The expansion will create more than 120 jobs and double output to over one billion pieces per year.

Belgium-based Van Genechten Packaging signed a joint venture with UK packaging group CartonCare in October 2022, expanding its premium packaging business with three UK sites. Van Genechten forecasts 2022 turnover of €400 million.

Rengo's subsidiary Tri-Wall Limited acquired 100% of Corrugated Case Holdings Limited, whose factory in Chesterfield, England makes high-value corrugated boxes.

Fenton Packaging Solutions worked with Silberline's European division to develop steel pails sourced in Europe instead of shipped from Ohio, reducing CO2e per TEU by over 73%.

Tri-Wall acquired The Corrugated Case Company, a Derbyshire-based sheet plant manufacturer, as part of its expansion programme. Financial terms were not stated in the listing.

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.

Ardagh Metal Packaging received full planning permission for a GBP 150 million drinks can factory at Global Point Business Park in Newtownabbey, Co Antrim, creating 160 jobs. The 460,000 sq ft facility will supply customers across Ireland, Britain and Europe.

McLaren Packaging's corrugate business agreed a new 50/50 joint venture with VPK Packaging UK & Ireland, part of Belgian VPK Group, to serve the Scottish corrugated market. The announcement was dated 18 December 2024.

Tri-Wall UK Ltd, headquartered in Monmouth, signed a deal to acquire The Corrugated Case Company, a Derbyshire corrugated packaging sheet plant in Chesterfield, with plans to expand operations and invest in equipment. The price was not disclosed.

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.

Britvic officially opened a new canning line at its Rugby factory after investing £26.9 million and creating 20 new jobs. The line produces around 120,000 cans per hour and raises site capacity by about 20%.

Trebor Developments completed the pre-sale of a 625,000 sq ft freehold turnkey site at Delta Park, Peterborough to Crown Holdings for a build-to-suit aluminium beverage can plant, with total capital value over £150 million. Main contractor ISG began work in June 2022 with completion expected in summer 2023.