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.

Menzies Distribution secured a multi-year extension of its distribution contract with aluminium packaging maker Ball Beverage Packaging UK, including 30 new longer semi-trailers over the next 12 months.

Valmet will deliver a new shipping carton paperboard production line, PM3, to Eren Paper's former UPM Shotton mill in Wales-UK, with about 650,000 tons annual capacity. Start-up is scheduled for Q2 2024; the order value was not disclosed.

Irish packaging group Zeus Packaging Group acquired UK companies Swanline Group and BoxMart in a deal worth more than €25 million, with combined annual revenue of €30 million.

Packaging distributor Zeus has acquired UK packaging companies Swanline Group and its sister company BoxMart in a deal worth more than €25 million.

Caddick Construction completed a multimillion-pound design and build expansion of Alpla's Warrington manufacturing facility in Golborne, including a bridge link and a warehouse extension to its logistics hub, announced 31 May 2022.

Worcestershire contract filler Project 7 won a contract from parent company FUCHS to fill and package a Silkolene one-litre motorcycle engine oil in flexible pouches. The product is set to reach retail shelves in 2022.

TricorBraun has acquired UK glass packaging providers Continental Bottle Company and its affiliate DiBro for an undisclosed fee, strengthening its European presence.

Vidrala is investing £75 million in a national distribution hub for the UK and European beverages industry, to be used by parent subsidiary Encirc, as reported in May 2022.

Encirc, part of Vidrala, extended its partnership with Britvic to manufacture and fill Robinsons 500ml glass cordial bottles at its Elton, Cheshire site for at least three years, announced May 2022.

Bristol printer Philtone fitted a Compact Foilers CF10000 PM cold foiling system to its five-colour Speedmaster XL106 press to produce foil-finished carton board packaging for a contract win.

Leidos Supply awarded packaging and soft consumables supply contracts to DS Smith (£28.5M) and MacLellan Rubber (£830K) for a two-plus-two-year term from 1 April 2022, worth £29.33M in total for the UK Ministry of Defence logistics programme.

Ardagh Metal Packaging submitted a full planning application for a $200 million beverage can plant at Global Point, Newtownabbey near Belfast, expected to create about 160 direct jobs. The plant is planned to be operational in 2023.

YRG Group, a UK packaging design and reprographics company, announced the acquisition of Spera, an Irish and UK print and packaging origination firm operating in Ireland, the UK and Asia. The deal supports YRG's push into the corrugated industry.

Diageo will invest £40.5m to expand packaging capacity at its Belfast and Runcorn sites, including a canning line producing 72,000 cans per hour in Belfast. Construction starts immediately, with capacity expected online in 2023.

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.

PacTec EPS Ltd was recorded as the award winner of Packaging Lot 3 FC0002 ID4219, a packaging services procurement run by the CTM Portal for the NDA Shared Services Alliance, valued at about £59,500.

US packaging distributor TricorBraun has acquired UK rigid packaging maker Neville and More, which supplies glass, plastic and aluminum packaging. Financial terms were not disclosed, and all staff will remain.

Medica Packaging, a UK folding carton and leaflet maker based in Crewe, has acquired F.G. Curtis plc of Redhill, Surrey, a folding carton manufacturer serving cosmetics and beauty markets. The deal was financed with support from Harwood Capital and Shawbrook Bank, and the Curtis business keeps its management and trading names.

Crown Holdings announced it will build a new beverage can facility in Peterborough, United Kingdom, with construction starting Q2 2022 and first production in Q2 2023, employing 280 people.

Ball Corporation is building a new aluminium beverage can plant of 56,000 square metres at Segro Park Kettering Gateway, UK, expected to produce about 1 billion cans in its first year and create 200 local jobs.

Wilkins Group has started work on a multimillion-pound, 50,000 sq ft extension of its Nottinghamshire headquarters to increase food packaging production capacity. The firm expects turnover to rise 20 per cent and says the extension could eventually create significant new jobs.

HP acquired Choose Packaging, an Edinburgh developer of zero-plastic paper bottles, for an undisclosed fee. HP will integrate Choose into its Personalization & 3D Printing business.

Tri-Wall has completed its acquisition of the remaining stake in Rosewood Group, gaining 100% ownership in October 2021, and has rebranded all Rosewood sites under its name in the UK. The deal expands Tri-Wall's UK footprint to six sites.

Stoford and Logicor let the newly completed 108,091 sq ft L108 warehouse at Liberty Park, Widnes, to an international packaging company on a ten-year lease for sustainable packaging production.

Caddick Construction has been appointed to deliver a 14,500 sq m factory extension for Smurfit Kappa at Mold Business Park in Flintshire, North Wales, part of a €40 million investment, with completion expected in summer 2022.

Smurfit Kappa is expanding its Mold Business Park plant in Flintshire with a 14,500 sq m extension, part of a EUR 40 million investment, to become the largest integrated corrugated plant in the UK. Caddick Construction was awarded the build, due for completion in summer 2022.

AMP, part of the Ardagh Group, will build a beverage can-making plant at Global Point in Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland, representing an investment of about $200 million. Operations are expected to start in 2023.

Cullen Eco-Friendly Packaging secured planning permission to build a second factory on its Glasgow site, scheduled for summer 2023, raising annual output to about 900 million moulded pulp and corrugated packaging pieces.

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.

Ardagh Metal Packaging has revealed plans for a beverage can plant in the UK to add capacity, announced with its third-quarter results. No further details were given in the article.

Heinz rolled out its Eco-Friendly Sleeve Multipack in the UK, a paperboard sleeve for canned products made with WestRock's PEFC-certified CarrierKote paperboard.

Eren Paper, a subsidiary of Turkey's Modern Karton and Eren Holding, completed its acquisition of the Shotton Paper Mill in North Wales on 30 September 2021. Planned containerboard production is expected to make the UK a net exporter and create over 600 new jobs.

Britvic will invest £26.9 million to install a fourth canning line at its Rugby factory, adding about 18% site capacity and creating at least 20 jobs, with the line fully running in 2022.

United Caps held a grand opening for its Dinnington factory in Rotherham, England, which has produced dairy and beverage closures since 2020, including tethered closures, in a 5,000 square meter facility expandable to 20,000 square meters.

Heinz rolled out a recyclable paperboard sleeve for its UK multipack cans, made with WestRock CarrierKote paperboard, as part of a three-year GBP 25 million investment at its Kitt Green factory near Wigan. The sleeve is available in major UK retailers from September 2021.

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners invested £28m in a new high-speed canning line at its Sidcup plant, capable of 2,000 cans per minute, creating 19 jobs. The line is set to open in June 2022.

Robinson, a UK custom packaging manufacturer, is supplying a custom 500ml recyclable PET bottle to fragrance brand My Fabulosa, with a dedicated production cell to meet rapid demand growth.

UK packing supplier Invopak bought a warehousing facility in Warwickshire for £3.4 million as part of a diversification strategy. The deal was reported on 2 September 2021.

Party Decor signed a contract with a major distributor of Chinese products to exclusively produce flower boxes at its UK headquarters, previously imported from China, worth at least £750,000 a year for a minimum of two years.

Party Decor has taken delivery of a Konica Minolta PKG-675i inkjet printer to support its new cardboard products business, which makes shipping and decorative boxes.

A management buy-out of Medica Packaging Ltd, a UK folding carton maker, was completed from Sullivan Street Partners, supported by Harwood Private Equity.

Graphic Packaging installed its QuikFlex machine at Coca-Cola HBC's Lisburn plant in Northern Ireland to produce paperboard cartons for 10- to 24-can multipacks, replacing plastic shrink wrap.

US packaging firm Novolex has acquired Vegware, an Edinburgh-based maker of compostable foodservice packaging, for an undisclosed sum. Vegware will keep its brand within Novolex's Eco-Products portfolio.

SIG partnered with contract packer Framptons to install a new combidome filling machine, the first of its kind in the UK, so Framptons can produce Lilk's plant-based beverages in SIG's carton bottle.

Leicester-based 3T Logistics and Technology Group was selected by PFF Group, a UK food packaging manufacturer, to provide a new transport management system for supplying packaging to UK supermarkets and food manufacturers.

Contract packer Framptons became the first company in Europe to use SIG's combidome filling machine to produce plant-based milk cartons for start-up brand Lilk. The launch was reported on July 17, 2021.

ProAmpac, backed by Pritzker Private Capital, has acquired UK-based Ultimate Packaging, a flexible packaging manufacturer. No price was disclosed.

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.

Caddick Construction is delivering a multimillion-pound design and build contract for Alpla's Warrington UK plant in Golbourne, including a logistics hub expansion and bridge link. Work is due to complete in autumn 2021.