Taylor Packaging, a North East England packaging firm, has become the UK supplier of Danish manufacturer Nordic Woodfibre's packaging for heavy industrial goods. The distribution partnership was announced on 2020-06-21 with no value given.

Sharp invested £1 million to expand its Rhymney, Wales facility into commercial primary and secondary packaging, adding packaging rooms, blistering equipment and automated cartoners. Commercial blister production at the site was set to begin in June 2020.

Progroup and Krystals Premier Packaging will invest £20m (€22m) to create a packaging park at Progroup's sheetfeeding site in Ellesmere Port, UK. Progroup will invest in site infrastructure and Krystals in a new production facility.

Progroup and Krystals are expanding their Ellesmere Port site in England to create a packaging park, with 20 million pounds invested over about 16,000 square metres. Completion is expected in the second half of 2020. The announcement is dated June 4, 2020.

CorrBoard UK will shortly install a new £1.5 million automated palletisation system and IT control system upgrades at its 320,000 sq ft North Lincolnshire plant.

VPK Group raised its shareholding in CorrBoard UK to 50% by buying the stake of former shareholder Garthwest and subscribing for new shares. McLaren Packaging also subscribed for new shares in the North Lincolnshire company.

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.

Cullen, a UK corrugate packaging maker, is replacing its multi-point gluers with two Bobst Expertfold 165 folder-gluers at its Glasgow site, expected in place by Q3 2020.

CM Downton, part of EV Cargo, won a three-year contract to transport packaging products from two Smurfit Kappa manufacturing sites in the south-west of England. The announcement was made on 9 March 2020.

Schumacher Packaging, the German family-run corrugated packaging group, has acquired Jaffabox, a UK family-managed corrugated board packaging manufacturer. The Amyes family will continue to run Jaffabox.

Cullen Packaging is installing two Expertfold 165 folder-gluer machines from Bobst at its Glasgow corrugated packaging plant, alongside a 20,000 sq ft extension. The machines are expected to be installed by the third quarter of 2020.

Germany- and France-based CDL Omni-Pac, backed by Motion Equity Partners and Arkéa Capital, acquired Scunthorpe-based Moulded Fibre Products, the UK's leading recyclable pulp packaging manufacturer.

Coca-Cola HBC has set aside £9.3 million of capital expenditure for a second canning line at its Knockmore Hill plant in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, with capacity of 4.8 million cans a week. The line will support production of Sleek Cans and Monster Energy products.

Saica Group announced a £50M+ investment to build a new purpose-built corrugated packaging plant in Livingston, West Lothian, replacing its Edinburgh and Milngavie sites. The site is due for completion by the end of 2021.

Pitreavie Group plans a new £3.8m corrugated box manufacturing facility in Cumbernauld, Scotland.

Pitreavie Group is opening a £3.8 million corrugated box manufacturing facility of 57,000 sq ft in Westfield, near Cumbernauld, with operations starting in March 2020 and 35 new jobs.

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

Corrugated packaging supplier Sandland Packaging has come under new ownership through a Buy-In Management Buyout, following a reported £5m investment.

Berry BPI Packaging Solutions' Hereford site renewed its contract with Bibby Distribution after nine years of on-time-in-full deliveries of shrink-wrap.

Manchester-based Weedon Corrugating Products ordered RMM Dasong B flute corrugating rolls from Jarshire to replace existing equipment, with delivery due in February or March 2020.

i2i Europe, part of the Weedon Group, was appointed for an initial two years to update the Co-op's own-brand corrugated store delivery packaging and retail ready packaging. The work includes reducing packaging and replacing single-trip plastic with paper-based materials.

Coca-Cola European Partners is opening a new £20 million Bag-in-Box production line at its Edmonton factory in North London, bringing its 2019 GB investment to £150 million.

Glossop Cartons plans to expand its Stockport production facility by over 50% following a six-figure funding package from Lloyds Bank, reported December 13, 2019.

Ringtons automated coffee production at its Newcastle-upon-Tyne factory with PFM Packaging Machinery, boosting output. The reported date is December 2, 2019.

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

Flexible packaging specialist ePac UK is holding a grand opening of its new Silverstone site in Northamptonshire on December 4, 2019, as announced November 18, 2019.

Smurfit Kappa applied in July to extend its corrugated packaging plant on Mold Business Park in Flintshire by more than 14,000 square metres. The company says the expansion would secure 170 existing jobs and create around 50 new ones, making Mold its largest UK production site.

Schumacher Packaging Group took over packaging manufacturer Jaffabox Ltd, based in Birmingham, England, on 5 November 2019.

Yeovil-based corrugated packaging maker Ablebox will open a new 72,000 sq ft factory in Henstridge after a £7 million investment, with a high-speed corrugator built in China. The plant is expected to create 50 jobs and produce over 100 million square metres of corrugated board a year.

CBS Packaging installed a new 2.5m BHS corrugator at its Birmingham plant as part of its continuing investment programme, reported October 18, 2019.

Coca-Cola European Partners plans to open a £24m canning production line at its Wakefield, UK facility, part of a £49m investment there in 2019, to produce lightweight cans from 330ml to 500ml.

McLaren Packaging and Swanline Group's joint venture CorrBoard Bioenergy has invested GBP 5.5 million in a renewable energy plant fuelled by organic waste. It will supply heat and power to CorrBoard UK's corrugated board production in Scunthorpe.

Irish packaging firm Zeus announced its €12 million acquisition of two UK companies, paper and polythene distributor Smith Bateson and food services packaging business Van Der Windt. The combined turnover of the two is €39.5 million.

Coca-Cola European Partners opened a new GBP 16 million production line for lightweight cans at its Sidcup, UK site, alongside a GBP 39 million automated storage and retrieval warehouse, totaling GBP 55 million.

Saica Pack installed a multi-million pound three-in-one flexo folder gluer from Bobst at its Thatcham site to produce corrugated boxes. The machine handles high-graphics printing of up to six colours.

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.

Aegg is opening a new warehouse and manufacturing plant at Eye in north Suffolk, with total investment of £6.1 million and 50 jobs created. Phase 2 will add a facility for rigid recyclable plastic food packaging.

The UK Competition and Markets Authority found in its Phase 1 investigation that Liqui-Box's proposed takeover of DS Smith's rigid and flexible packaging business could reduce competition in Bag-in-Box packaging. The parties must address the concerns or face an in-depth Phase 2 investigation.

Tri-Wall Europe's UK arm has secured more than £700,000 of government funding towards a £1.18m project to set worldwide standards for transporting lithium-ion batteries, with a focus on eliminating thermal runaway. The company's UK headquarters and factory are in Monmouth, Wales.

Print-Leeds won a £2m contract to become the sole wet glue label supplier for all of Marston's Beer Company's bottled beer labels, following a competitive tender. The win follows a £5m investment programme over the past two years.

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.

Print-Leeds, a label printer in Leeds, UK, won sole supplier status for wet-glue labels for Marston's Beer Company after a competitive tender. The three-year contract is worth approximately $2.5m per year.

Packaging supplier Cepac partnered with UK craft brewer ShinDigger Brewing Co to create sustainable corrugated packaging for its full range of 12-pack beer cans. The new packs replaced a tray and shrinkwrap combination and appeared in shops from late spring 2019.

Swindon firm Emagination Store has won a £15 million global contract from Mondelez to supply personalised Heroes chocolate tins. Roses, Green & Blacks and Toblerone lines are planned later.

UK corrugated packaging maker Durham Box has purchased an EFI Nozomi C18000 single-pass LED inkjet press to improve print quality and productivity. Installation is scheduled for summer 2019.

Cepac developed a shelf-ready, recyclable corrugated pack replacing tray and shrinkwrap for ShinDigger Brewing's 12-pack 440ml cans, which reached shops from late spring 2019. The design removes shrink tunnel heat requirements and speeds pack assembly.

JBT Corporation signed a definitive agreement to acquire Proseal uk Limited, a tray sealing technology provider headquartered in Adlington, UK, for £220 million before adjustments, with closing expected in Q2 2019.