Biffa has completed the acquisition of Esterform, merging it with its PET recycling operations into a combined business trading as Esterpet. Esterform makes PET preforms and bottles at sites in West Yorkshire and Worcestershire.

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

Macfarlane Group agreed to acquire foam protective packaging specialist Polyformes in a £11.5 million deal, reported on 8 July 2024.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Coveris acquired specialty bag manufacturer Initial Packaging, reported on March 4, 2021.

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

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.

Berry Global has agreed to acquire UK packaging firm RPC Group for £5 billion ($6.6 billion) in cash and refinancing, with completion expected in Q3 2019.

RPC Group plc ended merger talks with Bain Capital and gave Apollo Global Management more time to make a firm takeover offer for the European plastics packager.

RPC is in preliminary talks with two major private equity firms over a possible sale of the plastic packaging company.

RPC Group, a European plastic packaging maker, confirmed it is holding discussions with private equity firms Apollo Global Management and Bain Capital about a possible sale of the company.

RPC bpi recycled products has acquired PLASgran, a UK rigid plastics recycler, in a £34.5 million deal.

Groupe Guillin's UK subsidiary Sharpak Bridgwater signed an exclusive agreement to acquire Etimex Primary Packaging's British CPET packaging production and sales business, with a closing expected by end of September 2018. The business has annual revenue of about EUR 6 million.

RWC has acquired John Guest Holdings Ltd, a UK maker of plastic push-to-connect fittings and pipe with three UK manufacturing facilities. The deal was announced on 4 June 2018 and no value was stated.

Tower Growth Management acquired Nottingham-based packaging firm Visual Packaging for an undisclosed sum, planning to grow its turnover from £2.6m to £3.3m with biodegradable plastic packaging.

Italian packaging producer Sirap-Gema agreed to buy rigid plastic food packaging maker Kama Europe, trading as Pactiv, from Reynolds Group Holdings, with completion expected mid-January 2018. Kama Europe has a plant in Sedgefield employing 110.

Private investment firm Bain Capital, through its Europe fund, is acquiring UK packaging company Petainer, a deal that runs alongside its purchase of Belgian preform maker Resilux and may see the businesses combined.

Mondi Group bought UK-based Excelsior Technologies from funds managed by Endless and minority shareholders for a total consideration of GBP 33 million on a debt and cash-free basis. Excelsior operates plants in Deeside and Nelson and makes flexible food packaging.

Plastipak Packaging completed the acquisition of the business assets of Evolve Polymers Ltd. from Aurelius at its Hemswell Cliff site in the UK, which can process 6 to 9 billion PET bottles a year. The business began operating immediately under Plastipak's ownership.