CorrBoard has invested £60,000 to upgrade its manufacturing facility in Scunthorpe, UK, reconfiguring the traffic layout to improve site safety and painting.

DS Smith set out about EUR 480 million of annualised savings, mostly at run-rate by end-2027, ahead of its separation from International Paper as DS Smith plc, with London admission targeted for early to mid December 2026.

UK Steel Enterprises (UKSE), a Tata Steel subsidiary, made an equity investment in contract canner Cardiff Canning, which then added a second production line.

Paranova Print and Packaging plans to invest £20m over five years to expand its fibre-based packaging operations, including a £6m facility and £14m on equipment and automated logistics.

Tennants UK, a number plate manufacturer in Nottingham, installed a second VeloBlade Nexus digital cutting system in August 2026 to expand in-house production of Enviro-Plate and Acrylic Plate components. The investment value was not disclosed.

PALM converts its paper mill in King's Lynn, UK, from newsprint to corrugated case material after the paper machine PM 7 was affected by the decline in newsprint demand.

ASC Direct, a bespoke corrugated packaging maker in West Yorkshire, announced an investment in two new corrugated box making machines, the BM2508-Pro and BM1800-Mini, to extend its manufacturing footprint.

Honeycomb paperboard pallet maker Pallite Group secured a £1.6 million export finance facility from KBC Bank, backed by UK Export Finance. The working capital will support growth in overseas markets.

Harrison Packaging commissioned a custom Koenig & Bauer Duran folder gluer at its Stockton on Tees site, able to handle both solid carton board and micro flute board. The investment brought a UK automotive packaging contract back from mainland Europe.

Premium soft drinks maker Belvoir Farm invested £2 million in a canning line at its on-farm factory in Leicestershire, using a T. Freemantle end-load cartoner for multipacks.

Saica Flex, the flexible packaging division of Saica Group, invested €7.1 million in new converting and printing machinery at its Wigan site to boost modified atmosphere packaging production. Up to 20 new jobs will be created.

Saica Group's flexible packaging division Saica Flex unveiled a €7.1 million investment in new printing and conversion equipment at its Wigan site, aiming to create up to 20 local jobs.

Packaging company Pulpex raised a £62 million Series D round led by the National Wealth Fund and the Scottish National Investment Bank. The funding will finance construction of its first commercial-scale manufacturing facility near Glasgow.

Schumacher Packaging Birmingham commissioned a Delta SPC 130 FlexLine Eco+ digital printing press from Koenig & Bauer Durst, starting commercial digital printing for corrugated packaging. The machine is part of a EUR 30 million investment in the Birmingham site.

The UK National Wealth Fund committed £43.5 million in direct equity to Pulpex, which will build a commercial-scale fibre bottle plant near Glasgow producing 50 million bottles per year. The Scottish National Investment Bank adds £10 million, bringing total funding to £62 million, and 35 jobs are expected.

Schumacher Packaging Birmingham began full commercial digital production on a Koenig & Bauer Durst Delta SPC 130 single-pass press, the first six-colour FlexLine Eco+ installation in the UK. The installation is part of a €30 million investment that also upgrades its Birmingham plant and two nearby warehouses.

bp Ventures and EIP co-led a $25 million (EUR 23 million) Series C funding round for Oxford Flow, a UK valve technology company without mechanical drive train, to scale up operations.

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.

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.

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%.

Foodservice packaging maker amipak agreed to buy a second BOBST Novacut 106 ER 3.0 die-cutter to add production capacity at its 100,000 sq. ft. site. The deal was agreed on June 6, 2024 at drupa and delivery is due in September 2024.

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.

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners announced a £31 million investment at its Wakefield, West Yorkshire plant to install a new canning line with 2,000 cans per minute capacity, expected to start production in 2024.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Shipham Valves, a East Yorkshire valve maker now independent after leaving Wärtsilä, completed a spring 2022 investment programme buying eight new machines and pressure testing equipment.

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.

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.

Molson Coors' Burton brewery in the UK has received a new high-speed filler for its canning line as part of a £25m investment by the company.

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.

Haskel Hydrogen Systems received a multimillion-dollar investment from parent Ingersoll Rand to treble the capacity of its Sunderland site and fund international expansion. The amount was not disclosed.

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.

Pitreavie Group announced a further £1 million investment in new plant and machinery at its Cumbernauld corrugated box facility, including a Bobst folder gluer and a flat bed die cutter, adding seven jobs once the equipment arrives.

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

Hull Boxes & Packaging, an East Yorkshire packaging maker, secured a £110,000 loan jointly funded by Finance For Enterprise and the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund. The funds paid for a new die cutter and gluing and stitching machines to raise capacity, and the company created three new jobs.

Smurfit Kappa announced a multi-million pound investment in its Tannochside plant in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, to improve print and conversion equipment for solid board and corrugated divisions.

Parker Hannifin has installed an automation cell at its Sheffield, UK site that makes cryogenic valves, costing around US$500,000. The cell combines a bar feeder, a DMG MORI CNC lathe and an ABB Flexloader robot to cut setup times.

Aston Manor has invested a further £6 million to reconfigure its Aston, Birmingham production site and add a new flexible contract canning packaging line capable of up to 24,000 cans per hour.

Ribble Packaging completed a £3.5 million investment project, including a warehouse extension and new machinery such as the Unifold fanfold stacker, which raises its double-wall line speed from 170 to 220 metres per minute.

Crediton Dairy became the first UK company to install an Elopak Pure-Pak Aseptic filling line, investing GBP 3 million in the line and GBP 4 million in a new filling hall, with products launched in summer 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.

Following new shareholder investment, CorrBoard UK will install a new £1.5m automated palletisation system at its North Lincolnshire plant, alongside IT control system upgrades.

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.