Bray International announced a new office and Valve Automation Center in Guatemala to serve customers across Central America and the Caribbean. The facility is intended to increase local inventory and provide automation solutions and technical support.

India's Yash Pakka has announced it will set up its first international plant in Guatemala to make compostable sugarcane bagasse packaging and moulded fibre products. It has signed a memorandum of understanding with sugar mills to supply bagasse.

Cartones de Guatemala opened a new greenfield corrugated board facility of under 33,000 sqm in Escuintla, with a Fosber corrugator that started up on April 26, 2021.