Cartró opened its second corrugated line in Tepotzotlán, State of Mexico, with an investment of over 600 million pesos. The company says the line doubles its production capacity and creates more than 720 direct and indirect jobs.

Artigraf, a corrugated cardboard manufacturer, is installing a new plant in Torreón, Coahuila, investing $7.5 million (possibly up to $10 million over later stages) and creating 250 direct jobs. The 20,000 square meter complex is under construction and expected to start operating in about 10 months.

Smurfit Kappa announced an expansion of its Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas plant with installation of a first corrugator in the state, creating 50 jobs. The article gives the investment as 26.3 million dollars in the body but 23.6 million in the headline.

Grupo Modelo, working with WestRock and Grupo Gondi, is switching from plastic ring carriers to CanCollar Eco paperboard multipack collars in Quintana Roo, Mexico, at an investment of about $4 million. The first phase is projected to eliminate more than 100 tons of plastic waste.

Smurfit Kappa plans to invest 300 million dollars to expand its infrastructure and production in the State of Mexico over the coming years, creating more than 1,200 jobs. The announcement was made in January 2022 by Governor Alfredo Del Mazo Maza.

Clearlake Capital-backed Pretium Packaging completed its acquisition of Grupo Edid, a Lerma, Mexico rigid packaging manufacturer and paperboard printer, on December 16, 2021; financial terms were not disclosed.

Direct Pack Inc. opened a new 200,000-square-foot thermoforming facility in Mexicali, called Direct Pack Baja, which began producing food packaging in September 2021. The plant represents a $25M investment.

Smurfit Kappa is investing $22 million to expand its corrugated plant in Culiacan, Mexico, adding a 10,900 m2 building with a new corrugator and rotary die cutter, with completion targeted for the end of 2021. The plant's workforce is expected to grow to over 300 employees.

Smurfit Kappa Group completed the acquisition of Cartonbox, a folding carton company based in Monterrey, north-east Mexico, announced on 5 July 2021.

SIG will build a new carton packaging plant in Querétaro, Mexico, to serve North American markets, investing around 40 million euros over 2021-2023. The plant is expected to open in Q1 2023 and create about 200 jobs.

Grupo WIC, a subsidiary of Western Industries Corporation, opened a new larger facility in Reynosa, Mexico, with new manufacturing capabilities, with an inauguration ceremony held on August 21, 2018.

SIG will build a new carton packaging production plant in Queretaro, Mexico, investing around 40 million euros over 2021-2023 to serve North American markets. The plant is expected to open in Q1 2023 and create about 200 jobs.

Tri-Wall's Mexican subsidiary TW Mexico Packaging Solutions acquired a 100% stake in Thimm Packaging Systems Mexico, a supplier of industrial packaging to the Mexican automotive market, with the transaction closing on October 9, 2020.

Rengo's subsidiary Triwall, through TW Mexico Packaging Solutions, acquired a 99.99% stake in Tim Packaging Systems, the Mexican unit of Germany's Tim Group, which makes heavy-duty corrugated packaging for the automotive industry. The article is dated 13 August 2020 and gives the announcement as 12 October.

Typack-Recipet plans to invest US$5 million in a new thermoformed plastic packaging plant in Mexico, expected to be operational within 15 months.

San Miguel Industrias is constructing a 10,000 square metre rigid plastic packaging plant in Huejotzingo, Mexico, with a $28 million investment, 10 SACMI machines and 150 planned jobs.

O-I completed its acquisition of Nueva Fabrica Nacional de Vidrio (Nueva Fanal) from Grupo Modelo for about US$188 million. The plant near Mexico City has four furnaces producing about 300,000 tons of glass containers a year.

Irish packaging group Smurfit Kappa will invest $34 million in two stages to build a new corrugated cardboard plant in Baja California, Mexico, creating 200 new jobs.

Rohrer is building a new thermoforming facility in Tijuana, Mexico, to serve U.S. consumer goods and packaging customers who have moved manufacturing to the border region. The plant is expected to employ nearly 200 people at full production.

C&P and parent U.S. Corrugated Holdings entered a strategic alliance with Bio Pappel, giving C&P operational control of Bio Pappel's Mexicali super plant, effective April 5, 2019. Investments continue with a new Latitude Jumbo folder-gluer and a Barberan digital press.

Owens-Illinois agreed to acquire Nueva Fanal, a glass container plant near Mexico City, from Grupo Modelo for about $188 million in cash. The plant produces roughly 300,000 tons of glass containers a year, and the deal is expected to close during 2019.

Smurfit Kappa Mexico plans to invest between $10 and $15 million over the next three years in its four plants in Nuevo Leon, Mexico, which make corrugated cardboard packaging.

Smurfit Kappa inaugurated a folding carton manufacturing plant in Tijuana, Mexico, with an investment of US$145.5 million. The plant creates 250 jobs and starts with annual production of 10 million square meters.

Smurfit Kappa inaugurated its third plant in Tijuana, Mexico, after an investment of US$14.5 million, creating 250 jobs. The folding cardboard plant has a capacity of 10 million square meters and began operations at the end of 2018.

Spanish company TotalWinePack formed a strategic alliance with Mexican packaging firm Todo de Cartón, which will manufacture TotalWinePack wine bottle boxes in Mexico. The alliance was closed in November 2018 after three years of joint work.

Grupo Gondi announced plans to build a new corrugated and high-graphic packaging plant near Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, Mexico, with an investment of over $44 million. The plant will create 250 permanent jobs and will supply local manufacturers including Constellation Brands' Obregón brewery.

ITASA built a new plant in Querétaro, Mexico, with a EUR 20 million investment, 150 million m2 annual capacity and 50 employees, starting operations in October 2018 with siliconing from February 2019.

Illinois-based Transparent Container is opening a new production facility in Tijuana's La Encantada industrial park, an 87,750-square-foot plant with 11 thermoforming lines. The company has not disclosed investment or job numbers.

U.S. Corrugated, Inc. acquired a majority interest in Corrugated and Packaging LLC, which operates a corrugated sheet plant and foam fabrication in Tijuana, Mexico.

Voith Paper North America won a contract from Copamex to install its BlueLine stock preparation system at the Anahuac mill in Mexico, which is being converted to containerboard and packaging production. Start-up is planned for early 2019.

Voith Paper North America will supply a BlueLine stock preparation system for Copamex's mill in Anáhuac, Chihuahua, which is being converted to containerboard. The system is due to start up in early 2019 and output 260,000 metric tons per year.

St. Johns Packaging announced on January 10, 2026 that it has completed the acquisition of Flexible Packaging Solutions Pty Ltd. The deal expands its global reach in flexible packaging.

Mexican packaging company Empaques Nova inaugurated a new plant in Mérida, Yucatán, for making packaging paper and containers, with the Mexican Secretary of Economy attending. The ceremony was reported on 3 June 2018.

Treofan Americas plans to install a 10-meter wide BOPP extrusion line in late 2018 adding 30,000 tons of capacity at its Zacapu, Mexico plant. The total project capital expenditure is estimated at $65 million.

CCL Industries signed a binding agreement to acquire Treofan America Inc. and Trespaphan Mexico Holdings from M&C S.p.A. for a net purchase price of about $255 million. Closing is expected in Q2 2018, subject to regulatory approvals.

Germany's Schütz signed an agreement to acquire Mexican rigid industrial packaging company Envases y Laminados (ELSA) for an undisclosed sum, with completion expected in early 2018.

Owens-Illinois will build a fifth glass furnace at its Nava plant in northeastern Mexico to supply beer bottles to Constellation's adjacent brewery, an expansion estimated at about $140 million, financed equally by both partners.

Mexican packaging maker Grupo Gondi announced plans to invest US$300 million in a containerboard mill with 400,000 tons a year capacity in the Nexxus industrial park in Guadalupe, Nuevo Leon.

Smurfit Kappa started operating a new containerboard machine PM6 at its Los Reyes paper mill in Tlalnepantla, Mexico, in October 2017, adding about 100,000 tonnes a year of capacity for $62 million.

Crown Holdings officially opened a beverage can plant in Juarez, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, with a USD 75 million investment and 1.2 billion cans a year of output. A second line costing USD 45 million over two years is planned, and about 160 jobs will be created.

Vichisa, a Crown subsidiary, will invest $200 million in two phases to build its ninth glass container plant in Meoqui, Chihuahua, to supply Heineken's nearby brewery. The first phase is $120 million and is expected to create more than 1,000 jobs, with construction starting in October 2017.

Vichisa, partner of Crown Brand-Building Packaging, signed an agreement with the Chihuahua state government to build a glass container factory in Meoqui supplying the Heineken plant, with a first-phase investment of $120 million and over 200 direct jobs. A second phase of $80 million is planned within three to four years.

GualapackGroup announced the acquisition of Mexican converter Excel Nobleza S.A.P.I. de C.V., establishing a laminates manufacturing presence in Mexico, with the Herrero family remaining in management.

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto inaugurated Grupo Modelo's brewery in Hunucmá, Yucatán, with initial capacity of 5 million hectoliters a year and an aluminum can plant producing 1 billion cans a year, built for 8.5 billion pesos.

SSI Schaefer Packaging opened an 8,500 square meter reusable packaging fabrication facility in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, on March 1, 2017, expected to create about 50 jobs.