UFlex has commissioned its first overseas woven polypropylene bags plant in Altamira, Mexico, with an investment of about USD 52 million. The 10-acre facility strengthens its manufacturing presence in the Americas.

EAM Mosca inaugurated a US$8 million plant in Santa Catarina, Nuevo León, its first strapping production site in Mexico and Latin America. The plant makes plastic strapping consumables locally for the region's industrial and agricultural sectors.

SIG announced a two-phase expansion of its Querétaro, Mexico plant to double production from 1.5 to 3 billion packs per year by 2028, creating about 40 direct jobs.

SIG plans a two-phase expansion of its Querétaro plant to double capacity from 1.5 to 3 billion packages per year by 2028. The project is expected to create about 40 direct jobs and relocate some production from Europe.

Disruptive Packaging opened a new manufacturing and recycling facility in Mexicali, Mexico, on February 18, 2026, with two production lines producing up to 20 million URTHCOR boxes.

Smurfit Westrock announced a USD 65 million investment in a new packaging production plant in Sonora, Mexico, making corrugated, microflute and high-graphic folding packaging. Operations are expected to start in early 2027, with more than 800 jobs, and the first stone has been laid.

Specialty Packaging Group opened a 50,000-square-foot facility in Guadalajara, Mexico, to make crates for shipping advanced technology and data center equipment.

Organización Editorial Mexicana (OEM) inaugurated PRONAL Corrugados, a corrugated packaging plant in the capital of Nuevo León, fed by paper from PRONAL mills in San Luis Potosí. The plant has annual conversion capacity of 100 thousand tonnes of paper and up to 215 million sqm of corrugated board.

Smurfit Westrock has broken ground on a USD 65 million corrugated and folding carton plant in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, with operations scheduled to begin in early 2027. Construction and start-up are expected to create more than 800 direct and indirect jobs.

Organizacion Editorial Mexicana's Paper and Packaging Division opened PRONAL Corrugados, a corrugated packaging plant in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, with annual conversion capacity of 100,000 tonnes of paper.

Tetra Pak inaugurated an expansion of its Mexicali plant with an investment of more than MX$1 billion, which it says will increase capacity by 60%.

Specialized Packaging Group acquired the Monterrey, Mexico-based assets of ArkPack de Mexico, a provider of custom corrugated packaging and foam fabrication, expanding its North American footprint. ArkPack continues operating in Tijuana and Juarez.

SIG will invest an additional $35 million in the first expansion of its aseptic carton plant in Querétaro, Mexico, boosting output by 50%. Production from the expansion is scheduled to start in the second half of 2026.

Grupo Empresarial Salaverry started flexographic printing and five-layer extrusion processes at its Xiloxoxtla plant in Tlaxcala, Mexico, which the state governor says will raise production capacity by 38%. The start-up was reported on 2025-04-11.

Reyma announced a $40 million investment in a second production plant in Mérida, Yucatán, creating 300 direct and 1,200 indirect jobs. The plant will start with paper and compostable product lines.

Packaging company Envases Universales will invest $50 million to expand its plant in Guadalupe, Nuevo León, creating an estimated 150 direct and 200 indirect jobs.

CorruEmpaques inaugurated a new 17,000 m² corrugated cardboard plant in Querétaro Industrial Park, Mexico, with an investment of 150 million pesos, seven flexo machines and capacity of 2,000 tonnes per shift.

Corruempaques, a corrugated cardboard box maker, inaugurated an expansion of its plant in the Parque Industrial Querétaro, adding a 17,000 m² facility for storage and production that will generate 300 new jobs.

Nefab's PolyFlex unit opened a new packaging facility in León, Guanajuato, producing heavy-gauge thermoformed and injection-molded packaging for battery, e-mobility and automotive customers. Additional equipment is planned for late 2025 or early 2026.

FEMSA reached a definitive agreement to sell its plastics solutions operations to AMMI, an affiliate of Milenio Capital, for 3,165 million Mexican pesos on a cash-free, debt-free basis. Closing is subject to regulatory approvals.

Smurfit Kappa invested USD23.5 million to upgrade its Nuevo Laredo sheet plant in Tamaulipas, Mexico, into a fully integrated corrugated plant with a new corrugator. The new machine began operating in July 2024 and doubles production capacity.

SIG Combibloc built an aseptic carton packaging plant in Queretaro, Mexico, with a €73 million investment, creating more than 200 jobs; operations began in April 2023.

Mauser Packaging Solutions, through subsidiary BWAY Corporation, completed the acquisition of 100% of the voting shares of Taenza, S.A. de C.V., a Mexican manufacturer of tin-steel cans and steel pails.

Multipak, part of Xignux, began construction of a $7.4 million plant at the Centro Logistico Industrial in Durango, Mexico, expected to create about 300 jobs and start operations in late 2024.

Smurfit Kappa plans a $115 million investment to build and expand two production plants in Santa Clara Coatitla, Ecatepec. The municipality has granted the licenses needed to start construction.

Smurfit Kappa held a ribbon-cutting at its Mexicali plant for four recent equipment investments totaling $14 million, which the company says raises production capacity by over 30 percent.

Mauser Packaging Solutions signed a definitive agreement to acquire Taenza, S.A. de C.V., a Mexico City-based maker of tin-steel aerosol cans and steel pails with five Mexican plants and over 850 employees. Completion is expected by April 2024, subject to regulatory clearances.

Tetra Pak laid the foundation stone for a 750 million peso expansion and modernization of its Mexicali plant, which makes carton package caps and will increase capacity by 40%. The new phase is expected to start operating in April 2024 and create 145 direct jobs.

BA Glass acquired a 60% equity stake in Mexican glass packaging producer Vidrio Formas, which has two Mexican plants and will be renamed BA Glass México; the price was undisclosed.

PAC Worldwide moved operations from Pedro Escobedo into a new 83,000 square-foot flexible packaging plant in San Juan del Rio, about two hours north of Mexico City. The plant is expected to produce over 700,000 bags daily at full capacity.

Colep Packaging and the Envases Group signed a joint venture agreement, based on a 50/50 shareholding, to build an aerosol packaging plant in Mexico. The total initial investment is more than $30 million over two years.

Colep Packaging and Envases Group signed a 50/50 joint venture to build an aerosol packaging plant in Mexico with a total initial investment of more than $30 million over two years. The first stage will use three aluminium aerosol lines.

Colep Packaging and Envases Group signed a joint venture agreement to build an aerosol packaging plant in Mexico, initially with three aluminium aerosol lines serving Mexico and Central America. The announcement is dated 23 October 2023.

Smurfit Kappa Norteamérica plans to invest about $67 million in 2023 in machinery, process upgrades and service expansion at its plants in Nuevo Laredo, Tijuana, Mexicali and Nogales, Mexico. The company has invested over $350 million in Mexico over the past five years.

BA Glass acquired a majority stake in Vidrio Formas, a Lerma, Mexico maker of customized glass containers, in July 2023. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Smurfit Kappa's Corrugados de Baja California subsidiary started operations at a new $11 million plant in Baja California, Mexico, which expanded its industrial building and added machinery to raise production capacity. The company is the main corrugated cardboard box manufacturer in the state.

SIG Combibloc inaugurated its first Mexican plant in the Aerotech industrial park in Querétaro, built with a €73 million investment. The plant will initially produce up to 500 million containers per year and create 200 jobs, rising to 1,200 million containers by 2024.

SIG has started operations at a new aseptic carton packaging plant in Querétaro, Mexico, with a total investment of 73 million euros. The plant creates more than 200 jobs and will serve North American markets.

Tetra Pak announced an expansion of its plant in Corregidora, Querétaro, with an investment of 500 million Mexican pesos.

Smurfit Kappa has invested $23 million in a corrugated cardboard plant in the Oradel industrial park in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico. The facility is due to open the following week, and is expected to create direct and indirect jobs.

WestRock completed its acquisition of the remaining interest in Grupo Gondi for $970 million plus assumed debt. The Mexican business includes four paper mills, nine corrugated packaging plants and six high graphic plants.

Monterrey-based packaging maker Form won a contract to supply Tesla with a three-layer protective packaging for Model S and Model X fascias. The article does not give a contract value or signing date.

Flex Américas CEO Om Prakash Mishra announced a second stage of expansion in Altamira, with a planned $300 million complex to be built in 2024-2025 on a site still being sought. The total investment through 2025 is above $500 million.

Flex Américas laid the first stone of a new BoPET film plant in Altamira, Tamaulipas, as the first stage of a $200 million expansion for construction in 2022-2023. The company says the expansion will create about 1,000 jobs.

Flex Américas opened a BoPET film recycling plant at its Altamira industrial complex in Tamaulipas, Mexico, with state government officials present. The project was completed a few weeks before the November 3, 2022 ceremony.

Tetra Pak will invest 437 million pesos to expand its packaging plant in Querétaro by adding one cutting production line and two lamination lines, raising capacity to 12.8 billion packages per year.

WestRock agreed to acquire the remaining 67.7% interest in Mexican packaging producer Grupo Gondi for $970 million plus assumed debt, an implied enterprise value of $1.763 billion. The deal expands WestRock's Latin American packaging operations.

Heineken will build a 1.8 billion peso (about $90 million) can manufacturing plant near its brewery in Mequoi, Chihuahua, Mexico, its seventh in the country. The plant is expected to employ around 120 people after opening.

St. Johns Packaging completed its acquisition of Plasticos Uribe, a vertically integrated flexible packaging manufacturer based in Tlaquepaque near Guadalajara, Mexico, announced May 9, 2022. The deal adds Mexican manufacturing capacity alongside a new greenfield plant in Leon, Guanajuato.

Tetra Pak is expanding its Querétaro plant with a new cutting line and laminating capacity, raising output from 11.3 to 12.8 billion packages; operations start in 2024. Reported investment is 500 million pesos (article body cites 50 million).