Dairy group Ausnutria and packaging company Trivium are building a new can factory at the Internationaal Bedrijvenpark Friesland in Heerenveen for EUR 30 million, shared between them. The plant is due for completion at end 2020 and needs 50 to 60 workers.

Corex Group opened a new production facility in Wierden, Netherlands, dedicated to consumer packaging for dry food and other segments. The line can produce 15 million cans annually.

Hoffmann Neopac is acquiring the production lines for hinged lid cans from Trivium Packaging in Deventer, the Netherlands. The purchase price was not disclosed.

Trivium Packaging and Ausnutria have signed a 10-year contract for Trivium to produce different can sizes with its peel-off lid, supplying Ausnutria's factories in Heerenveen and Leeuwarden.

Ausnutria and Trivium Packaging are building a joint-venture can manufacturing plant of more than 10,000 square meters at Ausnutria's Heerenveen site in the Netherlands, expected to open in 2020 with capacity above 150 million cans by 2021.

Following its acquisition of CM Packaging, Hoffmann Neopac is investing in a three-piece can making line at CM Packaging's facility in Dronten, Netherlands. The investment is aimed at metal packaging capacity.

Hoffmann Neopac is investing in a three-piece canmaking line at CM Packaging's facility in Dronten, the Netherlands, adding capacity for the infant food sector. No amount was disclosed.

Hoffmann Neopac acquired CM Packaging, a longstanding metal packaging partner in the Netherlands, and the companies will operate as one entity from January 1, 2020. The price was not disclosed.

Trioplast Group signed an agreement on November 22, 2019 to acquire Dutch plastic film maker Apeldoorn Flexible Packaging (AFP) from JPF Netherlands BV, part of B.C. Jindal group. The transaction is subject to regulatory approvals.

Ardagh Group completed the merger of its Food & Speciality can business with Exal Corporation to create Trivium Packaging, jointly controlled by Ardagh and the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board. The deal was completed on 31 October 2019.

Berlin Packaging agreed to acquire Netherlands-based Novio Packaging Group, which has about 160 employees and operations across northern Europe, adding plastic and glass packaging capacity. The deal was announced on 29 October 2019 and the value was not disclosed.

Berlin Packaging has acquired Netherlands-based packaging supplier Vincap & Adolfse Packaging for an undisclosed value and is merging it with its Bruni Glass division. The deal serves customers across the Benelux region.

Dow and UPM Biofuels announced the commercialization of a packaging plastics offering made from UPM BioVerno renewable naphtha, which Dow will use to produce bio-based polyethylene at its Terneuzen plant in the Netherlands.

Ardagh Group agreed to combine its Food & Specialty Metal Packaging business with Exal Corporation to form Trivium Packaging, a metal packaging company with 57 facilities and about 7,800 employees, headquartered in the Netherlands. Ardagh will hold 43% and receive about $2.5 billion in cash, with completion expected later in 2019.

Envases Universales Group, through its Danish subsidiary Glud & Marstrand, acquired 100% of pack2pack from private equity firm Gilde Equity Management in a competitive auction. Alantra advised Envases Universales on the deal.

LC Packaging acquired a majority stake in Hagens Verpakkingen, a box erection company in Venlo, Netherlands serving the fruit and vegetable market. The Hagens name and existing customer operations are unchanged.

CANPACK topped out a new hall at its Helmond, Netherlands can factory that will house a third production line. The expansion raises production capacity by 50 percent and will create 120 new jobs.

P. Van De Velde Group agreed to acquire 100% of the shares of Vekopak, a Tilburg premium folding carton producer, strengthening its Van De Velde Packaging unit. The deal adds about 60 employees.

VPK Packaging bought land and buildings with a total size of 20,000 square metres opposite its Raamsdonksveer factory in the Netherlands to replace two external warehouses. No purchase price was given.

Lelystad-based packaging company DaklaPack Group completed a refinancing with Deutsche Bank in October 2018, with credit facilities of about EUR 9 million to support growth and property purchase.

Ardagh Group manufactured a taller, sleek-shaped aluminium aerosol can for Beiersdorf's Nivea female range at its Veenendaal plant in the Netherlands. The can has been successfully launched in Europe.

Swedish OptiGroup signed a binding agreement to acquire 100% of Dutch packaging distributor Moonen Packaging B.V., pending approval from the Dutch competition authority ACM.

Smurfit Kappa agreed to acquire Dutch paper and recycling company Reparenco from H2 Equity Partners for €460 million, adding a paper mill in Renkum.

Belgian folding-carton maker P. Van De Velde Group acquired Dutch packaging firm Wesly Printing & Packaging, a Maastricht company with about 60 staff serving food producers. The deal strengthens Van De Velde's position in food packaging.

AST Kunststoffverarbeitung took a majority stake in EuroMouldings Packaging in Nijverdal, Netherlands, adding compact plastic bottles to its range; AST plans about 30 million euros of investments in 2018.

Spanish packaging machinery maker Boix Maquinaria agreed on 20 March 2018 to buy the remaining 50% of Boix Europe B.V. from Gremio Vitalis, making it the sole owner of its European distributor. Boix Europe's management stays in place.

Schur Flexibles Group acquired packaging firms Cats-Hansel and Nimax from Clondalkin, including plants in Rotterdam, Freital and Elst.

Belvac Production Machinery has acquired Rosario Handel B.V., doing business as Rosario Can Technology, based in Dongen, Netherlands. Rosario makes can decorators and base coating machinery and provides rebuild and replacement-parts services.

AST Kunststoffverarbeitung GmbH of Erndtebrück, Germany, has acquired a majority stake in Dutch plastic drum and canister maker Euromouldings in Nijverdal from Wadinko NV, effective retroactively from December.

Brookfield Asset Management's private equity group agreed to acquire a 75% interest in Dutch returnable plastic packaging maker Schoeller Allibert Group for about EUR 205 million (about USD 245 million), buying it from JPMorgan Chase. The Schoeller family keeps 25%.

Brookfield Business Partners and partners agreed to acquire a 75% controlling stake in Schoeller Allibert, a European returnable plastic packaging maker, for €205 million from a J.P. Morgan subsidiary.

Packaging supplier Houweling Group developed 10-litre jerrycans made from 100% post-consumer recycled HDPE for Uzin Utz Nederland, cutting CO2 by up to 75% versus virgin HDPE.

Poland's CAN-PACK Group opened a beverage can plant in Helmond, Netherlands, with a total investment of over EUR 100 million, co-financed by BGK. The plant has two lines producing up to 2 billion cans per year.

Canpack opened a new beverage can factory on the Maisdijk in Helmond in spring 2017, with about 40,000 square metres of floor space. Construction cost was said to be more than EUR 100 million.

Crown Europe is consolidating aerosol can production at its Hoorn, Netherlands print facility, adding 52, 57 and 65 diameter cans, with additional capacity due in early 2018 and operation expected by Q1 2018.

Dimensio Verpakkingen B.V. won a EUR 197,268 open tender from the public body GAD Regio Gooi en Vechtstreek to supply 7.5 million PMD collection bags and distribute them to shops and the GAD organisation. The award was dated 16 October 2017.

Packaging producer P. Van De Velde Group acquired folding carton manufacturer Koninklijke Schut, which becomes part of Van De Velde Packaging; the combined group has about 270 employees and annual revenue of about EUR 65 million.

Uhlmann Packaging Systems L.P. of Towaco, New Jersey acquired Cremer Speciaalmachines B.V., a Dutch manufacturer of counting and packaging systems based in Lisse. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Uhlmann Pac-Systeme & Co has acquired a controlling interest in Cremer Speciaalmachines, a Lisse-based maker of pharmaceutical product counting machines with about 140 employees, effective 1 January 2017.

In 2017 VPK Packaging invested over €20 million in machinery and logistics at its Raamsdonksveer site in the Netherlands, including a new 2.8m corrugator from MHI Europe.

Belgian packaging group VPK has fully acquired SolidPack, a Loenen-based Dutch maker of solid board packaging with revenues of about EUR 50 million and 175 employees, integrating it into its Smart Packaging Solutions unit.

Spanish packaging group Saica agreed to acquire 100% of Dutch flexible packaging companies Schut, Hellema and Lemapack from Flexible Packaging Holding. The businesses employ about 100 people and had combined 2015 turnover of EUR 53.1 million.

Schur Flexibles Group will acquire a majority of shares in Dutch packaging printer Drukkerij Zwart, expanding its portfolio to 13 companies with 13 production locations. Financial terms were not disclosed and the deal is subject to cartel authority approval.

SWA, a Dutch contracting authority in Alphen aan den Rijn, published a public tender for corrugated cardboard packaging, with an estimated value of EUR 750,000 to 1,000,000 excluding VAT for a 24-month contract with options to extend. Bannink Packaging is listed as a supplier in the procurement documents.