Recorp is launching a new $130 million can manufacturing facility in South Auckland on 9 September, offering low minimum order quantities of 30,000 printed cans.

Amcor signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Moda Systems, a New Zealand manufacturer of automated vacuum protein packaging machines for meat, poultry and dairy. The deal adds equipment and services to Amcor's film portfolio. No value was disclosed.

NCI Packaging invested $35 million in a new Auckland factory producing milk powder cans, with production starting at the beginning of 2020. The site includes a Metal Star 3 printing press, the only one in New Zealand.

Oji Fibre Solutions will invest A$100 million (US$68 million) to develop automated cardboard box production at its Christchurch, New Zealand factory, replacing the Shands Road operation, with completion planned for 2021.

Pro-Pac Packaging Group agreed to acquire Polypak, an Auckland soft flexible packaging manufacturer and distributor, for NZ$8.8 million. The North Harbour plant employs 28 people.

Metal packaging maker Jamestrong opened a fully enclosed high-care can production plant in Hornby, Christchurch, New Zealand, primarily to supply Synlait and The a2 Milk Company. The investment is reported at $12m.

Synlait opened its blending and consumer packaging facility in Mangere, Auckland, with annual packaging capacity of 32,000 MT, doubling its canning capacity to 64,000 MT, after investing NZ$55 million in the acquired partially-completed site.

Visy Board New Zealand will build a second corrugated packaging plant on an 8.5 hectare site at Hamilton Airport in the Waipa District, with a NZ$100 million investment. Construction started in April 2017.

Visy Board New Zealand is building a corrugated packaging plant on an 8.5-hectare site at Hamilton Airport in the Waikato, with 75 jobs. The factory is due for completion in early 2018, and construction began in April 2017.

Oji Fibre Solutions unveiled upgraded and expanded facilities at its Penrose paper bag plant in Auckland after a NZ$30 million investment. The new conversion line adds 48 million dairy and food powder bags a year, bringing total output to about 100 million bags.

Visy Board New Zealand opened its second corrugated packaging plant in the Waipa district near Hamilton, Waikato, in May 2018 after a NZ$100 million investment that created about 75 jobs.