Polish packaging maker KGL signed an amended agreement to be the main packaging supplier to Danish Crown, mainly for its Polish plants, through 28 February 2025. KGL estimates potential revenue of about 30 million PLN net.

Progroup has started production at its PW14 corrugated sheetfeeder plant in Stryków, Poland, which can produce up to 200,000 tonnes of corrugated sheetboard. The EUR 72 million project created 50 jobs.

Mondi installed a 3.35m BHS Corrugated Width Line at its Mszczonów plant near Warsaw, following a factory extension, lifting planned output to over 320m sqm per year. The extension and new corrugator were implemented in 2023.

Gatner Packaging, formerly Janmar Centrum, is close to commissioning its corrugated packaging plant in Stryków, Poland, and will start production in December 2022.

CANPACK FPN Brzesko opened new production lines for aluminium beverage can ends, raising capacity to over 12 billion units a year, in a USD 50 million brownfield investment expected to create 50 direct jobs.

Polish dairy producer OSM Łowicz became the first in Poland and the world's first in the cooking cream category to use SIG's combibloc ECO PLUS aluminium-free packaging, including 500 ml combiblocMidi and Slimline packs.

Mondi has signed a collaboration to supply Modivo, a European online fashion retailer, with paper-based MailerBags and corrugated boxes replacing rigid plastic packaging across its shoes, bags and clothing range.

Mondi is expanding its Mszczonów plant near Warsaw, adding new machinery and automation to more than double production capacity to 320 million square metres per year by 2023.

Polish cardboard packaging maker Janmar Centrum opened a new production facility of about 7,300 square metres in Stryków, within Segro Logistics Park Stryków, to boost manufacturing capacity. The investment value was not disclosed.

DS Smith is launching a 37,000 m² corrugated packaging plant in Bełchatów with annual capacity of 180 million m² at the end of June 2022. The project cost PLN 250 million and created more than 200 jobs.

MMP Neupack Polska is investing 60 million euros in its Bydgoszcz plant in Poland, doubling capacity and adding an industrial digital printing line expected to start in mid-2022.

SÜDPACK officially opened its new printing and finishing plant in Kłobuck, Poland, on May 5 and 6, 2022, on a site of over 14,000 m2 that was previously Bahpol.

Mondi will invest €95 million at its Świecie containerboard mill in Poland to expand production and enhance product quality. The project includes rebuilds of PM2 and PM5, pulp mill upgrades, a recycled fiber line and energy recovery.

Following a long-term sales collaboration agreement signed in early December 2021, contract packer Truvant will install a Syntegon TPU paper forming, filling and sealing machine at its contract packaging facility in Poland.

Atlas Ward Polska started building a production and warehouse plant for Rawibox S.A. in the Jasienicka Low-Emission Economic Zone in Miedzyrzecz Dolny, Lower Silesia, with about 30,000 m2 of floor space. Atlas Ward is the general contractor under a design-and-build contract. Reported November 24, 2021.

Schumacher Packaging has engaged Voith to expand paper machine 2 at its Myszków plant in Poland. From mid-2023 the machine will run at a doubled capacity of 300,000 tonnes per year of lightweight recycled corrugated case material.

Schumacher Packaging commissioned Voith to rebuild its PM 2 line at the Myszków site in Poland, doubling light-weight containerboard output from 500 to 1000 tons per day, with restart scheduled for mid-2023.

Progroup's 12th corrugated board production facility, its third in Poland, is under construction in Stryków with planned capacity of 825 million square metres per year.

VPK has opened a new production and warehouse plant of 22,000 sqm in Brzeg, Poland, in the Skarbimierz special economic zone. The plant adds 60 million sqm of production capacity and 120 staff, with 60 more jobs planned.

Stora Enso and Tetra Pak will add a carton repulping line and a polymer and aluminium separation line at Stora Enso's Ostrołęka mill, tripling Poland's annual recycling capacity for used beverage cartons from 25,000 to 75,000 tonnes. The total investment is EUR 29.1 million, with both lines expected to be operational in early 2023.

Mayr-Melnhof Packaging is investing around 35 million euros in Neupack Polska, adding a 14,000 sqm production hall at its Bydgoszcz plants for microflute and e-commerce packaging, to be completed by October 2021.

Belgian VPK Group's Polish subsidiary Aquila Brzeg opened a new corrugated packaging plant in Skarbimierz near Wroclaw, after about one year of construction. The plant was officially inaugurated on 17 June 2021.

VPK Packaging Polska, part of the VPK Group, officially opened a new packaging factory in Brzeg, Poland, on 17 June 2021 with 22,000 m2 of production and warehouse space. The plant adds 60 million m2 of production capacity and is planned to employ 60 more people.

Polish packaging maker Janmarcentrum is building a second corrugated packaging plant in the Strikov Special Economic Zone in central Poland, with about EUR 30 million planned investment, more than 50 jobs and planned capacity of 150 million square metres a year. Start-up is scheduled for Q3 2022.

Progroup is constructing its PW14 corrugated sheet feeder plant in Stryków, Poland, with a EUR 72 million investment, creating more than 50 jobs, due for commissioning in Q4 2022.

Smurfit Kappa will invest over €25 million to expand its Pruszkow factory in central Poland to 37,500 square meters, adding a new corrugator and creating 25 jobs. Construction is due to start in July 2021 and finish in 2022.

Smurfit Kappa announced an investment of over €25 million at its Pruszkow plant in central Poland to double output, adding 25 jobs and a 12,000-pallet warehouse. Construction is due to start in July 2021 and finish during 2022.

Polish beverage producer Krynica Vitamin signed a five-year contract to produce tonic-type beverages and provide glass bottle packaging services for Schweppes International Limited, valued at about PLN 10.7 million.

Progroup started construction of its PW14 corrugated sheetfeeder plant in Stryków, Poland, investing about €72 million. The plant will produce up to 200,000 tonnes of corrugated board sheets per year from Q4 2022 and create more than 50 jobs.

MM Group agreed to acquire International Paper (Poland) Holding, owner of the Kwidzyn integrated pulp and paper mill in Poland, for about EUR 670 million debt- and cash-free, with closing expected in Q3 2021.

UPM Raflatac will invest EUR 13 million in Nowa Wieś, Poland, to add a linerless coating line and slitting and packing capacity, adding 100 million m2 of Direct Thermal linerless annual capacity, expected operational by end of 2021.

August Faller, part of Faller Packaging, is installing a Koenig & Bauer Rapida 76 double-coater offset press at its Łódź plant in Poland, due to enter production in spring 2021 and raise carton output to about 1 billion units per year.

Atlas Ward Polska, as general contractor, has completed the first stage of a 10,000 sqm expansion of the Schumacher Packaging Polska plant in Krepice, Poland. A second-stage paper warehouse is planned, with completion expected in the second half of 2021.

Korporacja KGL signed a framework agreement with Mondelēz International Europe to supply packaging to Mondelēz production plants in Poland and Lithuania.

Switzerland's Aluflexpack acquired a majority stake in Top System, a Polish maker of aluminium lids, PET lids and lidding foil for the dairy industry. The reported stake is 80%, and financial terms were not disclosed.

Plast-Box Group completed an investment of nearly PLN 3.5 million at subsidiary Stark Partner in Urszulin, adding a new production department and a thermoforming machine. The company said capacity will rise by at least 50%.

Mondi has completed installation of a five-colour Bobst Masterline 2.1 HD and a Robot MUK at its corrugated box plant in Szczecin, Poland, to meet e-commerce packaging demand.

SÜDPACK broke ground on July 15, 2020 for a new complex at its Bahpol site in Klobuck near Czestochowa, Poland, to expand flexo print capacity. The facility is expected to start production at the end of 2021.

Polipak signed a contract worth over 50 million zloty with general contractor W.P.I.P. on 20 May 2020 to build production, warehouse and office buildings of over 20,000 m2 in Środa Wielkopolska, doubling its production and storage space. Completion is planned for mid-2021.

ALPLA is adding a second rPET extrusion line at its PET Recycling Team plant in Radomsko, Poland, doubling rPET capacity from 15,000 to 30,000 tonnes per year from early May 2020.

Highlander Partners sold its portfolio company Akomex Group, a Central European cardboard packaging producer, to co-founder Sebastian Sliwa, backed by AMC Capital IV. The closing was completed on 2 April 2020; the price was not disclosed.

Highlander Partners completed the sale of its portfolio company Akomex Group, a Polish packaging manufacturer, to co-founder Sebastian Śliwa with management and support from AMC Capital IV. The article is dated April 2, 2020, and no deal value is given.

Atlas Ward Polska is general contractor for an expansion of Schumacher Packaging's corrugated cardboard packaging factory in Krępice, Lower Silesia, adding about 10,000 sqm of buildings. Completion is planned for the end of August 2020.

Logoplaste Group acquired a majority stake in Masterchem, a Polish PET container manufacturer, forming Masterchem Logoplaste led by CEO Piotr Wasilewski, with the deal completed after UOKiK antitrust approval.

AMC Capital IV provided EUR 21.1 million to support a management buy-back of Akomex, a Polish packaging manufacturer, led by co-founder Sebastian Śliwa with management. Akomex operates two plants in Poland and one converting operation in Denmark.

Highlander Partners signed a definitive agreement to sell Polish packaging maker Akomex Group to co-founder Sebastian Śliwa and management, with support from AMC Capital, subject to antimonopoly approval.

Agencja Rozwoju Przemyslu bought shares in ZPO Opakomet Lowicz and Opakomet Krakow for over PLN 18 million, a first step toward forming the Polish Packaging Group Opakomet through a merger of the two companies.

Logoplaste Group signed an agreement to acquire a majority stake in Polish PET container manufacturer Masterchem, with the founding family keeping a significant minority stake. Closing is expected in Q1 2020, subject to regulatory approvals.

Panattoni Europe is converting 12,000 sqm at Panattoni Business Center Łódź III into a plant for Sealed Air producing PE foam packaging. Production is scheduled to start in November 2019 under a lease signed in April 2019.

Polish packaging maker BSC Drukarnia Opakowań signed a two-year contract with Havi Global Solutions Europe to produce and supply packaging, with a maximum value of PLN 64 million from March 2019 to February 2021.