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

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.

Panattoni started the final construction stage of a Danfoss Poland production plant in Grodzisk Mazowiecki with 45 production lines for refrigeration valves, scheduled for completion at the end of November 2021.

Maire Tecnimont subsidiary KT-Kinetics Technology was awarded a lump-sum turnkey EPC contract worth slightly over EUR 200 million by LOTOS Oil to build a hydrocracked base oil plant at the Gdansk Refinery in Poland, due by the first half of 2025.

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.

Panattoni completed a 40,000 sqm production plant in Kalisz for Leviat, which will manufacture fasteners and construction reinforcement and transport systems. The plant replaces Leviat's existing factory nearby and increases its production capacity.

Avantor announced a multi-year investment in global hydration capabilities, including a recently completed expansion of its Gliwice, Poland facility and a multi-stage expansion of its Aurora, Ohio facility due by mid-2022.

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.

GEA laid the cornerstone on May 21, 2021 for the expansion of its Koszalin site in Poland into a climate-neutral center for hygienic and vacuum pump production and components. The roughly EUR 37 million project is due to launch in 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.

DB Energy signed an annex to its contract to modernise the combined heat and power plant at Schumacher Packaging's Myszków site, worth PLN 17.2 million and bringing the total contract value to PLN 35.1 million. Completion is expected in October 2022.

Oben Group acquired Poligal Group, a European plastic film maker with BOPP and CPP plants in Portugal and Poland, commercial offices in Germany and a European sales network. The Skarbimierz plant has 40,000 tonnes/year BOPP capacity.

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.

Northvolt announced a new highly automated battery module and energy storage systems plant with an R&D centre in Gdańsk, Poland, with investment of nearly USD 200 million and up to 500 jobs. Production is to start in 2022.

Sumika Polymer Compounds Europe is setting up a new Polish subsidiary and a production site of about 5,500 square meters in Poznan. The site will add 30,000 tonnes of compounded polypropylene capacity, with about 30 jobs and production scheduled from Q1 2022.

ARMATURY Group has supplied valves for Poland's Baltic Pipe and North-South Gas Corridor projects, including 349 ball valves for gas pipelines in Poland in 2020. Deliveries included over 950 valves for the Kędzierzyn-Koźle compressor station.

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.

Austria's Mayr-Melnhof agreed to buy International Paper's Kwidzyn pulp, paper and board mill in Poland for €670 million on a cash and debt free basis, plus €33 million in usufruct and operating lease liabilities. The mill has about 740,000 tpy of capacity.

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.

ZETKAMA sp. z o.o. merged with FAG S.A. of Głuchołazy on November 30, 2020, taking over FAG's assets. ZETKAMA now produces valves and castings at three Polish locations.

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.

Panattoni has started construction of a 12,000 sq m built-to-own factory for Danfoss Poland in Grodzisk Mazowiecki, to produce refrigeration and air-conditioning components, with completion planned for November 2021.

Danfoss started construction of a new production hall at its site in Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Poland, on 13 October 2020, which is expected to create 400 jobs. The plant will make solenoid valves for water installations.

GEA will invest around EUR 30 million to expand its Koszalin, Poland plant into a center of competence for pump production and comprehensive machining, as part of optimising its production network.

KGHM ZANAM S.A. is launching production of actuators for self-propelled mining machines at its Legnica plant, with underground tests scheduled for October 2020 and capacity for over 60% of actuators used in its mining machines.

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.

Polish plastics packaging maker TW Plast leased an 8,000 m² hall at Accolade's industrial park in Mińsk Mazowiecki to produce type II surgical masks, reportedly one of Europe's largest such plants.

Indorama Ventures agreed to acquire IMP Polowat, a PET recycling business with two sites in Bielsko-Biala and Leczyca, Poland, with combined capacity of 23,000 tonnes of rPET flakes and 4,000 tonnes of rPET pellets. Closing is expected in Q3 2020, subject to regulatory approvals.

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.

Korporacja KGL has signed a framework agreement under which it will be the main supplier of plastic meat trays to Danish Crown, mainly for its Polish plants. Potential revenue from the agreement, running to 1 January 2023, could reach 40 million PLN.

Phoenix Contact E-Mobility is building a 15,000 m2 production facility at the Rzeszow-Dworzysko science park in Poland, developed by Panattoni, to make AC and DC charging cables. Completion is expected by end 2020 or early 2021, with production starting in early 2021 and the workforce growing to over 250.

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.

GAZ-SYSTEM signed four-year framework agreements worth over PLN 89.5 million with three contractors for ball and wedge gate valves for a compressor station in Gustorzyn and expansions in Odolanow and Goleniow. The fittings serve the Baltic Pipe project.

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.