TOP Packaging, a THIMM and Saica joint venture, took over United Packaging SA, a corrugated cardboard packaging works near Wroclaw in Skarbimierz, Poland, effective October 1, 2019.

Progroup AG announced a new, larger corrugated sheetboard plant in Stryków, Poland, with an investment of about EUR 75 million and more than 50 new jobs, raising total Polish capacity to 520,000 tonnes per year.

Maspex Wadowice Group has adopted SIG's combidome carton bottle to relaunch its Tymbark juice range, the first use of this carton format in Poland.

TOP Packaging, a joint venture of Thimm Group and Saica, is taking over United Packaging SA's plant in Skarbimierz near Wroclaw, Poland, pending approval by the Polish cartel office. The plant has over 100 employees.

Polish corrugated packaging maker Werner Kenkel has acquired a Rapida 164-6+L offset press from Koenig & Bauer for its Krzycko Wielkie plant to raise production capacity. The report was published on 7 June 2019.

Packaging company Elpes held an opening ceremony in June 2019 for a modern plant in Lublin that produces laminate tubes, mainly for the cosmetics industry. The article is dated July 1, 2019.

Packaging printer BSC Drukarnia Opakowań was selected by Havi Global Solutions Europe to produce and supply packaging for a two-year contract starting 1 March 2019, with annual turnover of about PLN 28 million.

Alupol Films, an indirect subsidiary of Grupa Kęty, signed a contract with Basell Orlen Polyolefins Sprzedaż to buy raw materials for BOPP film production, valued at about PLN 147 million and running until the end of 2019.

Schumacher Packaging is converting a former newsprint machine at its Myszków, Poland site into a containerboard mill, bringing start-up forward by 6-12 months, with 300,000 tpy of recycled containerboard capacity planned in two steps.

Mondi opened its expanded Mondi Simet site near Poznań, Poland on 20 June 2018, with a new Fosber corrugator that quadrupled the plant's production capacity for heavy-duty corrugated packaging.

Valmet secured an order to deliver a warp control system to Stora Enso Packaging's corrugated board plant in Ostroleka, Poland, to improve performance and reduce product warp.

Valmet will supply an automatic warp control system to Stora Enso Packaging's corrugated board plant in Ostroleka, Poland, for delivery in late spring 2018. The order value was not disclosed.

Model Group will take delivery of a corrugator by the end of 2019 for its Nowa Sol site, a brownfield facility in Poland acquired in 2016 from Funai where TVs were previously made.

Poligal, a Grup Peralada member, began production at its new €40 million plant in Skarbimierz, Poland, with a Brückner extrusion line and capacity of 40,000 tonnes per year of BOPP film. Metallization will be added later this year.

Printing company Arka-Druk will expand its printing plant in the Łapy economic subzone with a 5,500 sq m facility costing over PLN 7 million, of which about PLN 3 million is EU subsidy, with production expected to start at the end of 2018.

Dunapack Eurobox Polska plans to open its second cardboard packaging plant in Lubliniec, southern Poland, in July 2018. About 120 to 130 new jobs are expected in the first year, with a workforce of 250 eventually.

HOCHTIEF Polska's Krakow branch won a design and build contract from Alupol Films to erect a building of over 5,500 square metres for packaging material production in Oswiecim, due for completion in summer 2019. The contract value is confidential.

Grupa Kety's supervisory board approved a PLN 110 million investment for a second BOPP film production line at Alupol Films' plant in Oswiecim, Poland, to be built 2017-2019.

Polish cosmetic packaging maker Politech has bought a plot in the Bydgoszcz Industrial and Technology Park and plans to build a plant of at least 5,000 square metres to automate production.

Dunapack Packaging, the corrugated division of Prinzhorn Group, is investing in a second corrugated box plant for Poland in Lubliniec, with start-up planned for mid-2018.

Avery Dennison Polska signed a lease for over 13,300 square meters in the MLP Pruszków II logistics park near Warsaw for production and warehousing, with delivery scheduled for Q2 2018.

Smith Anderson is setting up a joint venture with a major packaging supplier to open a new facility in the south of Poland, with McDonald's Europe supporting the venture. Staff will be trained in Kirkcaldy.

German packaging company Schumacher Packaging has completed a further extension of its factory in Krępice, Poland, reported on 14 January 2017.

Model Group installed new four-colour EVOL flexo folder gluers at its Bilgoraj and Czosnow plants in Poland as part of CHF 86 million invested in modernisation, sustainability and expansion in 2017.

Mondi began an investment at its Simet plant near Poznań, Poland, in January 2017 adding a 2.8 m containerboard machine for heavy-duty boxes, quadrupling capacity; 3- and 5-layer board is at full output and 7-layer production is due in Q1 2018.

Ergis plans to start a third nano stretch film production line in Oława in the second quarter of 2017 at a cost of PLN 30 million, raising capacity by about 40% to over 60,000 tonnes.

Schumacher Packaging took over the Fabryka Papieru Myszków paper mill in Poland and will convert the former newsprint plant into a cardboard factory with 250,000-300,000 tonnes annual capacity, with production starting in 2019 and EUR 100 million invested to expand capacity.