The Plast-Box Group will install a new machine for 5-litre IML containers at its Suwary plant in Ksawerow, Poland, in January 2027, significantly increasing capacity for this segment.
ALSTAL Grupa Budowlana held the topping-out ceremony for CANPACK's new production and warehouse hall in Bydgoszcz, Poland, a design-and-build project within a PLN 440 million investment. The hall is being prepared for an aluminium can production line.
Canpack will invest more than 440 million Polish zlotys (over 100 million euros) to expand and modernize its Bydgoszcz plant in Poland, adding about 1 billion cans per year of capacity and more than 100 new jobs.
Polish-American packaging group CANPACK is investing over PLN 440 million to expand its Bydgoszcz plant, adding a new production and warehouse hall and over 1 billion cans per year of capacity, with more than 100 new jobs. Construction contractor is ALSTAL.
ALSTAL Grupa Budowlana signed a contract to build a production and warehouse hall for CANPACK in Bydgoszcz, adding a line for about 1 billion aluminium cans a year, with investment above 440 million PLN; construction runs to August 2026.
Canpack Group plans to add a line producing about 1 billion beverage cans at its Bydgoszcz plant in Poland, with commissioning targeted for Q2 2026. The project was first announced in 2022 and postponed in 2023.
VPK Group's Aquila commissioned a new Fosber 2.8m S/Line corrugator at its Września plant in Poland as part of a €25 million investment. The line can produce up to 20 million square meters of corrugated board per month, and the official ribbon cutting took place in early 2025.
Mondi completed a €90 million investment upgrade at its Mszczonów plant near Warsaw, doubling capacity and making it the largest corrugated solutions plant in Poland. The upgrade is part of a €280 million corrugated packaging investment across central and eastern Europe.
VPK Packaging Group's AQUILA plant in Września, Poland has installed a new Fosber corrugator as part of an investment that includes a 13,000 square metre production hall.
AQUILA Września, part of VPK Group, is building a 13,000 sqm production hall and installing a new FOSBER 2.8m corrugator in Greater Poland. The line is expected to launch in early 2025 and produce up to 20 million m2 of corrugated board monthly.
Canpack is expanding its existing Bydgoszcz plant in Poland with a new production building and a line capable of over one billion beverage cans per year, in a 440 million PLN project. ALSTAL Grupa Budowlana is the design-and-build general contractor and is nearing completion of the shell, with production planned for June 2026.
Propak received its first 2025 support decision from the Suwalki Special Economic Zone to increase production capacity at its existing paper and cardboard packaging plant in Augustow, Poland.
Mondi completed a EUR 90 million modernization of its Mondi Warsaw corrugated packaging plant in Mszczonów, near Warsaw, doubling production capacity and making it the largest corrugated packaging plant in Poland. The upgrade was marked at an event hosted for Polish manufacturers.
Mondi completed a €95 million investment at its Świecie containerboard mill in Poland, rebuilding paper machines PM2 and PM5 and adding 55,000 tonnes per annum of kraftliner capacity, with the project finished in June 2024.
The Pomorska Special Economic Zone approved a support decision for Flexopack Polska to expand production capacity of its flexible packaging materials at Tragamin, Malbork commune.
VPK subsidiary Aquila is adding a state-of-the-art corrugator with a 2.80 m Fosber line in a new 13,000 sqm hall at its Września plant. The line is scheduled to start up at the beginning of 2025.
Stora Enso is investing €30m to upgrade and grow its corrugated packaging production in Ostrołęka, Poland, including a new 2.8m-wide corrugator. Construction is scheduled to start in Q3 2024 and finish by the end of 2025.
Aquila Września, part of VPK Group, is expanding its factory in Września, Poland, with a new production hall of nearly 13,000 sqm and a new corrugator that can produce up to 20 million m2 of corrugated board per month.
Tetra Pak and Stora Enso are investing a combined EUR29.1m in a new carton repulping line in Poland that will triple used beverage carton capacity from 25,000 to 75,000 tonnes per year.
Thimm invested EUR 10 million in its Tychy, Poland plant, adding a new Göpfert corrugated line and new halls. Annual capacity rose from 130 to 165 million square metres of corrugated cardboard.
Masterpress has added two new sleeve printing machines at its Bialystok facility in Poland, increasing output by about 16 million square meters annually and lifting capacity by nearly 40%. The expansion serves customers in France, the DACH region and the Benelux countries.
Ball Packaging officially started two additional modules producing aluminium beverage can ends at its Lublin plant, which serves customers across Europe.
Mondi plans to invest more than €16 million ($17.5 million) in its Krapkowice plant in southern Poland to install a new production line for MailerBAG paper bags, doubling bag production capacity this year.
Smurfit Kappa has completed a €40 million investment at its Pruszków corrugated plant in Poland, adding a high-tech corrugator and a new warehouse for 12,000 pallets. The expansion makes it the company's largest plant in Poland and adds 50 jobs.
Smurfit Kappa officially opened its expanded Pruszków plant in Poland on March 16, 2023, after a EUR 40 million investment that doubled production capacity and added a 12,000-pallet warehouse.
Canpack is starting up new final production lines at its Brzesko plant in Poland, which will lift can capacity to over 12 billion a year, with full operation expected by end of November.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
German packaging company Schumacher Packaging has completed a further extension of its factory in Krępice, Poland, reported on 14 January 2017.