REI Grup, through REI INTERNATIONAL CONSULTING S.R.L., has commenced construction on a kraft paper bag manufacturing plant in Călan, Hunedoara County, Romania. The total investment exceeds €2.5 million, with 61.98% non-reimbursable financing. Completion is scheduled for the first half of 2027.

A recycled-fibre kraft paper mill under construction in Giurgiu, Romania, is about 60% built and due to start in 2028, at an estimated cost of EUR 80-90 million (USD 89-101 million). Planned capacity is 120,000-130,000 tonnes a year of kraft paper from recovered paper.

Mayr-Melnhof is advancing its packaging production expansion at a Romanian plant, which is on schedule. Commercial production is set to start in October 2026, and the project is part of its Food & Premium Packaging division.

DS Smith, part of International Paper, will invest over €14 million in its Timișoara and Ghimbav packaging plants in Romania, including about €10.5 million in Timișoara by Q1 2027 for automation and a new converting line.

DS Smith will invest an additional €3.6 million in 2026 at its Ghimbav, Romania plant for infrastructure modernisation and corrugated board production equipment upgrades, building on a €13 million investment launched in 2023.

DS Smith is investing €10.5 million at its Timișoara, Romania plant by Q1 2027 for automation, production flow changes, warehouse expansion and a new conversion line. The investment is part of a wider €14 million Romanian program.

DS Smith partnered with the Romanian Serele SupeR agricultural cooperative to replace ten million plastic tomato packages with recyclable corrugated fibre punnets, following a three-year trial, reported on 14 January 2026.

Canpack has significantly increased the capacity of its beverage can plant in Romania by installing an upgrade to one of its two lines. The announcement is dated 4 December 2025.

Berlin Packaging has completed its acquisition of Sarom Packaging and Romgallia, Romania-based glass packaging suppliers, expanding its EMEA footprint and glass portfolio.

Evopack has started an investment in two new production lines for food cardboard boxes and new storage space at its Piatra Neamț factory, estimated at EUR 1.8 million.

Crescento Packaging, a maker of disposable cups, plates and cardboard boxes for the HORECA sector, has invested over €7.6 million in a new 4,000 sq m factory in the Miroslava Industrial Park near Iași, which was inaugurated in 2023.

Belgian bottle maker Resilux plans to expand its Bucharest PET preforms factory by about 30% under a EUR 3 million investment, including a new rPET pellets production line, according to sources cited by Profit.ro.

Romanian beverage producer Alconor is installing SMI machinery, including rotary stretch-blow moulders for PET/rPET bottles, secondary and tertiary packaging plants and conveyor lines, at its Romanian plants.

All4Labels Global Packaging Group signed an agreement to acquire Romprix Exim, a Romanian manufacturer of self-adhesive labels, making it a 100% subsidiary. The transaction is subject to closing conditions including regulatory approval, and terms were not disclosed. Both production sites are near Bucharest.

ALPLA, Ecohelp SRL and United Polymer Trading form a joint venture to build a PET recycling plant in Targu Mures, Romania, producing 15,000 tonnes of food-grade rPET per year for about €7.5 million, creating 15 jobs.

ALPLA, Ecohelp SRL and United Polymer Trading AG are each investing equally in a joint venture to install an extrusion line recycling post-consumer PET bottles in Targu Mures, Romania, aiming for 15,000 tonnes of rPET per year. The total investment is about EUR 7.5 million and will create 15 jobs.

Romanian company Promateris completed a 2.5 million euro investment in a compostable packaging production line. The article text provides few further details.

Packaging manufacturer Thimm Group installed a Corruflex flexo postprint press from Koenig & Bauer at its Sibiu plant in Romania, significantly expanding direct printing capacity on corrugated cardboard for Central and Eastern Europe. The announcement was dated 30 March 2021.

Segezha Packaging is investing more than EUR 10 million in a new production unit and depot at its Ploiesti site in Romania, plus line modernization. Completion is scheduled for October 2021 and production capacity is expected to rise 65 percent.

Segezha Group is building a paper packaging facility in Ploiesti, Romania, part of a EUR 10 million investment, adding up to 65% capacity, to about 160 million paper sacks a year, with commissioning planned for March 2022.

Segezha Packaging is investing EUR 1.3 million to expand its Ploiesti, Romania plant with a new warehouse and production hall on land bought last year, with construction expected to start in the third quarter.

Exonia, a premium packaging maker in Iasi, Romania, will open a biodegradable packaging factory by the end of March 2020 with a 3 million euro investment. The plant will have capacity of 350-360 tonnes per month and create 28 initial jobs, rising to 40.

As part of the first phase at its Sfântu Gheorghe site, Dunapack Rambox installed a Bobst flatbed die cutter with five HQ colours and a six-point Masterfold multipoint gluing machine to raise the complexity and quality of its shelf ready packaging.

Dunapack Rambox completed the first step of its investment to expand its Sfantu Gheorghe corrugated cardboard factory in Romania, adding 4,000 square metres of warehouse space and a Bobst die cutter and Masterfold gluing machine.

Dunapack Rambox is upgrading its Sfântu Gheorghe corrugated packaging plant in Covasna County, Romania, raising combined annual capacity with the new Bolintin-Deal plant to about 300 million square metres.

Dunapack Rambox is building a 45 million euro packaging plant on an 11.5ha site in Bolintin-Deal, Giurgiu County, Romania, with 180 million square metres annual capacity and 150 jobs. Construction began in October 2018 and operations are expected to start in June 2019.

Thimm installed a new Fosber corrugator at its Sibiu, Romania plant, tripling corrugated cardboard capacity, with about EUR 10.4 million invested in the site over two years.

Romania's National Administration of State Reserves and Special Problems awarded Raficon Trade a framework contract worth RON 7,800,000 to supply 200,000 polypropylene flexible containers.

Canpack Romania opened a new aluminum can production line at its Bucharest plant with an investment of over EUR 50 million, raising annual capacity from 950 million to 1.55 billion cans and creating about 88 jobs.

Dunapack Rambox, a subsidiary of Austria's Prinzhorn group, will start construction of a new 22,000 sqm corrugated cardboard plant in Bolintin, west of Bucharest, on land bought in late 2017. Projected annual output is 180 million sqm.

Can Pack Romania is investing €50 million in a second production line and capacity expansion at its Bucharest metal can factory, hiring 85 people and targeting 1.5 billion cans per year, with the line starting in February 2018.

Can Pack Romania will invest EUR 50 million in a second production line at its Bucharest plant, raising capacity from about 950 million to 1.5 billion cans per year. The new line is expected to start in February 2018.

Dunapack Rambox, a subsidiary of Austria's Prinzhorn group, signed an agreement for an 11.5-hectare plot to build a 22,000 sqm corrugated packaging plant in Bolintin near Bucharest. The plant will create 200 jobs and, with the Sfantu Gheorghe factory, reach 300 million sqm of annual capacity; investment was not disclosed.

Bemis agreed to acquire the subsidiaries Evadix Labels and Evadix MPI from Belgium-based Evadix for 3.3 million euros, including about 0.84 million euros of debt repayments. Both businesses are based in Romania and make polyethylene films and flexible packaging.

The Wilkins Group has invested EUR 350,000 in a new gluing machine for its factory in Romania.

United Romanian Breweries Bereprod (URBB) invested over EUR 2 million to modernize the production line at its Pantelimon factory, applying aluminum foil without adhesive to beer cans. The technology was developed by Italian company EcoCap.

Romcarton S.A. is building a new corrugated cardboard packaging factory in Popesti-Leordeni, Ilfov County, near Bucharest, with a total investment of EUR 27.5 million, financed partly by a EUR 23.4 million BCR credit, with completion expected by end of 2017.

Austrian packaging manufacturer ALPLA agreed to acquire a 100% stake in Star East Pet SRL, a PET preform producer based in Brasov, Romania. Completion is expected in mid-2017, subject to antitrust approval; financial terms were not disclosed.

Austrian plastic packaging group ALPLA has acquired Star East Pet, a Brasov, Romania producer of PET preforms, in a deal signed earlier in 2017 with undisclosed value and expected to complete mid-2017.