Emsur, the flexible packaging division of Grupo Lantero, has acquired a majority of Russian shrink sleeve producer Eximpack, which it had partly owned for over two years.

Segezhskaya Upakovka's Salsk branch of Segezha Group is commissioning a new GARANT MASCHINEN Triumph 5 QT SK bag converting line in Russia. It can produce up to 500,000 bags in September and 4.5 million by year-end, with total line capacity of 24 million units a year.

Danaflex opened a flexible packaging factory at the Alabuga Special Economic Zone in Tatarstan on 6 September 2018. The total investment is planned at 3 billion roubles, and over 200 people are already employed there.

Greif opened a steel drum and container plant in the Vorsino industrial park in the Kaluga region, Russia, with first-phase investment of 800 million rubles and 50 jobs created. Planned output is two million drums per year.

Industrial Investment has begun construction of a barrier packaging plant in the Tosno district of the Leningrad region, on the M10 industrial park. The plant, with about 1 billion rubles of investment and capacity of 3,000 tonnes per year, is due to open in August 2018 and create over 150 jobs.

Smurfit Kappa has acquired Soyuz, a Moscow-based corrugated packaging company with about 300 employees, strengthening its position in Russia. No financial terms were disclosed.

Penza company Decor Trade, working with Hubei Jingshan Light Industrial Machinery, is expanding corrugated cardboard production under a project worth over 150 million rubles that began in 2015. The expansion targets a sevenfold increase in output to 7 million square metres per month.

JSC POZiS, through its tender organiser in Zelenodolsk, Tatarstan, placed a single-supplier purchase for corrugated cardboard packaging for 2017 deliveries with NP Naberezhnochelninsky KBK, valued at 49,460,912 rubles.

Sealed Air's subsidiary CJSC Sealed Air Kaustik has started construction of a €9.5 million food packaging plant in Volgograd, Russia, within a renovated factory of partner JSC Kaustik. The plant will make multilayer PP film packaging for processed meat and employs 45 workers, with plans to grow to 68.

Linar opened a high-productivity line for screw caps for glass jars at its Nevinnomyssk plant in Stavropol Krai, installed in 2016. Cap output rose 37% to over 40 million pieces, with output planned to grow by half again in 2017.

Globalpak LLC plans to build a metal and polymer packaging factory for food and cosmetics in the Feodosia industrial park in Crimea, with an investment of over 250 million rubles. A cooperation memorandum was signed with the Crimea Development Corporation.