DS Smith plans upgrades at its Bredasten packaging facility in Värnamo, Sweden, including a 3,000 square metre expansion. Warehouse activities currently in Malmö will move to the expanded site.

Tetra Pak will invest €60 million in a new pilot plant at its Lund facility to accelerate development of paper-based barriers for aseptic cartons, with production expected to start in Q1 2027.

Smurfit Westrock OnWell signed a five-year lease for about 5,200 square metres at Värjan 13 in Berga, Helsingborg, with move-in during 2025 to add production capacity.

BillerudKorsnas is expanding its Gruvon paper mill in Grums with a new board machine of 550,000 tonnes annual capacity and rebuilding of the existing pulp mill, in its largest investment ever at SEK 5.7 billion.

Metsä Board invested €230 million in its Husum mill in Sweden to modernise and expand folding boxboard machine BM1, raising annual capacity to 600,000 tonnes. The upgraded machine was inaugurated in April 2024.

Metsä Board has completed the project adding 200,000 tons of annual folding boxboard capacity at its Husum mill in Sweden, raising output to 600,000 tons; full capacity is expected by end-2025.

SCA's world's largest kraftliner machine entered service at its Obbola plant in Västerbotten, Sweden, as part of a SEK 7.5 billion expansion, with capacity rising from 450,000 to 725,000 tonnes a year. The machine was built by Voith.

BillerudKorsnäs added the KM 7 board machine at its Gruvön mill in Värmland, Sweden, with an investment of SEK 5.7 billion, and shut down three older machines. The machine has a capacity of 550,000 tonnes per year and came online in October 2019.

Stora Enso is investing EUR 8 million with new machinery at its Hylte, Sweden site to double formed fiber capacity from 50 to about 115 million units annually. The company will also recruit more than ten employees for formed fiber production.

Metsä Board plans to invest about SEK 2.1 billion to raise folding boxboard capacity at its Husum board and pulp mill in Västernorrland by 200,000 tons per year, from 400,000 to 600,000 tons.

Metsä Board decided to raise annual folding boxboard capacity at its integrated Husum mill by 200,000 tonnes to 600,000 tonnes, investing about EUR 210 million. Additional capacity is expected to start up in 2024-2025.

Stora Enso plans to invest about SEK 8.6 billion (EUR 800-850 million) to upgrade and expand pulp and packaging board capacity at its Skoghall mill in Värmland, Sweden. A pre-project and environmental permit application have been started, with production possibly starting in Q4 2023.

Stora Enso has started production of formed fiber foodservice products at its Hylte Mill in Sweden, following an investment announced in 2019. The plastic- and PFAS-free PureFiber range is intended for fresh food packaging.

Sca will invest SEK 7.5 billion to raise kraftliner capacity at its Obbola mill in Sweden from 275 thousand to 725 thousand tonnes a year, with a new paper machine starting in Q1 2023.

BillerudKorsnäs has begun trial runs of KM7, one of the world's largest board machines, at its Gruvön mill in Sweden. The total investment was later estimated at SEK 6.84 billion, including a major mill conversion.

Rottneros Packaging has started molded-fiber tray production at its new factory in Sunne, Sweden, after a move to new premises, with an investment of about SEK 45 million and planned capacity of 50 to 80 million trays per year.

Stora Enso will invest EUR 22 million (SEK 232 million) to expand the water treatment plant at its Skoghall Mill in Sweden, adding capacity and new technology to reduce environmental impact.

BillerudKorsnas is investing 5.7 billion SEK in a new board machine KM7 at its Grums mill in Varmland, Sweden, with 550,000 tonnes annual capacity expected to start in early 2019.

SCA is investing SEK 196 million at its Munksund pulp and paper mill in Sweden to increase production of white-top kraftliner, lifting capacity from 150,000 to 200,000 tonnes per year.

BillerudKorsnäs will invest SEK 5.7bn (about £516m) in a new board machine at its Gruvön site in Sweden, with a capacity of 550,000 tonnes a year, plus rebuilds at the existing pulp mill. It is the company's largest investment ever.

Billerud Korsnäs is investing SEK 5.7 billion in a new paperboard machine with 550,000 tonnes annual capacity at its Gruvön mill in Värmland, Sweden, plus rebuilding work at the pulp mill. Start-up is expected in the first quarter of 2019.