Klöckner Pentaplast will expand its production facility in Beaver, West Virginia by adding thermoforming capabilities for sustainable food trays. The investment, worth several million dollars, will create 21 full-time jobs.

Altium Packaging has acquired the assets of SFB Plastics, Inc., a Wichita, Kansas maker of HDPE blow-molded industrial containers. The deal was announced on November 16, 2020.

Golden West Packaging Group acquired Berry Pack and Progressive Packaging Group, two California-based fresh produce packaging and distribution providers with operations in California, Arizona and northern Mexico.

Inovar Packaging Group acquired Kansas City-based Tabco, a label and packaging manufacturer founded in 1957, in partnership with its existing management team, announced on 4 November 2020.

Chicago-based BASCO, Inc. announced the acquisition of Youngstown-based Youngstown Barrel and Drum (YBD), a distributor of industrial packaging. YBD customers will gain access to BASCO's wider product lines.

Ardagh Group, Glass - North America, has selected TricorBraun WinePak, a division of TricorBraun, in a strategic alliance announced October 28, 2020. The article is a short excerpt with few details.

U.S. Corrugated of Delaware chose Dover, Delaware as its preferred location for a new $80 million, 457,000 sq ft box-manufacturing plant creating 159 jobs, with state grants of over $3 million under consideration.

Flexible packaging converter Glenroy, Inc. appointed Tom Danneker as President and CEO and William Dopp as CFO; the company plans a major campus expansion to boost film and pouch production, due for completion in 2021.

Ardagh Group is adding two new high-speed beverage can manufacturing lines at its Olive Branch, Mississippi facility, starting production by end of 2020 and adding more than 80 jobs.

Private equity group KCE of Bilbao, Spain completed the acquisition of CTL Packaging USA Inc., the U.S. manufacturing subsidiary of Corporacion Juan Celaya located in North Carolina, via a stock deal.

Ball Corporation and Kroenke Sports & Entertainment launched a global partnership covering aluminum beverage packaging and recycling at venues in Denver, Los Angeles and London, including naming rights for the Denver arena.

Ball Corporation and Kroenke Sports & Entertainment established a partnership across venues in Denver, Los Angeles and London to provide aluminum beverage packaging and boost recycling. The Denver arena will be named Ball Arena.

Opus Packaging Indianapolis agreed to acquire substantially all assets of Arvco Container Corporation's Indianapolis location, and offered employment to its current employees, effective October 5, 2020.

Priority Plastics says it acquired and installed injection stretch blow molding (ISBM) equipment at its Portland, Indiana facility to increase PET container capacity. The article gives no installation date.

Saica Group held a groundbreaking on a 350,000 sq ft corrugated packaging plant in Hamilton, Ohio, its first US plant, representing a $72 million investment and expected to create 64 jobs.

Churchill Asset Management acted as administrative agent for a $48 million senior secured credit facility supporting GenNx360's acquisition of B2B Industrial and the assets of AMW Packaging Supply. The announcement was dated 2020-10-09.

GenNx360 Capital Partners acquired industrial packaging distributor B2B Industrial and the assets of AMW Packaging Supply, both US-based suppliers of packaging supplies and equipment. The deal was announced on 2020-10-08 with no financial terms disclosed.

New-Indy JV Corp. agreed to acquire Reliable Container from Georgia-Pacific, adding facilities in Santa Fe Springs, California and Tijuana, Mexico that make custom corrugated containers and point-of-purchase displays. The transaction was expected to close in mid-October 2020.

Green Bay Packaging Inc. acquired Third Dimension Inc., a corrugated and molded foam packaging maker headquartered in Geneva, Ohio, effective October 1, 2020. Third Dimension will continue to be led by its co-founders.

PaperWorks will invest $25 million in new printing and finishing equipment to enhance North American production capacity at its Baldwinsville, New York converting facility, with installation running from October 2020 to Q1 2021.

Advanced Barrier Extrusions, owned by Graham Partners, agreed in October 2020 to acquire Berry Global's U.S. flexible packaging converter business for $140 million. The business comprises six printing and laminating facilities and will operate under the ABX name.

Hood Container installed a new state-of-the-art 98-inch Fosber corrugator at its Chicago facility to expand its product range and speed to market.

TemperPack plans to add manufacturing equipment at its Henrico, Virginia production plant, with a $21 million investment in new machinery and additional jobs. The expansion follows a $31 million fundraising round in August.

Rusken Packaging has opened a new facility in Conyers, Georgia, consolidating its former Canton and Conyers locations under one roof. The site includes a new BOBST Discovery Flexo Folder Gluer and sits next to corrugator supplier Corrugated Supplies Company Atlanta.

U.S. Corrugated will close its 35-year-old full-line box plant in Newark, New Jersey, and transfer operations to the planned Dover, Delaware plant by the end of 2021.

U.S. Corrugated plans to buy about 40 acres south of Dover and build an approximately $80 million corrugated cardboard box manufacturing plant bringing 150 jobs to Kent County, Delaware, reported September 29, 2020.

Goodwill of the Heartland converted a former food distribution centre in Coralville, Iowa, into a vegetable oil packaging facility after investing $8 million. The facility has nine full-time employees and began operating after remodelling completed in June 2020.

UK paper board maker PALLITE announced a joint venture with Madison Polymeric Engineering of Connecticut to manufacture and distribute its paper honeycomb storage products, pallets and crates in the US and Mexico.

Bennett Packaging plans a nearly $70 million, 524,300-square-foot corporate campus in Kansas City to move the core of its custom corrugated packaging and retail display operations. Kansas City council members voted to approve up to $48 million in Chapter 100 industrial revenue bonds.

Frankston Packaging Company completed its acquisition of Paco Label Systems, a Tyler, Texas maker of flexible packaging and pressure sensitive labels, announced on 16 September 2020.

Following Atar Capital's acquisition of WinCup, Brad Laporte was appointed chief executive officer and Michael Winters president and chief revenue officer.

Mpac Group acquired Switchback Group, a US maker of packaging equipment such as cartoners, case packers and labeling machines, for $15.36 million on September 9, 2020.

Atar Capital has completed the acquisition of WinCup, a Georgia-headquartered maker of foodservice packaging, from funds managed by BlackRock. WinCup operates eight manufacturing facilities and employs nearly 1,000 people; financial terms were not disclosed.

Graphic Packaging opened a highly automated 1.2 million sq ft folding carton factory in Monroe, Louisiana, consolidating two plants and three warehouses. The 180 million US dollar investment will convert more than 1.4 billion beverage cartons a year.

Ball Corporation plans a new aluminum beverage packaging plant at the former Techneglas site in Jenkins Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, creating about 230 jobs with an investment of about $360 million over multiple years.

Rohrer completed a expansion of its Wadsworth, Ohio facility adding 20% floor area to reach 200,000 square feet, making it the company's first Center of Excellence.

ePac will install 26 HP Indigo digital presses, with the first HP Indigo 25K installation at its new Sacramento, California site. The presses will create a 76-press global fleet by 2021.

HP Inc. agreed to supply 26 HP Indigo 25K digital presses to ePac Flexible Packaging, creating a 76-press global fleet by 2021. The first installation is a new ePac site in Sacramento, California, starting the following month.

HP Inc. agreed to supply ePac with 26 additional HP Indigo 25K digital presses, creating a 76-press fleet by 2021 as ePac expands in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. The first installation is a Sacramento, California site starting in September 2020.

Georgia-Pacific started manufacturing curbside recyclable paper padded mailers for e-commerce at its recently opened Arizona facility, with Amazon as the key customer.

TricorBraun agreed to acquire Price Container and Packaging, a rigid packaging distributor serving industrial and food markets with facilities in Utah and Washington. The transaction was expected to close in September 2020.

Altium Packaging plans to invest more than $3 million in new equipment at its Argos facility in Marshall County, Indiana, creating 10 jobs and retaining 48 existing jobs. The Argos Town Council approved a personal property tax abatement for the project.

Green Bay Packaging will begin construction of a new 550,000 sq ft corrugator plant in Tulsa, Oklahoma, replacing its 180,000 sq ft plant there. Construction starts September 1, 2020, with start-up scheduled for October 2021.

PaperWorks is adding a Komori GLX740 offset printing press and two Bobst MasterFold folding gluing lines at its Greensboro, North Carolina facility to increase production capacity. The equipment is expected to be in production in Q4 2020.

Packaging maker Pratt Industries signed a five-year lease for 136,600 square feet at $4.00 per square foot, less than a mile from its manufacturing facility. The case study is dated August 17, 2020.

Trinity Packaging Corporation bought the former Erath Veneer building in the Franklin County-Rocky Mount Industrial Park to add a multi-million dollar facility with new equipment, creating 25 jobs and retaining 75.

Palladin Consumer Retail Partners announced an investment in Decowraps, a Miami-based floral packaging company with facilities in Colombia, the Netherlands, Ecuador, Kenya and China, to fund growth and acquisitions. No amount was disclosed.

Pipeline Packaging, a US rigid industrial container distributor, acquired Houston-based hazmat packaging maker HAZMATPAC, which becomes a wholly owned subsidiary. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Silgan Containers plans a US$9.7 million expansion of its canmaking plant in Lancaster, South Carolina, expected to be completed by the end of 2021 and create 16 new jobs over five years.

Southern Champion Tray will invest $84.9 million in a new paperboard packaging manufacturing facility at the Centre South Riverport Industrial Park in Chattanooga, Tennessee, creating more than 120 jobs. Construction is expected to start in early 2021 and finish by early 2022.