Aptar entered into a binding agreement to acquire Fusion Packaging I, L.P. (FusionPKG), a Dallas-based maker of prestige airless and color cosmetics packaging for the North American beauty market. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and the value was not disclosed.

Mauser Packaging Solutions is investing in new quart and gallon F-style metal can lines at its Memphis, Tennessee facility to more than double combined capacity. The gallon line is expected to be operational in Q3 2020.

Gryphon Investors signed a definitive agreement to make a strategic investment in Pacur LLC, a supplier of extruded PETG sheet for medical device packaging based in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Terms were not disclosed and the founding family and management will remain owners.

Intertape Polymer Group agreed to acquire substantially all operating assets of Nortech Packaging, a maker of automated packaging machines near Chicago, Illinois, for about $36.5 million in cash plus potential earn-out. The deal was announced on February 10, 2020.

Allpax Products, a ProMach brand, will build an 80,000 square foot headquarters and manufacturing center in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, replacing existing facilities. The $7 million investment retains 55 jobs and creates five new direct jobs.

Nutmeg Container, a division of Unicorr Packaging Group, has completed refurbishment of a 125,000 sq ft manufacturing and warehouse facility in Thompson, Connecticut, consolidating its wood production there.

Welch Packaging has acquired Tri-Lakes Container, a corrugated packaging supplier in Pierceton, Indiana. Terms were not disclosed.

Graphic Packaging agreed to acquire Greif's Consumer Packaging Group business for approximately $85 million, adding seven US converting facilities with over $200 million in annual revenue, with closing expected in Q1 2020.

Pactiv Corporation will invest a minimum of $8 million to expand its Greensboro facility in Guilford County, North Carolina, creating 25 new jobs, as announced by Governor Roy Cooper on January 24, 2020.

NEPA Carton & Carrier, a folding carton maker in northeastern Pennsylvania, is adding a second Koenig & Bauer Rapida 145 press, due for delivery in spring 2020, to increase its capacity by 50%.

IG Design Group agreed a merger to acquire US consumer product maker CSS Industries for $9.40 per share in an all-cash deal valued at about $88 million, announced January 21, 2020.

Clearlake Capital Group, in partnership with management, has acquired rigid packaging maker Pretium Packaging from Genstar Capital. Pretium operates 19 automated plants in the US; financial terms were not disclosed.

Packaging Corporation of America has built a $26 million corrugated cardboard box plant on a 42-acre Richland site bought from the city for $1.7 million. The plant opened with an estimated 65 workers, with the workforce expected to grow to 100-150.

Ball Corporation broke ground in Rome, Georgia on a new aluminum cups manufacturing facility next to its existing can plant, a multi-year investment of about $200 million that plans to hire approximately 145 employees.

Bunzl Distribution announced the acquisition of Joshen Paper & Packaging, a distributor of packaging supplies with locations in 11 US states and about 450 employees.

Private equity firm Industrial Opportunity Partners has acquired Midwest Paper Group, a recycled containerboard mill in Combined Locks, Wisconsin. Terms were not disclosed.

TricorBraun, a North American primary packaging supplier, acquired Minneapolis-based Packaging Solutions Inc (PSI), a rigid packaging supplier with 25 years of experience, adding a Minneapolis warehouse. Financial terms were not disclosed.

MSI Express, backed by HCI Equity Partners, acquired contract packager Power Packaging on December 31, 2019, and announced it on January 7, 2020. Power has four facilities in the Chicago area, Wisconsin and Texas, and takes the combined platform to 12 production facilities.

DS Smith opened a new 550,000-square-foot corrugated box manufacturing plant in Lebanon, Indiana, on January 24, 2020, capable of producing about 30,000 boxes an hour.

ND Paper plans to invest about $49 million to open a corrugated cardboard box plant in Racine County, Wisconsin, creating 88 jobs. The Wisconsin Economic Development Corp disclosed the plan.

Precise Packaging opened a new 15,000 square-foot aerosol and liquid contract manufacturing facility in Fall River, Massachusetts, near its headquarters. The site has two custom liquid filling lines and a new shrink sleever, and the company hired several new staff.

Cerberus Capital Management affiliates completed the purchase of the North American, Costa Rican and Japanese businesses and facilities of closure maker Closure Systems International from Reynolds Group Holdings, which keeps its European, Middle Eastern, Egyptian and South American closures units.

Pregis is investing $5 million in a fourth multilayer Windmoeller & Hoelscher blown film line at its Pregis Films facility in Grand Rapids, Michigan, adding about 4 million pounds of annual output, and is leasing 35,000 additional square feet of warehouse space.

Buckeye Corrugated Inc. (BCI) opened a new 260,000-square-foot corrugated sheet plant in Houston, Texas, on December 16, 2019, with equipment transferred from its existing site and several new machines added.

New-Indy Containerboard plans to invest $240 million to convert its recently acquired Catawba, South Carolina pulp and paper mill from lightweight coated paper to containerboard grades.

Cascades Inc. is exercising its option to buy the 20.2% interest held by CDPQ in Greenpac Holding LLC, a lightweight containerboard mill in Niagara Falls, New York, for about $93 million. The deal is expected to close January 3, 2020, raising Cascades' stake to 86.3%.

Spicers Paper, a division of Central National Gottesman, acquired Kilmer, Wagner & Wise Paper Company, a Garden Grove, California distributor of corrugated products, stretch film and industrial packaging. Financial terms were not disclosed.

LMI Packaging announced a 50,000 square foot addition to its building in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, on June 21, 2024.

TC Transcontinental agreed to sell its paper and woven polypropylene packaging operations to Hood Packaging Corporation for US$180 million, subject to working capital adjustments. Closing is expected in the first quarter of fiscal 2020.

Green Bay Packaging Inc. became a minority owner of CompanyBox, a Charlotte-based web-to-print packaging company, effective November 22, 2019. CompanyBox will continue under the leadership of Louie DeJesus.

Mauser Packaging Solutions plans to invest $850,000 to build out 120,960 square feet of new space at 1740 South Interstate 45 in Hutchins, Texas, expected to be occupied around March 1, 2020.

Halifax County commissioners awarded STX Corporation the contract to build a rail spur serving JBB Packaging's plastics packaging plant in Weldon, North Carolina, at $529,220, with North Carolina Railroad and DOT funding the project. Completion is expected within 60 days.

Sonoco signed a definitive agreement to acquire Thermoform Engineered Quality (TEQ) from ESCO Technologies for approximately $187 million in cash. TEQ makes thermoformed packaging for healthcare, medical device and consumer markets, with facilities in the US, UK and Poland.

Mid America Display, a division of St. Louis corrugated packaging provider Boxes, Inc., bought a second EFI Nozomi C18000 single-pass inkjet printer, along with EFI software and a VUTEk superwide-format printer, to add digital production capacity.

Refresco acquired AZPACK, a contract manufacturer of bottles and containers for the food and beverage industry headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, on November 14, 2019. Terms were not disclosed.

Canadian packaging firm GELPAC acquired WBC Extrusion Products of Haverhill, Massachusetts, a maker of single-use blown polymer films, as announced by advisor Woodbridge International. The deal strengthens GELPAC's North American position.

Sabert Corporation agreed to acquire LBP Manufacturing LLC, a Chicago-based maker of paper-based foodservice packaging with plants in the U.S., Poland and China. Sabert's annual sales will exceed $900 million after the deal.

The Rockwall Economic Development Corporation announced a 346,000 square foot expansion of Pratt Industries in the Rockwall Technology Park, Texas, dated June 11, 2026 on the page.

Mexican packaging company Cartograf will invest $65.3 million to build its first U.S. folding and micro-corrugated package printing facility in Chesterfield County's Meadowville Technology Park, creating 63 jobs.

Box manufacturer U.S. Corrugated, owned by McKinley Paper Co., selected Lebanon, Indiana for a new state-of-the-art corrugated packaging plant scheduled to start up by the end of 2019. No capacity figure was announced.

Ball Corporation will build a new aluminum cups manufacturing plant in Rome, Georgia, investing more than $200 million and creating more than 180 jobs, with completion expected in Q4 2020.

Greif announced on October 15, 2019 that an uncoated recycled board machine with capacity of nearly 65,000 tons per year at its Mobile, Alabama mill will stop operating.

Inovar Packaging Group has completed its acquisition of Flexo-Graphics, a label and flexible packaging maker in Butler, Wisconsin, in partnership with management. It is Inovar's first Midwest platform company.

Stik-Pak Solutions, a subsidiary of M&H Holdings, has broken ground on a $14.3 million facility at Summit View Business Park in Rocky Mount, Franklin County. The first 50,000 sq ft phase is due by mid-2020, with 50 to 60 more employees planned.

WIELAND has been awarded the construction management contract for Graphic Packaging International's new mill in Kalamazoo, Michigan, which includes a coated recycled board machine. Groundbreaking occurred in late September 2019, with completion expected in October 2021.

Pratt Industries announced in 2017 a new containerboard mill in Wapakoneta, Ohio, which is slated to open in October 2019. The mill is expected to consume about 400,000 tons of recovered fiber annually once fully operational.

North Coast Brewing Company selected Sacramento-based Capital Corrugated and Carton as its new sustainable packaging provider for its 4-pack and 6-pack cartons. The announcement was made on 8 October 2019.

Private investment firm Graham Partners acquired VPET Plastics, a PET packaging producer headquartered in Fontana, California, announced to customers on October 2, 2019.

Winpak Ltd. signed a definitive agreement to acquire the net assets and building of Control Group in Norwood, New Jersey, for US$42.2 million, funded from cash on hand.

Novolex, a Carlyle portfolio company, acquired Zenith Specialty Bag, a specialty paper food packaging producer headquartered in City of Industry, California, effective October 1, 2019.