Graphic Packaging International is expanding its Kalamazoo, Michigan site on a brownfield plot, with an anticipated $600 million investment and construction starting in Q4 2019, supported by $21M in tax breaks.

SMC Packaging Group is expanding its Partnership Industrial Center plant in Springfield, Missouri, as part of a multiphase project. Phase II, with an estimated cost of $13.5 million, adds rail siding and manufacturing and storage space, with completion estimated for February 2020.

Envases USA, a subsidiary of Mexico's Envases Universales Group, acquired Merrimack Valley Plastics of Methuen, Massachusetts, a PET bottle manufacturer. The former owners will remain with the company in their current roles.

Crown Cork & Seal USA will relocate a food-grade metal can manufacturing line from Ontario, Canada to its Hanover Borough plant in York County, Pennsylvania, investing $24.6 million and creating 41 new jobs.

PLZ Aeroscience Corporation, backed by Pritzker Private Capital, acquired Fall River, Massachusetts-based Precise Packaging, a maker of aerosol and liquid products, from Trive Capital. No financial terms were disclosed.

Henkel announced a partnership with ALPLA to invest over $130 million in enhancing laundry detergent production at its Bowling Green, Kentucky facility, including a new bottle production area that will bring ALPLA 60 jobs.

Henkel announced a partnership with ALPLA to invest over $130 million enhancing laundry detergent production at its Bowling Green, Kentucky facility, including a new bottle production area. ALPLA will hire 60 employees once construction is complete.

Arglass Yamamura will invest $123 million to build its first U.S. glass container manufacturing plant in Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, creating more than 150 jobs.

Genera awarded the engineering, procurement and construction contract for its first manufacturing facility in Vonore, Tennessee to WG Yates & Sons Construction. The project is backed by a $118 million investment for silver-based food-grade packaging fibre products.

Dunes Point Capital made a controlling investment in Vanguard Packaging, Advanced Logistics & Fulfillment and Great Plains Packaging, makers of corrugated displays and industrial packaging based in Kansas City, Missouri. Vanguard employs about 200 people.

The US Defense Logistics Agency awarded Global Direct Marketing dba Paramount Packaging a contract for collapsible reusable bulk packing systems, with a two-year estimate of about $3.43 million. Place of performance is the Defense Distribution Supply Center Susquehanna in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania.

Graphic Packaging's board approved a $600 million investment in a new coated recycled board machine with about 500,000 tons annual capacity, to be built in Ohio or Michigan subject to permitting and incentives. The company expects $100 million incremental annualized EBITDA upon full ramp-up in 2022.

Puyallup-based SeaTac Packaging will finance a new 102,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in the Frederickson Industrial Area with a $10 million Industrial Development Revenue Bond, creating 50 permanent jobs.

Iron Heart Canning purchased its 50th canning line from Wild Goose Filling Systems to expand its mobile beverage canning services. Iron Heart operates from 23 warehouses serving 22 US states.

Rand-Whitney Container LLC acquired Specialty Finance & Consulting Corporation (SF&C) of Red Lion, Pennsylvania, a corrugated sheet and packaging manufacturer, including its Specialty Industries, NuPak Printing and Krafcor Industries units. The deal expands Rand-Whitney into the Mid-Atlantic region.

Plastipak Packaging signed a 96-month lease expansion of 233,770 square feet at Southern California Logistics Airport, bringing its total occupied space there to 530,230 square feet. The space supports a new bottled water business.

Standard-Knapp shareholders agreed to sell the Portland, Connecticut packaging machinery maker to EoL Packaging Experts, which includes Germany's A+F Automation. The merger creates an end-of-line packaging leader in America and Europe.

Pretium Packaging invested $2 million in new reheat stretch PET blow molding equipment and infrastructure at its Troy, Alabama plant. The lines can make cold- and hot-fill containers from 6 ounces to 2 liters.

Mexican paper maker Biopappel, through its US subsidiary McKinley Paper Company, acquired 55 percent of US Corrugated Inc and subsidiaries. The amount was not disclosed, and the deal doubles Biopappel's US operations.

Formosa Flexible Packaging America, a Hotai company, obtained a new manufacturing facility in San Fernando Valley, California, on July 1, 2019, its first manufacturing subsidiary in the United States.

Atlantic Packaging is investing $4.5 million to expand its existing Dorchester County operations with a 100,000-square-foot distribution and warehousing addition, creating 10 new jobs, with completion projected by fall 2019.

Japanese packaging maker Takigawa opened its nearly $46 million, 180-job flexible packaging and high-performance films plant in Bardstown, Kentucky, its first US facility, with a 180,000-square-foot operation.

Anchor Packaging of St. Louis, Missouri, announced a partnership with private equity firm The Jordan Co. that makes The Jordan Co. an investor in the company to fund growth in consumer package solutions.

Anchor Packaging, a St. Louis maker of specialty food packaging, announced a partnership with private equity firm The Jordan Company to accelerate growth, with the transaction expected to close in July 2019.

Genstar-backed Tekni-Plex acquired three manufacturing facilities from Amcor's flexible packaging business in Madison and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Ashland, Massachusetts. No financial terms were disclosed.

Zume Inc. purchased Pivot Packaging, a maker of plant-based alternatives to plastic packaging, and plans to open new production in California. The deal was reported on 14 June 2019.

GOEX Corporation will open a new plastic sheet extrusion facility in Iron County, Utah, creating up to 100 jobs and about US$15 million in capital investment over seven years.

Buckeye Corrugated Inc., a maker of corrugated packaging, will lease a vacant 197,000 sq ft building on Carrier Corp.'s DeWitt campus and spend $1.4 million to build out and furnish it, creating 11 jobs.

EFP Corporation will lease a 100,000-square-foot building in Evansville's Vanderburgh Industrial Park and invest in production equipment for expanded foam protective packaging, creating up to 29 jobs by 2021. The facility is planned to be operational by November 2019.

Simmons Pet Food opened its expanded flexible packaging facility in Emporia, Kansas, in June 2019. The $60 million project added a 200,000 sq ft production line and created 100 new jobs.

LBP Manufacturing, LLC acquired Yeadon-based Union Packaging, a folding carton producer for quick service restaurant brands, from founder Michael Pearson. Financial terms were not disclosed.

New-Indy JV Corp., a joint venture of the Kraft Group and Schwarz Partners, agreed to acquire Carolina Container Company, a corrugated packaging maker headquartered in High Point, North Carolina, including its CaroCon Display and Packaging division. The expected closing date was the end of January 2015.

The US Justice Department filed a complaint and proposed final judgment requiring Amcor to divest medical flexible packaging assets, including facilities in Ashland, Massachusetts and Madison and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as a condition of its proposed acquisition of Bemis.

Sonoco signed an agreement to acquire Corenso Holdings America from Madison Dearborn Partners for about $110 million in cash. Corenso operates two Wisconsin Rapids facilities making paperboard cores and recycled board, and the deal is expected to close later in 2019.

Opus Packaging Group plans a 170,000 sq ft corrugated packaging manufacturing facility in Park 130, Whitestown, Indiana, investing nearly $3 million and creating up to 43 jobs by end-2022. Construction was underway in May 2019 with completion expected by July 2019.

Novolex and Pactiv Evergreen have signed a definitive agreement to combine into a leading food, beverage and specialty packaging manufacturer. Pactiv Evergreen shareholders will receive $18.00 per share in cash.

Welch Packaging, a Midwest family-owned packaging business, has acquired Heritage Packaging, a corrugated packaging supplier in Lincoln, Illinois. Terms were not disclosed and the deal extends Welch's service area into central Illinois.

Amcor and Berry Global filed the definitive joint proxy statement for their all-stock transaction with the SEC, with shareholder meetings set for 25 February 2025.

Spicers Paper, a division of Central National Gottesman, acquired Premiere Packaging Industries, a packaging supply distributor based in Cerritos, California. PPI will keep operating under its own name.

Private equity sponsor Altamont Capital Partners invested in Key Container Corporation, a Pawtucket, Rhode Island corrugated packaging producer, with Monroe Capital as administrative agent on a senior credit facility, announced April 1, 2026.

Packaging Corporation of America agreed to purchase Greif's containerboard business for $1.8 billion in cash, including two US mills with about 800,000 tons of capacity and eight corrugated plants, with closing expected by the end of PCA's third quarter.

New-Indy Containerboard, a joint venture of Schwarz Partners and Kraft Group, acquired Proactive Packaging and Display, a corrugated display packaging maker in Ontario, California, on 9 May 2019. Mesirow Financial advised the seller and no financial terms were disclosed.

Ian and Cheryl Bernstein bought Trenton Corrugated Products, a corrugated box maker in Trenton, New Jersey, from its founders. A $2.5 million M&T Bank loan with NJEDA participation financed the purchase of the 160,000-square-foot building, and the company expects to hire 10 employees.

Pregis is investing $6 million in its Grand Rapids, Michigan facility to add a third multilayer Windmoeller & Hoelscher blown film line to meet growing demand. It follows a $23 million investment in the first two lines and related equipment made between 2016 and 2018.

Schoeneck Containers has secured occupancy permits and is moving into its new 220,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Delavan, Wisconsin, on land bought from the city. The facility is expected to create 40 jobs, with 20 more within three years.

New-Indy JV Corp. acquired Proactive Packaging and Display, a corrugated packaging and display producer in Ontario, California, closing the deal on May 1, 2019. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Berkley International broke ground in May 2019 on an 80,472 sq ft manufacturing and distribution facility in Sparks, Nevada, relocating operations from California. The project includes $5.9 million for land and $1.6 million for equipment, and will employ 28 people.

Sealed Air signed a definitive agreement to acquire US-based automated bagging systems maker Automated Packaging Systems for a total consideration of $510 million on a cash and debt-free basis. The deal is subject to regulatory approval.

Cascades Sonoco inaugurated its expanded Birmingham, Alabama facility and a new production line for water-based coated paperboard. The US$17 million investment has capacity of 50,000 tonnes per year.

Bison Bag is adding to an existing building in Lockport, NY, bringing the total plant size to approximately 140,000 sq ft when finished in 2020. The expansion is part of a larger plan that includes new packaging machinery.