Georgia-Pacific Corrugated acquired Ohio-based PAX Corrugated Products, which operates a corrugated sheet plant with more than 100 employees in Lebanon, Ohio. Terms were not disclosed.

Spanish-owned Daumar is constructing a 113,000 sq ft production plant and 27,000 sq ft office building in Huntersville, North Carolina, a project first announced in August 2017 with a $21 million first phase and 40 planned jobs.

SiO2 Medical Products agreed with Sanaria to develop, manufacture and supply cryogenic vials for Sanaria's PfSPZ malaria vaccine. The agreement was announced on 1 August 2017 from Auburn, Alabama.

Sterling Packaging is investing $6 million in a new 60,000 sq ft building at Monroeville Industrial Park in Alabama, creating up to 55 jobs. The investment is backed by state, county and city incentives totaling $3.2 million.

Rand-Whitney Container cut the ribbon on a 65,000 sq ft expansion at its Pawtucket, Rhode Island facility on July 27, 2017. The addition, designed and built by PROCON, adds space to store surplus packaging materials.

ORBIS Corporation plans to expand its Bardstown, Kentucky facility to increase production and warehouse space, including new equipment. The total investment is $30 million, with 55 jobs to be hired.

Carolina Container, a subsidiary of New-Indy Containerboard, acquired Dixie Reel & Box Company, a corrugated packaging manufacturer based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Terms were not disclosed.

La Colombe Coffee Roasters and Crown Beverage Packaging North America agreed to collaborate on The MiniVault, a single-use recyclable can for coffee, to be sold in select US retail locations.

Rengo's subsidiary Triwall Corporation established a joint venture company, TW Michigan Corporation, in Michigan, USA, to manufacture and sell heavy-duty packaging materials. The announcement was made on 14 July 2017.

WestRock completed the acquisition of five corrugated cardboard plants in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Louisiana from U.S. Corrugated for $192 million in cash and common shares. WestRock also secured about 50 thousand tons of supply through a long-term contract.

Revere Packaging Holdings purchased custom tray and container maker Plastic Package for an undisclosed sum. The combined company will be headquartered in Shelbyville, Kentucky.

Lollicup USA has signed a land development deal to build a 700,000 sq ft plant in Rockwall, Texas, making paper and plastic cups and food containers. About 200 jobs are expected and completion is scheduled for October 2018.

Henkel completed its acquisition of the global Darex Packaging Technologies business, based in Massachusetts, for $1.05bn on a cash and debt-free basis. Darex makes sealants, coatings and cans for the metal packaging industry.

Minnesota-based Cortec introduced CorrTainer corrosion protection boxes with vapour phase corrosion inhibitors in the cardboard walls, produced on a newly installed box-making machine.

UK-listed DS Smith signed a conditional agreement to acquire 80% of US corrugated packaging business Interstate Resources from Merpas for $920 million, assuming about $226 million of debt.

Plastipak Packaging announced a $15 million capital investment to add up to seven production lines at its Pineville, Louisiana facility, creating 10 direct jobs and retaining 263 existing jobs.

Sonoco agreed to buy 100 percent of Clear Lam Packaging, a family-held maker of high barrier flexible and forming plastic films, for about $170 million in cash. Clear Lam operates in Elk Grove Village, Illinois and Nanjing, China, and closing is expected in Q3 2017.

Maxco Supply Inc. is planning to expand its operations from its Parlier base to a box factory in nearby Fowler, California.

Golden West Packaging Group bought four independent packaging companies in Northern California, Heritage Solutions, Capital Corrugated, PackageOne and Packaging Innovators Corporation, plus their co-owned sheet feeder Cal Sheets, for an undisclosed value.

The MATLET Group will close its 150,000 sq ft Central Florida Press manufacturing operation in Orlando, Florida by the end of summer 2017, affecting about 145 workers, and move the work to its Packaging Graphics facility in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

Mauser USA, part of Mauser Group, will invest $10 million in a 40,000 sq ft plastic container packaging and logistics facility in Geismar, Ascension Parish, creating 28 initial direct jobs.

Package Concepts and Materials is adding a 30,000-square-foot, $3 million expansion to its meat and poultry processing plant in Greenville, South Carolina, to enhance production.

Green Bay Packaging has broken ground on a 107,000-square-foot expansion in Pavilion Township, Kalamazoo County, investing $10.8 million to add a corrugating line and three jobs.

Cascades Inc. announced an US$80 million investment for a new 400,000 sq. ft. containerboard packaging plant in Piscataway, New Jersey, creating 120 jobs. Operations are expected to begin in Q2 2018.

WestRock completed its acquisition of US-based Multi Packaging Solutions International (MPS) for $2.28bn, after receiving all regulatory approvals. WestRock paid $18 per share in cash and assumed about $873m in net debt.

Pratt Industries completed its 388,000 sq ft corrugated packaging plant in the Rockwall Technology Park, Texas, in June 2017 after breaking ground in October 2016, with an initial $50 million investment in recycled packaging production.

Champion Container acquired Jachts Columbia Can, a Paterson, New Jersey distributor of packaging containers founded in 1987. The deal was completed in June 2017.

WestRock agreed to acquire five corrugated converting facilities in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Louisiana from U.S. Corrugated Holdings for about $192 million in cash and stock. The deal is expected to close in June 2017.

Thielmann, a stainless steel beverage container manufacturer, opened its U.S. keg facility in Houston, Texas on May 23, 2017. The site aims to offer kegs with shorter lead times to North American customers.

Fullmer built a 296,000 sq ft concrete tilt-up warehouse for bottle maker Plastipak Packaging in Victorville, California, within the Southern California Logistics Centre. The plant blow-molds bottles for an adjacent Dr Pepper bottling facility and is Gold LEED certified.

International Paper invested more than $90 million to increase energy efficiency at its Pensacola, Florida mill, retaining 424 employees and adding 12. A further $20 million went to environmental controls and $68 million to a water quality project.

TNI Packaging, LLC, a food-industry packaging supplies manufacturer in West Chicago, was purchased by Visko/TeePak, a global casings maker; terms were not disclosed. Production continues at the West Chicago site and in Malaysia.

Anheuser-Busch and its Metal Container Corporation unit held a ribbon cutting for a new aluminum bottle line at the Jacksonville plant. The $175 million expansion created 75 new jobs.

Anheuser-Busch InBev announced a capital expenditure program of close to $500 million in 2017 and $2 billion through 2020 for its U.S. brewing operations. Projects include brewery and distribution upgrades, packaging and sustainability improvements, and new distribution facilities in Los Angeles and Columbus.

California-based packaging designer and manufacturer Maxco Supply selected Infor M3 ERP and Infor HCM, WFM and XM to replace an aging Oracle system. The selection followed a search of more than a year that evaluated a dozen vendors.

Sigma Plastics Group acquired BJK Flexible Packaging, adding 45 million pounds of blown film capacity and serving food packaging and other end markets in Kentucky.

Proactive Packaging and Display LLC, a portfolio company of CK Pearl Fund, was sold to New-Indy Containerboard LLC, a joint venture of Schwarz Partners and Kraft Group.

New-Indy JV Corp., a joint venture of Kraft Group and Schwarz Partners, agreed to acquire Carolina Container Company, a longtime leader in corrugated packaging based in High Point, North Carolina.

LINDAL Group acquired 15 acres in Columbus, Indiana, to build a new 100,000-square-foot aerosol packaging production facility with a $20 million U.S. investment.

Graphic Packaging and DHL Supply Chain will make a combined $274 million investment in Northeast Louisiana, building a 1.27 million-sq-ft folding carton plant and logistics center in Monroe and creating 93 direct jobs. Graphic Packaging will also invest $120 million in its West Monroe mill.

Amcor is spending almost $10 million to open a new on-site bottling plant at Campbell's Soup's factory in Paris, Texas, to make about 50 million hot-fillable PET bottles a year for V8 juices. The announcement was reported on 1 May 2017.

SC Johnson has broken ground on a multi-million dollar expansion of its Bay City plant in Bangor Township, Michigan, adding a roughly 50,000 square foot building with new production lines. The project is expected to create 25 full-time jobs within two years.

Graphic Packaging International and DHL Supply Chain announced a combined $274 million investment to develop a 1.27 million-square-foot folding carton plant and logistics center in Monroe, Louisiana, creating 93 direct jobs.

Aphena Pharma Solutions will expand its Browns Mill Road facility in Cookeville, Tennessee, with a $7 million capital investment that will create 150 new jobs over five years.

Amcor Rigid Plastics opened an in-line bottle manufacturing operation at Campbell Soup's plant in Paris, Texas, investing $7 million to repurpose 6,000 sq ft. It is expected to produce about 50 million hot-fill PET bottles a year for V8 products.

Amcor Rigid Plastics has invested $7 million to open a PET bottle manufacturing plant in Paris, Texas, for Campbell Soup Co. The plant is expected to produce about 50 million hot-fillable PET bottles a year for V8 products.

Amcor Rigid Plastics opened an in-line operation at Campbell Soup's Paris, Texas plant to produce about 50 million hot-fill PET bottles a year for V8 products. Amcor invested $7 million to repurpose 6,000 sq ft of the facility.

Grupo Phoenix will invest $48.7 million to expand its Phoenix Packaging Operations plant in Dublin, Pulaski County, Virginia, creating 145 new jobs. It is the company's third expansion there.

Loews Corporation has agreed to acquire Consolidated Container Company, a rigid plastic packaging manufacturer, from Bain Capital Private Equity for approximately $1.2 billion, with closing expected in the second quarter of 2017.

ProAmpac has acquired Trinity Packaging, which operates manufacturing sites in Rocky Mount, Virginia and Buffalo, New York, with headquarters in Armonk, New York.