SKS Bottle & Packaging plans to move to a 22-acre site off Geyser Road in Saratoga Springs, New York, with a 128,000-square-foot headquarters, warehouse and distribution center, with a long-term goal of 250,000 square feet.

Sonoco will invest $20 million in a new packaging center in a leased Atlanta-area facility to support Duracell's North American battery packaging operation. Full production is expected in the fourth quarter of 2018 under a five-year contract.

Amcor Rigid Plastics purchased a Sacmi CBF20 20-cavity compression blow forming machine for making HDPE pharmaceutical bottles at its Youngsville, North Carolina plant, announced in late 2016.

Welch Packaging is expanding its Elkhart, Indiana plant with a $16 million plant and machinery investment, including a new corrugator and pre-engineered steel buildings built by J.A. Wagner. The company expects to add more than 100 jobs over two years.

AEA Investors LP has acquired TricorBraun Holdings, Inc., a North American distributor of glass and plastic rigid packaging, from CHS Capital. The deal value was not disclosed.

Packaging Corporation of America completed its cash-free, debt-free acquisition of Columbus Container, Inc., an independent corrugated products producer, for $100 million funded from cash on hand.

The Carlyle Group agreed to buy Hartsville, South Carolina-based packaging company Novolex from Wind Point Partners and TPG Growth. No financial terms were disclosed and closing is expected before year end.

Wellspring Capital Management has sold its 100% stake in flexible packaging company ProAmpac to Pritzker Group Private Capital. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Amcor Rigid Plastics will invest $45 million to add 186,000 square feet of production and warehousing space at its Bellevue, Ohio plant, with incentives structured by Silverlode. Additional employees will be hired.

Hood Container of Louisiana plans a two-phase capital investment at its St. Francisville paper mill, adding a modern press section on the H1 paper machine and a recycling plant for old corrugated containers. The project is expected to create up to 237 jobs in West Feliciana Parish.

Sheboygan Paper Box Co. has proposed an $8.3 million, 28,000-square-foot expansion of its Sheboygan plant to add printing equipment and meet growing food packaging demand. The company expects about 30 new jobs.

Hood Container of Louisiana will invest in two phases at its St. Francisville paper mill, adding a press section on the H1 paper machine and a recycling plant for old corrugated containers. The project creates 10 direct jobs and retains 237 jobs.

Burrows Paper Corp. agreed to sell its packaging division to Novolex of Charlotte, North Carolina, in a deal expected to close later in 2016. Terms were not disclosed.

IPL Inc. acquired Encore Industries Inc., a producer of rigid plastic packaging with three US facilities in Ohio, Georgia and Minnesota, for US$35 million. The deal was made with parent One51 and partners Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and Fonds de solidarité FTQ.

Sonoco has acquired Plastic Packaging Inc., a privately held Hickory, North Carolina flexible packaging maker with about $42 million in expected 2016 sales and roughly 170 employees. The deal adds short-run flexible packaging capabilities in the southeast US.

Berlin Packaging opened a new integrated warehouse and assembly facility of nearly 300,000 square feet at 2300 Sweeney Drive in Clinton, Pennsylvania, tripling its Pittsburgh operations. Qorpak is already operating from the site, and Dangerous Goods is expected to move in by mid-2017.

Dominion Packaging will invest $25.1 million to expand its operation in Henrico County, Virginia, to support a new contract with Anheuser-Busch, creating 60 new jobs. Virginia competed against Pennsylvania for the project, and the announcement was made by Governor McAuliffe.

American Packaging will build a new $170 million flexible packaging plant on Beaver Road in Chili, New York, instead of Altoona, Iowa. The state will invest up to $14.7 million and groundbreaking is planned for early next year.

CVC Capital Partners announced that funds it advises have agreed to acquire Anchor Glass Container Corporation, a Tampa-based US glass container producer, in partnership with BA Glass.

A joint venture of CVC Capital Partners and BA Glass agreed in November 2016 to acquire Tampa, Florida-based glass container maker Anchor Glass Container from KPS Capital Partners and AlpInvest Partners for more than US$1 billion in cash.

Amcor Rigid Plastics completed its acquisition of Sonoco's Global Plastics blow molding business in North America, adding seven plants in the U.S. and Canada and about 850 employees. Terms were not disclosed.

WestRock announced in October 2016 a $48 million expansion of its Sioux City, Iowa corrugated box operations, consolidating two plants into an 82,000 square foot addition at the Bridgeport Drive plant with new automated equipment.

Ball Corporation's 92,440 sq ft addition to its Canton, Ohio food and household packaging plant, housing a new can printing line, was built by Campbell Construction and completed in August 2016 for $32 million.

TC Transcontinental acquired Robbie Manufacturing, a flexible packaging supplier in Lenexa, Kansas with over 175 employees, announced on June 30, 2016. Deal value was not disclosed.

Rondo-Pak opened a new plant in Camden, N.J., combining its North American headquarters with Contemporary Graphics' assets. The facility has been operating since summer 2016.

Anheuser-Busch broke ground in March 2016 on a $175 million expansion of its Metal Container Corporation plant in Jacksonville, Florida, to make 16 oz aluminum bottles, with Haskell and Benham building it and 75 new jobs promised.

Rondo-Pak invested $30 million in its business in 2016, according to the article. The investment accompanied its joint venture and new Camden plant.

Rondo-Pak, part of Körber's Medipak Systems network, merged its North American operations with Contemporary Graphics Solutions in a joint venture that took effect on 1 January 2016. The combined business makes pharmaceutical folding cartons and marketing printing.