Tosca will ship Wegmans Food Markets' case-ready meat in reusable plastic containers (RPCs), replacing corrugated packaging. The change is intended to meet Wegmans' sustainability goals.

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.

Petoskey Plastics closed on $20 million in New Markets Tax Credits to finance a new rail-served recycling and manufacturing facility in McKinney, Texas, creating 154 jobs. The announcement was made on February 11, 2020.

Berry Global signed a deal to take in bales of recovered PE film, including LLDPE stretch wrap, from Georgia-Pacific Recycling at its Victoria, Texas plant. Berry is installing an extrusion line and repelletizing equipment, with processing expected to start in Q2 2020.

Nypro, a Jabil company, announced plans to invest $18.5 million in its Asheville, North Carolina operations, adding 68 positions to its 325-person workforce. The expansion covers facilities, new technology and equipment for precision plastic healthcare products.

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.

INEOS Styrolution and Agilyx are advancing development of a polystyrene chemical recycling facility in Channahon, Illinois, capable of processing up to 100 tons per day of post-consumer polystyrene. The next phase covers engineering and design.

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.

L'Occitane extended its partnership with Loop Industries, which will supply 100% of the PET resin for its bottles from a joint facility with Indorama Ventures in South Carolina, letting L'Occitane reach its 100% recycled bottle goal ahead of 2025.

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.

United Soft Plastics has opened a new 4,500-tonne thermoplastic elastomer compounding facility in Houston, Texas, complementing its Lawrenceville, Georgia plant. The site is expected to create up to 25 production jobs.

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.

SELIT North America opened its second US production site in Commerce, Georgia, in November 2019, with two polystyrene extrusion lines and an on-site foam recycling department. Two more extrusion lines are planned for the end of 2021.

ID Plastics LP announced it will invest $9.8 million to open its first U.S. manufacturing operation in Auburn, Alabama, creating 50 jobs over three years. The plant will initially produce the ID PACK collapsible returnable transport container sleeve.

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

Venture Plastics was awarded a contract to mold the plastic trunk finisher that protects the latch mechanism of the 2019 Nissan Altima. The contract drove the company's expansion in Newton Falls, Ohio.

Mid South Extrusion will invest $4.5 million to add a 10th production line at its Monroe, Louisiana plant, which makes polyethylene packaging films. The project will create eight new jobs and retain 128 existing jobs.

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.

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.

ExxonMobil started production on a new high-performance polyethylene line at its Beaumont, Texas plant, increasing site capacity by 650,000 tons per year to nearly 1.7 million tons per year. The announcement is dated July 24, 2019.

Arsenal Capital Partners of New York agreed to buy the controlling interest in Little Rock-based Revolution, a plastics bag and recycling maker with over 800 employees and plants in Arkansas, California and Texas. The price was not disclosed. Arsenal plans to fund new collection, washing and recycling plants.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Andronaco Industries acquired Diamond Companies, comprising Diamond Fiberglass, a fluid management vessel and tank maker, and Diamond Services, an industrial services business. The business will be rebranded Diamond Fiberglass Systems and Services.

Consolidated Container Company has acquired the assets of Sonic Plastics Enterprises, a packaging producer for nutraceutical, health and beauty markets in the mountain west region of the United States.

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.

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.

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.

Amcor entered a binding agreement to sell its Milwaukee, Ashland and part of Madison plants to Tekni-Plex for $215 million cash as part of remedies for its Bemis transaction, with completion expected on 15 May 2019.

Amcor agreed a binding deal to sell its Milwaukee, Ashland and part of Madison plants to Tekni-Plex for $215 million cash to resolve US DOJ concerns over its Bemis merger.

Kuraray is investing approximately $15 million to install plant-based high barrier resin production in Houston, Texas, with the plant scheduled to be completed in September 2019 and operating in early 2020.

Genstar-backed Pretium Packaging acquired Olcott Plastics of St. Charles, Illinois, a maker of injection-molded beauty and healthcare packaging. It is Pretium's sixth add-on acquisition since Genstar's 2014 investment.

Alpla Inc. held a groundbreaking for a new $6.9 million facility in the Kentucky Transpark in Bowling Green, adding 60,000 square feet of warehouse space. The groundbreaking was celebrated on April 10, 2019.

ALPLA, Inc. broke ground in April 2019 on an expansion in the Kentucky Transpark, a $6.9 million capital investment that includes 60,000 square feet of additional warehouse space.

Greer, S.C.-based Huntington Foam LLC will acquire the assets of Radford, Va.-based Radva Corp, a supplier of expanded polystyrene and polypropylene protective packaging and an EPS recycler.

Orwigsburg manufacturer Clearly Clean Products bought the former City Shirt Co. plant in Frackville's industrial park to make recyclable food trays. It will open with 25 employees and plans to grow to 125.

Kuraray America is investing approximately US$15 million to install plant-based high barrier resin production in Houston, Texas, supporting Sealed Air's Plantic packaging work.

Kuraray is investing approximately $15 million to install plant-based high barrier resin production in Houston, Texas, supporting its partnership with Sealed Air. The resin plant is scheduled for completion in September 2019 and operation in early 2020.

Sealed Air is investing about $24 million to add production of plant-based food packaging using Plantic resin at its Simpsonville, S.C. facility, with production scheduled to start in Q2 2020.

C-P Flexible Packaging, a portfolio company of First Atlantic Capital, acquired Buffalo, New York-based custom plastic manufacturing and printing firm Flexo Transparent from ORIX Mezzanine and Sidereal Capital Group. No financial terms were disclosed.

Smurfit Kappa is expanding Bag-in-Box packaging capacity with a new 100,000 sq ft plant in Texas, USA, acquired recently, to be equipped with modern dosing technology and employ 70 people at full capacity.

Andronaco Industries is relocating its subsidiary Conley Composites from Tulsa, Oklahoma to a building at 4544 Broadmoor Ave. in Kentwood, Michigan, investing $3.3 million and creating 64 jobs. The Michigan Economic Development Corporation is supporting the project with a $320,000 grant.

The US Federal Trade Commission approved, with conditions, the $1.1 billion bankruptcy sale of M&G USA's unfinished plastic resin factory in Corpus Christi, Texas, to Corpus Christi Polymers LLC.

Austin Foam Plastics, a Sealed Air subsidiary, plans a 60,000-square-foot expansion of its Pflugerville, Texas facility with a $4.7 million investment and 22 new jobs. The deal was approved by the local development corporation pending city council approval.