CorrBoard has invested £60,000 to upgrade its manufacturing facility in Scunthorpe, UK, reconfiguring the traffic layout to improve site safety and painting.

DS Smith set out about EUR 480 million of annualised savings, mostly at run-rate by end-2027, ahead of its separation from International Paper as DS Smith plc, with London admission targeted for early to mid December 2026.

Smurfit Westrock is investing about R$120 million to modernize its corrugated packaging site in Blumenau, Brazil, with new machinery, automated lines and a larger dispatch warehouse, from 2025 through 2027.

Zempack, a JBS subsidiary and one of Brazil's largest metal packaging manufacturers, has invested over R$350 million since 2015 in modernizing its plants in Lins and Guaiçara, São Paulo, focusing on automation and efficiency. The company has doubled production in ten years and now has capacity for over 1 billion units per year.

Allied Pinnacle has invested AUD 10 million across its Sydney manufacturing operations to increase capacity, improve production speed and deploy automation. The announcement is dated 22 October 2026.

Visy has invested AUD 30 million in a new 2.8-metre-wide corrugator at its Smithfield board factory in Western Sydney, increasing board output by 33 per cent. The announcement is dated 21 October 2026.

Cube Packaging Solutions is investing $30 million to expand U.S. manufacturing capacity at its St. Charles, Illinois facility. The investment was announced on October 13, 2026.

UK Steel Enterprises (UKSE), a Tata Steel subsidiary, made an equity investment in contract canner Cardiff Canning, which then added a second production line.

O-I Glass is modernizing its Muskogee, Oklahoma production facility with a multi-million dollar, multi-phase capital investment covering glass-melting furnaces, production equipment and control systems, supported by a $2 million state incentive award.

SIG's board approved a further EUR 50 million for a local extrusion line in India, expected to be operational by 2027.

Paranova Print and Packaging plans to invest £20m over five years to expand its fibre-based packaging operations, including a £6m facility and £14m on equipment and automated logistics.

Smurfit Westrock plans to invest R$128 million to expand its industrial unit in Uberaba, Minas Gerais, creating 12 direct and 50 indirect jobs. The project is at an early study stage and was approved by the municipal economic development council.

Smurfit Westrock says it has put R$1 billion into Brazil in recent years to expand production capacity, modernize industrial units, and add automation, AI and innovation. All output from its Brazilian operations currently serves the domestic market.

PALM converts its paper mill in King's Lynn, UK, from newsprint to corrugated case material after the paper machine PM 7 was affected by the decline in newsprint demand.

Sonoco is upgrading the wastewater treatment system at its large metal packaging plant in Milwaukee, adding biogas capture and combustion, with operation expected at the end of Q3; no amount was disclosed.

Investor Kartesia has announced a renewed investment in Van De Velde Packaging Group of Wetteren, Belgium, to support its long-term growth. The deal value was not disclosed and completion is subject to regulatory approvals; the announcement is dated 19 June 2026.

Nampak Zimbabwe invested US$1.3 million in expansion and replacement projects at its Megapak and CarnaudMetalbox factories to boost production capacity and efficiency, as disclosed with half-year results to March 31, 2026.

Smurfit Westrock will invest around €600 million in its French sites over the next three to five years to modernise and decarbonise plants, including a €40M expansion at Épernay and over €100M for the Facture paper mill.

Smurfit Westrock announced it intends to invest nearly €600 million in its French activities over three to five years. The plan includes a €40 million expansion of its Épernay site and €20 million for its corrugated plant in the Ardennes.

Smurfit Westrock announced plans to invest about €600 million across its French operations over three to five years to modernise, decarbonise and expand plants. Projects include a €40 million expansion at Épernay and €20 million at Vernon, plus over €100 million at its Facture paper mill.

Smurfit Westrock announced a EUR 600 million investment programme over the next three to five years to modernise its industrial sites and decarbonise its activities in France.

DS Smith, part of International Paper, will invest over €14 million in its Timișoara and Ghimbav packaging plants in Romania, including about €10.5 million in Timișoara by Q1 2027 for automation and a new converting line.

Rural Development Partners allocated $20 million in New Markets Tax Credit financing to start-up PackEx USA to redevelop a 256,000 sq ft former bottling plant in Marianna, Florida. Phase 1 will support two production lines and about 300 jobs.

Virginia Artesian Bottling has installed a Polypack WR-I wraparound case packer at its Hanover, Virginia plant to handle multiple bottle formats and shift private-label packaging from shrink wrap to recycled corrugated cases.

Cascades invested $6.9 million in its Kingsey Falls, Quebec uncoated recycled boxboard plant to raise production capacity and quality, installing new quality control equipment.

DS Smith is investing up to DKK 100 million (about EUR 13.4 million) to upgrade its corrugated packaging facility in Grenaa, Denmark, adding a Göpfert rotary die-cutting line with flexographic printing. The company expects capacity to rise by up to 15 million square metres of corrugated board per year.

Spanish corrugated packaging producer Grupo La Plana announced a €14 million investment in an automated high-rack storage facility at its primary manufacturing site to improve logistics and production capacity.

Italian can-end maker Easytech Packaging, headquartered in Fisciano, invested in four high-speed rotary liners capable of 1,200 lids per minute to enter the pet food packaging market. Henkel supplied its food-grade sealant for the can end production.

Label and packaging printer Brook + Whittle has added an HP Indigo V12 digital press, completing its fleet of 11 HP Indigo presses to speed short-run and label production.

Massilly North America will invest CAD 85 million in a new Brantford, Ontario facility making three-piece metal cans for food packaging, with coil cutting, creating 50 jobs. The Ontario government is providing CAD 5 million through the Ontario Together Trade Fund.

Massilly North America will invest C$85 million to establish a new metal can manufacturing facility in Brantford, Ontario, with new production lines, creating 50 new jobs and sustaining 228 existing jobs. The Ontario government is providing C$5 million in funding.

ePac Flexible Packaging is investing in upgrades at its facilities in Austria, France, Poland and the United Kingdom, including digital printing presses and pouch converting equipment, announced in January 2026.

Smurfit Westrock plans to invest more than R$800 million in its Brazilian mills to expand production of recyclable paper packaging and modernize its plants. The CEO of its Brazil unit, Manuel Alcalá, described the country as strategic.

Graz packaging specialist GPI Graz is investing millions of euros in new production equipment and expanded manufacturing capacity in Graz, Austria. No specific amount was disclosed in the article.

Lee Li Holdings is investing $533 million in renovating and expanding its existing Mississauga, Ontario bottling plant and building a new 85,000 sq ft facility, expected to create 275 jobs with $90 million in provincial funding.

Honeycomb paperboard pallet maker Pallite Group secured a £1.6 million export finance facility from KBC Bank, backed by UK Export Finance. The working capital will support growth in overseas markets.

Harrison Packaging commissioned a custom Koenig & Bauer Duran folder gluer at its Stockton on Tees site, able to handle both solid carton board and micro flute board. The investment brought a UK automotive packaging contract back from mainland Europe.

Growth Investment Partners (GIP) Zambia announced a US$5 million seven-year royalty funding investment in Boxpack Zambia, a corrugated carton maker, to buy a new production line and triple monthly output from 600 to 1,800 tonnes.

Growth Investment Partners Zambia made its first major investment, a USD 5 million seven-year royalty funding to Boxpack Zambia Limited in Lusaka. The funding will let the family-owned carton maker acquire a new production line and raise monthly output from 600 to 1,800 tonnes.

ORG Packaging is investing CNY1.1 billion (about USD150 million) in two new canmaking facilities in Thailand and Kazakhstan. The report is dated 5 August 2025.

TRICOR Packaging & Logistics AG commissioned a factory-integrated BHS Corrucleaner HE-90 dust removal system on its newest 2.8-metre corrugator in Goch, Germany. The article is dated 30 July 2025 and the commissioning took place the previous week.

Panther Group's RRK Wellpappenfabrik is buying a neighbouring 30,000 m² plot in Bottrop and plans a fully automated new corrugator and warehouse, with about EUR 40 million invested. Plant capacity is set to rise above 300 million m² per year, with timing dependent on 2026 economic conditions.

Corrugated packaging supplier Tri-Wall has adopted Aopack BM3000-HD heavy-duty box making machines at its operations in China, Europe and the Middle East to improve small-batch production.

Green Bay Packaging will invest $1 billion to expand its kraft linerboard mill in Morrilton, Arkansas, replacing recovery and biomass boiler components, adding an electric turbine generator and buying about 300 acres of land.

SCG Packaging invested VND 2,825 billion (about THB 3,727 million) to take a further 30% stake in Duy Tan JSC, raising its total shareholding to 100%.

Crown Holdings is increasing its beverage can manufacturing capacity in Brazil to meet growing demand from alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverage customers. The report is dated 2 June 2025.

Balcan Innovations announced a $200 million capex plan to add co-extrusion, printing and bag-making machinery at its Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin plant, which will raise film capacity by more than 700%. Installation is planned for 2025 through 2027.

CANPACK is investing over PLN 440 million to expand its aluminum beverage can plant in Bydgoszcz, Poland, adding about one billion cans per year of capacity and over 100 new jobs.

Smurfit Westrock's board approved a US$150 million investment to expand and modernize its paper packaging operations in Brazil, to be executed over 18 to 22 months.

Reykjavik Creamery is investing in a new fully automatic wraparound case packer from BW Integrated Systems, capable of filling up to 35 cases per minute.