Artigraf, a corrugated cardboard manufacturer, is installing a new plant in Torreón, Coahuila, investing $7.5 million (possibly up to $10 million over later stages) and creating 250 direct jobs. The 20,000 square meter complex is under construction and expected to start operating in about 10 months.

Ex-pack Corrugated Cartons downsized its plan for a large corrugated plant after construction costs rose over 40 percent. It bought a land block in Sapugaskanda for Rs.240.62 million and will build a 150,000 sq ft plant there, 2.3 km from its current factory.

Crown Holdings announced it will build a new beverage can facility in Peterborough, United Kingdom, with construction starting Q2 2022 and first production in Q2 2023, employing 280 people.

Ball Corporation is building a new aluminium beverage can plant of 56,000 square metres at Segro Park Kettering Gateway, UK, expected to produce about 1 billion cans in its first year and create 200 local jobs.

Zerhusen Kartonagen is building a second plant in the Niedersachsenpark industrial area in Rieste, with a 15,000 square metre production hall and about 50 jobs, with construction starting in autumn and operation planned for summer 2023.

Hébert Group became a PulPac licensee and will install the PulPac Modula Dry Molded Fiber production platform at PulPac's facilities in Orgelet, eastern France, this summer.

Axium Packaging has moved its headquarters and subsidiaries Acti Pack and Loire Plastic Industrie into a 22,000 sqm facility near Saint-Etienne, France, after a €16 million, six-month fit-out. Production capacity is reported to rise by 15%.

Austin-based craft beverage packaging maker American Canning signed a long-term lease for a 154,786-square-foot facility at Park 183 in Southeast Austin for a new plant and headquarters. The expansion is planned for 2022.

Delmarva Corrugated Packaging has selected Dover, Delaware for a new $91 million corrugated box plant employing 159 people, replacing its New Jersey facility. The plant will have capacity of 75 tractor trailer loads per day when fully staffed.

McKinley Packaging, a subsidiary of Bio Pappell, is building a box manufacturing plant of over half a million square feet on East Pleasant Run in Lancaster, Texas. The more than $35 million facility will add 125 jobs and is scheduled for completion at the end of 2022.

WestRock plans a new corrugated boxing plant in Longview, Cowlitz County, double the size of its current facility, to be built by the end of 2023. The company cites growing demand from regional customers in the Pacific Northwest.

Fadesa Manta, part of the Vilaseca group, opened a new packaging plant in Manabí province, Ecuador, with an investment of more than $20 million, expected to create over 200 jobs and raise production capacity by 30%.

Norpolim Nordeste Polímeros, part of the Plasvan group, announced a plant in the Manaus Free Trade Zone industrial hub. The investment is R$17 million over three years, with about 100 direct jobs, and production is expected in the first half of 2022 pending approvals.

The BoxMaker began production at a new 62,000 sq ft plant in Lowell, Arkansas, making digitally printed custom corrugated boxes and retail displays, as part of a multimillion-dollar investment that doubles its capacity.

US manufacturer Jabil will build a consumer goods manufacturing and packaging plant in l'Aldea, Baix Ebre, Catalonia, with an investment of EUR 4 million and an initial 50 jobs that could rise to about 100. The plant is expected to start up in the third quarter of 2022.

Colombia-based Plastilene Group will establish its first U.S. operation in Washington Court House, Fayette County, Ohio, a $47 million sustainable food packaging research and production facility expected to create 58 jobs.

Bulgarian packaging maker Ate Plast has started construction of its third plant in the Zagore Industrial Zone in Stara Zagora, aiming to double or triple its printed packaging capacity; the investment, initially planned at 10 million leva, is expected to exceed that and completion is due by year end.

Atlanta packaging company Battle Copacking plans to invest $13.6 million in a new 128,000-square-foot building at Deerfield Business Park in Mooresville, Iredell County, creating up to 20 jobs. The building is expected to be delivered by the end of the year.

DSS, Inc.'s subsidiary Premier Packaging is nearing completion of a new 105,000 sq ft paperboard packaging facility in Henrietta, NY, near Rochester, with operations expected to begin February 1, 2022.

Kampack, a division of National Packaging Group, will relocate its headquarters and build a new corrugated packaging manufacturing facility in the King Mill Distribution industrial park in Henry County, Georgia. The $35 million investment is expected to create 120 jobs.

Pratt Industries broke ground in Henderson, Kentucky, on a $500 million paper mill and box factory complex that will create 321 jobs across two facilities. The box factory is due for completion by 2023.

International Paper announced it will build a state-of-the-art corrugated packaging plant in Atglen, Pennsylvania, employing about 150 people. Construction starts in Q1 2022 with full operation expected in Q1 2023.

Stoford and Logicor let the newly completed 108,091 sq ft L108 warehouse at Liberty Park, Widnes, to an international packaging company on a ten-year lease for sustainable packaging production.

Kruger Packaging is building a $114 million, 400,000 sq ft packaging plant in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, expected to open in summer 2022 and create nearly 150 jobs.

Oji Holdings decided to establish a new corrugated container plant in Vinh Phuc province, Vietnam, with planned investment of about JPY 5 billion ($44.2 million) and operations starting July 2023.

Atlas Ward Polska started building a production and warehouse plant for Rawibox S.A. in the Jasienicka Low-Emission Economic Zone in Miedzyrzecz Dolny, Lower Silesia, with about 30,000 m2 of floor space. Atlas Ward is the general contractor under a design-and-build contract. Reported November 24, 2021.

AMP, part of the Ardagh Group, will build a beverage can-making plant at Global Point in Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland, representing an investment of about $200 million. Operations are expected to start in 2023.

IMEX, the industrial unit of Angola's Webcor Group, opened a new US$9.5 million woven polypropylene raffia bag processing facility. The plant has a capacity of 60 million bags a year and tripled IMEX's production capacity.

Graham & Company and Sunbelt Paper & Packaging announced plans for a 216,000 sq ft distribution facility in Calera, Alabama, requiring about $16.5 million of investment. Sunbelt will occupy about 108,000 sq ft, with completion expected by Q3 2022.

Direct Pack Inc. opened a new 200,000-square-foot thermoforming facility in Mexicali, called Direct Pack Baja, which began producing food packaging in September 2021. The plant represents a $25M investment.

Cullen Eco-Friendly Packaging secured planning permission to build a second factory on its Glasgow site, scheduled for summer 2023, raising annual output to about 900 million moulded pulp and corrugated packaging pieces.

Ardagh Metal Packaging has revealed plans for a beverage can plant in the south west United States to add capacity, announced with its third-quarter results. No further details were given in the article.

Ardagh Metal Packaging has revealed plans for a beverage can plant in the UK to add capacity, announced with its third-quarter results. No further details were given in the article.

Soenen Golfkarton has started building a 132,500 sqm corrugated box factory on the former Bekaert site in Lanklaar, Belgium, representing an investment of more than €120 million and about 200 jobs. The plant is planned to start in 2023.

Evanesce Packaging Solutions, an investee of Billy Goat Brands, will open a new manufacturing facility in Hampton County, South Carolina on October 21, 2021, to produce millions of PLA straws per day, creating 78 jobs.

Progroup's 12th corrugated board production facility, its third in Poland, is under construction in Stryków with planned capacity of 825 million square metres per year.

Sri Lankan corrugated carton maker Ex-pack plans a Rs 3 billion new facility on a 10-acre site, raising its capacity to 4,000 tons per month by 2025 from 2,750 tons. Part of the cost is funded by a Rs 700 million IPO.

Crown Holdings will build a two-line aluminium beverage can facility of 355,000 sq ft in Mesquite, Nevada, creating 126 jobs. Operations are scheduled to start in the second quarter of 2023.

VPK has opened a new production and warehouse plant of 22,000 sqm in Brzeg, Poland, in the Skarbimierz special economic zone. The plant adds 60 million sqm of production capacity and 120 staff, with 60 more jobs planned.

United Caps held a grand opening for its Dinnington factory in Rotherham, England, which has produced dairy and beverage closures since 2020, including tethered closures, in a 5,000 square meter facility expandable to 20,000 square meters.

Ball Corporation announced plans for a multi-line aluminum beverage can plant in North Las Vegas, Nevada, with a nearly $290 million investment, about 180 jobs and production starting in late 2022.

LINDAL Group opened a 12,000 sqm aerosol dispensing facility in São Paulo, Brazil, after a 370-day build, with a €14 million investment and 130 initial employees.

Kruger Packaging is building its first US packaging plant in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, a $114 million investment expected to create 150 jobs and produce 2.4 billion square feet of corrugated boxes per year.

Thailand's SCG Packaging announced an 11.8 billion baht expansion in packaging paper in Vietnam through joint venture Vina Kraft Paper, building a new facility in Vinh Phuc to start in early 2024.

ALPLA, Ecohelp SRL and United Polymer Trading AG are each investing equally in a joint venture to install an extrusion line recycling post-consumer PET bottles in Targu Mures, Romania, aiming for 15,000 tonnes of rPET per year. The total investment is about EUR 7.5 million and will create 15 jobs.

Dhunseri Poly Films, a subsidiary of Dhunseri Ventures, announced a Rs 1,250 crore flexible packaging film factory at Panagarh Industrial Park in West Bengal. The first phase will make BOPET film with 45,000 TPA capacity, with commercial operations expected by March 2023.

Klingele Paper & Packaging Group is building a corrugated sheet plant in the Diamniadio industrial estate near Dakar, Senegal, with production expected in summer 2022 and about 45 jobs. The EUR 7.5 million investment is partly financed by DEG.

Switzerland-based SIG has finished building its second production plant in China, a site near its Suzhou Industrial Park plant. By 2024 it is expected to produce eight billion carton packs a year.

Delmarva Corrugated Packaging is nearing completion of its $80 million paper corrugating plant in Dover, Delaware, with an October opening planned and about 160 jobs projected.

Progroup is reported to be probably building a corrugated board plant near Milan, Italy, with a cost of EUR 95 million and 205 jobs, expected to be operational by mid-2024.