AGI glaspac, an Indian container glass maker, will invest up to ₹130 crore in technology upgrades, including NNPB lightweight bottle technology from Europe and cullet sorting systems. The investment aims to grow exports of light bottles and improve glass reuse.

Egger Getränke ordered an additional glass filling line at its Unterradlberg site, adding 60 million glass bottles per year, with commissioning planned for February 2020.

CBS Packaging installed a new 2.5m BHS corrugator at its Birmingham plant as part of its continuing investment programme, reported October 18, 2019.

Borregaard decided to invest NOK 207 million in its chloralkali plant at Sarpsborg, Norway, including a new electrolyser and rectifier, with completion planned for 2021.

Tikehau Capital, Bpifrance and minority investors provided 33 million euros to ADDEV Materials to finance its acquisitions of Andpak and Zip-Chem, following an April investment of 38 million euros.

LDC supported a secondary buyout of ELE Advanced Technologies, a Lancashire maker of aerospace and gas turbine components, in October 2019 to fund organic growth and capacity investment. The company later moved to a larger facility in Nelson, Lancashire, adding 40% production capacity.

Schaeffler celebrated 50 years of its Cheraw, South Carolina operations and is expanding the site to produce FRAX bearing components, with a $65 million investment and completion expected by end of 2020.

Portuguese glass packaging maker BA Glass plans to invest about EUR 205 million over five years in its Bulgarian plants, building two new furnaces to double production capacity at its Sofia and Plovdiv facilities. Most of the spending is due in 2020 and 2021.

Ondulati Nordest, a corrugated sheet feeder near Venice, is investing EUR 20 million to add a second corrugator line from Fosber, after its existing Agnati line reached capacity.

Germany's Panther Packaging Group is implementing a new investment package, including new die-cutters, a jumbo inliner, intralogistics renewal and land purchases in Tornesch, to double production and storage capacity in 2020.

Saica Pack installed a multi-million pound three-in-one flexo folder gluer from Bobst at its Thatcham site to produce corrugated boxes. The machine handles high-graphics printing of up to six colours.

The Panther Packaging Group, based in Tornesch near Hamburg, launched an investment programme worth over 60 million euros covering new machinery, land purchases to double production and storage capacity, and energy-efficiency measures. Projects include new die-cutters, a new offset press and a 11,000 m² co-packing hall in Wustermark.

The Hinojosa Group, a Spanish corrugated packaging maker, bought an EFI Nozomi C18000 single-pass digital printer for its Cartonajes Bernabéu plant in Almassora, with installation expected in September 2019.

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.

German C-parts supplier CGOODS in Borgholzhausen has invested in a KOLBUS AutoBox corrugated cardboard system to produce packaging blanks in-house on demand.

Milwaukee Valve in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin rebuilt two air compressors and bought two new ones with variable frequency drives, supported by a Focus on Energy incentive of nearly $62,000. The upgrades are expected to save $27,000 a year in energy costs.

Dunes Point Capital made a controlling investment in Vanguard Packaging, Advanced Logistics & Fulfillment and Great Plains Packaging, makers of corrugated displays and industrial packaging based in Kansas City, Missouri. Vanguard employs about 200 people.

Graphic Packaging's board approved a $600 million investment in a new coated recycled board machine with about 500,000 tons annual capacity, to be built in Ohio or Michigan subject to permitting and incentives. The company expects $100 million incremental annualized EBITDA upon full ramp-up in 2022.

Nikkiso plans to build a cryogenic pump test facility in Miyazaki for about 5.5 billion yen by 2020, allowing final testing with actual LNG instead of shipping products to Las Vegas.

Brose is investing $105 million over five years to expand its southeast Michigan operations, adding 300 jobs at its Auburn Hills headquarters and New Boston factory. The article also describes the New Boston factory expansion.

Tri-Wall Europe's UK arm has secured more than £700,000 of government funding towards a £1.18m project to set worldwide standards for transporting lithium-ion batteries, with a focus on eliminating thermal runaway. The company's UK headquarters and factory are in Monmouth, Wales.

As part of the first phase at its Sfântu Gheorghe site, Dunapack Rambox installed a Bobst flatbed die cutter with five HQ colours and a six-point Masterfold multipoint gluing machine to raise the complexity and quality of its shelf ready packaging.

Anchor Packaging, a St. Louis maker of specialty food packaging, announced a partnership with private equity firm The Jordan Company to accelerate growth, with the transaction expected to close in July 2019.

Schumacher Packaging announced investment plans of €200 million over the next four years, including over €50 million in 2019, mainly for technological innovation across its plants. The group reported 2018 sales up over 6% to €627 million.

Packaging maker ALPLA invested 13 million euro in ultra-modern packaging manufacturing in Werner & Mertz's new Mainz production center, making recycled-plastic bottles on site.

UK corrugated packaging maker Durham Box has purchased an EFI Nozomi C18000 single-pass LED inkjet press to improve print quality and productivity. Installation is scheduled for summer 2019.

Private equity sponsor Altamont Capital Partners invested in Key Container Corporation, a Pawtucket, Rhode Island corrugated packaging producer, with Monroe Capital as administrative agent on a senior credit facility, announced April 1, 2026.

Watson Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions, part of Spirax Group, recently invested £20m in a new factory for its Aflex Hose brand in the UK. It expects up to 200 new jobs over the next 10 years.

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.

Novelis held a ribbon cutting in Warren, Ohio, to mark the completion of a $4.5 million upgrade to pretreatment and coating capabilities for aluminum beverage can sheet. The investment was first announced in November 2017.

Firopa subsidiaries Deja Link and Nortier Emballages jointly bought an HP Indigo 12000 digital press, installed at Deja Link's Stains site in Seine-Saint-Denis. It will print commercial work and flat cartons.

Interventek has committed about £750,000 to support business growth in 2019 and beyond, including six new staff and a new technology development and test centre.

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.

Hamburger Hungária, part of the Prinzhorn Group, is implementing technology-intensive investments worth more than EUR 45 million at its Dunaújváros site in Hungary to raise corrugated basic paper volume and advance automation and logistics.

Grupo La Plana installed an EFI Nozomi C18000 digital printing technology at its factory in Onda, Castellon, Spain, with a printing centre operative since February 2019 producing up to 10,000 boards per hour.

Metso Corporation has reportedly invested more than USD 112.3 million in its engineering hubs and production in India, about USD 78.6 million of it for operations expansion in India, to meet global demand for industrial valves.

Czech company Jihostroj and the Tatarstan Investment Development Agency agreed to build a hydraulic equipment plant in the Alabuga special economic zone, with planned output of 80,000 units per year, 500 million rubles of investment and 50 jobs, launch expected in 2019.

Smurfit Kappa Mexico plans to invest between $10 and $15 million over the next three years in its four plants in Nuevo Leon, Mexico, which make corrugated cardboard packaging.

Packaging manufacturer Duo UK received a multi-million pound funding package from HSBC UK to buy an Italian-made co-extruder for its Manchester factory, scaling up production by up to 20% and stock capacity by 30%. The company expects to create 5 new jobs over the next 12 months.

Tetra Pak will install a full-width digital printer built by Koenig & Bauer at its Denton, Texas converting plant, enabling full-colour on-package printing on carton packages. Field testing with North American customers is expected to begin in early 2020.

High Pressure Processing service provider Deli 24 has invested £2m to help double its capacity.

Suntory Beverage & Food is investing £13m in Lucozade Ribena Suntory to install a new high-speed bottle filler at its Coleford, Gloucestershire factory, producing 1.3 million bottles a day.

Canpack announced a new investment in the Czech Republic, where a can production line will be launched to supply the Plzensky Prazdroj brewery, owner of Pilsner Urquell, in 2019.

Erlson Precision Components invested in a new 5X building at its Precision Investment Castings site in Altrincham, Cheshire, which began compressor wheel production about nine months later. The group plans to expand capacity further in 2020.

Lotte Wedel increased its 2019-21 investment plan from PLN 200 million to PLN 300 million to expand its Praga factory with new lines and automation, and is seeking acquisitions in Poland and Central-Eastern Europe. The report was dated 2018-12-13.

Berlin Packaging, a US packaging services provider, reached a recapitalisation agreement under which Canada Pension Plan Investment Board will invest $500 million alongside Oak Hill Capital Partners.

French luxury house Chanel invested in Finnish biodegradable material company Sulapac. The investment is dated December 2018.

Equinor and its partners decided to invest around NOK 1.4 billion in the Vigdis Boosting Station, an improved oil recovery project on the Snorre-linked Vigdis subsea field. The station is scheduled to start up in Q1 2021.

Paper maker Scheufelen in Lenningen, Germany, secured additional investors in December 2018 who raised its equity significantly. The new capital will fund expansion of its grass paper production.

Grundfos Pumps India plans to invest ₹125 crore in a third pump production unit, to be operational by 2020, with the location still to be decided between Tamil Nadu and other states.