Huhtamaki agreed to buy the remaining shares of its Brazilian joint venture Laminor S.A., a tube laminate maker, for about EUR 30 million. Closing is expected in Q1 2020 subject to Brazilian approval.

Coca-Cola European Partners is opening a new £20 million Bag-in-Box production line at its Edmonton factory in North London, bringing its 2019 GB investment to £150 million.

ÜNAL Sentetik Dokuma won a tender from Türkiye Kömür İşletmeleri for 15 million laminated polypropylene coal sacks, worth TRY 7,190,400.

ÜNAL Sentetik Dokuma won TRY 7,190,400 of a tender by Türkiye Kömür İşletmeleri for 15 million laminated polypropylene coal sacks, with Abdioğulları Plastik taking the remainder. The award was reported on December 22, 2019.

Ausnutria and Trivium are jointly investing €30 million to build a can manufacturing plant at Ausnutria's production site in Heerenveen, Netherlands. The plant will have a capacity of over 150 million cans by 2021 and is expected to open in 2020.

Color Ad Packaging expanded its 200 Beghin Avenue site in Winnipeg, Manitoba, to include an in-house rotogravure cylinder engraving facility, bringing all flexible packaging steps in-house.

Cerberus Capital Management affiliates completed the purchase of the North American, Costa Rican and Japanese businesses and facilities of closure maker Closure Systems International from Reynolds Group Holdings, which keeps its European, Middle Eastern, Egyptian and South American closures units.

Agencja Rozwoju Przemyslu bought shares in ZPO Opakomet Lowicz and Opakomet Krakow for over PLN 18 million, a first step toward forming the Polish Packaging Group Opakomet through a merger of the two companies.

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.

Trivium Packaging and Ausnutria have signed a 10-year contract for Trivium to produce different can sizes with its peel-off lid, supplying Ausnutria's factories in Heerenveen and Leeuwarden.

Ausnutria and Trivium Packaging are building a joint-venture can manufacturing plant of more than 10,000 square meters at Ausnutria's Heerenveen site in the Netherlands, expected to open in 2020 with capacity above 150 million cans by 2021.

Megabox, a Pesaro-based packaging company, invested over 10 million in a new production site of about 12,000 covered square metres, including a Engico 4800 casemaker line certified for Industry 4.0. The announcement was dated December 18, 2019.

PLZ Aeroscience Corporation acquired Liquid Technologies, Inc., a contract formulator and manufacturer of professional hair and skin care products, from Frontenac Company. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Formulation, filling and manufacturing company HCT Group is to merge with Quebec-based formulator and manufacturer Knowlton Development.

Gerresheimer officially opened a new plant in Kosamba, India, on December 16, 2019, to manufacture plastic primary packaging for pharmaceutical products.

Buckeye Corrugated Inc. (BCI) opened a new 260,000-square-foot corrugated sheet plant in Houston, Texas, on December 16, 2019, with equipment transferred from its existing site and several new machines added.

New-Indy Containerboard plans to invest $240 million to convert its recently acquired Catawba, South Carolina pulp and paper mill from lightweight coated paper to containerboard grades.

Berlin Packaging completed its acquisition of Novio Packaging, creating a merged business with sales above EUR 1.3 billion across Europe and North America.

Glossop Cartons plans to expand its Stockport production facility by over 50% following a six-figure funding package from Lloyds Bank, reported December 13, 2019.

Exonia, a premium packaging maker in Iasi, Romania, will open a biodegradable packaging factory by the end of March 2020 with a 3 million euro investment. The plant will have capacity of 350-360 tonnes per month and create 28 initial jobs, rising to 40.

Cascades Inc. is exercising its option to buy the 20.2% interest held by CDPQ in Greenpac Holding LLC, a lightweight containerboard mill in Niagara Falls, New York, for about $93 million. The deal is expected to close January 3, 2020, raising Cascades' stake to 86.3%.

Cigar Box Factory Estelí (CBFe) opened a new, larger factory in Estelí, Nicaragua, featuring high-quality machinery and ISO 9001 certification.

Coster Group announced it signed a binding agreement to acquire the remaining 60% of Catidom SAS from Vacheron Industries. Catidom specializes in metal anodization for beauty packaging, automotive, and other markets. The closing is set for January 2020.

Saudi packaging company United Carton Industries (UCIC) installed an Electronics For Imaging Nozomi C18000 LED inkjet printer for corrugated packaging. The digital printer will move HD flexo work at its five Saudi plants to digital and add point-of-sale display capacity.

Two Rivers Packaging won a contract to supply printing and packaging materials to ZF's Qingdao factory, packaging ZF brake pads for worldwide delivery.

Sulapac, a maker of microplastic-free materials, and Quadpack, a cosmetic packaging provider, signed a preferred partnership agreement to supply sustainable cosmetic packaging worldwide. Quadpack will launch the Sulapac Nordic Collection jars in spring 2020.

Gerresheimer officially opened a new plant in Changzhou, China, producing plastic primary packaging for pharmaceuticals. The facility operates in clean rooms of class 9 and 7 and has FDA registration for US-type containers.

Cameroon's cotton company SODECOTON awarded PLASTICAM a national open tender for 600,000 Diamaor packaging cartons worth 350,595,000 FCFA. Deliveries are staggered in 200,000-carton batches over 30, 45 and 75 days.

Kaplamin Ambalaj, a Çukurova group packaging company, installed a second Fujifilm/Inca Onset X1 digital printing platform at its Prigo Digital Solution Center near Izmir, Turkey. Digital corrugated board output of 40,000 m2 per month has doubled and is expected to reach 100,000 m2 per month.

Habasit, a Swiss conveyor belting company, has acquired its long-standing distribution partners Namil Belt Industrial Co., Ltd. (NBI) and Korea Belt Services (KBS) in South Korea. The acquisitions strengthen Habasit's service level in the South Korean market.

Following its acquisition of CM Packaging, Hoffmann Neopac is investing in a three-piece can making line at CM Packaging's facility in Dronten, Netherlands. The investment is aimed at metal packaging capacity.

Chinese packaging manufacturer Jiamei Food Packaging is planning to build three new canmaking lines. The company has launched an IPO on the Shenzhen stock exchange to raise part of the funding for the projects.

Spicers Paper, a division of Central National Gottesman, acquired Kilmer, Wagner & Wise Paper Company, a Garden Grove, California distributor of corrugated products, stretch film and industrial packaging. Financial terms were not disclosed.

AeroFlexx announced a partnership with Fameccanica to design, fabricate and scale converting and liquid filling equipment for AeroFlexx's liquid packaging solution. Fameccanica will develop the lead commercial line.

XIFA Group has signed a new contract with a customer from Saudi Arabia for flat bags to be packed with fertilizer.

LMI Packaging announced a 50,000 square foot addition to its building in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, on June 21, 2024.

Greif won a five-year contract to supply lightweight jerrycans to a leading beverage manufacturer, with product going to bottling companies across Africa. The customer is not named.

Greif is investing in a new blow molder machine at its Vanderbijlpark operation in Gauteng to produce lightweight jerrycans after a major new contract win. The investment supports expansion into Sub-Saharan Africa.

Hoffmann Neopac is investing in a three-piece canmaking line at CM Packaging's facility in Dronten, the Netherlands, adding capacity for the infant food sector. No amount was disclosed.

Hoffmann Neopac acquired CM Packaging, a longstanding metal packaging partner in the Netherlands, and the companies will operate as one entity from January 1, 2020. The price was not disclosed.

Ayutinsky Khlebozavod has signed a contract with Italian company RECORD S.P.A. for packaging equipment worth over 60 million rubles.

San Miguel Industrias is constructing a 10,000 square metre rigid plastic packaging plant in Huejotzingo, Mexico, with a $28 million investment, 10 SACMI machines and 150 planned jobs.

Wenzhou Xifa Industrial signed a new contract with a Saudi Arabian customer for flat-bottom woven PP bags to be filled with fertilizer. The customer is not named.

Green Arrow Capital, via its Private Equity Fund 3, acquired the majority stake in Poplast Group from EOS Investment Management and reinvesting managers, creating a green packaging platform in Italy. Poplast has plants in Castel San Giovanni and Lamporecchio.

KIVO Plastic Packaging purchased four new Hudson Sharp Wicketer machines for its Zwolle site, a third flexo printing machine for Volendam, and two 5-layer coex lines from W&H, including one for Kosovo.

SOCAR Polymer delivered the first batch of polypropylene to the Waterfall plant in Volgodonsk, Rostov Oblast, for production of biaxially oriented film. The total supply value is estimated to exceed 1.5 billion rubles.

Skrīveru saldumi SIA awarded a contract to Theegarten-Pactec GmbH & Co for the supply and installation of a soft sugar candy cutting and packaging machine, valued at 263,793 EUR.

Xifa Group signed a contract with an Afghanistan customer for PP woven bags, marking the third order from this customer.

Ringtons invested in PFM Packaging Machinery's Zenith bagging machines to automate coffee production at its Newcastle-upon-Tyne factory, boosting output from 300 kg per shift to 800 kg per machine per hour.

Konecranes was selected by Green Bay Packaging to supply nine cranes, including four automated roll storage cranes, for a new $500 million paper mill in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The mill will produce 685,000 tons of recycled kraft paper annually.