Ringtons automated coffee production at its Newcastle-upon-Tyne factory with PFM Packaging Machinery, boosting output. The reported date is December 2, 2019.

The Waldkirch-based August-Faller-Gruppe, now renamed Faller Packaging, acquired Hungarian company Pharma Print, a maker of folding cartons and package inserts for the pharmaceutical industry. The deal was announced on 2 December 2019.

Fabio Perini announced a partnership with DM Pack, an Italian packaging machinery specialist, to complete its AfH packaging division and offer packaging machinery for consumer and AfH sectors.

Viridor and INEOS formed a partnership where Viridor's new £65 million recycling plant in Avonmouth will supply recovered polymers to INEOS, which will engineer new hybrid polymers with high recycled content. The facility is the UK's largest multi-polymer recycling plant.

Tauras-Fenix, a Russian packaging equipment manufacturer, plans to build a high-tech plant in St. Petersburg with an area of 31,000 m² and an estimated cost of RUB 3 billion. Site preparation begins December 2, 2019.

Constantia Flexibles has opened Constantia Ecoflex Ahmedabad in Gujarat, India, described as the first plant designed to produce sustainable, recyclable flexible packaging. The 24,500 sq m plant began test runs in September 2019 and has 50 staff.

PFM Packaging Machinery supplied two Zenith bagging machines to Ringtons as part of a capital investment project to automate coffee production at its Newcastle-upon-Tyne factory, increasing output from 300 kg per shift to 800 kg per hour per machine.

TC Transcontinental agreed to sell its paper and woven polypropylene packaging operations to Hood Packaging Corporation for US$180 million, subject to working capital adjustments. Closing is expected in the first quarter of fiscal 2020.

Canpack opened a $150 million aluminium beverage can factory in Tocancipa, Colombia, with capacity of 1.3 billion cans per year expandable to 1.9 billion. The plant employs over 200 people and mainly supplies Bavaria, part of AB InBev.

Korozo Group has completed the acquisition of a majority stake in Vitra and Creavit, a Belgian packaging company founded in 1935 in Antwerp. Vitra specializes in film conversion for packaging applications.

Danimer Scientific will supply several million pounds of biodegradable resins over a multi-year agreement for Genpak's new GenZero food packaging line. The partnership was announced on November 25, 2019.

US packaging firm Sonoco acquired Thermoform Engineered Quality (TEQ) and Stevenage-based Plastique Holdings from ESCO Technologies for about £145 million ($187 million).

All American Label and Packaging acquired Label Art of California, a label printing company based in Oakland, California. The acquisition was announced on November 22, 2019.

Green Bay Packaging Inc. became a minority owner of CompanyBox, a Charlotte-based web-to-print packaging company, effective November 22, 2019. CompanyBox will continue under the leadership of Louie DeJesus.

Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company is investing EUR 15 million ($16.54 million) in Graphic Packaging's KeelClip paperboard packaging to replace plastic shrink-wrap on can multipacks in Europe, with rollouts in Ireland and Poland planned for 2020.

Logoplaste Group signed an agreement to acquire a majority stake in Polish PET container manufacturer Masterchem, with the founding family keeping a significant minority stake. Closing is expected in Q1 2020, subject to regulatory approvals.

Trioplast Group signed an agreement on November 22, 2019 to acquire Dutch plastic film maker Apeldoorn Flexible Packaging (AFP) from JPF Netherlands BV, part of B.C. Jindal group. The transaction is subject to regulatory approvals.

Mauser Packaging Solutions plans to invest $850,000 to build out 120,960 square feet of new space at 1740 South Interstate 45 in Hutchins, Texas, expected to be occupied around March 1, 2020.

Viridor and Unilever have agreed an initial five-year contract for recycled plastic from Viridor's £65m Avonmouth Resource Recovery Centre near Bristol. The contract will supply Unilever with 60,000 tonnes per year of recycled plastic in PET, HDPE and PP form.

Oji Fibre Solutions will invest A$100 million (US$68 million) to develop automated cardboard box production at its Christchurch, New Zealand factory, replacing the Shands Road operation, with completion planned for 2021.

Panattoni Europe is converting 12,000 sqm at Panattoni Business Center Łódź III into a plant for Sealed Air producing PE foam packaging. Production is scheduled to start in November 2019 under a lease signed in April 2019.

Imaflex Inc. completed installation and wiring of a new five-layer coextrusion blown film line at its Thomasville, North Carolina facility. The extruder is now operational and expected to increase production capacity by 4.0 million pounds annually.

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.

Antares Vision acquired 100% of FT System S.r.l., a leader in inspection and control systems for the beverage industry, for an equity value of €67.7 million. The acquisition includes FT System's subsidiaries in France and the US.

HQ Equita has acquired a majority stake in WOLF Verpackungsmaschinen GmbH, a manufacturer of vertical form fill seal packaging machines. The transaction closed on 6 November 2019. WOLF will join FAWEMA and HDG under The Packaging Group platform.

Flexible packaging specialist ePac UK is holding a grand opening of its new Silverstone site in Northamptonshire on December 4, 2019, as announced November 18, 2019.

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.

French manufacturer Neyret is taking over 100% of SERAM and its subsidiaries through its holding company NTH, creating a world leader in textile and multi-material decoration and identification for luxury products.

Cameroonian glassmaker SOCAVER inaugurated new facilities in Douala after investing XAF5.3 billion to renovate its furnace No. 2 and build a PET preform workshop; glass melting capacity rose from 32,500 to 38,500 tonnes per year.

Arglass is constructing a $123 million greenfield glass manufacturing plant in Valdosta, Georgia, with a capacity of over 125,000 tonnes per year. EME's engineering is in final stages; furnace startup is expected end of 2020, full operation by Q1 2021. The plant will employ 150 people.

Mid America Display, a division of St. Louis corrugated packaging provider Boxes, Inc., bought a second EFI Nozomi C18000 single-pass inkjet printer, along with EFI software and a VUTEk superwide-format printer, to add digital production capacity.

Ball Corporation unveiled a redesign of its special effects can range and a new two-stage temperature-reactive Thermochromic Reveal technology at BrauBeviale.

Huhtamaki agreed to acquire 70% of Everest Flexibles, a private flexible packaging manufacturer in Durban, South Africa, at an enterprise value of EUR 58 million. Sellers will hold 30% of Huhtamaki's South African activities through a joint venture; completion is subject to competition approval.

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.

Bonson Group has bought Queensland-based food packaging company Wong Lee Pty Ltd, its largest distributor in Australia, effective 1 August 2019. Desmond Chaw was appointed General Manager – Operations.

U.S. Nonwovens, a portfolio company of Wind Point Partners, acquired the polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) packaging division of Multi-Pack Holdings LLC, which does business as Multi-Pack Chicago. The acquisition expands USN's product portfolio in the laundry and dish detergent markets.

Berry Global partnered with SABIC to focus on innovation and use of polyolefin resins from chemical recycling. Berry has used SABIC's certified circular polymers to develop a recyclable stand-up pouch with 30% post-consumer recycled content.

Berry Global announced a collaboration with SABIC to produce and use polyolefin resins made from chemical recycling. Berry has manufactured a recyclable pouch containing 30% post-consumer recycled content from SABIC's circular polymer.

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.

Funds advised by Triton have completed the acquisition of a stake in All4Labels, a Hamburg-based label manufacturer, while minority shareholder Genui Partners sold its shares. The financial terms were not disclosed.

Australian beverage producer Bickford's has opened a new AUD 20 million bottling line at its South Australian facility, developed by Sidel with Tetra Pak, including aseptic filling technology. The line helps expand the company into dairy.

Standard-Knapp, Inc., a manufacturer of end-of-line packaging machines, was acquired by EoL Packaging Experts, a division of A+F Automation + Fördertechnik and portfolio company of CGS Management AG.

Verallia announced an additional €10 million investment to renovate the second furnace at its Burgos plant in 2020.

Verallia inaugurated a €33 million reconstruction of a furnace at its Burgos, Spain plant, increasing production capacity by 7% to 600 million glass bottles per year. The company also plans an additional €10 million investment in 2020 to renovate the second furnace.

SIG will acquire Visy Cartons from Visy Pak Operations, a subsidiary of Pratt Consolidated Holdings, for $70 million. The deal is expected to close during the fourth quarter of 2019, expanding SIG's Asia Pacific operations in the aseptic beverage carton market.

Austrian packaging maker Alpla acquired Spanish HDPE recycling companies Suminco and Replacal, entering HDPE recycling. Alpla has set aside EUR 50 million for its recycling expansion; the deal value was not stated.

Duni AB was awarded a public tender by Sotenäs municipality for food distribution packaging materials for the VästUpp group of municipalities, with a contracted value of SEK 7 million.

Mackie's of Scotland invested £250,000 in new lid-making machinery and £50,000 in a factory extension at its Aberdeenshire site, bringing all ice cream tub component production in-house.

The Label Centre invested in state-of-the-art digital label printing equipment following a £320,000 Asset Purchase deal with HSBC UK.

Sister companies AJ Adhesives and Mid-America Packaging acquired Holmes, Pa.-based Evco Industries.