Inovar Packaging Group has completed its acquisition of Flexo-Graphics, a label and flexible packaging maker in Butler, Wisconsin, in partnership with management. It is Inovar's first Midwest platform company.

Stik-Pak Solutions, a subsidiary of M&H Holdings, has broken ground on a $14.3 million facility at Summit View Business Park in Rocky Mount, Franklin County. The first 50,000 sq ft phase is due by mid-2020, with 50 to 60 more employees planned.

Fort Dearborn Company made a multi-million dollar purchase of five HP Indigo 20000 and 6900 digital presses, more than doubling its digital printing capacity for labels and packaging.

Greatview Aseptic Packaging's subsidiary agreed to acquire 90% of Beijing Digital Technology for CNY 5.4 million, with plans to acquire the remaining 10% from a third party. The target holds 38 patents for smart packaging QR code technology.

WIELAND has been awarded the construction management contract for Graphic Packaging International's new mill in Kalamazoo, Michigan, which includes a coated recycled board machine. Groundbreaking occurred in late September 2019, with completion expected in October 2021.

Cerberus Capital Management affiliate has agreed to buy the North American, Costa Rican and Japanese businesses of Closure Systems International from Reynolds Group. The deal is expected to close within two quarters and the value was not disclosed.

McLaren Packaging and Swanline Group's joint venture CorrBoard Bioenergy has invested GBP 5.5 million in a renewable energy plant fuelled by organic waste. It will supply heat and power to CorrBoard UK's corrugated board production in Scunthorpe.

Sodero Gestion and Bpifrance acquired a majority stake in Mecapack, a packaging machinery manufacturer, alongside CEO Nicolas Ducept and his management team.

Pratt Industries announced in 2017 a new containerboard mill in Wapakoneta, Ohio, which is slated to open in October 2019. The mill is expected to consume about 400,000 tons of recovered fiber annually once fully operational.

Dalian YiSheng Investment Co is planning to start up its new PET bottle plant in Dalian, China on 18 October 2019. The plant has a production capacity of 300,000 tons/year.

AptarGroup has signed an agreement to acquire a 49% equity stake in three BTY-related companies, which are leading Chinese manufacturers of decorative metal components and full color cosmetics packaging. The deal is expected to close by the end of 2019.

StrongPack Ltd set up a greenfield non-alcoholic contract packaging operation in Nigeria, installing four Sidel lines over two years, including a can line, two PET lines and one PET line with Sidel's Actis coating system. The announcement was made on 8 October 2019.

North Coast Brewing Company selected Sacramento-based Capital Corrugated and Carton as its new sustainable packaging provider for its 4-pack and 6-pack cartons. The announcement was made on 8 October 2019.

Hongta Liaoning Tobacco Co awarded a carton procurement project to two winning bidders, with a winning value of about 75.99 million yuan. The tender notice was published on 8 October 2019. Winning bidder names are masked in the source.

Irish packaging firm Zeus announced its €12 million acquisition of two UK companies, paper and polythene distributor Smith Bateson and food services packaging business Van Der Windt. The combined turnover of the two is €39.5 million.

Coca-Cola European Partners opened a new GBP 16 million production line for lightweight cans at its Sidcup, UK site, alongside a GBP 39 million automated storage and retrieval warehouse, totaling GBP 55 million.

Zircon Technologies ordered two Mark Andy Performance Series P7E presses and five Rotoflex finishing units at Labelexpo Brussels, and plans a fifth manufacturing site in Dehradun, India, adding 100-120 jobs. It also plans to invest $6 million in capital equipment over 12 months.

Arglass Yamamura officially broke ground on a new container glassmaking plant in Valdosta-Lowndes County, Georgia, USA. The facility will create 150 jobs, have a production capacity of 100,000 metric tons per year, and is expected to start furnace operations in Q4 2020 and be fully operational in Q1 2021.

Paper Converting Machine Company (PCMC), part of Barry-Wehmiller, acquired STAX Technologies, a Serbian manufacturer of tissue packaging equipment including wrappers, bundlers, casepackers and palletizers.

WestRock is investing a further US$345 million in expanding its paper mill in Três Barras, Santa Catarina. The article dates this plan to its October 2019 announcement.

WestRock officially opened its corrugated packaging plant in Porto Feliz, São Paulo state, on 3 October 2019, with annual capacity of 400 million square metres and an investment of US$125 million. The output of the Valinhos plant was moved to the new site.

BillerudKorsnäs inaugurated its KM7 board machine at the Gruvön mill in Sweden on 3 October 2019, its biggest investment to date. The machine has a capacity of 550,000 tonnes per year.

Private investment firm Graham Partners acquired VPET Plastics, a PET packaging producer headquartered in Fontana, California, announced to customers on October 2, 2019.

TOP Packaging, a THIMM and Saica joint venture, took over United Packaging SA, a corrugated cardboard packaging works near Wroclaw in Skarbimierz, Poland, effective October 1, 2019.

Segezha Group plans to launch a third production line at its industrial paper packaging plant in Salsk, Russia, in November 2019. The line, with equipment from Windmöller & Hölscher, will double capacity and produce over 80 million industrial bags per year. Investment is 500 million rubles.

CANPACK opened a can factory in Colombia in the fourth quarter of 2019 with annual capacity above 1.3 billion cans, making it the first Colombian producer able to supply specialty can formats.

Tetra Pak and Saudi paper maker Al Obeikan Paper Industries announced a joint venture to build a beverage carton recycling plant in Riyadh, with capacity of 8,000 tonnes per year. Tetra Pak is investing 1 million USD, and the plant is expected to run at 50% utilisation by the end of 2020. The announcement was made the week before 8 October 2019.

Winpak Ltd. signed a definitive agreement to acquire the net assets and building of Control Group in Norwood, New Jersey, for US$42.2 million, funded from cash on hand.

Novolex, a Carlyle portfolio company, acquired Zenith Specialty Bag, a specialty paper food packaging producer headquartered in City of Industry, California, effective October 1, 2019.

Huhtamaki agreed to acquire the assets and operations of Mohan Mutha Polytech Private Limited, a flexible packaging manufacturer in Sri City, Andhra Pradesh, India, for approximately EUR 10 million.

Westpak, a Finnish supplier of laminated flexible packaging for the food industry, installed a Comexi ML2 laminator at its production facility in Säkylä. The machine has a maximum web width of 1530mm and operates at 450m/min.

Elmkind has chosen Vetroplas to supply aluminium bottles, replacing single-use plastic spray bottles, for products such as perfumes and skincare. The value was not disclosed.

Quadpack acquired Louvrette, a German injection-moulding maker of skincare packaging jars, adding 8,500 m2 of manufacturing facilities and 40 injection-moulding lines. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Emsur, the flexible packaging division of GrupoLantero, inaugurated a new packaging facility in Alcalá de Henares, Spain, in September 2019. The 5,000 m² plant focuses on printing and laminating flexible packaging for dairy and food markets.

Graphic Packaging International is expanding its Kalamazoo, Michigan site on a brownfield plot, with an anticipated $600 million investment and construction starting in Q4 2019, supported by $21M in tax breaks.

Huhtamaki agreed to acquire a 70% majority stake in privately owned flexible packaging maker Everest Flexibles in Durban, South Africa, at an enterprise value of EUR 58 million. Everest has annual net sales of about EUR 40 million and about 420 employees.

Emsur Madrid inaugurated a new 5,000 m2 production building with a high-speed rotogravure printing line and a laminator at its Alcalá de Henares headquarters in Spain. The project adds production capacity for flexible packaging, mainly for the dairy market.

Graphic Packaging is investing $600 million in an expansion, according to a Crain's Grand Rapids report dated September 25, 2019. Site and capacity details are not given in the text.

Progroup AG announced a new, larger corrugated sheetboard plant in Stryków, Poland, with an investment of about EUR 75 million and more than 50 new jobs, raising total Polish capacity to 520,000 tonnes per year.

Graphic Packaging Holding Company announced a $600 million investment in a new coated recycled board (CRB) machine at its Kalamazoo, Michigan mill. The machine is expected to have an annual capacity of approximately 500,000 tons and be the largest and lowest cost producer of CRB in North America.

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.

Berlin Packaging announced the acquisition of Vetroservice srl, a packaging supplier of glass containers and closures serving the food and olive oil sector in central Italy. It is Berlin's third acquisition in 2019.

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.

TemperPack announced a significant expansion of its production facility in Las Vegas, Nevada, to manufacture ClimaCell packaging material. The company invested $6.8 million and created 33 new jobs.

Consolidated Container, through its Altium Packaging Canada business, acquired Quebec-based Plastique Micron and its affiliates IMBC Blowmolding and Les Produits de Plastique Action. The exact date was not given in the article.

SMC Packaging Group is expanding its Partnership Industrial Center plant in Springfield, Missouri, as part of a multiphase project. Phase II, with an estimated cost of $13.5 million, adds rail siding and manufacturing and storage space, with completion estimated for February 2020.

Rangel Industria e Commercio, a Brazilian contract pouch packaging company, confirmed the purchase of its seventh pouch machine line from Sun Centre USA, including a SCSG-compact Series machine. The company also installed a second SCSP600BZ-DR machine in January 2019.

Swedish packaging company Avisera has acquired the bankruptcy estate of Aare Grafiska Produktion. The announcement was published on 19 September 2019.

Tetra Pak inaugurated its first carton packaging material factory in Vietnam, located in Binh Duong province. The factory has an expandable capacity of 20 billion packs per annum and produces aseptic cartons for domestic and export markets.

South Korean clothing maker Sae-A Trading was chosen as preferred bidder to buy a 71% stake in Tailim Packaging and 100% of Tailim Paper from IMM Private Equity, with the price estimated at over 750 billion won. A final deal was expected to be signed the following month.