Oji Fibre Solutions (OjiFS) opened a $72 million corrugated packaging factory in Yatala on the Gold Coast, supported by the Advance Queensland Industry Attraction Fund. OjiFS also plans three satellite manufacturing sites in other Queensland locations.

Deufol will build a HUF 7 billion packaging and logistics plant in Debrecen, which will also serve as its Southeast Europe regional hub, with a HUF 1.4 billion government subsidy. The project will create 120 jobs and phase one construction is set to begin in July 2019.

Print-Leeds won a £2m contract to become the sole wet glue label supplier for all of Marston's Beer Company's bottled beer labels, following a competitive tender. The win follows a £5m investment programme over the past two years.

Inteplast Group's AmTopp division plans to add two cast film extrusion lines at its newly acquired facility in Remington, Indiana, expanding stretch film capacity by 60 million pounds to a total of 445 million pounds. The company is investing an additional $20 million in new equipment and expects to start operations by the end of 2020.

Tetra Pak opened its €120 million greenfield aseptic carton packaging material factory in Binh Duong province, Vietnam, on 3 July 2019. The expandable plant serves domestic and export markets in ASEAN, Australia and New Zealand.

Nissin Foods plans to invest about CNY 180 million to build a new packaging materials production plant in Zhuhai, China, on a 30,000-square-meter site acquired through the purchase of Zhuhai Lianzhi Technology. The plant is expected to be completed in 2021.

Envases Universales Group, through its Danish subsidiary Glud & Marstrand, acquired 100% of pack2pack from private equity firm Gilde Equity Management in a competitive auction. Alantra advised Envases Universales on the deal.

Cascades Inc. has reached a final agreement to acquire all assets of Orchids Paper Products for $207 million USD, including plants in Barnwell (South Carolina) and Pryor (Oklahoma), and an agreement with Fabrica de Papel San Francisco in Mexico.

Tunnock's, a Scottish biscuit manufacturer, invested in an additional production line from Syntegon Technology to package its caramel wafer biscuits, increasing output and flexibility.

US company Tekni-Plex acquired Lameplast, an Italian maker of plastic pharmaceutical packaging, from private equity firm Aksìa Group for an undisclosed amount. Lameplast employs 130 people at Rovereto sul Secchia and joins Tekni-Plex's film business.

O-I completed its acquisition of Nueva Fabrica Nacional de Vidrio (Nueva Fanal) from Grupo Modelo for about US$188 million. The plant near Mexico City has four furnaces producing about 300,000 tons of glass containers a year.

Print finishing equipment makers AB Graphic International and Kocher+Beck have jointly acquired Spanish labeling and packaging equipment maker Enprom Packaging. The deal was announced July 1, 2019, and no value was given.

Mexican paper maker Biopappel, through its US subsidiary McKinley Paper Company, acquired 55 percent of US Corrugated Inc and subsidiaries. The amount was not disclosed, and the deal doubles Biopappel's US operations.

Royal Unibrew and Petainer collaborated to develop a lightweight PET bottle with 50% food-grade post-consumer recycled PET for 500ml Pepsi carbonated soft drinks, reducing CO2 emissions at Royal Unibrew's Faxe, Denmark plant.

Berry Global completed its acquisition of RPC Group Plc for a purchase price of about $6.5 billion, creating a global plastic packaging leader with over 290 locations and about 48,000 employees.

Formosa Flexible Packaging America, a Hotai company, obtained a new manufacturing facility in San Fernando Valley, California, on July 1, 2019, its first manufacturing subsidiary in the United States.

KUKA supplied and configured six KR QUANTEC robots for Tricor Packaging & Logistics' corrugated board production in Bad Wörishofen, Germany, after KUKA Customer Service stepped in to complete a stalled robot system.

Aurelius Equity Opportunities agreed to sell Solidus Solutions, a European producer of fibre-based packaging, to Centerbridge Partners at an enterprise value of about 330 million euros ($375.6 million), announced on 28 June 2019.

Amcor signed a binding agreement to sell three former Bemis flexible packaging plants in the UK and Ireland to investment firm Kohlberg & Company for US$394 million cash, a divestment required by the European Commission. The plants generate about US$170 million annual sales.

A. Hatzopoulos S.A. installed a BOBST RS 6003 HS rotogravure printing press at its Stadiou plant in Kalohori, Thessaloniki, as a €4 million investment to increase capacity. The press has annual capacity of up to 110,000,000 m2 and will be fully operational by July 2019.

Paper Converting Machine Company (PCMC) will acquire Hudson-Sharp, a bag converting equipment maker, effective October 1, 2019, integrating it into Barry-Wehmiller's converting equipment platform.

Italian packager AMB has acquired TDX (Europe), a provider of PET, RPET and laminated rigid films, including its product design, prototype and tooling business. The deal expands AMB's European footprint, with the combined group having four sites in Europe and 430 employees.

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.

Atlantic Packaging is investing $4.5 million to expand its existing Dorchester County operations with a 100,000-square-foot distribution and warehousing addition, creating 10 new jobs, with completion projected by fall 2019.

BillerudKorsnäs started production at its new KM7 board machine at Gruvön Mill in Grums, Sweden. The 350-meter-long machine has a capacity of 550,000 tons per year and produces liner for fruit boxes, bag-in-box, and frozen products. The investment grew from 5.7 to 7.6 billion SEK.

Japanese packaging maker Takigawa opened its nearly $46 million, 180-job flexible packaging and high-performance films plant in Bardstown, Kentucky, its first US facility, with a 180,000-square-foot operation.

Anchor Packaging of St. Louis, Missouri, announced a partnership with private equity firm The Jordan Co. that makes The Jordan Co. an investor in the company to fund growth in consumer package solutions.

Auer Packaging is building a third production hall of about 3,000 m² at its Amerang headquarters, due for completion in December 2019, to house eight new injection molding machines from February 2020.

Benepack Belgium, a joint venture of CPMC and Haoneng, is investing over EUR 50 million in a can production plant in Genk, Belgium, creating 150 jobs and receiving a EUR 3 million Flemish subsidy.

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.

Croatian packaging producer Bomark Packaging plans to complete investments worth €19 million by end of 2019 to acquire new machinery and increase production capacities at its facility in Varaždin.

Print-Leeds, a label printer in Leeds, UK, won sole supplier status for wet-glue labels for Marston's Beer Company after a competitive tender. The three-year contract is worth approximately $2.5m per year.

Packinov, a manufacturer of packaging machinery, has moved into a new 4,175 m² facility in Beynost, France, with an investment of €1.7 million. The company plans to expand its workforce from 26 to about 30 employees by end of 2019.

Irish packaging group Smurfit Kappa will invest $34 million in two stages to build a new corrugated cardboard plant in Baja California, Mexico, creating 200 new jobs.

Italian closure maker Tapì Group announced a significant acquisition of French closure maker Les Bouchages Delage, creating a hub for premium and super premium spirits closures.

Dosecann, a subsidiary of Auxly Cannabis Group, entered a definitive agreement with Capsugel (Lonza) to acquire a complete line of capsule filling and sealing equipment, including LEMS technology and Licaps capsules, for its PEI facility. The capacity is up to 200 million capsules per year.

Genstar-backed Tekni-Plex acquired three manufacturing facilities from Amcor's flexible packaging business in Madison and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Ashland, Massachusetts. No financial terms were disclosed.

Al Safa Packaging and the Sadulym financial group built a packaging materials plant in Mali with an investment of EUR 30 million, with Al Safa holding 51 percent. The plant has started operating at about 60 percent of total capacity.

Egyptian packaging maker Al Safa for Packaging is adding a EUR 2 million production line imported from Germany to raise capacity by 20 to 25 percent at its Alexandria plants. Production is expected to start early next month.

Belgian private equity firm Cobepa bought a majority stake in Enoplastic, which makes capsules and caps for bottles in the Varese province of Italy, from the Macchi and Moglia families. Michele Moglia and Samo Kalin will continue to manage the company.

Can-One Bhd signed a sale and purchase agreement to sell F&B Nutrition Sdn Bhd to Wholesome Dairies Pte Ltd for between RM800 million and RM1 billion. Proceeds will pay down about RM750 million of bank borrowings used to privatise Kian Joo Can Factory.

INEOS Styrolution and Bischof+Klein installed a stretch hood packaging solution at the INEOS Styrolution production site in Ludwigshafen, Germany. The packaging material is based on Styroflex, an SBC copolymer produced by INEOS Styrolution.

Arkema announced that Bostik plans to acquire Prochimir, a company specializing in high-performance thermobonding adhesive films.

Zume Inc. purchased Pivot Packaging, a maker of plant-based alternatives to plastic packaging, and plans to open new production in California. The deal was reported on 14 June 2019.

France's Autorité de la concurrence cleared International Paper to acquire DS Smith Packaging Normandie's two plants in Torigni-sur-Vire and Cabourg, Normandy, as a remedy for DS Smith's acquisition of Europac.

GOEX Corporation will open a new plastic sheet extrusion facility in Iron County, Utah, creating up to 100 jobs and about US$15 million in capital investment over seven years.

Govind Enterprises was awarded a Rajasthan dairy federation (RCDF) tender to supply single wall corrugated fibre board boxes for 1-litre lined cartons for ghee packing, at a contract value of ₹1.06 Cr.

Buckeye Corrugated Inc., a maker of corrugated packaging, will lease a vacant 197,000 sq ft building on Carrier Corp.'s DeWitt campus and spend $1.4 million to build out and furnish it, creating 11 jobs.

Packaging supplier Cepac partnered with UK craft brewer ShinDigger Brewing Co to create sustainable corrugated packaging for its full range of 12-pack beer cans. The new packs replaced a tray and shrinkwrap combination and appeared in shops from late spring 2019.

Amcor has completed its acquisition of Bemis Company Inc., effective June 11, 2019, and now operates as Amcor Plc. The combined company is a consumer packaging group with about 250 locations in more than 40 countries.