Closure maker Heinlein Plastik-Technik has built a new production hall in Ansbach for twenty more injection molding machines and assembly units. The project also upgraded energy supply and infrastructure, including water-cooled chillers and screw compressors.

DS Smith is investing EUR 16.7 million to expand and modernise its Arnstadt site in Thuringia, adding a new corrugator and automated conveyors. Construction began with a ground-breaking ceremony and runs about 12 months.

In April 2021 SCG Packaging started up a new production facility to increase packaging paper capacity at its Indonesian subsidiary Fajar.

A. Hatzopoulos S.A. is installing a new triplex-in-line BOBST CL 850 TD laminator, expected to be fully operational in April 2021. The line is expected to increase annual capacity in high-performance laminates by 90 million sqm.

Smurfit Kappa announced an investment of over €25 million at its Pruszkow plant in central Poland to double output, adding 25 jobs and a 12,000-pallet warehouse. Construction is due to start in July 2021 and finish during 2022.

SCG Packaging (SCGP) is investing Baht 510 million in a new production line and automated warehouse at Visy Packaging (Thailand), adding about 347 million pieces a year of capacity. The line has started commercial operation and the warehouse is due for completion at the end of 2021.

Packaging manufacturer Thimm Group installed a Corruflex flexo postprint press from Koenig & Bauer at its Sibiu plant in Romania, significantly expanding direct printing capacity on corrugated cardboard for Central and Eastern Europe. The announcement was dated 30 March 2021.

ABX Innovative Packaging Solutions is expanding its green flexible packaging manufacturing in the Town of Macedon, Wayne County, adding six bag lines and creating up to 38 jobs. The renovation is expected to launch in spring 2021 with completion targeted for summer 2022.

Al Bayader International unveiled its expanded plant in Jebel Ali Free Zone, Dubai, doubling its food packaging capacity to 18,000 tonnes per annum. The expansion is part of an AED200 million investment, taking total capacity across its UAE and Qatar sites to 31,000 tonnes.

O-I Glass will invest approximately $75 million to add a fourth furnace at its Zipaquira, Colombia glass plant, adding about 500 million bottles of annual output upon completion by end of 2022.

Acme Corrugated Box has broken ground on an expansion adding 80,000 square feet and a new 110-inch corrugator, targeting a 50% capacity increase, with completion expected in Q1 2022.

Crown Embalagens announced an R$300 million investment to install a second aluminum can production line at its Rio Verde unit in Goias, Brazil, expected to create 50 direct jobs by the end of 2021 and double annual output to two billion cans.

Jabil is investing $25 million in its subsidiary Ecologic's Manteca, California location to expand paper bottle and pulp molding production, adding new equipment and automation for North American and European markets.

Smurfit Kappa has approved a €40 million investment to expand capacity at its Mold plant in North Wales, making it the largest box factory in the UK. The investment includes equipment expected to cut CO2 emissions per tonne by 15%.

Verallia will invest €60 million in its Jacutinga plant in Minas Gerais, Brazil, adding a new furnace that more than doubles glass packaging production capacity. The announcement was dated 1 March 2021.

Folding carton maker Malnove is spending $7.4 million to upgrade a production line and grow capacity at its Jacksonville plant, creating 10 new advanced manufacturing jobs and retaining 182.

Rootree, a Burlington, Ontario flexible packaging converter, is adding a second HP Indigo 20000 Digital Press to double its print capacity for fully compostable flexible packaging.

A rail spur built by Stevens-Leinweber Construction gives Georgia-Pacific's GP Corrugated 100,000-square-foot Tolleson, Arizona facility direct Union Pacific rail access, completing the Tolleson Rail Corridor project.

Irani Papel e Embalagem is expanding its Campina da Alegria packaging plant in Vargem Bonita, Santa Catarina, Brazil, with the Gaia II project adding corrugated board capacity, with estimated investment of R$150.4 million.

Contract packer Framptons has installed the UK's first SIG Combidome carton bottle filler line, the first SIG Combidome installation for plant-based beverages in Europe. The line offers three filling volumes.

PACCOR plans to invest more than 40 million euros in 2021 in capacity, automation, logistics and technology. The investment includes new injection molding capacity at its Ravensburg site in Germany for in-mold labeled PP cups and lids.

Helvetia Packaging is increasing capacity by 30% at its aluminium can manufacturing facility in Saarlouis, Germany, this year. The plant previously had a maximum capacity of around 1.2 billion cans and ends per year.

Plastipak Packaging signed a long-term lease with Duke Realty for 470,590 square feet at its 3200 Kingsley Road facility in Garland, Texas, consolidating warehouse locations. The company will begin occupying the expanded space in March 2021.

Graphic Packaging International announced a $100 million investment at its Texarkana, Texas mill to add swing production across SBS and CUK substrates. Start-up of swing production is expected in Q1 2022.

Anshan Yongan Packaging Industry's second corrugated and containerboard papermaking line, begun in April 2020, went into production on January 28, 2021, bringing the company's papermaking capacity to 300,000 tons per year.

Segezha Packaging is investing more than EUR 10 million in a new production unit and depot at its Ploiesti site in Romania, plus line modernization. Completion is scheduled for October 2021 and production capacity is expected to rise 65 percent.

UPM Raflatac will invest EUR 13 million in Nowa Wieś, Poland, to add a linerless coating line and slitting and packing capacity, adding 100 million m2 of Direct Thermal linerless annual capacity, expected operational by end of 2021.

Pactiv LLC will invest $15 million to expand its existing Mooresville facility in Iredell County, with a county incentive of up to $270,158 over five years. Completion is anticipated by December 31, 2021.

PFF Group invested over £2m in custom-built machines from Hanbury-Autogil and hired 100 staff at its Washington, Tyne and Wear site to make disposable polythene aprons under a UK Department of Health and Social Care contract for 360 million aprons. The announcement is dated 5 January 2021.

Earlier in 2021 Verallia announced an expansion of its Jacutinga plant in Minas Gerais with an investment of R$370 million. The exact announcement date is not given.

De Jong Packaging is building a new multilayer distribution centre with storage and production space in De Lier, Netherlands, with real estate company WDP as investor and developer, to add production capacity. Completion is expected in 2022.

Tjoapack will invest more than €10 million over the next two years in its Etten-Leur site, growing it from 8,500 m2 to 11,500 m2 and adding eight production lines to double oral solid dose packaging capacity to over four billion tablets a year.

Mauser Packaging Solutions completed a new production space in Erkelenz, Germany in summer 2020, housing an IBC wash line and an automated IBC rebottle line, and increased post-consumer resin production.

Tri-Pack Films board approved a new BOPP film production line costing Rs9 billion, announced to the Pakistan Stock Exchange on December 2, 2020. The line is likely to start in 2023.

Amcor will invest over R$115 million to expand its packaging factory in Três Lagoas, Mato Grosso do Sul, doubling production capacity and raising direct jobs to 720 by July next year.

Atlas Ward Polska, as general contractor, has completed the first stage of a 10,000 sqm expansion of the Schumacher Packaging Polska plant in Krepice, Poland. A second-stage paper warehouse is planned, with completion expected in the second half of 2021.

American Carton Co., a folding carton maker in Texas affiliated with Harris Packaging, expanded its folding carton print capacity. The article gives no capacity figures or dates for the expansion.

Mondi's Ansbach plant in Southern Germany has installed new machinery under a €30 million investment, expanding its corrugated packaging portfolio and capacity ahead of full project completion in 2021.

Klöckner Pentaplast will expand its production facility in Beaver, West Virginia by adding thermoforming capabilities for sustainable food trays. The investment, worth several million dollars, will create 21 full-time jobs.

Stora Enso plans to invest about SEK 8.6 billion (EUR 800-850 million) to upgrade and expand pulp and packaging board capacity at its Skoghall mill in Värmland, Sweden. A pre-project and environmental permit application have been started, with production possibly starting in Q4 2023.

Hamilton-based packaging manufacturer HT Productions Inc. (Whitebird) will expand its facility, acquire advanced manufacturing equipment and move to a new online ordering system, backed by about $3.9 million from FedDev Ontario. The investment will create 45 skilled jobs and maintain 105 in Hamilton.

Oldham-based Ribble Packaging completed a £3.5 million investment project including a warehouse extension and new corrugator and fanfold stacker machinery, raising line speeds and capacity. The project ran from February to early September 2020.

Mayr-Melnhof announced on November 5, 2020 an EUR 18 million investment in its Neupack folding carton plant at Hirschwang, Austria, covering an enlarged production and storage hall, new printing technology, die-cutting capacity and automation.

Ardagh Group is adding two new high-speed beverage can manufacturing lines at its Olive Branch, Mississippi facility, starting production by end of 2020 and adding more than 80 jobs.

Boxes and Packaging has installed a new Dong Fang Topra AD1628 2.8m two-colour printer die-cutter at its Leicester site, replacing an older machine to add production capacity for corrugated packaging.

JDE Peet's plans to invest EUR 110 million in new high-speed aluminium coffee capsule production lines, starting with Andrézieux, France, operational in H1 2021. The investment will raise its capsule capacity by 60%.

Smurfit Kappa is investing about EUR 50 million at its Brühl, Germany plant to raise corrugated board output above 200 million square meters a year by mid-2023 and create around 50 jobs.

Atlantic Packaging Products announced construction of a new 100% recycled paper machine next to its existing Whitby, Ontario machine, producing 400,000 tons per year of containerboard. Production is scheduled for Q1 2022.

Priority Plastics says it acquired and installed injection stretch blow molding (ISBM) equipment at its Portland, Indiana facility to increase PET container capacity. The article gives no installation date.

Nine Dragons Paper expects its 550,000-tonne-per-year packaging paper capacity in Malaysia to start production before the end of Q2 2022. The plan was disclosed on 2020-10-10.