RIV Manufacturing Group completed the acquisition of Yeaman Machine Technologies, a manufacturer of packaging systems for food, beverage, confectionery, hardware and lawn and garden industries. Financial terms were not disclosed.

A Naberezhnye Chelny cardboard and paper mill is installing a Jumbo corrugated packaging line supplied by Engico, with delivery from June 14 and installation from July 15, 2019. The line is meant to supply large corrugated packaging to Haier, which operates nearby.

Swindon firm Emagination Store has won a £15 million global contract from Mondelez to supply personalised Heroes chocolate tins. Roses, Green & Blacks and Toblerone lines are planned later.

Polish corrugated packaging maker Werner Kenkel has acquired a Rapida 164-6+L offset press from Koenig & Bauer for its Krzycko Wielkie plant to raise production capacity. The report was published on 7 June 2019.

Foxpak has opened a new €3 million manufacturing plant in Collon, County Louth, to add capacity for flexible compostable packaging. The opening was reported on 7 June 2019.

Danish waste authority SMOKA I/S awarded Scandrums A/S a supply contract worth DKK 14,673,766 for packaging materials used to transport hazardous waste. The publication date is 7 June 2019.

Cascades, a Canadian packaging and tissue manufacturer, has become an official member of Amazon's Packaging Support and Supplier (APASS) network, offering Amazon packaging testing and certification services from its R&D Centre in Kingsey Falls, Quebec.

Ozpack won a contract to package Moccona 3-in-1 Coffee Stick Packs for Australia, and installed an ARANOW multi-lane stick packaging machine. Sales soared, and Ozpack has ordered a second ARANOW machine.

EFP Corporation will lease a 100,000-square-foot building in Evansville's Vanderburgh Industrial Park and invest in production equipment for expanded foam protective packaging, creating up to 29 jobs by 2021. The facility is planned to be operational by November 2019.

JBS will invest about 100 million reais in building a metal packaging factory and modernising its Lins unit in Sao Paulo state, with about 80 million reais going to the new plant that will make steel and aluminium cans. Operation is planned for the first half of 2020.

Schumacher Packaging announced investment plans of €200 million over the next four years, including over €50 million in 2019, mainly for technological innovation across its plants. The group reported 2018 sales up over 6% to €627 million.

Sterling Contract Packaging Inc. has purchased a ProSys RT60 tube filling and sealing machine for its facility in Moore, South Carolina. The machine can fill and seal tubes at up to 70 per minute and handle various tube materials and product viscosities.

Nutkao expanded its plant in Canove di Govone, Italy, with a EUR 30 million investment, increasing the facility from 12,000 to 20,000 square meters. The expanded plant will produce Pan di Stelle spread for Barilla and will be inaugurated on June 21, 2019.

Sharp Interpack Ltd., a UK subsidiary of Groupe Guillin, signed an agreement to acquire 100% of Flight Plastics, a plastic sheet producer with an extrusion capacity of over 12,000 tonnes per year. The acquisition aims to increase production capacity in the growing packaging market.

Royal Unibrew and Petainer collaborated on a lightweight PET bottle containing 50% food-grade recycled PET for 500ml Pepsi carbonated soft drinks. The bottle is made from Petainer's preform at its Lidkoping, Sweden site, and the bottle design is used at Royal Unibrew's Faxe plant in Denmark.

Dunapack Rambox is upgrading its Sfântu Gheorghe corrugated packaging plant in Covasna County, Romania, raising combined annual capacity with the new Bolintin-Deal plant to about 300 million square metres.

Dunapack Rambox is building a 45 million euro packaging plant on an 11.5ha site in Bolintin-Deal, Giurgiu County, Romania, with 180 million square metres annual capacity and 150 jobs. Construction began in October 2018 and operations are expected to start in June 2019.

Triton and Abu Dhabi Investment Authority completed the acquisition of reusable packaging provider IFCO Systems on May 31, 2019, at an enterprise value of US$2.51 billion, ending Brambles' ownership.

Packaging maker ALPLA invested 13 million euro in ultra-modern packaging manufacturing in Werner & Mertz's new Mainz production center, making recycled-plastic bottles on site.

Werner & Mertz invested 30 million euro in a new production building in Mainz's Rheinallee, its largest investment to date. One production line valued at 4.5 million euro is already running, and Frosch production can be doubled in the final stage.

India's Competition Commission approved Epsilon Bidco's acquisition of up to 75% of packaging maker Essel Propack Limited by order dated 3 June 2019.

Packaging company Elpes held an opening ceremony in June 2019 for a modern plant in Lublin that produces laminate tubes, mainly for the cosmetics industry. The article is dated July 1, 2019.

Simmons Pet Food opened its expanded flexible packaging facility in Emporia, Kansas, in June 2019. The $60 million project added a 200,000 sq ft production line and created 100 new jobs.

LBP Manufacturing, LLC acquired Yeadon-based Union Packaging, a folding carton producer for quick service restaurant brands, from founder Michael Pearson. Financial terms were not disclosed.

New-Indy JV Corp., a joint venture of the Kraft Group and Schwarz Partners, agreed to acquire Carolina Container Company, a corrugated packaging maker headquartered in High Point, North Carolina, including its CaroCon Display and Packaging division. The expected closing date was the end of January 2015.

The US Justice Department filed a complaint and proposed final judgment requiring Amcor to divest medical flexible packaging assets, including facilities in Ashland, Massachusetts and Madison and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as a condition of its proposed acquisition of Bemis.

Amcor is reinstalling a food packaging production line in Pouso Alegre, Minas Gerais, relocated from Goiania, to supply Unilever mayonnaise, ketchup and soup lines. Operations are expected to start in July 2019 with an estimated 70 to 100 direct and indirect jobs.

Groupe Guillin, through its UK subsidiary Sharp Interpack Ltd., acquired 100% of Flight Plastics (UK) Ltd., a plastic sheet producer with an extrusion capacity of over 12,000 tonnes per year, to strengthen its presence in the UK market.

German pharmaceutical packaging company Geresheimer signed a land lease agreement to build a multi-million euro plant in Skopje's TIDZ free economic zone, with the first phase expected to be completed by end of 2019 or Q1 2020.

Walki Group signed a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of Plastiroll Oy, a Finnish packaging material producer. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Fox's Biscuits, part of 2 Sisters Food Group, has made a seven-figure investment in new flow wrapping, bagging and weighing equipment from ILAPAK for its Kirkham, Lancashire factory. The equipment includes Vegatronic 6000 baggers, Weightronic multi-head weighers, Eagle flow wrappers and a Delta over-wrapper.

UK corrugated packaging maker Durham Box has purchased an EFI Nozomi C18000 single-pass LED inkjet press to improve print quality and productivity. Installation is scheduled for summer 2019.

Valmet will supply an OptiConcept M containerboard making line with automation solutions and a winder for GS Paperboard & Packaging in Selangor, Malaysia. The new PM 3 line will produce testliner and fluting grades, with start-up scheduled for 2021.

Sonoco signed an agreement to acquire Corenso Holdings America from Madison Dearborn Partners for about $110 million in cash. Corenso operates two Wisconsin Rapids facilities making paperboard cores and recycled board, and the deal is expected to close later in 2019.

BHS (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of German BHS Group, completed the third-phase expansion of its plant and office building in Shanghai, increasing capacity by 30%. The company also established the BHS Asia-Pacific management center and introduced intelligent logistics and digital printing equipment.

Carlsberg has begun using ExcelRise's R100 100% recycled plastic film for beer multipacks in Sweden, as part of its Together Towards ZERO sustainability program. The film contains at least 30% recycled content from Carlsberg's European breweries.

Cepac developed a shelf-ready, recyclable corrugated pack replacing tray and shrinkwrap for ShinDigger Brewing's 12-pack 440ml cans, which reached shops from late spring 2019. The design removes shrink tunnel heat requirements and speeds pack assembly.

Opus Packaging Group plans a 170,000 sq ft corrugated packaging manufacturing facility in Park 130, Whitestown, Indiana, investing nearly $3 million and creating up to 43 jobs by end-2022. Construction was underway in May 2019 with completion expected by July 2019.

Mpac Group acquired Lambert Automation, a provider of automation solutions for medical and consumer healthcare markets, for £15 million to accelerate innovation in packaging.

LT Foods Europe chose Rovema as supplier of packaging lines for its new rice factory on the Maasvlakte in the Netherlands, the first rice factory outside India for LT Foods.

Rohrer is building a new thermoforming facility in Tijuana, Mexico, to serve U.S. consumer goods and packaging customers who have moved manufacturing to the border region. The plant is expected to employ nearly 200 people at full production.

Intertape Polymer Group, backed by Clearlake Capital Group, announced the acquisition of Clysar, a North American manufacturer of premium polyolefin shrink film based in Clinton, Iowa. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Spanish postal operator SE Correos y Telegrafos awarded Innovaciones Plasticas a supply contract worth EUR 404,296 for multiservice and plastic bags for its sales network, with the award dated May 14, 2019.

Novolex and Pactiv Evergreen have signed a definitive agreement to combine into a leading food, beverage and specialty packaging manufacturer. Pactiv Evergreen shareholders will receive $18.00 per share in cash.

Welch Packaging, a Midwest family-owned packaging business, has acquired Heritage Packaging, a corrugated packaging supplier in Lincoln, Illinois. Terms were not disclosed and the deal extends Welch's service area into central Illinois.

COFCO Packaging's subsidiary agreed to buy a 23% stake in Wuxi Huapeng Bottle Cap from Crown Asia Pacific for RMB 53.3987 million, raising its holding to about 84.48%.

Marchesini Group, a Bologna-based packaging company, finalized the acquisition of 60% of CMP Pharma, a Vicenza-based manufacturer of inspection systems for the pharmaceutical industry.

Spicers Paper, a division of Central National Gottesman, acquired Premiere Packaging Industries, a packaging supply distributor based in Cerritos, California. PPI will keep operating under its own name.

Private equity sponsor Altamont Capital Partners invested in Key Container Corporation, a Pawtucket, Rhode Island corrugated packaging producer, with Monroe Capital as administrative agent on a senior credit facility, announced April 1, 2026.

Packaging Corporation of America agreed to purchase Greif's containerboard business for $1.8 billion in cash, including two US mills with about 800,000 tons of capacity and eight corrugated plants, with closing expected by the end of PCA's third quarter.