SupplyOne Plastics purchased a GN800 High-Speed Form/Cut/Stack Thermoforming machine to support growth, with products expected to begin shipping in May 2019.

Ilapak delivered a US-built Delta Systems & Automation Eagle flow wrapper to Fox's Rocky chocolate biscuits at its factory in Kirkham, Lancashire, to meet demand. The machine wraps biscuit bars at speeds in excess of 1000 ppm.

Chinese company CPMC plans to invest €60 million in a new beverage can factory in Genk, Limburg, on the site of Illochroma Haoneng, with production targeted to start by January 1, 2020; the agreement is not yet fully finalised.

TriMas, a US engineering products manufacturer, has acquired Plastic Srl of Italy, which makes single-bodied and assembled caps and closures; the deal is expected to yield more than €10 million (about $12 million) in annual revenue and Plastic Srl will be integrated into TriMas's Rieke business.

Tetra Pak has partnered with Koenig & Bauer to implement full-colour digital on-package printing on beverage cartons, with the full-width digital printer to be deployed at Tetra Pak's Denton converting plant in Texas.

Klöckner Pentaplast is investing $25 million to expand its global production capacity for pharmaceutical and medical device packaging films at its manufacturing facility in Gordonsville, Louisa County, Virginia.

Auer Packaging is constructing a new warehouse adding 6,300 m2 of usable storage space at its Amerang site, at an investment of about 7 million euros.

Auer Packaging secured its largest single order in company history from Volkswagen, worth 5.5 million euros, now supplying the entire VW Group with all its European plants.

Nestlé announced a partnership with Danimer Scientific to develop biodegradable water bottles using Danimer's PHA polymer Nodax. The partnership supports Nestlé's commitment to make 100% of its packaging recyclable or reusable by 2025.

HPI Resources subsidiary Harta Packaging Industries (Perak) launched its second plant, HP2, at the Parit Buntar industrial area, worth RM45 million. The plant doubles the group's northern production capacity to 66,000 tonnes annually.

The Packaging Group (TPG), a portfolio company of HQ Equita, completed a refinancing with Commerzbank and OLB. The financing will support extending one production facility and building a third greenfield facility, as well as investments in sales and R&D.

Technical Precision Plastics has merged its operations with IntraPac International, a specialty packaging company owned by Oncap. TPP has facilities in Mebane, North Carolina and Haina, Dominican Republic.

Tetra Pak will install a full-width digital printer built by Koenig & Bauer at its Denton, Texas converting plant, enabling full-colour on-package printing on carton packages. Field testing with North American customers is expected to begin in early 2020.

Koenig & Bauer agreed to take over 80% of Duran Machinery's folder gluer business, integrating it as Koenig & Bauer Duran. The acquisition strengthens Koenig & Bauer's packaging production activities.

Sinterpack, led by President Thomas Kermorgant, has acquired Catalan company Prodec, a specialist in packaging solutions. The combined group aims to become a world leader in end-of-line integration solutions, with a projected consolidated turnover of €25 million.

COFCO Packaging signed a packaging supply agreement with Chinese herbal tea maker Jia Duo Bao (JDB) under which COFCO will produce 70% of the metal cans JDB needs in 2019. The deal was signed in Beijing and reported on 15 January 2019.

Emsur, the flexible packaging division of Grupo Lantero, has acquired a majority of Russian shrink sleeve producer Eximpack, which it had partly owned for over two years.

Gulf Glass Factory signed an EPC contract with Falorni Gianfranco for Qatar's first container glass plant. The first phase will have a capacity of 200 tons/day, with a second phase raising it to 450 tons/day.

Panca Budi Idaman (PBID) plans to start building a new plastics and packaging plant in Pemalang, Central Java in Q1 2019 on 12 hectares bought for about Rp40 billion, with completion targeted by year end.

CPMC Holdings, one of China's largest canmakers, signed a deal to supply a larger volume of aluminium cans to herbal tea producer Jiaduobao.

Atlas Holdings, a private investment and equity firm, acquired Saxco International, a UK provider of packaging solutions for the wine, spirits, craft beer and food markets.

Crown Aerosols and Promotional Packaging was selected by champagne producer Nicolas Feuillatte to supply classic metal tins for its Réserve Exclusive Brut and Sélection Brut champagnes.

CorrChoice LLC plans a 350,000-square-foot corrugated packaging facility at 350 N. Lingle Ave. in Derry Township, Pennsylvania, backed by a $40 million investment. The project is expected to create 79 jobs and retain 97 jobs in Hazleton and Warminster.

LC Packaging acquired a majority stake in Hagens Verpakkingen, a box erection company in Venlo, Netherlands serving the fruit and vegetable market. The Hagens name and existing customer operations are unchanged.

Flex America S.A. de C.V., a manufacturer of polyester and metalized films, will invest US$9 million in 2019 to expand its production line in Altamira, creating 50 new jobs.

TricorBraun acquired Pacific Bag LLC, one of the largest independent US distributors of flexible packaging. Pacific Bag will be combined with Taipak into a new unit called TricorBraun Flex. Terms were not disclosed.

Swiss packaging company Hoffmann Neopac AG is starting production at a new 37,000-square-foot US plant in North Carolina, with a high-speed tube line capable of 80 million units per year. The project received a $300,000 state grant.

PCI Pharma Services invested over $20 million to expand biotech clinical and commercial packaging and release testing capability at its Center of Excellence in Philadelphia, and expand cold chain capacity at global locations.

Pipers Crisps installed two TNA Robag FX 3ci vertical form fill seal packaging machines at its Lincolnshire plant, doubling packaging capacity to 140 bags per minute and reducing waste from 3% to 1%.

Durst and Koenig & Bauer signed a joint development agreement for digital printing for the folding carton and cartonboard corrugated industry.

COFCO Packaging announced plans to establish a joint venture with Jiaxing Haoneng to build a two-piece aluminum can manufacturing plant in Belgium, with total investment of 400 million yuan. COFCO will hold 51%.

Vtops Machinery successfully delivered and commissioned a milk powder canning packing production line for an Australian customer. The line was developed and delivered after signing a supply contract.

Almarai installed two complete Sidel PET lines, each handling 54,000 bottles per hour, at its Al Kharj central processing plant to increase single-serve orange juice capacity. The lines use Tetra Pak Processing Systems equipment. The article is dated January 2019.

Atlas Holdings acquired Saxco International, a North American value-added distributor of rigid packaging such as glass, metal and plastic containers, capsules and closures for wine, spirits, craft beer and food markets. Terms were not disclosed.

The China buyout fund CITIC Capital Partners acquired a 33% stake in China Merchants Loscam, a pallet and returnable packaging pooling provider, from Sinotrans. Sinotrans retains a 45% stake. Financial terms were not disclosed.

AR Packaging Group, a Swedish packaging services provider, acquired Istragrafika, a Croatian manufacturer of cartons for tobacco, food and consumer goods, for an undisclosed sum. Istragrafika was integrated on 1 January 2019.

Rivoira and its partners purchased a 50% stake in Zeropack, a newly established Italian packaging firm set up by bioplastics company Bio-on, which will offer bioplastic packaging for fruit and vegetables.

Oliver Printing & Packaging, a Pfingsten portfolio company, acquired DISC Graphics, a manufacturer of folding carton packaging, micro-fluted corrugated boxes and pressure sensitive labels headquartered in Hauppauge, New York. It is the platform's second add-on acquisition.

BHS Corrugated was contracted by Hiang Seng Fibre Containers to supply and install a 2.8m corrugating line at its Ekachai 2 plant in Thailand after a fire in April 2016; the line began commissioning in late 2016.

Rajoo Engineers and Kohli Industries have partnered to build a new series of extrusion coating and lamination machines, with Multigraph Machinery as distributor. The alliance aims to produce the LAMEX extrusion coating laminator.

MR Cartonnage Numerique opened a second production site of 2,800 square metres in Saint-Ouen-L'Aumone, north-west of Paris, on January 2, 2019. The EUR 2 million site is equipped with an HP Indigo 30000 digital printer and a UV varnishing line.

Fortis Solutions Group, a portfolio company of Main Post Partners, acquired Infinite Packaging Group, a converter of label products previously backed by Svoboda Capital Partners. No financial terms were disclosed.

Food Innovations Baking Group acquired Doric FPD, a UK manufacturer of food packaging and cake decorations, in January 2019. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Mondi announced an expansion of its Ansbach corrugated cardboard plant, with an investment of EUR 30 million, making it Europe's largest comprehensive corrugated cardboard facility. Completion is expected in 2021.

Canpack announced a new investment in the Czech Republic, where a can production line will be launched to supply the Plzensky Prazdroj brewery, owner of Pilsner Urquell, in 2019.

Canpack, a Krakow-based metal packaging group, started operations at an aluminium beverage can factory in Colombia during 2019, according to its annual review.

Private equity firm Graham Partners invested in Nuconic Packaging of Vernon, California, a thermoformed PET food packaging supplier, to build a nationwide packaging platform with Tray-Pak and EasyPak. No financial terms were given.

Westrock inaugurated a mega plant producing corrugated cardboard packaging in Porto Feliz, São Paulo state, Brazil.

TNA, a manufacturer of food processing and packaging machinery, opened a new production facility in Boronia, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. The facility triples the company's manufacturing capacity for high-performance machines, including the Robag vertical form-fill-seal system.

Crown Embalagens Metálicas da Amazônia announced a beverage can factory in Rio Verde, Goiás, with investment of R$350 million and more than 600 direct and indirect jobs.