Nine Dragons Paper said it plans to add 1.2 million tonnes of packaging paper capacity at its Hubei base by end-2022, alongside a 600,000-tonne wood pulp expansion in Shenyang. The plans were disclosed with its annual results reported on 2020-10-10.

PaperWorks will invest $25 million in new printing and finishing equipment to enhance North American production capacity at its Baldwinsville, New York converting facility, with installation running from October 2020 to Q1 2021.

Hood Container installed a new state-of-the-art 98-inch Fosber corrugator at its Chicago facility to expand its product range and speed to market.

TemperPack plans to add manufacturing equipment at its Henrico, Virginia production plant, with a $21 million investment in new machinery and additional jobs. The expansion follows a $31 million fundraising round in August.

Wipak UK, a flexible packaging maker, is investing more than £5 million in new conversion equipment at its Welshpool site, with about 50 new jobs expected. The machinery is due to be operating by summer 2021.

PAPACKS plans to build a further production facility on its acquired Arnstadt site in 2022, doubling the area in use and raising capacity from 180 million to 360 million units per year.

Stora Enso is investing in additional formed fiber production capacity at its Qian'an Mill in China, with the two mills together expected to reach about 115 million units of annual capacity.

Stora Enso has started production of formed fiber foodservice products at its Hylte Mill in Sweden, following an investment announced in 2019. The plastic- and PFAS-free PureFiber range is intended for fresh food packaging.

Ball Corporation is adding 3.6 billion additional can lids per year at its Guarambaré plant in Paraguay, with the expansion expected to finish in January 2021.

Plast-Box Group completed an investment of nearly PLN 3.5 million at subsidiary Stark Partner in Urszulin, adding a new production department and a thermoforming machine. The company said capacity will rise by at least 50%.

Soft drinks maker Clearly Drinks plans a multimillion-pound brownfield canning facility at its Sunderland headquarters, backed by private equity firm NorthEdge. The line, supplied by BW Integrated Systems, is expected to produce 160 million cans per year and operate from March.

Mondi has completed installation of a five-colour Bobst Masterline 2.1 HD and a Robot MUK at its corrugated box plant in Szczecin, Poland, to meet e-commerce packaging demand.

Rohrer completed a expansion of its Wadsworth, Ohio facility adding 20% floor area to reach 200,000 square feet, making it the company's first Center of Excellence.

Altium Packaging plans to invest more than $3 million in new equipment at its Argos facility in Marshall County, Indiana, creating 10 jobs and retaining 48 existing jobs. The Argos Town Council approved a personal property tax abatement for the project.

PaperWorks is adding a Komori GLX740 offset printing press and two Bobst MasterFold folding gluing lines at its Greensboro, North Carolina facility to increase production capacity. The equipment is expected to be in production in Q4 2020.

Liveo Research will add 20,000 tons of coating capacity for pharma blister packaging films at its Boetzingen, Germany site, with commissioning expected in Q3 2021 and total capacity above 50,000 tons.

Trinity Packaging Corporation bought the former Erath Veneer building in the Franklin County-Rocky Mount Industrial Park to add a multi-million dollar facility with new equipment, creating 25 jobs and retaining 75.

Silgan Containers plans a US$9.7 million expansion of its canmaking plant in Lancaster, South Carolina, expected to be completed by the end of 2021 and create 16 new jobs over five years.

Coveris has invested about £3.5m to add a second re-equipped factory to its Amberley Labels business, installing two new MPS label presses at its Boston, Lincolnshire site. The site will be rebranded Amberley Labels Boston in September.

Crown Cork and Seal is reopening a manufacturing line at its Batesville, Mississippi facility to meet higher demand, creating 60 jobs; the site can make 5 million cans and lids per day.

Pretium Packaging, a North American plastic container maker, invested $5 million in PET stretch blow molding equipment and infrastructure across six of its 19 plants, adding 100 million bottles of capacity. The project is expected to be completed by October 2020.

SÜDPACK broke ground on July 15, 2020 for a new complex at its Bahpol site in Klobuck near Czestochowa, Poland, to expand flexo print capacity. The facility is expected to start production at the end of 2021.

Signode Industrial Group will expand its Fordyce, Arkansas facility, creating 31 new full-time jobs over the next 12 months. The company makes transit packaging consumables, tools, software and equipment.

Arkhbum is upgrading its Ulyanovsk corrugated plant, which makes double and triple wall packaging with monthly output of 16 million square meters. The total project cost is 2.5 billion rubles, with a new plant due to launch in March 2021.

Norske Skog plans to invest about EUR 350 million to convert paper machines at its Golbey (France) and Bruck (Austria) mills into renewable containerboard production adding 765,000 tonnes of capacity, starting in H2 2021 over 18 months.

Plastic container maker Auer Packaging is expanding its Amerang site with a third production hall, expected to go into operation in July 2020, bringing the site to three production halls and one warehouse.

Sharp invested £1 million to expand its Rhymney, Wales facility into commercial primary and secondary packaging, adding packaging rooms, blistering equipment and automated cartoners. Commercial blister production at the site was set to begin in June 2020.

Atlantic Coated Papers is building a 12,000 square foot warehouse at its Windsor, Quebec plant and has bought a rewinder to enter cosmetics packaging, with a stated investment of 2.5 million. The company expects five to 10 new full-time jobs over the coming months.

Klöckner Pentaplast is expanding its Klöckner Barrier Film facility in central Virginia, adding 6,000 metric tonnes of capacity and new coating capabilities for pharmaceutical barrier films. The multi-million dollar investment is expected to be operational toward the end of 2021.

Progroup and Krystals are expanding their Ellesmere Port site in England to create a packaging park, with 20 million pounds invested over about 16,000 square metres. Completion is expected in the second half of 2020. The announcement is dated June 4, 2020.

Kenyan packaging company Silafrica has increased PET preform capacity at its Tanzania factory by installing a Husky-3 machine, which produces 330,000 preforms per day, up from 250,000.

Toyo Seikan announced on 27 May 2020 a total investment of about ¥12 billion to add automated aluminum two-piece can manufacturing equipment at its Ishioka plant in Ibaraki, with start-up from April 2021.

Polipak signed a contract worth over 50 million zloty with general contractor W.P.I.P. on 20 May 2020 to build production, warehouse and office buildings of over 20,000 m2 in Środa Wielkopolska, doubling its production and storage space. Completion is planned for mid-2021.

Accredo Packaging expanded its Sugar Land, Texas facility by 200,000 square feet, with a $50 million investment in the recent phase, completed in the first quarter of 2020.

AB InBev will invest $220 million in new bottling lines at South African Breweries plants in Gauteng province, South Africa, to produce returnable glass bottles, with both lines expected operational by October 2020. The expansion is expected to raise overall capacity by up to 8%.

Tetra Pak will build a new plant at its existing Straws and Strips Plant in Rayong, Thailand, to manufacture closures for carton packaging. The €24 million investment is expected to create around 60 jobs and produce more than 3 billion closures per year when it opens in early 2021.

Segezha Packaging is investing EUR 1.3 million to expand its Ploiesti, Romania plant with a new warehouse and production hall on land bought last year, with construction expected to start in the third quarter.

ALPLA is adding a second rPET extrusion line at its PET Recycling Team plant in Radomsko, Poland, doubling rPET capacity from 15,000 to 30,000 tonnes per year from early May 2020.

Flexipol, a UK manufacturer of sacks, bags, liners and pouches, has invested in all three of its manufacturing sites, adding 25% capacity as it integrates with sister brands Synpac and Palagan within Synnovia.

Actega is significantly expanding production of water-based and UV-cured overprint varnishes, raising global capacity to over 150,000 tonnes per year. About €2 million has been invested in a new integrated production facility in Brazil employing 180 people.

Silgan Plastics plans a $15 million, 204,000-square-foot warehouse addition at its Seymour facility in Indiana. A Seymour Plan Commission vote approved the development plan, and the city council was to vote on rezoning.

Segezha Packaging launched a third production line at its Salsk plant in Rostov Region, with an investment of 500 million rubles and capacity of 83 million units per year. The announcement was reported on 20 April 2020.

Bemasa Caps plans a EUR 1.5 million first phase of works to expand its metal caps factory in Molina de Segura, Spain, to about 20,000 square metres, with completion expected later this year.

CMG Plastics completed two capital improvement projects adding energy-efficient injection molding machines and in-mold labeling capabilities at its facilities in Somerville, New Jersey and Brantford, Ontario. The upgrade adds close to a 10% increase in annual output.

Mondi is investing in a new 300,000 tonne per year kraft top white machine at its Ruzomberok mill in Slovakia, with start-up expected towards the end of 2020. A related pulp mill upgrade adds 100,000 tonnes per year of pulp capacity.

UB Community Development announced $7 million in New Markets Tax Credits within $10 million of financing for Master Extrusion LLC, an affiliate of ColorMasters, to add extruder machines at its Albertville, Alabama facility. The project is expected to create 45 jobs and retain 90.

Atlantis-Pak is installing a high-barrier packaging film line with 800 kg/hour capacity at Rostov Civil Aviation Plant No. 412 in Rostov-on-Don, as a temporary measure before a new plant in Yuzhno-Bataisk. Commissioning is planned for October 2020; total investment exceeds 3 billion rubles.

Ball is adding a fourth canmaking line at its plant in Rome, Georgia, USA.

Embaquim started full operation of a new Carnevalli coextruder at its São Bernardo do Campo plant to make multilayer barrier films. The equipment adds 50 tonnes per month and raises total film capacity by 15%.

Graphic Packaging International expanded its Sneek, Netherlands folding carton facility, doubling production capacity with a new 11-colour press and a new folder-gluing line. The EUR 20 million (about $22 million) project took two years and added a 5,000 m2 building extension.