Crown Holdings will invest $145 million to build a 355,000-square-foot aluminum beverage can plant in the Commonwealth Crossing Business Centre in Henry County, Virginia, creating 126 new jobs. Virginia state grants of $4 million support the project.

Georgia-Pacific bought a third HP PageWide T1190 corrugated web press for its Hummingbird digital print business, to be installed later in 2021 at a new site opening in Arizona. The investment is described as multimillion-dollar.

Ball Corporation plans to begin construction in spring 2021 of a €170 million aluminum beverage can plant at Pilsen Digital Park, with operations due in October 2022 and up to 200 jobs.

Duravant's new operating company nVenia, formed by combining Arpac, Hamer-Fischbein and Ohlson, will operate from a newly built 256,000 sq ft facility in Wood Dale, Illinois, planned to open in April 2021.

Crown's Brazilian subsidiary CROWN Embalagens plans a two-line plant in Minas Gerais to make two-piece aluminum beverage cans. At full operation the plant will add 2.4 billion cans of annual capacity, starting production in Q2 2022.

Progress Agro group has launched a RUB 204 million polypropylene packaging plant in Ust-Labinsk, Krasnodar Krai, on the Kuban industrial park. The plant can produce up to 8.6 million polypropylene bags and polyethylene film a year and created about 70 jobs.

Segezha Group is building a paper packaging facility in Ploiesti, Romania, part of a EUR 10 million investment, adding up to 65% capacity, to about 160 million paper sacks a year, with commissioning planned for March 2022.

Ardagh Group has purchased a facility in Huron, Ohio, to convert into a beverage can and end plant with three can lines and about 200 jobs. Production is due to begin in late 2021.

Ardagh Group has bought a facility in Huron, Ohio, to convert into a plant making beverage cans and ends, with three can lines and about 200 jobs. Production is due to begin in late 2021.

ND Packaging, a subsidiary of Nine Dragons Paper, is investing over $30 million to renovate and equip a 350,000-square-foot facility in Mount Pleasant, Racine County, Wisconsin, for corrugated box production. The company plans to create 88 jobs and begin production by the end of 2020.

Inland Packaging announced a new third facility near the La Crosse Regional Airport in La Crosse, Wisconsin, bringing new jobs. Full production is planned by May 2021.

Envases Group announced plans for its first aluminum can production and distribution center in Waco, Texas, with 120 jobs and over $100 million in capital investment. Opening is projected for late 2021.

Mondi will open its first South American paper bags plant in Cartagena, Colombia, in January 2021, with one production line of about 50 million bags per year, serving chemical, food and cement customers.

Progroup's PM3 containerboard paper factory in Sandersdorf-Brehna, Germany, started operating in August 2020 and has reached more than 2,000 tonnes a day, with full run-up expected by the end of Q2 2021 and output of up to 750,000 tonnes a year.

Italian packaging maker Gruppo Fanti will invest $30 million to buy and reuse the former Signode building in Weirton's Half Moon Industrial Park, creating at least 40 jobs. It is the group's first U.S. plant.

Europal Packaging, part of the D.I. Group, has started up a new 2.5m doublewall Quantum corrugator line at its new factory in Blandain/Tournai, Belgium. The line was installed by Quantum Corrugated and Fosber Group.

Atılım Ambalaj has broken ground on a new factory in the Bolu Organized Industrial Zone to produce food stretch film. Production is targeted for 2021 at about 1,300-1,400 tonnes per year.

Jokey Group is building a new production facility in Murcia, Spain, for its Jokey Treplás subsidiary, investing about 12 million euros, to replace the Molina de Segura plant and double capacity, with operation expected in early 2021.

Progroup and Krystals have started operating a new £20 million packaging park in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, combining Progroup's corrugated board plant with Krystals' packaging production on one site.

U.S. Corrugated of Delaware chose Dover, Delaware as its preferred location for a new $80 million, 457,000 sq ft box-manufacturing plant creating 159 jobs, with state grants of over $3 million under consideration.

Ball Corporation approved a US$90 million investment to build a new aluminum can production plant in Frutal (MG), Brazil, its eleventh plant in the country, to meet rising demand for canned beer and new beverage categories.

Progroup and Krystals have started operating a joint packaging park in Ellesmere Port near Liverpool, linking Progroup's corrugator with Krystals' packaging production. Progroup's investment in the corrugated board plant and packaging park totals more than £90 million.

Saica Group held a groundbreaking on a 350,000 sq ft corrugated packaging plant in Hamilton, Ohio, its first US plant, representing a $72 million investment and expected to create 64 jobs.

Rusken Packaging has opened a new facility in Conyers, Georgia, consolidating its former Canton and Conyers locations under one roof. The site includes a new BOBST Discovery Flexo Folder Gluer and sits next to corrugator supplier Corrugated Supplies Company Atlanta.

U.S. Corrugated plans to buy about 40 acres south of Dover and build an approximately $80 million corrugated cardboard box manufacturing plant bringing 150 jobs to Kent County, Delaware, reported September 29, 2020.

Goodwill of the Heartland converted a former food distribution centre in Coralville, Iowa, into a vegetable oil packaging facility after investing $8 million. The facility has nine full-time employees and began operating after remodelling completed in June 2020.

PAPACKS is investing over €10 million in its GIGAFACTORY 1 in Arnstadt, Germany, creating around 20 new jobs for molded paper fiber packaging. The topping-out ceremony was held on 25 September 2020.

Trivium and Ausnutria are building a new €30 million can factory at the Internationaal Bedrijvenpark Friesland in Heerenveen, Netherlands, due for completion at the end of 2020. Trivium will produce 150 million cans a year for Ausnutria's infant formula under a ten-year contract.

Baosteel Packaging will build a new aluminum easy open can production line in Huaiyuan Industrial Park, Bengbu, Anhui. The first phase has an annual design capacity of 1.1 billion cans and an estimated total investment of RMB 440 million.

Shijiazhuang Guanling Packaging has opened a plant about 150km southwest of Beijing to make cans for infant formula. The line will eventually produce 75 million cans a year, with RMB 510 million in plant cost.

Bennett Packaging plans a nearly $70 million, 524,300-square-foot corporate campus in Kansas City to move the core of its custom corrugated packaging and retail display operations. Kansas City council members voted to approve up to $48 million in Chapter 100 industrial revenue bonds.

Graphic Packaging opened a highly automated 1.2 million sq ft folding carton factory in Monroe, Louisiana, consolidating two plants and three warehouses. The 180 million US dollar investment will convert more than 1.4 billion beverage cartons a year.

Ball Corporation operates a beverage can and lid plant in Guarambaré, Paraguay, with total investment of about US$80 million and over 350 jobs, serving Bolivia and northern Argentina.

Ball Corporation plans a new aluminum beverage packaging plant at the former Techneglas site in Jenkins Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, creating about 230 jobs with an investment of about $360 million over multiple years.

Green Bay Packaging will begin construction of a new 550,000 sq ft corrugator plant in Tulsa, Oklahoma, replacing its 180,000 sq ft plant there. Construction starts September 1, 2020, with start-up scheduled for October 2021.

PaperFoam completed first test runs at its new Krupka plant in the Czech Republic and plans full production from September 2020. The plant adds a second European site and could raise global capacity by more than 30%.

Packaging maker Pratt Industries signed a five-year lease for 136,600 square feet at $4.00 per square foot, less than a mile from its manufacturing facility. The case study is dated August 17, 2020.

Southern Champion Tray will invest $84.9 million in a new paperboard packaging manufacturing facility at the Centre South Riverport Industrial Park in Chattanooga, Tennessee, creating more than 120 jobs. Construction is expected to start in early 2021 and finish by early 2022.

Oji announced a new corrugated packaging plant in Malaysia with 7 million m² per month capacity on a 42,000 m² site, to be operated by subsidiary United Kotak Berhad at a cost of about JPY4bn. Production is scheduled to start in January 2022.

Packaging Corporation of America may spend up to $170 million to move its Newark plant from South 21st Street to a new, larger facility on Thornwood Drive, subject to city and county approval. The proposal was reported on August 5, 2020.

Pact Group, Cleanaway Waste Management and Asahi Beverages formed a joint venture to build a A$45 million PET plastic recycling plant at the Nexus Precinct in Albury/Wodonga, NSW, expected to be operational by December 2021.

Canpack has started commercial production of aluminum beverage cans at its greenfield plant in Stříbro, near Plzeň. The plant supplies Plzeňský Prazdroj and will produce about 1 billion cans a year, with an investment above EUR 100 million and over 140 jobs.

International Cushioning Company will invest more than $3.6 million to establish a new advanced manufacturing facility in Fremont, Ohio, creating 75 jobs in its first year.

CANPACK Group, through its parent Giorgi Global Holdings, announced a $366 million aluminum can manufacturing facility and operations center on a 102-acre site in Olyphant near Scranton, Pennsylvania. The plant is expected to be operating by Q4 2021 and employ over 400 people.

Alpla, a plastic packaging manufacturer, will spend $21 million on a new plant of about 154,000 square feet in a NorthPoint Development warehouse next to Dayton International Airport. The plant is expected to add 50 jobs by April.

Bio Pappel, Mexico's largest paper manufacturer, is putting into operation a packaging plant in Lebanon, Indiana, with operations expected to begin in July 2020.

Ball Metal Beverage Container, a division of Ball Corp, signed a lease for 165,000 square feet at the Monroe Logistics Center in Monroe, Ohio, relocating its distribution operations from Trenton. The landlord is Industrial Developments International.

Gaosen Packaging is constructing its fourth beverage can plant in China at Xinzheng in Henan province, invested at RMB350 million (US$50m). It plans trial production of two-piece beverage cans by the end of the year.

Dairy group Ausnutria and packaging company Trivium are jointly building a EUR 30 million can factory at the Internationaal Bedrijvenpark Friesland in Heerenveen, under a ten-year contract, to produce 150 million cans per year for infant formula, with completion expected end 2020.

Serioplast US, the North American unit of Italy's Serioplast Group, will begin operating a rigid plastic packaging plant in Red Springs, Robeson County, North Carolina, investing $9.4 million and creating 46 jobs, as announced by Governor Roy Cooper's office.