Dunapack Rambox, a subsidiary of Austria's Prinzhorn group, will start construction of a new 22,000 sqm corrugated cardboard plant in Bolintin, west of Bucharest, on land bought in late 2017. Projected annual output is 180 million sqm.

Toyo Seikan Group's subsidiary Toyo Seikan will build a new plant building at its Toyohashi factory in Aichi Prefecture to make plastic pouches and cups, with total investment of about 9 billion yen including capacity equipment. Completion is planned for March 2020.

Kolbus Group acquired all shares in Autobox Machinery Ltd, parent of British Converting Solutions Ltd (BCS), for an undisclosed price. BCS is a UK-based manufacturer of corrugated box making, printing and gluing machines.

Bockatech and Borealis AG agreed to jointly develop reusable and recyclable foam injection moulding solutions for lightweight plastic packaging.

Veritiv joined Amazon's Packaging Support and Supplier Network (APASS) programme to provide certified sustainable packaging, design, testing and sourcing services to manufacturers and sellers.

Fava Artemio was commissioned by Serioplast to design and build a new bulk conveying system and Venturi pneumatic conveyor for PET and HDPE bottles at the L'Oréal plant in Settimo Torinese, Italy.

Hartness, an ITW company, will consolidate all its manufacturing into a renovated 234,000 sqft facility in Greenville, South Carolina in February 2019, replacing two existing buildings. The move centralizes sales, engineering, and manufacturing operations.

TemperPack plans to expand manufacturing of its ClimaCell liner material to its Las Vegas, Nevada facility, which will supplement current production in Richmond, Virginia.

HelloFresh is replacing its box liners with curbside-recyclable ClimaCell liners made by TemperPack, and will do the same for Green Chef. The liners are expected to divert 15,000 tons of packaging waste from landfills each year.

Hong Kong-based GPA Global has acquired Ireland-based Lucas Luxury Packaging and Lucas Promotions, packaging and promotional item companies serving the spirits and beverage industries. The fee was not disclosed.

Ball Corporation has inaugurated a new beverage can production plant in Cabanillas del Campo, Guadalajara, Spain. Ball invested more than 100 million euros in the facility.

Germany-based canmaker Blechwarenfabrik Limburg has invested €30 million (US$35 million) in a new plant on the outskirts of its home town of Limburg.

Südpack is acquiring flexible packaging converter Seville Flexpack in Oak Creek near Milwaukee, its first overseas production site, with the site becoming part of the group on October 1, 2018 and all employees retained.

Hamburger Rieger broke ground on a new paper machine No. 2 in Spremberg, Brandenburg, with an investment of around €370 million, creating 200 jobs and adding 500,000 tonnes of annual corrugated base paper capacity. Commissioning is scheduled for the second half of 2020.

Packaging maker Rio Bonito Embalagens will invest R$15 million to build a factory in Bonito, Pernambuco, making egg and poultry and fruit packaging. Works start in January 2019 and operations are planned for February 2020, creating about 1,100 direct and indirect jobs.

DS Smith has notified the European Commission of its planned purchase of Spanish corrugated packaging provider Europac. The deal is under EU merger review with a deadline of October 29, 2018.

Amcor and Huhtamaki are reportedly in preliminary talks with the promoters of Essel Propack to acquire a controlling stake in the Indian laminated tube maker. Morgan Stanley is handling the sale, according to unconfirmed reports.

Illinois-based Transparent Container is opening a new production facility in Tijuana's La Encantada industrial park, an 87,750-square-foot plant with 11 thermoforming lines. The company has not disclosed investment or job numbers.

IntraPac International, a North Carolina rigid packaging manufacturer, acquired Quality Plastics, an Arizona-based maker of extrusion blow molded plastic containers. The deal was announced on September 24, 2018.

Leidos Supply Ltd awarded a GBP 32,000,000 contract to Anixter Ltd for the supply of adhesives, tapes and sealants to the UK Army, Navy and Air Force.

PCI Pharma Services and CSP Technologies entered a collaboration agreement to perform clinical studies and stability testing using CSP's Activ-Blister protective packaging solutions.

Cuban-Italian joint venture Vidrios Mariel S.A, formed by Italy's Nelson Servizi and Cuba's Quimi SA, received approval to build a glass container plant in the Mariel Special Development Zone with initial investment of $90 million.

Hanchang Paper Co signed a 25.18 billion won contract with KT&G to supply ivory cardboard. The deal was reported on September 19, 2018.

Mitsubishi Polyester Film held a ribbon cutting ceremony for a $100 million expansion at its Greer, SC facility, including the installation of the world's largest polyester film line (Line 10).

Amcor announced plans to invest more than $25 million to upgrade its Madison facilities in 2018 and 2019, adding capacity, improving quality and updating technology. The expansion is expected to raise plant employment by close to 50 percent.

ProMach has acquired FLtecnics of Girona, Spain, a manufacturer of horizontal form-fill-seal pouch packaging machines. The acquisition strengthens ProMach's global position in the flexible packaging market.

PCI Pharma Services signed an exclusive collaboration with CSP Technologies for U.S. clinical trials and stability testing using Activ-Blister moisture and gas-scavenging packaging. The packaging aims to speed time to market for pharmaceutical and medical device products.

Ball Metalpack has signed a long-term agreement to supply metal screw caps and rings to consumer and commercial products manufacturer Newell Brands. The announcement was made on September 17, 2018.

Printpack is expanding its Prescott Valley, Arizona plant with a 100,000 sq ft facility expected to create at least 30 new jobs.

Reabrook Ltd celebrated the opening of a factory extension with a new aerosol production line at its Moira site. The company also transferred to employee ownership.

Jinming Precision Machinery signed a purchase agreement with an international packaging company for a 9-layer co-extrusion multi-bubble tube method high-barrier film blown extrusion machine, with a contract value exceeding USD 3.2 million.

Packaging Distribution Services, a packaging distributor, acquired Serenity Packaging Corporation, as reported in the September 2018 deals roundup.

TemperPack Technologies and e-commerce firm Boxed Wholesale agreed to develop and test sustainable thermal packaging for online chocolate orders, both US-based.

NREP Logicenters awarded Finnish contractor YIT a contract to renovate about 2,700 m² and build a new 15,000 m² building at Huhtamaki's foodservice packaging facility in Hämeenlinna, Finland, with work running to December 2019.

GOTEK-LITAR has launched a new Hartmann-420 production complex for egg packaging at its facility in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk region. The project cost 335.4 million rubles, supported by the Industrial Development Fund, and will create 46 new jobs with a monthly capacity of 7.5 million 10-egg containers.

Crown Packaging is finishing its can plant in Parc Sagunt I, Sagunto, and will start production in October 2018 with 150 direct jobs, with two lines planned to produce about two billion cans a year.

Tectextil, a Brazilian PP woven bags producer, has invested in new Windmöller & Hölscher machinery including an ECOTEX1600L extrusion coating line and an OPTIMEX blown film line, installed in 2017.

Rand-Whitney held a ribbon cutting on September 12, 2018 for a 45,000 sq ft expansion at its headquarters in Worcester, Massachusetts, adding equipment, storage and 22 dock doors.

U.S. Corrugated, Inc. acquired a majority interest in Corrugated and Packaging LLC, which operates a corrugated sheet plant and foam fabrication in Tijuana, Mexico.

Universal Robots presented a Golden Edition Cobot to Kay Manufacturing at IMTS 2018, celebrating the 25,000th unit sold, for use in end-of-line tasks, packaging, and palletizing.

Progroup AG is constructing its eleventh corrugated sheet feeder plant in Eisfeld, Thuringia, with annual capacity of 140,000 tonnes and an investment of around EUR 50 million. The plant will create 52 jobs and production is scheduled to start in Q4 2019.

RPC is in preliminary talks with two major private equity firms over a possible sale of the plastic packaging company.

BEWiSynbra Group has entered agreements to acquire BEWi Produkter, BEWi Polar (together BEWi Norway) and BEWi Automotive, partly paid in new shares and partly in cash. Completion is subject to financing and shareholder approval.

Ring Container Technologies, a packaging manufacturer based in Oakland, Tennessee, is set to open a facility in Louisville, Kentucky later in September 2018 to serve customer Algood Food.

RPC Group, a European plastic packaging maker, confirmed it is holding discussions with private equity firms Apollo Global Management and Bain Capital about a possible sale of the company.

Segezhskaya Upakovka's Salsk branch of Segezha Group is commissioning a new GARANT MASCHINEN Triumph 5 QT SK bag converting line in Russia. It can produce up to 500,000 bags in September and 4.5 million by year-end, with total line capacity of 24 million units a year.

Weedon Corrugated Products of Audenshaw, Manchester, installed a new three-colour flexo casemaker from JC Machinery to boost shelf-ready packaging output. Group investment in the company has exceeded £1.5 million in recent months.

ND Paper agreed to purchase Resolute Forest Products' recycled bleached kraft pulp mill in Fairmont, West Virginia, valued at $55 million. The deal expands its packaging paperboard manufacturing base.

BillerudKorsnäs opened one of Europe's largest MG paper machines at Skärblacka in Sweden, part of a $150 million investment. The new machine adds 90,000 tons/year capacity, increasing total MG paper capacity to 180,000 tons/year.

An investment holding company managed by GFEP Family Equity acquired the majority of ETT Verpackungstechnik GmbH and ETT Service GmbH in a succession deal. ETT, based in Moringen, Lower Saxony, makes end-of-line packaging systems, and the existing management will continue.