Pro-Pac Packaging Group agreed to acquire Polypak, an Auckland soft flexible packaging manufacturer and distributor, for NZ$8.8 million. The North Harbour plant employs 28 people.

ASX-listed Pro-Pac Packaging Group agreed to buy Victoria-based flexible packaging maker Perfection Packaging for $49.8 million, funded by a capital raising. The factory in Dandenong South employs 100 people.

Ball and Platinum Equity formed a joint venture, Ball Metalpack, a standalone US maker of steel containers. Platinum Equity holds 51% and Ball keeps 49%, with Ball receiving $600 million in pre-tax proceeds.

SGT laid the first stone for a new 10,000 m2 factory in Chalon-sur-Saône making PET preforms, with an investment of nearly 28 million euros. The plant should be operational from spring 2019 and employ around forty people.

Milk processor ELSA received a new CFA 612-35 filling system from SIG Combibloc at its facility in Estavayer-le-Lac, Switzerland. The system can fill and package 6,000 litres of milk or cream per hour in half-litre carton packs.

Japan's Kyoto Seisakusho acquired Chicago-based PMI Cartoning, which became PMI Kyoto Packaging Systems as of July 1, 2018. The deal gives Kyoto Seisakusho a route into the North American market.

21 Invest acquired a majority stake in Carton Pack, a fruit and vegetable packaging company based in Puglia, Italy, together with the founding Leone brothers. The deal was completed in July 2018.

Bosch announced it will seek a buyer for its packaging machinery business (pharmaceuticals and food units of the Packaging Technology division), which employs about 6,100 people in 15 countries.

The European Commission cleared Ball's acquisition of beverage can maker Rexam in January 2016, conditional on divesting 12 plants in the EEA and nearly the whole European overlap. The decision followed a phase 2 investigation.

CompanyBox has purchased an HP PageWide C500 digital press for its greenfield all-digital corrugated packaging plant in Charlotte, North Carolina. The press is scheduled for installation in fall 2018 and will be its largest digital investment.

Smurfit Kappa has installed eight HP Scitex corrugated digital presses at sites in Belgium, Denmark, France, Portugal, Poland and the UK, with more installations planned in the UK and Netherlands. The presses support short runs and digital printing for corrugated packaging.

Groupe Guillin's UK subsidiary Sharpak Bridgwater signed an exclusive agreement to acquire Etimex Primary Packaging's British CPET packaging production and sales business, with a closing expected by end of September 2018. The business has annual revenue of about EUR 6 million.

Ardagh Group manufactured a taller, sleek-shaped aluminium aerosol can for Beiersdorf's Nivea female range at its Veenendaal plant in the Netherlands. The can has been successfully launched in Europe.

Packaging maker Faerch Plast joined Marks & Spencer, Sainsbury's, Tesco and waste firm Viridor in a circular-economy project to recycle black plastic into new food-grade packaging. Recycling starts in July 2018 at Viridor's Rochester facility in Kent, with an initial target of 120 tonnes per month.

US packaging materials and equipment provider Shorr Packaging moved into a new facility in the Los Angeles area to meet growing regional demand. It will serve customers in the Inland Empire, Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties.

Luxembourg-headquartered United Caps plans to invest about €20 million to build its first UK factory in Dinnington, South Yorkshire, making beverage and dairy closures. Production is expected to start at the end of 2019.

IMA finalized the acquisition of 70% of Ciemme S.r.l., an Italian manufacturer of end-of-line automatic machines, for around €14 million. The deal includes put & call options on the remaining 30%.

ANDRITZ signed a merger agreement to acquire Xerium Technologies for $13.50 per share in cash, valuing the transaction at approximately $833 million including net financial liabilities. Xerium is a global manufacturer of machine clothing and roll covers for the paper industry.

UNITED CAPS, a caps and closures manufacturer, held an open house on June 21, 2018 celebrating its extended R&D facility in Messia, France, featuring a new Nescafé Gold closure developed with Nestlé.

Ball Corporation and Platinum Equity agreed to form Ball Metalpack, a steel container packaging joint venture in which Platinum holds 51% and Ball 49%. Ball contributes its U.S. tinplate steel food and aerosol plants and receives over $600 million in pre-tax proceeds.

Pro-Pals Industries ordered a VAREX II blown film extrusion line from Windmöller & Hölscher, marking the 250th such line built by W&H. Pro-Pals will use it to start in-house film production, covering about 80% of its needs.

Mondi opened its expanded Mondi Simet site near Poznań, Poland on 20 June 2018, with a new Fosber corrugator that quadrupled the plant's production capacity for heavy-duty corrugated packaging.

Veolia Environnement has contracted Polymetrix AG, a Swiss unit of Sanlian Hope Shin-Gosen Technical Service, to provide technology solutions for a packaging recycling facility in Indonesia being built on behalf of Danone. The contract is valued at EUR 14.5 million and the project is slated for completion in 2020.

Swedish OptiGroup signed a binding agreement to acquire 100% of Dutch packaging distributor Moonen Packaging B.V., pending approval from the Dutch competition authority ACM.

Mondi Group completed the acquisition of National Company for Paper Products and Import & Export (NPP) for EGP 510 million (about EUR 24 million), adding an industrial bags plant in Giza near Cairo.

Packaging equipment specialist Marchesini Group has acquired Schmucker, a manufacturer of stick pack machines for food, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics. Schmucker employs 80 people and has a turnover of €10.5 million.

Triple i Logistics Public Company Limited announced the acquisition of a 50% stake in DG Packaging Pte. Ltd. on 18 June 2018.

Mondi is adding manufacturing capacity and new equipment at its Jackson, MO facility to produce premium flat-bottom bags for food, pet food and personal care markets. The expansion will be fully operational by the third quarter of 2018.

St. Johns Packaging completed the acquisition of an Amcor Flexibles unit serving the UK bakery market, announced June 30, 2020.

St. Johns Packaging announced on January 10, 2026 that it has completed the acquisition of Flexible Packaging Solutions Pty Ltd. The deal expands its global reach in flexible packaging.

Stone Canyon Industries, through subsidiary BWAY, agreed to acquire the parent of Industrial Container Services from Centerbridge Partners in a cash-and-stock deal with an enterprise value of about $1.0 billion. Closing is subject to regulatory approvals.

Novio Packaging Group has merged with Denmark-based Scandinavian Packaging, which will operate as Novio Scandinavia from January 1, 2019 under management of Hanne Zinck and Bjarke Arlø. The deal extends Novio's distribution into Scandinavia.

Transcend Packaging, a packaging firm in Ebbw Vale, Wales, was one of two suppliers to win a contract from McDonald's to supply paper straws for all UK and Irish outlets. The company expects to hire 30 extra staff and begin production in August 2018.

Serbia's Nectar is investing 1.5 million euro in a new packaging line.

HQ Equita signed an agreement to acquire a majority stake in the Steindl Group, which includes packaging machine manufacturers FAWEMA and HDG. The companies will operate as The Packaging Group.

Logson Group, the UK's largest independent corrugated packaging supplier, acquired the Cardboard Box Company, an independent sheet plant in Accrington, Lancashire, with turnover above GBP 17 million and 90 employees. The deal value was not disclosed.

Green Bay Packaging plans to build a new paper mill in Brown County, Wisconsin, replacing its 71-year-old mill, with an investment reported as over $580 million. The project is expected to retain about 600 jobs and create up to 200 more by 2022, with the new mill running by 2021.

Private equity funds managed by L Catterton and Ambienta sgr will take control of Pibiplast, a cosmetics and personal care plastic packaging maker based in Correggio, Italy. The Bosi family will retain a minority stake. The deal value was not disclosed.

Miron Construction is a local contractor building the new Green Bay Mill for Green Bay Packaging, which will replace a 71-year-old paper mill and require nearly 1,000 construction jobs over 2.5 years.

Green Bay Packaging announced an investment of over $500 million to build a new 100 percent recycled paper mill in Green Bay and expand its shipping container division, with about 200 jobs expected statewide.

Highlander Partners has acquired the intellectual property, trademarks and associated licensing agreements for 10 chocolate and sugar confectionery brands from Huhtamäki Oyj. Brands include Jolly Rancher, Payday, Whoppers, Heath, Milk Duds, Sixlets, Good & Plenty, Zero, Chuckles and Good & Fruity.

Winpak Portion Packaging expanded its rigid packaging plant at the LogistiCenter in Sauk Village, Illinois, with a 348,000 sq ft addition, doubling manufacturing, office and warehouse space. Construction began in April 2016 and was completed in Q3 2017, adding more than 100 jobs.

Bangkok Can Manufacturing, a subsidiary of Japan's Toyo Seikan Group, is building a new two-piece aluminium beverage can plant at Rojana Industrial Park in Ayutthaya, north of Bangkok, with a US$84.2 million investment. Startup is targeted for May 2019.

A German company opened a new factory for vacuum packaging machines in Bozhurishte, Bulgaria, with an investment of over €18 million, creating 153 jobs.

LIVIA Corporate Development agreed to acquire Smurfit Kappa's Baden board and packaging facility in Gernsbach, Germany, which has 298 employees and a mill producing 152,000 tons of recycled carton board a year.

Gundlach Verpackung, Gundlach Packaging DMCC and Gundlach Logo now operate jointly under the Gundlach Packaging Group brand, with a shared CRM system and expanded roll-to-roll production in Dubai.

Massman Automation Designs acquired Ideal-Pak, a liquid filling and packaging machine manufacturer based in Madison, WI. The acquisition aims to strengthen Massman's foothold in the liquid filling machine market.

BW Papersystems, a division of Barry-Wehmiller, acquired Dongguan K&H Machinery Co. Ltd., a manufacturer of complete corrugators for corrugated sheets.

DS Smith has announced its acquisition of Spanish-listed integrated packaging company Europac in a £1.45 billion deal, which it plans to finance by raising £1 billion in new shares plus a new debt facility. The deal is friendly but subject to CNMV approval.

Mexican packaging company Empaques Nova inaugurated a new plant in Mérida, Yucatán, for making packaging paper and containers, with the Mexican Secretary of Economy attending. The ceremony was reported on 3 June 2018.