M&Q Holdings, through subsidiary M&Q Acquisition, acquired US food packaging company Flavorseal, which will operate as a division in Ohio.

Auer Packaging of Amerang won a Europe-wide tender from Volkswagen worth about EUR 3 million for around one million RL-KLT plastic containers, delivered to VW suppliers across Europe.

Heat and Control announced an exclusive distributor partnership agreement with Volpak, a brand of horizontal form-fill-seal solutions for flexible pouch packaging, to add Volpak's machines to its portfolio.

Aurelius Equity Opportunities completed its acquisition of Abelan Board Industrial S.L., a Southern European producer of core board and solid board packaging, effective January 31, 2018. Abelan will be combined with Aurelius portfolio company Solidus Solutions.

Ball Corporation will add capacity at its Buenos Aires, Argentina facility, its third investment in the country in two years, to serve growing beverage can demand.

Ball Corporation plans to build a one-line beverage can and end manufacturing plant in Asunción, Paraguay, with production expected to start in the fourth quarter of 2019 and capacity already contracted under long-term agreements.

Britvic has invested £100m in three new high-speed can lines at its Rugby manufacturing site, creating 80 jobs and producing 6,000 cans per minute, as part of a £240m three-year GB investment programme.

Buildmat NV, the holding company above Deschacht Plastics Belgium NV, has acquired D&K Plastics BVBA from Antwerp. D&K Plastics supplies stretch films and PE films for construction and industry.

Printing company Arka-Druk will expand its printing plant in the Łapy economic subzone with a 5,500 sq m facility costing over PLN 7 million, of which about PLN 3 million is EU subsidy, with production expected to start at the end of 2018.

Platinum Equity has acquired Green Bay, Wisconsin-based WS Packaging Group, a labels and packaging solutions provider, from J.W. Childs Associates; no financial terms were disclosed.

WestRock agreed to acquire KapStone Paper and Packaging Corp. for about $3.5 billion, or about $4.9 billion including KapStone's net debt of about $1.36 billion. The deal is expected to close in the quarter ending September 30 and generate about $200 million in savings by fiscal 2021.

Riyadh Plastic Factory Company (RPF), an associated company of Harwal Group, signed a contract for a BOBST 20SIX CI flexo press to extend flexible packaging production capacities.

Zignago Vetro received approval to expand its Villanova plant in Fossalta di Portogruaro, Italy, by adding a new furnace (Forno 1 Bis). Production capacity will increase from 140,000 to 249,000 tonnes per year, and 62 new jobs will be created.

Progroup started production at its new corrugated sheetboard plant in Drizzona, Italy in February 2018. The company's 2017 sales rose 9.69% to about 804 million euros.

Swiss closure maker corvaglia group announced plans for a new manufacturing facility in Newnan, Georgia, to produce one-piece plastic caps and closures for the North American beverage market, operational by year-end 2018.

Sabert Corporation has begun construction of a new manufacturing facility in Greenville, Texas, to make plastic and 100% compostable food packaging. The plant is expected to be fully operational by early 2019 and bring over 125 jobs.

Votech integrated a complete new packaging line at Vreugdenhil's milk powder production site in Scharsterbrug, including two filling machines, two palletising machines and a big bag filling machine. The installation was officially taken into production on January 9, 2018.

Industrial Investment has begun construction of a barrier packaging plant in the Tosno district of the Leningrad region, on the M10 industrial park. The plant, with about 1 billion rubles of investment and capacity of 3,000 tonnes per year, is due to open in August 2018 and create over 150 jobs.

Silgan Holdings has initiated construction of a new manufacturing facility in Fort Smith, Arkansas, planned as a 100,000-square-foot plant employing about 150 people. The city approved $38 million in industrial development revenue bonds for the project, to be repaid by Silgan.

Riyadh Plastic Factory Company, part of Harwal Group, has signed a contract for a Bobst 20SIX CI flexo press to extend flexible packaging production capacities.

PAC Worldwide, a flexible packaging manufacturer, will lease a 420,000-square-foot facility in Lower Nazareth Township near Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The company plans to invest more than $28 million and create over 160 jobs over three years.

Oji Fibre Solutions is about to open a new $72 million corrugated cardboard packaging factory in Yatala on the Gold Coast, with support from Queensland's Advance Queensland Industry Attraction Fund. The plant will serve fruit, vegetable and meat markets in QLD, northern NSW and the NT.

Verallia announced a €50 million investment in its Spanish operations in 2018, including €20 million at Zaragoza for facility upgrades, €5 million at Azuqueca de Henares for a new production line, and €30 million at Burgos for a new furnace and machinery.

Dunapack Eurobox Polska plans to open its second cardboard packaging plant in Lubliniec, southern Poland, in July 2018. About 120 to 130 new jobs are expected in the first year, with a workforce of 250 eventually.

Leonard Green & Partners is reportedly nearing a deal to acquire packaging company Pro Mach Group from AEA Investors for more than $2.2 billion including debt, according to Reuters.

Amcor Rigid Plastics is installing two new blow molding lines at its Hazelwood, Missouri plant to make plastic containers for multiple products. The expansion will require about 50 additional jobs.

Auer Packaging of Amerang, Germany, won a Europe-wide tender from Volkswagen for around one million RL-KLT plastic small load carriers, worth three million euros. The containers will be delivered to Volkswagen suppliers across Europe.

Public buyer SIVU Bordeaux Mérignac awarded Nutripack a contract worth EUR 1,528,000 to supply food packaging materials. The award was published on 2018-01-25.

Kleenline has relocated its manufacturing operations from Newburyport, MA to a new 150,000 square foot facility in Statham, Georgia, uniting with Benchmark and Southern Packaging. The move aims to increase productivity and efficiency in producing product handling systems and customized replacement parts.

Kendall Packaging completed an expansion of its Pittsburg, Kansas manufacturing facility at an estimated cost of $10 million. The project broke ground in September 2016 and was completed by January 2018, doubling the plant size.

Portugal's Amorim acquired a 60% stake in Bourrassé, a cork stopper producer based in Tosse, Landes, for EUR 29 million. Amorim holds an option on the remaining capital until 2022.

Ossid, a brand of ProMach, announced that SupplyOne Inc. is now a national distributor of the Ossid TS line of tray sealing machines for vacuum skin pack, modified atmosphere packaging, and ambient case-ready food packaging.

Softbox, a provider of cold chain packaging systems for the pharmaceutical industry, acquired TP3 Global, manufacturer of the SilverSkin brand of thermal protection covers. The acquisition combines their passive temperature control packaging and thermal protection products.

Saica acquired French group Emin Leydier, a paper and corrugated packaging maker with eight French plants and 1,029 employees, adding 800,000 tonnes of recycled paper capacity. The deal was announced on 28 February 2018 and no price was disclosed.

Netto UK specified eleven semi-automatic pre-stretch pallet wrappers from Unitech Orion Packaging in a deal worth close to GBP 70,000, with eight units for Pontefract and three for Daventry. The case study does not give an exact date.

Brown Machine Group merged with Freeman Co., a manufacturer of thermoform tooling for the food packaging industry. The transaction was effective January 5, 2018.

HSIL plans to expand its security bottle caps facility in Telangana with a Rs 100 crore investment, raising capacity from 230 million to one billion units per year, with commissioning expected by September 2018.

HCP Packaging Group held a ground-breaking ceremony on 22 January 2018 for the first phase of a multi-year expansion at its Rusi site in Bechhofen, Bavaria, adding two production buildings and injection moulding and decoration equipment, expected to be fully operational by October 2018 and raising annual capacity by over 60%.

Perlen Packaging AG, the packaging division of the CPH Group, agreed to acquire a 60% majority stake in Brazilian company Sekoya Industria e Comercio Ltda., effective retroactively from 1 January 2018, with formal closing planned for end of February. The price was not disclosed.

Volnogorsk Mining and Processing Works ordered packaging from Delis-Profi LLC valued at 46.94 million UAH, covering 206 thousand PP containers this year. The price is 2% below the expected cost of 48 million UAH.

Sealed Air will supply Sun Basket with its recyclable TempGuard insulated box liners for perishable meal-kit deliveries, allowing a shipping box nearly 25 percent smaller. The announcement was made on January 18, 2018.

ADC Barcode invested €1 million in a new premises in Greenogue Business Park, Dublin, and two new flexographic label printing machines, aiming to double output and expand the team by 25%.

Public Works and Government Services Canada awarded Craig Packaging Limited a contract for 150,000 paperboard boxes for Health Canada, with an amendment value of CAD 169,500. The award was dated January 17, 2018.

ULMA Packaging opened a new plant for its traysealing activity in Goribar, Oñati, Spain, with an investment of five million euros. The facility has 5,000 m² over two floors, with 4,000 m² dedicated to production, and can be expanded by an additional 4,000 m².

Kruger rebuilt its MP10 newsprint machine at the Trois-Rivières mill in Quebec into a 100% recycled linerboard machine under a $250 million modernization project announced in September 2015. Official start-up occurred in May 2017.

King Lai (Xinlai Yingcai) announced plans to acquire 100% of Shandong Bihai Packaging Materials for 260 million yuan. The target company produces aseptic packaging materials and liquid food packaging machinery. The sellers guarantee combined net profit of at least 72 million yuan for 2018-2020.

Belvac Production Machinery has acquired Rosario Handel B.V., doing business as Rosario Can Technology, based in Dongen, Netherlands. Rosario makes can decorators and base coating machinery and provides rebuild and replacement-parts services.

Can Pack Romania is investing €50 million in a second production line and capacity expansion at its Bucharest metal can factory, hiring 85 people and targeting 1.5 billion cans per year, with the line starting in February 2018.

Graham Packaging will invest $6.7 million to expand its manufacturing operation in Campbell County, Virginia, creating 8 new jobs and retraining 37 employees on new technology.

Tapì Group, a beverage closures maker owned by Wise SGR, has entered a binding agreement to buy 80% of T&G GmbH, the sole distributor for Germany, Switzerland, Poland, Austria and the Netherlands. The founder keeps the remaining 20%.