Atlas Ward Polska is general contractor for an expansion of Schumacher Packaging's corrugated cardboard packaging factory in Krępice, Lower Silesia, adding about 10,000 sqm of buildings. Completion is planned for the end of August 2020.

Canpack is expanding aluminum can capacity at its Colombia and Russia facilities by more than one billion cans annually in a US$80 million investment, adding more than 150 full-time jobs.

Italian box maker Toppazzini SpA is adding corrugated packaging capacity with a new corrugator at its San Daniele site, northeast of Venice. The article gives no specific investment value or date for the new line.

Chongqing Brewery's wholly owned subsidiary Chongqing Brewery Yibin plans to build a beer can filling line with up to 150,000 kiloliters annual capacity, with investment of up to RMB 264 million. Construction is expected to start July 2020 and trial production May 2021.

Cullen Packaging is installing two Expertfold 165 folder-gluer machines from Bobst at its Glasgow corrugated packaging plant, alongside a 20,000 sq ft extension. The machines are expected to be installed by the third quarter of 2020.

Coca-Cola HBC has set aside £9.3 million of capital expenditure for a second canning line at its Knockmore Hill plant in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, with capacity of 4.8 million cans a week. The line will support production of Sleek Cans and Monster Energy products.

Mauser Packaging Solutions is investing in new quart and gallon F-style metal can lines at its Memphis, Tennessee facility to more than double combined capacity. The gallon line is expected to be operational in Q3 2020.

Coveris is installing a 5-layer specialist agri extrusion line at its Kufstein plant in Austria to expand agri film capacity, with commissioning planned for Q2 2020.

Insoca, operating as Cartonajes Izquierdo, has started work on a expansion in Soria, Spain, with a planned investment of at least EUR 25 million over the medium term. The first phase includes a two-level automated warehouse with a silo for 7,000 pallets and about 25 new direct jobs.

Mauser Packaging Solutions broke ground on an expansion of its Erkelenz, Germany facility, adding warehouse space and new reconditioning and recycled resin processing lines.

Pactiv Corporation will invest a minimum of $8 million to expand its Greensboro facility in Guilford County, North Carolina, creating 25 new jobs, as announced by Governor Roy Cooper on January 24, 2020.

NEPA Carton & Carrier, a folding carton maker in northeastern Pennsylvania, is adding a second Koenig & Bauer Rapida 145 press, due for delivery in spring 2020, to increase its capacity by 50%.

In early 2020 CANPACK announced an increase of production capacity at its Colombian can plant to 1.9 billion cans per year.

Color Ad Packaging expanded its 200 Beghin Avenue site in Winnipeg, Manitoba, to include an in-house rotogravure cylinder engraving facility, bringing all flexible packaging steps in-house.

Pregis is investing $5 million in a fourth multilayer Windmoeller & Hoelscher blown film line at its Pregis Films facility in Grand Rapids, Michigan, adding about 4 million pounds of annual output, and is leasing 35,000 additional square feet of warehouse space.

Glossop Cartons plans to expand its Stockport production facility by over 50% following a six-figure funding package from Lloyds Bank, reported December 13, 2019.

Kaplamin Ambalaj, a Çukurova group packaging company, installed a second Fujifilm/Inca Onset X1 digital printing platform at its Prigo Digital Solution Center near Izmir, Turkey. Digital corrugated board output of 40,000 m2 per month has doubled and is expected to reach 100,000 m2 per month.

Following its acquisition of CM Packaging, Hoffmann Neopac is investing in a three-piece can making line at CM Packaging's facility in Dronten, Netherlands. The investment is aimed at metal packaging capacity.

LMI Packaging announced a 50,000 square foot addition to its building in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, on June 21, 2024.

Oji Fibre Solutions will invest A$100 million (US$68 million) to develop automated cardboard box production at its Christchurch, New Zealand factory, replacing the Shands Road operation, with completion planned for 2021.

Cameroonian glassmaker SOCAVER inaugurated new facilities in Douala after investing XAF5.3 billion to renovate its furnace No. 2 and build a PET preform workshop; glass melting capacity rose from 32,500 to 38,500 tonnes per year.

Mid America Display, a division of St. Louis corrugated packaging provider Boxes, Inc., bought a second EFI Nozomi C18000 single-pass inkjet printer, along with EFI software and a VUTEk superwide-format printer, to add digital production capacity.

Australian beverage producer Bickford's has opened a new AUD 20 million bottling line at its South Australian facility, developed by Sidel with Tetra Pak, including aseptic filling technology. The line helps expand the company into dairy.

Smurfit Kappa applied in July to extend its corrugated packaging plant on Mold Business Park in Flintshire by more than 14,000 square metres. The company says the expansion would secure 170 existing jobs and create around 50 new ones, making Mold its largest UK production site.

Food tray maker Efupico will invest about 2.7 billion yen to expand processing and moulding equipment for food containers made from used PET bottles. It plans to raise capacity by 20% within fiscal 2020.

Packaging maker Box Print will expand its plant in Campo Bom, Brazil, with a new 3,200 m² building and about R$10 million investment, backed by a municipal incentive of up to R$250,000. Headcount is planned to rise from 216 to more than 257 by 2024.

The Rockwall Economic Development Corporation announced a 346,000 square foot expansion of Pratt Industries in the Rockwall Technology Park, Texas, dated June 11, 2026 on the page.

Sca will invest SEK 7.5 billion to raise kraftliner capacity at its Obbola mill in Sweden from 275 thousand to 725 thousand tonnes a year, with a new paper machine starting in Q1 2023.

Ilim Gofra installed a Celmacch Chroma Print EVO 1700 printing machine at its Kommunar corrugated plant near St. Petersburg, part of ongoing converting capacity growth. The plant's 2018 investment in development was almost US$10 million.

HCP Group held an official opening ceremony on October 29, 2019, for a newly completed 37,000 m2 factory at its Huai'an location in Jiangsu province. The facility adds injection molding and decoration capacity for cosmetics packaging.

Gerresheimer completed renovation of its clear-glass furnace in Essen, adding new capacity for injection and infusion bottles and securing about 400 jobs at the plant.

Coca-Cola European Partners plans to open a £24m canning production line at its Wakefield, UK facility, part of a £49m investment there in 2019, to produce lightweight cans from 330ml to 500ml.

Coca-Cola European Partners opened a new GBP 16 million production line for lightweight cans at its Sidcup, UK site, alongside a GBP 39 million automated storage and retrieval warehouse, totaling GBP 55 million.

Zircon Technologies ordered two Mark Andy Performance Series P7E presses and five Rotoflex finishing units at Labelexpo Brussels, and plans a fifth manufacturing site in Dehradun, India, adding 100-120 jobs. It also plans to invest $6 million in capital equipment over 12 months.

WestRock is investing a further US$345 million in expanding its paper mill in Três Barras, Santa Catarina. The article dates this plan to its October 2019 announcement.

Graphic Packaging International is expanding its Kalamazoo, Michigan site on a brownfield plot, with an anticipated $600 million investment and construction starting in Q4 2019, supported by $21M in tax breaks.

Emsur Madrid inaugurated a new 5,000 m2 production building with a high-speed rotogravure printing line and a laminator at its Alcalá de Henares headquarters in Spain. The project adds production capacity for flexible packaging, mainly for the dairy market.

Graphic Packaging is investing $600 million in an expansion, according to a Crain's Grand Rapids report dated September 25, 2019. Site and capacity details are not given in the text.

SMC Packaging Group is expanding its Partnership Industrial Center plant in Springfield, Missouri, as part of a multiphase project. Phase II, with an estimated cost of $13.5 million, adds rail siding and manufacturing and storage space, with completion estimated for February 2020.

WestRock Brasil announced a R$ 10 million investment at its Pacajus corrugated packaging plant in Ceará to add new production equipment, including a corrugator, two printers and a material handling system, lifting capacity and quality.

Panther Display has put into operation an additional building of about 11,000 sqm at the Wustermark packaging park to co-pack packaging and displays, and has added a new litho-laminating printing machine.

SFT Group opened the first phase of corrugated board packaging production at the Aleksinskaya paper and board mill in Tula region, after investing over 3.7 billion roubles and creating 200 jobs. A second phase planned to raise capacity to 310 million square metres and add 100 jobs.

Crown Cork & Seal USA will relocate a food-grade metal can manufacturing line from Ontario, Canada to its Hanover Borough plant in York County, Pennsylvania, investing $24.6 million and creating 41 new jobs.

Indore-based flexible packaging converter Inoflex has bought a new Windsor 5-layer BFL machine and plans to expand production, with the expansion slated to start in November at its Indore plants.

SMI S.p.A. installed a new bottling and packaging line for Al Etihad Refreshment's Doha Water brand in Qatar. The line currently produces 20,000 bottles per hour and can be doubled to 40,000 by adding one integrated system.

Weihai Longgang Paper invested 210 million yuan in 2019 in a new high-strength corrugated base paper production line with pulping and a wastewater treatment plant. Trial production started in August 2019.

Progroup AG and packaging maker K2 Verpackungen are jointly investing around EUR 17 million to expand and modernise their adjacent plants in Offenbach an der Queich, Germany. Progroup is building a transport bridge and expanding its high-bay warehouse, while K2 adds an automated production line.

Plastipak Packaging signed a 96-month lease expansion of 233,770 square feet at Southern California Logistics Airport, bringing its total occupied space there to 530,230 square feet. The space supports a new bottled water business.

Ludwig Paletten GmbH enlarged its second site in Baden-Baden Steinbach from 10,000 to 20,500 square metres, adding a production hall, office and storage halls for a total investment of just over EUR 4 million. Occupancy is planned for early 2020.

Pretium Packaging invested $2 million in new reheat stretch PET blow molding equipment and infrastructure at its Troy, Alabama plant. The lines can make cold- and hot-fill containers from 6 ounces to 2 liters.