TopPop Packaging has opened a 30,000 sq ft FDA-registered contract manufacturing center in Marlton, New Jersey, producing shelf-stable alcohol-infused ice pops and pouch packaging with capacity above 50 million pouches per year.

Tetra Pak will invest 700 million yuan ($98.9 million) to build a large intelligent closure facility in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, expected to be operational next year. The plant will produce DreamCap closures with an annual capacity of 10 billion caps.

Progroup and Krystals Premier Packaging will invest £20m (€22m) to create a packaging park at Progroup's sheetfeeding site in Ellesmere Port, UK. Progroup will invest in site infrastructure and Krystals in a new production facility.

Logoplaste plans a $35 million, 100,000-square-foot rigid plastic packaging facility on about 16 acres in Lima, Ohio, creating 37 jobs initially and 51 within three years.

Pharma folding-carton maker Faller Packaging plans a new plant in Waldkirch, described as its largest investment in company history, after sales and orders rose during the crisis.

TUBES plans to open a facility in Bordeaux in the second half of 2020, and will prepare a production location in California from Q1 2021.

Shanghai Baosteel Packaging plans to build a beverage can plant in Malaysia at a cost of RMB461 million (US$66 million), its second project outside China after Saigon, Vietnam.

Typack-Recipet plans to invest US$5 million in a new thermoformed plastic packaging plant in Mexico, expected to be operational within 15 months.

BioPappel announced the start of operations at its new Lebanon, Indiana plant, run through subsidiary US Corrugated Co., its sixth industrial unit in the United States.

Rexam plans to build two £50 million can manufacturing plants, one in Sri City in Chittoor district, Andhra Pradesh, and one in Jaipur, Rajasthan. The investment totals £100 million.

Rage Corp., based in Hilliard, Ohio, plans to invest $34 million in a new packaging plant in Virginia, where it already operates a plant in Altavista.

Crown Cork and Seal USA, a subsidiary of Crown Holdings, has begun construction on a $147 million, 327,000-square-foot facility in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Once complete, 126 people will work at the site.

Georgia-Pacific opened a new facility in Tolleson, Arizona, outside Phoenix, in May 2020 to make curbside recyclable paper padded mailers, creating about 80 jobs.

Asahi Printing completed a pharmaceutical and cosmetics packaging factory in Kizugawa, Kyoto, built for about 6 billion yen next to an existing plant. It will start full operation within the month, alongside its Toyama site.

Shrinath Flexipack agreed to build its first Middle East factory on a greenfield site in KIZAD Polymers Park, Abu Dhabi, with an AED 55 million investment, producing 30,000 tonnes of plastics per year.

StrongPack Ltd. established a greenfield non-alcoholic contract packaging operation in Nigeria, installing four Sidel lines over two years, including a can line, two PET lines and a PET line with Sidel's Actis coating system. The article is dated April 3, 2020.

Dunapack Packaging, part of the Austrian Prinzhorn Group, plans to invest about EUR 52 million in a new packaging plant in Dunavarsány, near Budapest, Hungary, scheduled to open in summer 2021 with 200 workers and capacity of 240 million square metres. The plan was reported on March 23, 2020.

SIT Group is completing a new flexible packaging factory in San Marino, with four new gravure printing machines and a laminator, as part of roughly €80 million in investments. The factory is due to open in June 2020.

Manjushree Technopack has launched a new greenfield rigid plastic packaging plant in Silvassa, western India, with capacity of 10,000 MTPA and an investment of INR 100+ crore.

Italian packaging company Iriapak will invest $7 million to establish a packaging film manufacturing facility in eastern New Orleans, its first North American plant, creating 25 direct jobs.

Aptar opened a 5,000 square meter facility in Chonburi, Thailand, with injection, assembly and finishing capabilities and room for expansion. The opening was reported on 11 March 2020.

Dairy group Ausnutria and packaging company Trivium are building a new can factory at the Internationaal Bedrijvenpark Friesland in Heerenveen for EUR 30 million, shared between them. The plant is due for completion at end 2020 and needs 50 to 60 workers.

Catalan packaging maker Alucan plans a new high-speed aluminium packaging line in Belgium with an annual capacity of 40 million units. COFIDES will provide a 3.7 million euro co-investment loan toward a total investment of 13.2 million euros.

Canpack launched its aluminum beverage can factory in Tocancipá, Cundinamarca, Colombia, a 75,000 m2 site with capacity of about 1.3 billion cans per year, expandable to 1.9 billion. The investment is reported at US$150 million.

Italian group Dopla has invested EUR 18 million to open two 10,000 square metre plants at its Polinyà site in Barcelona, making biodegradable cups and plates, with 44 new hires. The plants are already operating, according to the Catalan government.

AtCorr Packaging is investing $780,950 and creating 31 new jobs by relocating its corrugated sheet plant to a new 130,000 square foot facility at 1320 West Main Street in Glasgow, Barren County, Kentucky.

Megaplast launched a new flexible packaging plant of 9,100 square meters in Thiva, Central Greece, part of a 23-million-euro investment program over three years. The plant is expected to employ 70 workers.

Corex Group opened a new production facility in Wierden, Netherlands, dedicated to consumer packaging for dry food and other segments. The line can produce 15 million cans annually.

Solucan is setting up a digital can printing production line in part of the former Wabasso plant in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, for a project of CAD 4,094,891. The Quebec government granted a loan of CAD 1,340,713 and the federal government a loan of CAD 500,000; production started in December.

Allpax Products, a ProMach brand, will build an 80,000 square foot headquarters and manufacturing center in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, replacing existing facilities. The $7 million investment retains 55 jobs and creates five new direct jobs.

Lindal Group is building a new factory for Lindal do Brasil in Jundiaí, São Paulo state, with an investment of R$112 million due by 2021 and about 130 new jobs. Construction is underway and completion is expected within a year.

Nutmeg Container, a division of Unicorr Packaging Group, has completed refurbishment of a 125,000 sq ft manufacturing and warehouse facility in Thompson, Connecticut, consolidating its wood production there.

Pitreavie Group is opening a £3.8 million corrugated box manufacturing facility of 57,000 sq ft in Westfield, near Cumbernauld, with operations starting in March 2020 and 35 new jobs.

Ball Corporation has invested about US$80 million in a 23,000 sq m aluminum can and lid plant in Guarambaré, Paraguay, which began production in December 2019 and creates over 350 jobs.

Dunapack Packaging, part of Austria's Prinzhorn group, will invest €52 million in a new corrugated packaging plant in Dunavarsány, about 15 km south of Budapest, with capacity of 240 million m². Production start-up is scheduled for summer 2021.

Canpack has launched its aluminum beverage can factory in Tocancipá, Cundinamarca, Colombia, with an investment of US$150 million. The 75,000 m2 plant can produce about 1.3 billion cans a year, expandable to 1.9 billion, and will serve Peru, Ecuador and the Caribbean.

Packaging Corporation of America has built a $26 million corrugated cardboard box plant on a 42-acre Richland site bought from the city for $1.7 million. The plant opened with an estimated 65 workers, with the workforce expected to grow to 100-150.

Ball Corporation broke ground in Rome, Georgia on a new aluminum cups manufacturing facility next to its existing can plant, a multi-year investment of about $200 million that plans to hire approximately 145 employees.

Polish group CANPACK is building an aluminium beverage can plant in Stribro with an investment of about CZK 2.5 billion, employing up to 160 people, with production planned to start in July 2020.

Packaging company Albéa is to open a new plant in Huai'an, China, which will manufacture metal tubes.

DS Smith opened a new 550,000-square-foot corrugated box manufacturing plant in Lebanon, Indiana, on January 24, 2020, capable of producing about 30,000 boxes an hour.

NCI Packaging invested $35 million in a new Auckland factory producing milk powder cans, with production starting at the beginning of 2020. The site includes a Metal Star 3 printing press, the only one in New Zealand.

ND Paper plans to invest about $49 million to open a corrugated cardboard box plant in Racine County, Wisconsin, creating 88 jobs. The Wisconsin Economic Development Corp disclosed the plan.

Precise Packaging opened a new 15,000 square-foot aerosol and liquid contract manufacturing facility in Fall River, Massachusetts, near its headquarters. The site has two custom liquid filling lines and a new shrink sleever, and the company hired several new staff.

Juniper opened a container glass plant in Debre Birhan, about 130 km from Addis Ababa, with capacity of 200 million glass bottles a year. Construction and equipment cost about $100 million, and Rama Construction built the factory.

Ausnutria and Trivium Packaging are building a joint-venture can manufacturing plant of more than 10,000 square meters at Ausnutria's Heerenveen site in the Netherlands, expected to open in 2020 with capacity above 150 million cans by 2021.

Gerresheimer officially opened a new plant in Kosamba, India, on December 16, 2019, to manufacture plastic primary packaging for pharmaceutical products.

Buckeye Corrugated Inc. (BCI) opened a new 260,000-square-foot corrugated sheet plant in Houston, Texas, on December 16, 2019, with equipment transferred from its existing site and several new machines added.

Gerresheimer officially opened a new plant in Changzhou, China, producing plastic primary packaging for pharmaceuticals. The facility operates in clean rooms of class 9 and 7 and has FDA registration for US-type containers.

San Miguel Industrias is constructing a 10,000 square metre rigid plastic packaging plant in Huejotzingo, Mexico, with a $28 million investment, 10 SACMI machines and 150 planned jobs.