Amcor is investing in a new flexo press at its Alzira business in Spain to meet increased demand for blister foils and sachets in Iberia. No investment value was given.

Europac announced a €10m investment plan at its Lucena packaging plant to increase production, buy new assets and expand installations, expected to create 25 direct jobs.

Amcor Flexibles will install a UV flexo printing press at its Kreuzlingen site in Switzerland to serve pharmaceutical packaging markets, as part of a European printing investment plan that also includes a digital press at Cramlington, UK.

Amcor Flexibles is installing a UV flexo press at Kreuzlingen, Switzerland and a digital press at Cramlington, UK to serve healthcare customers in the UK, Switzerland and Germany, with operation expected in 2017.

Tomsk Electromechanical Plant (TEMZ) has invested more than 1 billion rubles in a new production facility making equipment for Gazprom, with a total project investment of 1.5 billion rubles. The project includes a joint venture to produce anti-surge and control valves and electric drives.

Festo is investing about EUR 30 million over 2017 and 2018 to expand its Esslingen-Berkheim headquarters, with labs and offices returning after production moved to Ostfildern.

Visy Industries, the private cardboard box and paper recycling group of Anthony Pratt, will raise $150 million in 10-year long-term debt from AustralianSuper and IFM Investors, arranged by Westpac's Institutional Bank. The funds will refinance existing senior debt.

Sonoco will invest $20 million to develop a packaging center in Atlanta supporting Duracell's new North American battery packaging operation, with full production expected in Q4 2018.

Orora agreed to reimburse vendors for recent growth capital investments totaling $5 million, as disclosed around 2017-02-24.

Printing and Packaging Co Ltd of Hinckley, Leicester has bought a Rapida 106 seven-colour double coater press from Koenig & Bauer to add capacity and coating options. The press is due to be installed at the end of March 2017.

A consortium led by Lontra has received a £1.5 million Energy Catalyst grant from Innovate UK to apply its Blade Compressor as turbo compounding to improve fuel efficiency of 1MW power generation engines. The project takes the technology through concept to hardware and testing.

Grupo Marítimo Industrial (Grupomar) plans to invest about US$48 million in a sardine canning plant and cold storage in Ensenada, Baja California, and expansions of its shipyard and packaging site in Manzanillo, Colima, creating up to 500 jobs.

Cascades will invest CAD 6.1 million and the Quebec government CAD 5.2 million in two energy efficiency projects at its Cabano containerboard plant, modifying residual biomass boilers to reduce heavy-fuel oil use.

Smurfit Kappa's Tannochside plant in Scotland has introduced C&T Channel Matrix's Corrugate creasing matrix on its high-speed bottling line. The plant produces packaging for distilleries, food producers and pharmaceutical customers.

Crown Paper Group's Montebello Container installed an automated dry end at its La Mirada sheet feeder plant plus conveyors, unitizers and wet-end upgrades, and improved safety and waste at Pico Rivera and Santa Fe Springs. Montebello increased production more than 20 percent in 2016.

Kirovsky Zavod Gazovye Tekhnologii, part of Kirovsky Zavod, has spent 200–300 million rubles on developing and producing automatic compressed gas filling stations and plans another 1 billion rubles over two to three years. The company already holds a contract to build eight stations for Gazprom Gazomotornoe Toplivo.

Stora Enso is reconsidering its plan to build a hardwood pulp mill next to its Beihai consumer board plant in Guangxi, China, and may buy pulp on the market instead. The existing plant, with a 450,000 tonne board machine, is not affected.

Atlas Copco intends to split into two listed companies, one focused on industrial customers and the other on mining and civil engineering customers, with the mining group to be spun off to shareholders.

Packaging maker Seufert Transparente Verpackungen invested just under one million euros in early 2017 in a modern flatbed die-cutting machine at its Rodgau site. The line automates cutting, slot breaking, counting and pallet separation.

Model Group installed new four-colour EVOL flexo folder gluers at its Bilgoraj and Czosnow plants in Poland as part of CHF 86 million invested in modernisation, sustainability and expansion in 2017.

Pepperl+Fuchs plans to modernize its Chennai enclosure production facility in India, acquired in 2016 from Petroleum Safety Products Industries, as part of an investment project to expand it to global scale. The plant employs about 100 people.

BillerudKorsnäs decided to build a new paperboard machine with 550,000 tonnes annual capacity at its Gruvön production site, with production expected to start in Q1 2019.

Tetra Pak announced a £88.5m investment in a state-of-the-art regional manufacturing facility near Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The announcement was reported on 2016-11-16.

As part of its Finnish corrugated consolidation, Stora Enso will invest around €19 million in new machinery and infrastructure at its Lahti site. The plan is scheduled to be finalised by the first quarter of 2018.

IPL announced a $36 million investment plan to expand production capacity in Canada and the United States and enter new market segments in the US.

BASF plans to invest more than €200 million globally in its plastic additives business over five years, about half in Asia, focusing on capacity expansions and operational excellence.

Rondo-Pak invested $30 million in its business in 2016, according to the article. The investment accompanied its joint venture and new Camden plant.