Royal Containers announced the acquisition of corrugated packaging manufacturer Rexdale Container Corp., based in the Greater Toronto Area, to increase capacity and geographic presence in Southern Ontario.

Sterling Packaging is investing $6 million in a new 60,000 sq ft building at Monroeville Industrial Park in Alabama, creating up to 55 jobs. The investment is backed by state, county and city incentives totaling $3.2 million.

Rand-Whitney Container cut the ribbon on a 65,000 sq ft expansion at its Pawtucket, Rhode Island facility on July 27, 2017. The addition, designed and built by PROCON, adds space to store surplus packaging materials.

Corning will develop Corning Valor Glass with Merck and Pfizer, and is expected to expand its facilities and build a new glass plant with an estimated investment of $500 million. The location was not stated.

Hollar & Greene has entered a partnership with Tosca to lease reusable plastic containers for delivering cabbages from farms to its retail stores. The deal covers Tosca's 6425 and 6428 RPCs.

ORBIS Corporation plans to expand its Bardstown, Kentucky facility to increase production and warehouse space, including new equipment. The total investment is $30 million, with 55 jobs to be hired.

AMB, an Italian manufacturer of layered film for food packaging, opened a new production plant in Amaro, Italy, with an investment of approximately €6.6 million. The plant will add 15,000 tons of capacity initially, with plans to double, and create 41 jobs initially, growing to 110.

Norwegian paper maker Ranheim Paper & Board has a seven-year supply agreement with Belgian packaging group VPK Peterson, as reported in July 2017. The article does not state a value.

Carolina Container, a subsidiary of New-Indy Containerboard, acquired Dixie Reel & Box Company, a corrugated packaging manufacturer based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Terms were not disclosed.

Aagard Group broke ground on a 40,000 square-foot expansion of its Alexandria, Minnesota facility, adding 31,000 sq ft of manufacturing space and new amenities. The company expects to move in by February 2018.

Italian capping systems maker AROL SpA finalized its acquisition of Italian packaging equipment manufacturer UNIMAC-GHERRI, which makes filling and capping machines for glass containers with twist-off caps.

Meyn Food Processing Technology, Cabinplant A/S and Multivac Sepp Haggenmüller signed a memorandum of understanding at Interpack to cooperate on offering joint solutions for food processing, filling, weighing and packaging.

Gerhard Schubert has partnered with Belgian biscuit manufacturer Destrooper-Olivier to supply a TLM packaging machine with three F4 robots for gentle handling of fragile almond thins at its plant in Oostkamp.

LS Tybs, a joint venture between STS Pak Holding and Lageen Tuboplast, will invest 10.847 million BGN to build a new plant in Gabrovo, Bulgaria, for producing extruded plastic tubes, with one automated line expected to start by end of 2017.

COFCO Packaging acquired a 51% stake in Zhejiang Jihong Packaging for $20.4 million and will invest an additional $20 million to build a production line for 2 billion two-piece cans per year in Haining, Zhejiang, aiming to become the largest food aluminum can base in East China.

Supremex has completed its acquisition of Montreal-based folding carton maker Stuart Packaging for $17.5 million on a cash-free, debt-free basis, plus $2.1 million payable over 24 months subject to targets.

ABC Packaging Direct's StandUpPouches division and Avery WePrint are creating a platform letting emerging consumer brands order custom-designed labels for stock packaging.

La Colombe Coffee Roasters and Crown Beverage Packaging North America agreed to collaborate on The MiniVault, a single-use recyclable can for coffee, to be sold in select US retail locations.

Postal packaging company Blake has acquired an envelope manufacturing plant in Telford, UK, adding capacity for 300 million envelopes per year on top of its two billion annual output. The move aims to strengthen UK-based manufacturing.

MSM POLY completed first commercial shipments of Anobex acrylonitrile methyl acrylate copolymer latex resin to film and component processors for pharmaceutical end users. The company plans to add capacity by Q2 2018.

Packaging maker Karl Knauer KG has acquired a 75% majority stake in HEPACK druck+verpackung GmbH of Neuenstein, Germany, which has about 100 employees and specializes in food, confectionery and sanitary packaging. The managing director keeps 25%.

US packaging group Multi-Color Corp said it would buy the labels unit of Austria's Constantia Flexibles for about $1.3 billion in cash and stock.

Triton funds partnered with Bormioli Luigi to purchase the pharma division of Bormioli Rocco, a pharmaceutical primary packaging maker currently owned by Vision Capital.

Enprom Packaging installed a new double drum central surface slitter at Poligal in Portugal, increasing capacity in slitting and rewinding for secondary products.

Rengo's subsidiary Triwall Corporation established a joint venture company, TW Michigan Corporation, in Michigan, USA, to manufacture and sell heavy-duty packaging materials. The announcement was made on 14 July 2017.

WestRock completed the acquisition of five corrugated cardboard plants in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Louisiana from U.S. Corrugated for $192 million in cash and common shares. WestRock also secured about 50 thousand tons of supply through a long-term contract.

Revere Packaging Holdings purchased custom tray and container maker Plastic Package for an undisclosed sum. The combined company will be headquartered in Shelbyville, Kentucky.

Lollicup USA has signed a land development deal to build a 700,000 sq ft plant in Rockwall, Texas, making paper and plastic cups and food containers. About 200 jobs are expected and completion is scheduled for October 2018.

Dunapack Packaging, the corrugated division of Prinzhorn Group, is investing in a second corrugated box plant for Poland in Lubliniec, with start-up planned for mid-2018.

Alzamora Group has acquired Lisbon-based packaging company Novotipo to strengthen its position in the domestic market and expand internationally. The combined group has a turnover of around 35 million euros.

Cepac is investing £2m to expand its corrugated packaging factory at Rawcliffe Bridge, East Yorkshire, with a new 45,000 sq ft production and warehousing facility under construction. The article is dated July 11, 2017.

Addivant held a ribbon-cutting ceremony on June 30, 2017, marking a multi-million-dollar expansion for its WESTON 705 nonylphenol-free antioxidant at its Morgantown, West Virginia manufacturing facility, more than tripling production capacity.

Ellis Packaging West Inc., part of The Ellis Group, has purchased a 41-inch, seven-colour Komori GLX press for its Guelph, Ontario facility. The press is scheduled to be installed and represents the second Komori GLX technology purchased in Canada.

Crown Holdings will invest EUR 66 million to build an aluminium beverage can production plant on 60,000 square metres at Parc Sagunt in Valencia, Spain, creating more than 100 direct jobs. The approval was announced on 6 July 2017.

Crown Holdings plans a new plant at Parc Sagunt in Valencia, reported as a EUR 66 million investment creating 112 jobs. The company would occupy about 71,000 square metres for beverage can production, pending board approval.

Crown Holdings plans to invest about EUR 66 million and create 112 direct jobs on a 60,000-65,000 square metre plot at Parc Sagunt industrial park in Valencia to make beverage cans. Approval by the park's board was expected the following Friday.

Can-Pack unveiled a new aluminium cans factory at Dubai Investment Park, UAE, with an investment of Dh200 million. The plant will serve markets as far as the Philippines and Papua New Guinea.

J.L. Lennard merged its Packaging Machinery Division in New Zealand with Tech-Pack (NZ) to form J.L. Lennard Packaging, a division of the Australasian network of J.L. Lennard Limited.

RPC Promens Consumer Kolding won a contract to supply custom-designed injection stretch blow-moulded PET bottles for Scandic Food's dressings and sauces, in 250ml, 350ml and 400ml sizes.

Minnesota-based Cortec introduced CorrTainer corrosion protection boxes with vapour phase corrosion inhibitors in the cardboard walls, produced on a newly installed box-making machine.

Progressio Investimenti II Fund acquired a 70% stake in Garda Plast, an Italian producer of PET preforms, from the Tonoli family, which retains 30%.

Avery Dennison Polska signed a lease for over 13,300 square meters in the MLP Pruszków II logistics park near Warsaw for production and warehousing, with delivery scheduled for Q2 2018.

Henkel completed its acquisition of the global Darex Packaging Technologies business, based in Massachusetts, for $1.05bn on a cash and debt-free basis. Darex makes sealants, coatings and cans for the metal packaging industry.

Intertape Polymer Group Inc. completed the acquisition of substantially all assets of Canadian Technical Tape Ltd. (Cantech), a North American supplier of industrial and specialty tapes based in Montreal, for approximately $67 million.

Gualapack opened a new Group facility in Sumy, Ukraine in July 2017, producing multilayer barrier laminates and premade spouted pouches for CIS customers.

In July 2017, Corning and Gerresheimer, a Dusseldorf, Germany-based contract packaging company, partnered to supply Valor Glass to the pharmaceutical industry. The two companies have worked together in pharmaceutical glass packaging since 2015.

Corning and Stevanato Group announced a new collaboration to supply Corning Valor Glass, a glass container for injectable drugs, to pharmaceutical customers. The press release is dated 25 July 2017, and no value is given.

The Middleby Corporation acquired CVP Systems, a manufacturer of high-speed packaging systems for the meat processing industry based in Downers Grove, Illinois, with approximately $20 million in annual revenues.

Quality Pack Zrt, part of the Hell group, opened Hungary's first aluminium beverage can factory in Szikszó after a HUF 30 billion investment. The plant has annual capacity of 1.2 billion cans and is expected to create 320 jobs by end-2019.

The Hell group opened its aluminium beverage can factory in Szikszó, Hungary, built by subsidiary Quality Pack with a HUF 30 billion investment, with 1.2 billion annual capacity and plans for 320 new jobs by end-2019.