ePac has installed an HP Indigo 200K digital press at its Sheffield production site, its first such press in Europe. Installation was completed in April 2025 to add capacity for flexible packaging such as pouches.

Panther Group's RRK Wellpappenfabrik is buying a neighbouring 30,000 m² plot in Bottrop and plans a fully automated new corrugator and warehouse, with about EUR 40 million invested. Plant capacity is set to rise above 300 million m² per year, with timing dependent on 2026 economic conditions.

Flair Packaging is adding a 10-color flexographic press and a solventless laminator at its Calgary, Alberta plant, and has acquired a second Calgary plant of 35,000 square feet for its converting equipment. It is the first of a series of planned Canadian expansions.

Rajshree Polypack Limited has won a repeat international order worth USD 0.40 million from a USA-based food packaging distributor for custom injection-moulded products, to be fulfilled by August 2025.

Mondi will acquire Schumacher Packaging's corrugated and solid board operations in Germany, Benelux and the UK for EUR 634 million, with completion expected in 2025.

Melbourne-based Onpack partnered with hydration brand Rippl to supply direct-to-can digitally printed aluminium cans. Rippl has since produced 716 can designs and delivered over 300,000 cans across Australia.

Canada-based E. Hofmann plans its first U.S. facility in Madisonville, Kentucky, with a $43 million investment in a 100,000-square-foot building and equipment. Construction is slated for completion next year, and the project commits to 164 jobs.

Arglass fired up a new, larger furnace at its Valdosta, Georgia glass container plant as part of a $230 million project. The furnace is expected to produce more than 350 million glass containers per year and more than double site capacity.

American Packaging Corp plans to expand its Story City, Iowa facility to add pouch production capacity. It plans to break ground in October 2025 and complete the project by September 2026.

Gruppo Decorluxe, controlled by Ethica Global Investments, completed the acquisition of 100% of ISSCO srl, a Lombardy company doing metallization and UV sputtering on plastic packaging for cosmetics. The founder and CEO Nicola Trasatti stays on and reinvests in the parent company.

Ardagh Glass Packaging-Europe signed a contract to supply up to 14 million 70cl emerald green bottles to Mast-Jägermeister from its NextGen hybrid furnace in Obernkirchen, Germany. The announcement was made on 16 July 2025.

TRICOR began production at its new heavy corrugated board plant in Weeze-Goch, Germany, after 15 months of construction. The plant cost about EUR 175 million, creates more than 200 jobs and can produce up to 140,000 tonnes per year.

Navitas Capital and Dijkstra Plastics reached an agreement under which Navitas will acquire a majority stake in the Dutch maker of plastic packaging buckets. The deal was announced on 15 July 2025 from Haaksbergen/Alphen aan den Rijn.

Russian plastic packaging maker Ai-Plast signed an agreement with the Rostov region government to expand production of plastic containers for cottage cheese at its Azov plant. Total investment exceeds 400 million rubles and about 20 new jobs are planned.

SIG will invest an additional $35 million in the first expansion of its aseptic carton plant in Querétaro, Mexico, boosting output by 50%. Production from the expansion is scheduled to start in the second half of 2026.

ZÁLESÍ a.s. is investing almost CZK 90 million in a new high-speed automated laminate tube line using Swiss SAESA 240 technology in Luhačovice, raising plant capacity by 45%. Serial production is planned for January 2026.

Rajshree Polypack announced a new order worth Rs 2.58 crore to supply plastic rigid sheets to a listed packaging manufacturer, to be executed by August 2025.

BVS Packaging Group AG, headquartered in Urdorf, Switzerland, entered a strategic partnership in which substantial shares were transferred to Packaging Group AG of Zug, retroactive to January 1, 2025. The locations in Switzerland, Germany and Austria remain under current management.

PV Systems subsidiary Detab Ecomats won its largest order ever, worth over 100 million SEK over two years. The customer, a world-leading company, is switching from plastic to paper packaging.

TedPack LLC assumed control of all flexible packaging operations previously handled by Fairview International, effective July 1, 2025. The Fairview business had operated from Jackson, Wisconsin.

Tetra Pak inaugurated its second aseptic carton packaging material production line at its Bình Dương facility in VSIP II-A Industrial Park, Ho Chi Minh City. The 97 million euro investment more than doubles the site's capacity to over 30 billion packages a year.

CS Interpharm General Trading signed an MOU and NDA with UAE-based Gulf Center Group, which will provide custom bottle design, filling and production for the MEDUSA product line. The announcement was made on July 1, 2025.

Packaging Corp of America said it will buy the containerboard business of Greif for $1.8 billion, adding two mills with about 800,000 tons of capacity. The deal is expected to close by the end of the third quarter.

Capardoni introduced a mono-material PP dropper, a tamper-proof flip-top cap, a new glass bottle called Chico, and the Ruby Stick mono-material PP stick. The products are aimed at cosmetics and skincare packaging.

Packaging Corporation of America agreed to buy Greif's containerboard business for $1.8 billion in cash, including two mills in Ohio and Virginia with about 800,000 tons of annual capacity. The deal is expected to close by the end of PCA's third quarter.

Papierfabrik Palm GmbH & Co KG completed its acquisition of five corrugated box and sheet mills from International Paper in France, Portugal and Spain. The closing was reported June 30, 2025, with completion expected by the end of Q2 2025.

HySum Flexibles (300501.SZ) plans to acquire 100% of Guangdong Zhengyi Packaging Co., Ltd. in cash from its shareholders to gain control, after signing an equity acquisition intent agreement on June 25, 2025. Zhengyi Packaging specializes in aluminum oxide film and vacuum aluminum-coated film.

ValorFlex Packaging of Kentucky, a subsidiary of ValorFlex Holdings, will establish an advanced flexible packaging manufacturing facility in Bowling Green, Kentucky, with a $23.4 million investment creating 82 jobs.

Canadian plastics packaging producer E. Hofmann Packaging plans a 100,000-square-foot production facility in Madisonville, Hopkins County, Kentucky, with a $43 million investment that will create 164 jobs. Construction is expected to start in 2025 and finish in 2026.

ALSTAL Grupa Budowlana signed a contract to build a production and warehouse hall for CANPACK in Bydgoszcz, adding a line for about 1 billion aluminium cans a year, with investment above 440 million PLN; construction runs to August 2026.

Corrugated packaging supplier Tri-Wall has adopted Aopack BM3000-HD heavy-duty box making machines at its operations in China, Europe and the Middle East to improve small-batch production.

Avantium signed a multi-year capacity reservation agreement with Dutch packaging producer Hordijk, securing future PEF polymer volumes from licensed industrial-scale plants.

Avantium signed a multi-year capacity reservation agreement with Dutch packaging producer Hordijk, securing PEF polymer volumes from future licensed plants for trays and injection-molded packaging.

The European Commission cleared under the EU Merger Regulation the acquisition of sole control of the Schoeller Group by US firm Madison Dearborn Partners; closing is expected in Q3 2025.

Stora Enso entered a strategic partnership with Matrix Pack to scale formed fiber packaging, acquired a minority stake in Matrix Pack and took a board seat.

Arnest Packaging Solutions is launching a third production line and building a 26,000 m² warehouse at its Ulyanovsk aluminum can plant, with investment exceeding 5 billion rubles and the new line due in Q4 2025.

Diamond Box, a UK sheet plant business with annual revenues near £50m, has been acquired by Nova Paper, a Dutch entity owned by Eren Group.

Turkish company UR-SA signed an investment contract with Egypt's SCZone to build a 35,000 square meter industrial textiles and plastic packaging plant in Qantara West, with $20 million investment and 1,000 expected jobs.

Hon Chuan signed a long-term on-site contract at a Guangdong plant for a European major, with annual capacity of 600 million preforms.

Hon Chuan secured a whole-set supply contract for bottle bodies, labels and caps for Taiwan Tobacco & Liquor's 10-year rice wine PET bottle, starting next year.

Hon Chuan held a topping-out ceremony for the third phase of its aseptic beverage plant in the Taichung Free Trade Port, costing NT$1.92 billion, with completion expected in Q4 2025 and commercial operation in Q2 2026. Total investment in the zone is set to reach NT$8 billion.

SIPA's packaging development team secured a project with Uzbekistan beverage company Family Group, owner of the Flavis brand, to design a new aluminium can and create labels for new CSD flavours in PET bottles.

At SPIEF 2025, Tula Governor Dmitry Milyaev and Yasnopolyanskaya Packaging Factory signed an investment agreement for a plant producing industrial containers and packaging in Yasnogorsk district. The project involves about 2 billion rubles of investment and around 70 new jobs.

Rajshree Polypack Ltd won a INR 31.7 million order from a domestic FMCG conglomerate for recyclable polypropylene tubs for a dairy-dessert line, to be served from its Unit-IV plant in Daman, with first deliveries scheduled for August.

Anima Infinita Flex Novgorod, part of the NEOPOLIS holding, will build a new production and warehouse building at its Veliky Novgorod plant for over 1 billion rubles. The agreement was signed on 18 June, and production launch is planned for April 2026, with 60 jobs.

International Paper is reportedly exploring the possibility of building a new facility in Salt Lake City, Utah; no decision has been confirmed.

Green Bay Packaging will invest $1 billion to expand its kraft linerboard mill in Morrilton, Arkansas, replacing recovery and biomass boiler components, adding an electric turbine generator and buying about 300 acres of land.

DuPont expanded a Costa Rica facility with a 16,000-square-foot addition to produce sterile healthcare packaging such as pouches, header bags and lids.

Danone Canada will invest CAD 9 million in its Boucherville, Quebec plant to begin producing individual PET yogurt cups for its Oikos brand, its first such facility in Canada.

Allpack Packaging (Allgroup LLP) was awarded a published £5,500,000 contract by YPO for packaging materials, machines and consumables, announced 17 June 2025.