California-based packaging designer and manufacturer Maxco Supply selected Infor M3 ERP and Infor HCM, WFM and XM to replace an aging Oracle system. The selection followed a search of more than a year that evaluated a dozen vendors.

CROWN Imballaggi Italia, part of Crown Holdings, has installed an AVT Titan 100% print inspection system at its Calerno plant in Italy. The system supports a new KBA six-colour printing press for metal packaging. It was reported on 11 May 2017.

Noida-based Innovative Tech Pack Ltd signed a five-year agreement to supply caps for Bisleri's still water and carbonated beverage bottles, entering the carbonated beverage closure market.

Large format printer company Edison Solutions has selected Packsize International's EM7-35 On Demand Packaging system to improve its packaging processes and reduce shipping costs. The selection was announced on 28 March 2017.

Kansas City-based Alphapointe signed a seven-year contract to produce prescription bottles for Express Scripts Holding Co., a private-sector addition to its existing Veterans Affairs bottle contract, reported on 27 March 2017.

HRL, an Australian laboratory services firm, signed a three-year contract with O-I to provide analysis and spot testing of its glass container products, reported on 27 March 2017 and worth about $1 million.

Valmet will supply two containerboard production lines and automation systems for Nine Dragons Industries at Quanzhou and Chongqing, producing testliner and fluting from recycled fiber, with start-ups scheduled for 2018.

Austrian packaging printer Bauernfeind Print + Display became the first commercial user of Durst's Delta WT 250 water-based digital printing system, which it bought to print corrugated display packaging. The company expects to grow its turnover by 25% a year.

PET Technologies, with partner Thermo-Pack, supplied a complete filling line for 5 l PET bottles with reduced preform weight to Armenian bottler Jermuk Group, which also installed an APF-5 stretch blow molding machine.

The Office of Government Procurement in Ireland published a request for tender (FCT034C) for the supply and delivery of disposable polypropylene and aluminium meal containers, sealing films, tray sealing machines and polystyrene food boxes, with contract start 10 March 2017 and no value specified.

Ball is producing cans for selected craft beer expressions of Norwegian brewer Lervig Aktiebryggeri, extending its cooperation with craft brewers in Norway.

CM Downton has extended its transport contract with DS Smith Plastics for two years after a competitive tender. Downton delivers up to 10 multi-drop loads of plastics packaging daily from the Gloucester plant to UK customers.

Packaging manufacturer Linpac will supply printed film base trays with anti-fog lids to Leroy for its Mercadona sushi range.

Nexgen Packaging agreed to be the exclusive global provider of label and packaging products for retailer Chico's FAS, and the two companies will use Nexgen's software platform to manage ordering and delivery. The announcement was made on January 18, 2017.

UK public buying body ESPO appointed Pack King Ltd and L&F Contractors under a single-lot framework worth £2.1m for packaging materials and pallet supply to its Grove Park facility in Leicester, running 16 January 2017 to 14 January 2018.

JSC POZiS, through its tender organiser in Zelenodolsk, Tatarstan, placed a single-supplier purchase for corrugated cardboard packaging for 2017 deliveries with NP Naberezhnochelninsky KBK, valued at 49,460,912 rubles.

NCC signed a partnering agreement with Billerud Korsnas for earth, foundation and concrete works at the Next Generation project at Gruvon mill in Grums, with costs estimated at about SEK 950 million.

NCC signed a partnering agreement with BillerudKorsnas for earth, foundation and concrete works for its Next Generation packaging board production facility at Gruvon Mill in Grums, Sweden, estimated at about SEK 950 million.

Ahlstrom will supply PLA-based compostable infusion materials and its GreenCapsule top lid to Italian coffee house Caffe Vergnano and French coffee house Cap Mundo, announced December 22, 2016.

Billerudkorsnäs has commissioned Pöyry to deliver engineering services for a new board machine at its Gruvön mill in Sweden, the company's largest investment ever at SEK 5.7 billion. The machine will have capacity of about 550,000 tonnes a year.

BillerudKorsnäs has contracted Pöyry mill engineering services for a new KM7 packaging board machine at Gruvön, Sweden, with capacity of about 550,000 tonnes a year and start-up in 2019. The investment totals SEK 5.7 billion.

The Royal Australian Mint awarded Rodenprint and Packaging a contract to supply specialised printed packaging for coins and medals. The contract was awarded on 15 December 2016 with a value of AUD 15,444.

Innovative Tech Pack Ltd won a five-year contract from Dabur India to supply PET and plastic packaging for Dabur plants in India, Bangladesh and Nepal, expected to bring about Rs 400 crore of business over five years.

BIC Ljubljana awarded AVTOPLAS a contract to supply packaging in successive deliveries from 2017 to 2020 for EUR 111,781, published on 2016-12-07.

Amcor Rigid Plastics purchased a Sacmi CBF20 20-cavity compression blow forming machine for making HDPE pharmaceutical bottles at its Youngsville, North Carolina plant, announced in late 2016.

Tetra Pak agreed an AED25 million deal to construct processing and packaging lines for Binghatti Holding's new food and beverage plant in Abu Dhabi, where Raubi juice output is set to rise from 10 million to 40 million cases a year. Installation is expected to start in Q1 2017.

Indonesian paper subsidiary PT Fajarsurya signed a contract with BHS Corrugated of Germany for 10 corrugators, targeting 60,000 tons of output per month, with the contract signed on 28 September 2016.

Tetra Pak agreed to provide and construct processing and packaging lines for Binghatti Holding's new food and beverage plant in the Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi, worth AED25 million (about $6.8 million), announced November 26, 2016.

Manuli Packaging was awarded a GBP 250,000 contract by Public Power Solutions to supply bale wrap for packaging solid recovered fuel at its Swindon facility. The award date was 2016-10-28 and it was published on 2016-11-22.

SWA, a Dutch contracting authority in Alphen aan den Rijn, published a public tender for corrugated cardboard packaging, with an estimated value of EUR 750,000 to 1,000,000 excluding VAT for a 24-month contract with options to extend. Bannink Packaging is listed as a supplier in the procurement documents.