Corrugated Container Corporation announced a $3 million expansion of its Piney Flats, Tennessee box plant, adding a 64,000 square foot warehouse addition. Construction is expected to begin later in March 2017, and additional jobs could be created.

Constantia Flexibles Group agreed to acquire Italy's leading dairy lidding company, TR Alucap, for an undisclosed amount.

Manjushree Technopack launched a two-compartment PET fusion jar for Tata Global's Tata Tea Fusion, storing two tea types in one pack, reported as the first such jar by an Indian FMCG company.

Henkel made a binding offer to acquire GCP Applied Technologies' Darex Packaging Technologies business for about $1.05 billion, subject to works council consultation and valid until July 3, 2017.

Ball Corporation intends to end production at its Recklinghausen beverage packaging facilities at the end of July 2017, subject to negotiation with the Works Council.

Aran Group completed a $5.2 million investment in a new production facility in Greer, South Carolina, 18 months prior to September 2018. The facility is now fully operational, with warehouse and distribution centers in California and Ontario, Canada.

Sterling Contract Packaging installed a new automated servo-driven tube filling and sealing machine from ProSys Innovative Packaging Equipment at its Moore, SC facility in March 2017, improving speed, setup, and quality for adhesive products packaging.

Tidewater Equity Partners made an investment in South Atlantic Packaging in March 2017 to support expansion.

SSI Schaefer Packaging opened an 8,500 square meter reusable packaging fabrication facility in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, on March 1, 2017, expected to create about 50 jobs.

A&R Carton, a unit of AR Packaging, signed a strategic partnership with Packages to jointly manufacture, sell and distribute cardboard packaging in Pakistan and neighbouring countries. The deal does not include a joint venture or equity stake.

Crown plans to expand its Da Nang beverage can plant in Lien Chieu Industrial Park, Vietnam, to 1.6 billion cans in the fourth quarter of 2017. The plant was first built in 2013 with a 730 million can capacity and $40 million investment.

A&R Carton AB of Sweden and Packages Limited of Pakistan signed a strategic partnership to make, procure, sell and market paper-based packaging in Pakistan and neighboring markets. The agreement is not a joint venture or equity participation.

Siegwerk has signed a contract to purchase SCHEKOLIN AG's business unit 'Plastic Tubes and Laminates', including technical expertise, product portfolio, and manufacturing equipment, to expand its UV inks and varnishes portfolio for plastic packaging. Financial details were not disclosed.

Wisconsin-based Vonco Products LLC acquired Genesis Plastics Welding of Fortville, Indiana, merging the two firms' contract manufacturing and plastic packaging capabilities.

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.

Bain Capital is buying Belgian PET preform specialist Resilux, alongside its acquisition of Petainer, with the businesses possibly being combined.

Private investment firm Bain Capital, through its Europe fund, is acquiring UK packaging company Petainer, a deal that runs alongside its purchase of Belgian preform maker Resilux and may see the businesses combined.

Welch Packaging Group added new corrugation equipment in a new factory addition in Elkhart, Indiana, enabling it to make its own cardboard; the first board came off the machinery on Nov. 14.

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

Australia's Orora agreed to acquire The Garvey Group of Niles, Illinois and Graphic Tech of Fullerton, California for a total of $54 million. Completion is expected by the end of March 2017; the announcement is dated 2017-02-24.

A Cascades and Sonoco joint venture plans to invest $16 million to expand its Birmingham, Alabama plant for a new line of recyclable take-out containers. The line is expected to start up by mid-2018; the announcement is dated 2017-02-24.

Petainer Innopac Packaging is installing an additional line at its Maharashtra facility, with each new line investment reported at INR 14 crore. The report is dated 2017-02-23.

Petainer Innopac Packaging plans to set up two production units, one in the South (Chennai or Bengaluru under consideration) and one in the North (location undecided). The plans were reported on 2017-02-23.

Cerea Capital II and Bpifrance have taken a participation in Groupe GPS, a Bordeaux-based company specializing in industrial packaging logistics, reorganizing its capital and financial structure. The deal involves the management and historical partner Ingefin.

TemperPack will invest $2 million to expand its headquarters and manufacturing operations in Richmond, Virginia, creating 23 new jobs. The expansion was announced by the Richmond mayor and Virginia's Secretary of Commerce and Trade.

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.

Graphic Packaging International will supply a QuikFlex 2100 beverage cartoning machine to City Brewing Company's Memphis, Tennessee packing site. The variety pack line adds 9.5 million cases a year to the plant's 50 million case capacity.

ALTANA AG acquired Landa's Metallography technology, a novel printing technology for producing metallized graphics, from the Landa Group. The technology will be transferred to ALTANA's ACTEGA Coatings & Sealants division.

Hunan Fumake delivered a second fully automatic betel nut packaging line (10 packaging machines) to a major betel nut enterprise in Hunan, China. The line is expected to be operational in early March 2017.

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.

Arnauld Demoulin, formerly with Ontex for 15 years, became CEO of Van Genechten Packaging International, succeeding Inge Plochaet, who had served as interim CEO since September 2016.

Tetra Pak received an investment certificate to build a $124 million paper-board carton factory in Binh Duong province, Vietnam, its first in the country. Commercial operations are expected by Q2 2019 with expandable capacity of about 20 billion packs per year.

Pedon Group invested in three MBP R-SERIES lines from PFM, which tripled productivity in less than one year. The investment was driven by the need to increase processing capacity and free up space previously used for finished product storage.

Bosch Packaging Technology, in partnership with recently acquired Kliklok Corporation, will introduce the Kliklok ITC integrated topload carton forming, loading and closing solution at interpack 2017. The machine targets food producers of confectionery, cereal bars, bakery products, biscuits and cookies.

Tecnocap has acquired aluminum aerosol can and tube maker Tubettificio Europeo in Lecco, Italy, renaming it Tecnocap TL, with projected group turnover of EUR 200 million. The deal was finalized on 16 February 2017 and announced on 29 March 2017.

French metal packaging group Massilly opened its Moroccan plant in the Haliopolis industrial park in Drarga near Agadir on 16 February 2017. The plant makes sardine cans and industrial pails, with about 30 staff and a planned capacity of 300 to 400 million sardine cans within two to three years.

Sonoco signed a definitive agreement to acquire Peninsula Packaging Company, a thermoformed fresh-produce packaging maker in Exeter, California, for about $230 million in cash. The deal is expected to close by Q2 2017.

Showa Aluminum Can Corporation will establish a second can production facility in Quang Nam Province, Vietnam, and add a can end line at its existing Hanacans factory, increasing total capacity to 2 billion cans per year by October 2018 with a total investment of 5 billion yen.

Billerud Korsnäs is investing SEK 5.7 billion in a new paperboard machine with 550,000 tonnes annual capacity at its Gruvön mill in Värmland, Sweden, plus rebuilding work at the pulp mill. Start-up is expected in the first quarter of 2019.

Tetra Pak is investing EUR 24 million ($25 million) in its first factory for carton packaging closures, located within its existing Straws and Strips plant in Rayong, Thailand. The plant will open in 2018, create 60 jobs and produce more than 3 billion closures a year.

Smurfit Kappa agreed to purchase Litbag, a Portuguese maker of multi-layer EVOH barrier films and a leader in the Portuguese wine packaging market, to strengthen its position in Southern Europe. Terms were not disclosed. The announcement was made on February 14, 2017.

Multi Packaging Solutions has ordered an 18-unit Heidelberg Speedmaster XL106, the largest sheetfed press Heidelberg has ever built, for its East Kilbride plant in Scotland. The press will be installed in March and aims to be in full production by mid-2017.

Pacman-CCL, a joint venture of CCL Industries and Albwardy Investment, is set to acquire a 70% stake in Super Label, an Indian pressure-sensitive label maker, for $3.75 million.

RPC Group has acquired Letica Corp., which makes injection-molded and thermoformed containers, packaging and paper products for end markets including food service. The deal value is not stated in this article.

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.

Sappi will invest US$165 million to rebuild Paper Machine No. 1 at its Somerset Mill in Skowhegan, Maine, to make consumer packaging products. The project adds 180,000 metric tons of capacity and is slated to come online in early 2018.

Stora Enso is investing EUR 28 million at its Heinola Fluting Mill in Finland to improve quality and increase production capacity of AvantFlute SC by 15,000 tonnes per year.

Huhtamaki is building a new 750,000 sq ft warehousing, distribution and manufacturing facility in Goodyear, Arizona, with investment exceeding $100 million and about 300 jobs. Verst Group Logistics will manage the operation under a long-term contract.

Cosmo Films installed a new 10.4-metre BOPP line at its existing Karjan facility near Vadodara, Gujarat, raising annual capacity 40 percent to 196,000 MT. The line cost about Rs 200 crore and was commissioned ahead of schedule.

Dutch packaging company Mauser Group agreed to be acquired by BWAY Corp., backed by Stone Canyon Industries, in an all-cash deal of $2.3 billion. The sale followed a planned U.S. IPO that was pulled.