Hamburger Rieger is investing about €370 million in a second paper machine at its Spremberg mill in Brandenburg, adding 500,000 tonnes per year of containerboard capacity. Construction began in September 2018 with completion scheduled for 2020, and about 200 jobs are expected.

Auer Packaging is building a third block warehouse with 6,300 square metres of floor space at its Amerang site in Germany. The investment is about seven million euros and completion is planned for December 2018.

Klabin is investing R$50 million in 2018 to buy a complete printing and bag production line at its Lages plant in Santa Catarina, increasing capacity by 10%.

WestRock announced approval of a US$345 million investment to expand its paper mill in Três Barras, Santa Catarina, boosting HyPerform kraft paper capacity to about 685k metric tons a year from about 470k. The announcement was made on 4 November 2018.

Carolina Poly Inc., which markets products under the Husky brand, is spending $25 million to expand operations in Chester, South Carolina. The announcement was reported in November 2018.

Canpack Romania opened a new aluminum can production line at its Bucharest plant with an investment of over EUR 50 million, raising annual capacity from 950 million to 1.55 billion cans and creating about 88 jobs.

Plastipak Packaging will invest $10 million in its Garland, Texas production facility, a roughly 400,000 square foot plant operating since 1996, expected to create six new jobs.

Toyo Seikan Group's subsidiary Toyo Seikan will build a new plant building at its Toyohashi factory in Aichi Prefecture to make plastic pouches and cups, with total investment of about 9 billion yen including capacity equipment. Completion is planned for March 2020.

TemperPack plans to expand manufacturing of its ClimaCell liner material to its Las Vegas, Nevada facility, which will supplement current production in Richmond, Virginia.

Hamburger Rieger broke ground on a new paper machine No. 2 in Spremberg, Brandenburg, with an investment of around €370 million, creating 200 jobs and adding 500,000 tonnes of annual corrugated base paper capacity. Commissioning is scheduled for the second half of 2020.

Amcor announced plans to invest more than $25 million to upgrade its Madison facilities in 2018 and 2019, adding capacity, improving quality and updating technology. The expansion is expected to raise plant employment by close to 50 percent.

Printpack is expanding its Prescott Valley, Arizona plant with a 100,000 sq ft facility expected to create at least 30 new jobs.

Rand-Whitney held a ribbon cutting on September 12, 2018 for a 45,000 sq ft expansion at its headquarters in Worcester, Massachusetts, adding equipment, storage and 22 dock doors.

Segezhskaya Upakovka's Salsk branch of Segezha Group is commissioning a new GARANT MASCHINEN Triumph 5 QT SK bag converting line in Russia. It can produce up to 500,000 bags in September and 4.5 million by year-end, with total line capacity of 24 million units a year.

Cooper Container II and Welch Packaging will invest in expanding their Henderson County operations, adding 100,000 square feet at the Lexington manufacturing facility. The project will create about 39 to 40 jobs over three years, with building completion expected in late 2018.

Alpla Inc. will expand its Bowling Green, Kentucky plant with a 100,000-square-foot warehouse project costing $6.9 million, creating 24 full-time jobs. Completion is expected in 2019.

PacTec Inc. will invest $2.5 million to expand its Clinton manufacturing site in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, building a 40,000-square-foot facility and modernizing an existing 40,000-square-foot building. The expansion retains 95 jobs and creates 15 new direct jobs.

Kruger has dedicated a new high-speed corrugated packaging converting line at its LaSalle plant in Quebec after investing almost CAD 10 million, producing 24,000 boxes per hour.

Accredo Packaging has begun phase III of its 32-acre Sugar Land campus, adding over 200,000 square feet of warehouse and manufacturing space at a cost of about $50 million and 175 new jobs.

Papelera Cumbre received industrial promotion benefits for ARS 5,416,821 invested in building a new site at its Córdoba plant, where it plans to add machinery for corrugated board production.

VPK Packaging Group's Rigid Containers opened two extensions and new conversion equipment at its Limerick, Ireland plant after an EUR 8 million investment. The company plans a third shift that would add 25 to 30 jobs over two years.

Mondi opened its expanded Mondi Simet site near Poznań, Poland on 20 June 2018, with a new Fosber corrugator that quadrupled the plant's production capacity for heavy-duty corrugated packaging.

Mondi is adding manufacturing capacity and new equipment at its Jackson, MO facility to produce premium flat-bottom bags for food, pet food and personal care markets. The expansion will be fully operational by the third quarter of 2018.

Green Bay Packaging announced an investment of over $500 million to build a new 100 percent recycled paper mill in Green Bay and expand its shipping container division, with about 200 jobs expected statewide.

Winpak Portion Packaging expanded its rigid packaging plant at the LogistiCenter in Sauk Village, Illinois, with a 348,000 sq ft addition, doubling manufacturing, office and warehouse space. Construction began in April 2016 and was completed in Q3 2017, adding more than 100 jobs.

Pregis is investing about US$6 million in a second multilayer blown film line from Windmoller & Holscher at its Pregis Films facility in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The article is dated May 31, 2018.

Coastal Corrugated is investing $3.25 million in new equipment and machinery at its corrugated packaging facility in North Charleston, South Carolina, to increase production efficiency. The company reported no new jobs associated with the investment.

Cepac completed a £2 million expansion of its Rawcliffe site in East Yorkshire, increasing site capacity by more than 20 per cent. The works add equipment for stitched UN-approved boxes for hazardous goods.

ISOFlex Packaging opened a third production line at its Daviess County, Indiana facility, investing more than $4 million to add 700,000 to 800,000 pounds of blown film per month. The line adds six jobs, bringing the plant total to 38.

Athanasios Hatzopoulos Packaging Materials Industry SA signed an EIB-backed project to expand its flexible packaging materials production in Greece, replacing old equipment and buying new production lines. The total project cost is EUR 29 million, with EUR 12 million of EIB finance.

Honduran group Polygroup invested US$17.5 million to expand its facilities and acquire new technology, raising production capacity by 35% as it targets US and Caribbean markets.

Crown Food Europe opened a new easy-open end manufacturing facility at its Nagykorös plant near Budapest, Hungary. The opening was reported on April 5, 2018.

Weedon PSC completed a major restructuring of its factory at Hednesford, Staffordshire, to improve efficiency and increase capacity for e-commerce. The update was published on April 4, 2018.

F.M. Howell & Company is expanding at its Elmira, New York sites, installing new manufacturing and printing equipment for its Howell Packaging division and buying a thermoformer for Howell Plastics. The project, supported by an $800,000 capital grant from the Southern Tier REDC, will create 14 jobs and retain 182.

Model Group will take delivery of a corrugator by the end of 2019 for its Nowa Sol site, a brownfield facility in Poland acquired in 2016 from Funai where TVs were previously made.

Dongwon Systems completed a $10 million expansion of its Bac Ninh factory in Vietnam, adding about 4,500 pyeong of space to produce flexible packaging and PET for customers including Unilever, P&G and PepsiCo.

Kendall Packaging completed an expansion of its Pittsburg, Kansas manufacturing facility at an estimated cost of $10 million. The project broke ground in September 2016 and was completed by January 2018, doubling the plant size.

Treofan Americas plans to install a 10-meter wide BOPP extrusion line in late 2018 adding 30,000 tons of capacity at its Zacapu, Mexico plant. The total project capital expenditure is estimated at $65 million.

Hamburger Rieger, part of the Prinzhorn Group, began construction of a second recycled containerboard paper machine at its Spremberg site, with a 500,000 tonne annual capacity and commissioning planned for summer 2020. The investment is about EUR 370 million and will create 200 jobs.

Berry Global is considering a $70 million project to add four thermoforming lines and seven printers for cups and lids at its Evansville, Indiana plant, with about 150 jobs expected. The plan emerged from a tax abatement application reported on 2018-02-13.

Ball Corporation will add capacity at its Buenos Aires, Argentina facility, its third investment in the country in two years, to serve growing beverage can demand.

Britvic has invested £100m in three new high-speed can lines at its Rugby manufacturing site, creating 80 jobs and producing 6,000 cans per minute, as part of a £240m three-year GB investment programme.

Printing company Arka-Druk will expand its printing plant in the Łapy economic subzone with a 5,500 sq m facility costing over PLN 7 million, of which about PLN 3 million is EU subsidy, with production expected to start at the end of 2018.

Amcor Rigid Plastics is installing two new blow molding lines at its Hazelwood, Missouri plant to make plastic containers for multiple products. The expansion will require about 50 additional jobs.

HSIL plans to expand its security bottle caps facility in Telangana with a Rs 100 crore investment, raising capacity from 230 million to one billion units per year, with commissioning expected by September 2018.

HCP Packaging Group held a ground-breaking ceremony on 22 January 2018 for the first phase of a multi-year expansion at its Rusi site in Bechhofen, Bavaria, adding two production buildings and injection moulding and decoration equipment, expected to be fully operational by October 2018 and raising annual capacity by over 60%.

Kruger rebuilt its MP10 newsprint machine at the Trois-Rivières mill in Quebec into a 100% recycled linerboard machine under a $250 million modernization project announced in September 2015. Official start-up occurred in May 2017.

Can Pack Romania is investing €50 million in a second production line and capacity expansion at its Bucharest metal can factory, hiring 85 people and targeting 1.5 billion cans per year, with the line starting in February 2018.

Graham Packaging will invest $6.7 million to expand its manufacturing operation in Campbell County, Virginia, creating 8 new jobs and retraining 37 employees on new technology.

PaperWorks Industries invested $3 million in a 44,500 sq ft warehouse adjoining its Wabash, Indiana paperboard mill, able to store up to 7,000 tons of coated recycled board rolls, expected operational in Q1 2018.