Rohrer is building a new thermoforming facility in Tijuana, Mexico, to serve U.S. consumer goods and packaging customers who have moved manufacturing to the border region. The plant is expected to employ nearly 200 people at full production.

Schoeneck Containers has secured occupancy permits and is moving into its new 220,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Delavan, Wisconsin, on land bought from the city. The facility is expected to create 40 jobs, with 20 more within three years.

Ecolean is constructing its second packaging production facility in Landskrona, Sweden, with an investment of approximately €30m ($36m), employing 100 people upon completion in 2020.

Berkley International broke ground in May 2019 on an 80,472 sq ft manufacturing and distribution facility in Sparks, Nevada, relocating operations from California. The project includes $5.9 million for land and $1.6 million for equipment, and will employ 28 people.

Beneco Packaging and its subsidiary SoOpak have opened a second facility in Scarborough, Ontario, which will be a design, manufacturing and finishing production house once fully operational.

U.S. Corrugated Inc. plans to invest about $75 million in a corrugated packaging operation in Lebanon, Indiana, creating about 140 jobs. The Lebanon City Council approved an incentive package for the project.

Cascades invited media to the official inauguration of its packaging plant in Piscataway, New Jersey, a US$76 million investment, scheduled for April 18, 2019.

Toly Group has completed a new 20,000 square metre manufacturing plant in Malta, with about €20 million invested, for beauty-industry packaging. The plant has space for 70 injection moulding machines and 25 assembly lines, and its official opening is planned for June 28, 2019.

Alpla Inc. held a groundbreaking for a new $6.9 million facility in the Kentucky Transpark in Bowling Green, adding 60,000 square feet of warehouse space. The groundbreaking was celebrated on April 10, 2019.

Visy officially opened a 36,500 sqm corrugated packaging plant in Truganina, Victoria, capable of making over 1 million cartons daily and employing 85 people.

United Pulp and Paper (UPPC), a subsidiary of SCG Thailand, plans to invest 8.5 billion Philippine pesos (about $165 million) in a new corrugated paper machine with 220,000 tons annual capacity in Calumpit, Bulacan, scheduled for production in November 2020.

Foxpak Flexibles Ltd. officially opened its new manufacturing plant in Collon, County Louth, Ireland, on 28 March 2019, after a recently completed EUR 3 million investment in new equipment and facilities.

Orwigsburg manufacturer Clearly Clean Products bought the former City Shirt Co. plant in Frackville's industrial park to make recyclable food trays. It will open with 25 employees and plans to grow to 125.

Gerresheimer will manufacture its Duma and Triveni plastic pharmaceutical containers at a new plant in Changzhou, China, with production starting in the second half of 2019.

Smurfit Kappa is expanding Bag-in-Box packaging capacity with a new 100,000 sq ft plant in Texas, USA, acquired recently, to be equipped with modern dosing technology and employ 70 people at full capacity.

Pratt Industries will invest more than $20 million to finish and expand a shell building in Botetourt Center at Greenfield, Virginia, for manufacturing and converting corrugated boxes and displays, eventually employing 50 people.

Sovremennaya upakovka plans to build a corrugated cardboard plant in the Stavropol region by 2021, with an investment of about 500 million rubles and 160 new jobs. The agreement was signed at the Sochi investment forum and the plant will be located in the Nevinnomyssk industrial park.

IPP, a joint venture now part of SCG Packaging, opened a new greenfield packaging factory in Klang, Selangor, Malaysia, on 15 February 2019, equipped with Koenig & Bauer, Heidelberg and Bobst converting equipment.

A €7.7 million construction contract for production building No. 6 at the Ventspils High Technology Park was awarded to SIA Ostas celtnieks by the Ventspils port authority. Immer Digital leases the building to make recyclable packaging materials and plans to expand its investment in Ventspils beyond EUR 11 million.

Essel Propack has inaugurated its first greenfield unit in Kamrup, Assam, with capacity of 275 million laminated tubes annually. Phase-I investment is ₹82 crore and it will employ about 150 people.

SIG has opened a new Tech Centre close to its packaging plant in Suzhou, China, to help customers develop new product concepts and packaging solutions. The report is dated 7 February 2019.

Smurfit Kappa inaugurated a folding carton manufacturing plant in Tijuana, Mexico, with an investment of US$145.5 million. The plant creates 250 jobs and starts with annual production of 10 million square meters.

Green Bay Packaging is launching a paper mill in Wisconsin that will use 100% recycled fiber and process 685,000 tons per year to make linerboard and corrugated medium. The $500 million facility is projected to create 1,000 construction jobs and 200 additional jobs by 2022.

Smurfit Kappa inaugurated its third plant in Tijuana, Mexico, after an investment of US$14.5 million, creating 250 jobs. The folding cardboard plant has a capacity of 10 million square meters and began operations at the end of 2018.

Chinese company CPMC plans to invest €60 million in a new beverage can factory in Genk, Limburg, on the site of Illochroma Haoneng, with production targeted to start by January 1, 2020; the agreement is not yet fully finalised.

HPI Resources subsidiary Harta Packaging Industries (Perak) launched its second plant, HP2, at the Parit Buntar industrial area, worth RM45 million. The plant doubles the group's northern production capacity to 66,000 tonnes annually.

Panca Budi Idaman (PBID) plans to start building a new plastics and packaging plant in Pemalang, Central Java in Q1 2019 on 12 hectares bought for about Rp40 billion, with completion targeted by year end.

CorrChoice LLC plans a 350,000-square-foot corrugated packaging facility at 350 N. Lingle Ave. in Derry Township, Pennsylvania, backed by a $40 million investment. The project is expected to create 79 jobs and retain 97 jobs in Hazleton and Warminster.

Swiss packaging company Hoffmann Neopac AG is starting production at a new 37,000-square-foot US plant in North Carolina, with a high-speed tube line capable of 80 million units per year. The project received a $300,000 state grant.

MR Cartonnage Numerique opened a second production site of 2,800 square metres in Saint-Ouen-L'Aumone, north-west of Paris, on January 2, 2019. The EUR 2 million site is equipped with an HP Indigo 30000 digital printer and a UV varnishing line.

Canpack, a Krakow-based metal packaging group, started operations at an aluminium beverage can factory in Colombia during 2019, according to its annual review.

Westrock inaugurated a mega plant producing corrugated cardboard packaging in Porto Feliz, São Paulo state, Brazil.

Crown Embalagens Metálicas da Amazônia announced a beverage can factory in Rio Verde, Goiás, with investment of R$350 million and more than 600 direct and indirect jobs.

Oji Holdings and Purinusa Ekapersada have set up a joint venture to build a corrugated packaging plant about 50 km east of Jakarta, with Oji holding 55%. The investment totals JPY 4 billion (about €31 million) with start-up expected in January 2020.

Asia Pulp & Paper's Purinusa Ekapersada and Oji Holdings agreed a US$35 million joint venture, PT Oji Sinar Mas Packaging, to build a corrugated converting factory in Bekasi City, West Java. The plant is expected to start in January 2020.

Amcor has commissioned its seventh manufacturing plant in India, in Bharuch, Gujarat, to make flexible laundry packaging for Hindustan Unilever under a seven-year agreement. The plant adds about 40% to Amcor's Indian capacity and is expected to employ 180 people by December 2019.

Packaging Corporation of America is set to buy a 42-acre city-owned site in the Horn Rapids Industrial Park in Richland for an estimated $1.9 million and plans a 400,000 to 450,000 sq ft manufacturing facility creating about 150 jobs, with opening expected in early 2020.

PT Purinusa Ekapersada, an Asia Pulp & Paper company, and Oji Holdings agreed a $35 million joint venture to build a corrugated container converting factory in Bekasi City, West Java, expected online in January 2020. The announcement was dated 2018-12-12.

Purinusa, a Sinar Mas Group unit, and Oji Holdings formed a joint venture, PT Oji Sinarmas, to build a corrugated container factory in Bekasi with about 5,000 tons per year output, expected to start production in January 2020. The project was reported on 2018-12-13 and Oji's statement was dated 2018-12-10.

Prowell, a subsidiary of Progroup AG, chose Eisfeld in Thuringia for a new corrugated cardboard plant with annual capacity of 140,000 tons, a EUR 50 million investment creating about 50 jobs, with production planned from Q4 2019.

Angolan brewer Sodiba, with Embalvidro and Industrial Africa Development, plans to invest EUR 100 million in a glass packaging factory in Luanda, with 51% held by Sodiba and 49% by IAD, creating 188 direct jobs.

JBB Packaging will open a plastic film manufacturing facility in Weldon, Halifax County, North Carolina, investing $11 million and creating 50 jobs. The facility will recycle plastics and produce flexible packaging and garment bags.

Prowell is building a new corrugated sheet board plant with a £75 million ($96.2 million) investment in Ellesmere Port, England. Construction began in November 2017, with production expected in Q4 2018 and about 45 jobs created.

Liberty Diversified International has begun construction on a new $45 million facility for its Omaha Box Company subsidiary in Papillion, Nebraska, to make custom corrugated cartons and displays. The plant is slated for completion in 2019.

German cardboard maker Progroup invested £74 million in a new 327,000 sq ft corrugated sheet plant in Ellesmere Port, UK, replacing its existing site and creating 51 jobs. Construction completes in December 2018.

Packaging and processing equipment maker tna opened a new 80,000 sq ft manufacturing centre in Boronia, Victoria, built for almost $8 million, and targets over $1 billion in sales within five years.

Oji Holdings is investing about 3 billion yen in a new corrugated cardboard plant at the Sanand industrial park in Gujarat, India, with monthly capacity of 6 million square meters. Operations are targeted for March 2020.

DS Smith plans a 550,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Lebanon, Indiana, with $106 million investment and 140 jobs by December 2020, after city council approved tax abatements.

CANPACK opened its new beverage can manufacturing plant in Nuh, Haryana, India, with capacity of 950 million cans per year and about 160 jobs.

Packaging company Visy is building a $99 million corrugated cardboard plant in Truganina, Melbourne's West, that will make cardboard from recycled paper for the local food and beverage market. The Victorian government says the investment will create 85 new jobs.