Neopac US, a subsidiary of Swiss Hoffmann Neopac AG, will build its first US plant and new North American headquarters at Wilson Corporate Park in Wilson County, North Carolina, investing over $30.8 million and creating up to 44 jobs.

Crown Food Europe opened a new can ends manufacturing facility in Nagykörös, about 100km south of Budapest, Hungary. The site has two lines producing 65mm and 73mm ends for customers across Europe.

PT Pelangi Indah Canindo (PICO) is set to realize its fourth factory in Cikupa, Tangerang, producing plastic drum packaging, with German machinery being installed, funded by about Rp 60 billion capex from loans and internal cash.

Pratt Industries opened a $60 million corrugated box factory in Beloit, Wisconsin, capable of producing about 600 tonnes of recycled boxes a day. The project was announced in December 2014, built from April 2015 and opened in March 2017, employing 140 full-time staff.

Protek Pharma Worldwide has officially opened a new 2,300 square meter production facility in Verona, Italy, for insulated temperature-protection shipping products. A fully automated extruder with capacity of over 20 million square meters annually was commissioned in January.

UAE-based Hotpack has announced a $100 million investment in a new manufacturing and distribution facility in Edison, New Jersey, its first North American production base. The 70,000 sq ft plant will customise plastic and paper cups, containers and clamshells and create 200 jobs in the first phase.

Toyo Seikan Group's subsidiary Bangkok Can Manufacturing will build a new aluminum beverage can plant at Rojana Industrial Estate in Ayutthaya Province, Thailand, with an investment of 9 billion yen and operations scheduled from May 2019.

Metal packaging maker Jamestrong opened a fully enclosed high-care can production plant in Hornby, Christchurch, New Zealand, primarily to supply Synlait and The a2 Milk Company. The investment is reported at $12m.

Oji Fibre Solutions officially opened its A$72 million corrugated board factory in Yatala, Queensland, Australia, supported by a A$65 million state industry attraction fund. The company also announced plans to open three satellite manufacturing sites in the region.

Poligal, a Grup Peralada member, began production at its new €40 million plant in Skarbimierz, Poland, with a Brückner extrusion line and capacity of 40,000 tonnes per year of BOPP film. Metallization will be added later this year.

Progroup started active preparation for a new paper factory for containerboard in Germany, scheduled to start production in 2021.

Ring Container Technologies of Tennessee plans to open a plastic bottle plant near Hagerstown, Maryland, in a revamped existing building, producing HDPE bottles for food packaging. It is expected to start operating around mid-2018 and initially employ 18 people.

Ball Corporation plans to build a one-line beverage can and end manufacturing plant in Asunción, Paraguay, with production expected to start in the fourth quarter of 2019 and capacity already contracted under long-term agreements.

Industrial Investment has begun construction of a barrier packaging plant in the Tosno district of the Leningrad region, on the M10 industrial park. The plant, with about 1 billion rubles of investment and capacity of 3,000 tonnes per year, is due to open in August 2018 and create over 150 jobs.

Progroup started production at its new corrugated sheetboard plant in Drizzona, Italy in February 2018. The company's 2017 sales rose 9.69% to about 804 million euros.

Swiss closure maker corvaglia group announced plans for a new manufacturing facility in Newnan, Georgia, to produce one-piece plastic caps and closures for the North American beverage market, operational by year-end 2018.

Sabert Corporation has begun construction of a new manufacturing facility in Greenville, Texas, to make plastic and 100% compostable food packaging. The plant is expected to be fully operational by early 2019 and bring over 125 jobs.

Silgan Holdings has initiated construction of a new manufacturing facility in Fort Smith, Arkansas, planned as a 100,000-square-foot plant employing about 150 people. The city approved $38 million in industrial development revenue bonds for the project, to be repaid by Silgan.

PAC Worldwide, a flexible packaging manufacturer, will lease a 420,000-square-foot facility in Lower Nazareth Township near Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The company plans to invest more than $28 million and create over 160 jobs over three years.

Oji Fibre Solutions is about to open a new $72 million corrugated cardboard packaging factory in Yatala on the Gold Coast, with support from Queensland's Advance Queensland Industry Attraction Fund. The plant will serve fruit, vegetable and meat markets in QLD, northern NSW and the NT.

Dunapack Eurobox Polska plans to open its second cardboard packaging plant in Lubliniec, southern Poland, in July 2018. About 120 to 130 new jobs are expected in the first year, with a workforce of 250 eventually.

Aegg is investing 2 million pounds in a new 60,000 sq ft UK food packaging manufacturing facility in Eye, Suffolk, making PS, PET and PP food pots and bowls, with first production planned for 2018.

Willmeng Construction completed a full renovation of a 650,000 sq ft manufacturing plant in Goodyear, Arizona for Huhtamaki North America, which will make paper cups, food containers and plastic cups and lids and add hundreds of jobs.

Crown Asia Pacific has opened a new beverage can manufacturing plant in Jakarta, Indonesia, expanding its presence in Asia.

Japanese flexible packaging and high-performance films maker Takigawa Corp. will build a 180,000-square-foot manufacturing facility on a greenfield site in Bardstown, Kentucky, investing nearly $46 million and creating 180 full-time jobs.

Crown Asia Pacific, a division of Crown Holdings, opened a beverage can plant in Karawang near Jakarta, Indonesia, on 7 December 2017. The single-line plant has an initial capacity of 650 million cans a year and is expected to create over 100 jobs.

German company rose plastic started operations at a new R$21 million plant in Sorocaba, São Paulo, consolidating plastic packaging lines for several industrial segments and its Brazilian headquarters, with support from the state agency Investe São Paulo.

Amcor Rigid Plastics opened an on-site bottle manufacturing operation at Campbell Soup's Paris, Texas plant, investing $7 million to repurpose 6000 sq ft. The line is expected to produce about 50 million hot-fill PET bottles per year.

Fort Smith's board unanimously approved tax incentive resolutions to help attract Silgan Plastic Food Containers to a planned 100,000 square foot manufacturing facility, which could create 150 jobs by its third year. The chamber said the project was not yet a done deal.

Synlait opened its blending and consumer packaging facility in Mangere, Auckland, with annual packaging capacity of 32,000 MT, doubling its canning capacity to 64,000 MT, after investing NZ$55 million in the acquired partially-completed site.

WestRock confirmed an investment of more than US$125 million to build a large corrugated cardboard plant in Porto Feliz, São Paulo state, with works starting in 2017 and completion expected in Q2 2019.

Huhtamaki North America selected Miller Valentine Construction to renovate about 942,000 SF of the old Ford Motor Company transmission plant in Batavia, Ohio, adding 44 dock doors, two parking lots and a 25,000 SF office area.

Poland's CAN-PACK Group opened a beverage can plant in Helmond, Netherlands, with a total investment of over EUR 100 million, co-financed by BGK. The plant has two lines producing up to 2 billion cans per year.

Canpack opened a new beverage can factory on the Maisdijk in Helmond in spring 2017, with about 40,000 square metres of floor space. Construction cost was said to be more than EUR 100 million.

Alpla is developing a 180,000-square-foot plant near Allentown, Pennsylvania, hiring 80 people to produce containers for food, household and cosmetic products.

Belgian food packaging and serviceware maker deSter is setting up a new production facility in Lima, Ohio, to produce service items for the foodservice and travel industry closer to its US customers.

Progroup has broken ground on a GBP 75 million corrugated cardboard factory in Ellesmere Port, UK, to replace Prowell's current site, with Peel Logistics Property supporting the development; it is due to be fully operational in Q4 2018.

McLaren Packaging is investing £3 million in a new 20,000 sq ft manufacturing, design and testing centre at Broadleys Business Park in Stirling for subsidiary Blue Box Design. Construction began in October 2017, with completion scheduled for April 2018 and 18 new jobs planned.

Prowell, part of Germany's Progroup, received unanimous planning approval in Ellesmere Port for a two-phase corrugated board plant on Lees Lane, to be developed by Peel Investments. The first phase is expected to bring investment of around £120m, with groundbreaking planned for early November 2017.

Dubai-based Hotpack Packaging Industries completed a property deal in Wrexham, Wales, for its UK headquarters and manufacturing plant, and plans to create 200 to 250 jobs. The company had earlier announced a GBP 50 million investment.

Dunapack Rambox, a subsidiary of Austria's Prinzhorn group, signed an agreement for an 11.5-hectare plot to build a 22,000 sqm corrugated packaging plant in Bolintin near Bucharest. The plant will create 200 jobs and, with the Sfantu Gheorghe factory, reach 300 million sqm of annual capacity; investment was not disclosed.

Coster Group announced the opening of a new production facility in Cabreúva, São Paulo, Brazil, as part of its expansion in South America. The news item is dated 5 March 2025.

Crown Europe opened a 23,000 square metre logistics hub in Puurs, Belgium, developed with Gilbert de Clercq transport company to serve food, beverage and aerosol customers in the Benelux region.

Toly Group plans to build an 8,000 m2 factory in South Korea next year at a cost of EUR 13 million.

Toly Group plans a new 15,000 m2 factory in Malta for 2018 costing EUR 15 million, which will raise its Maltese production capacity by 50%.

Mexican packaging maker Grupo Gondi announced plans to invest US$300 million in a containerboard mill with 400,000 tons a year capacity in the Nexxus industrial park in Guadalupe, Nuevo Leon.

Tetra Pak broke ground on a $110 million, 100,000 square metre packaging material factory at Vietnam-Singapore Industrial Park II-A in Binh Duong. It is expected to start commercial operations by early 2019 with capacity of 20 billion packs per year.

Prowel plans a new manufacturing plant next to junction 10 of the M53 near Ellesmere, designed by UMC Architects, to produce up to 235,000 tonnes per year of corrugated board sheets. The article reports a £65m investment, although its headline cites £25m.

Sabert Corporation will open a new 450,000 sq ft manufacturing facility in Greenville, Texas, its first North American site making 100% compostable food packaging, expected to create about 125 jobs over three years with full operation by end of 2018.

Prinzhorn Holding unit Hamburger Containerboard plans a 300 million euro paper factory on about 500,000 square metres in Kütahya 2nd Organized Industrial Zone, with 500 jobs and production expected in 2020.