Constantia Flexibles has completed the acquisition of a majority of shares in Swiss flexible packaging producer Aluflexpack AG, which employs about 1,700 people in nine countries.

Indorama Ventures agreed to acquire a 24.9% minority stake in Essel Propack from Blackstone funds for $220 million at INR 240 per share. The deal is pending customary approvals.

O.R.G. Technology's offeror Huarui Fengquan received valid acceptances for 286 million COFCO Packaging shares, about 25.68%, lifting O.R.G.'s stake to 50.11%. The offer became unconditional in all aspects.

Mondi completed a €90 million investment upgrade at its Mszczonów plant near Warsaw, doubling capacity and making it the largest corrugated solutions plant in Poland. The upgrade is part of a €280 million corrugated packaging investment across central and eastern Europe.

Andlauer Healthcare Group formed a 50/50 joint venture combining its Nova Pack packaging subsidiary with Toronto-based contract packager NowPac for healthcare packaging. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Stora Enso launched a new consumer packaging board line at its Oulu mill in March 2025, adding 750,000 tonnes of annual capacity at a previously shuttered paper mill.

Saica Group, a Spanish recycled paper and corrugated packaging manufacturer, plans a 350,000-square-foot corrugated plant in Anderson, Indiana, with an investment of more than $110 million and over 100 jobs at full ramp-up. Construction starts in May with operations expected in Q4 2026.

MM Group sold its packaging subsidiary MM Bangor to Cordovan Capital, with MP Corporate Finance as exclusive financial advisor to the seller. MM Bangor had been acquired by MM Group in October 2022 as part of Essentra Packaging.

SFT Group is building the Kartontara 2 corrugated board plant in Adygea, with an investment of 2.8 billion rubles and design capacity of up to 130 million square meters per year. Test launch starts March 1 and production is expected to begin in April 2025.

Packaging One, a family-run UK protective packaging maker, moved into a 44,000 sq ft site in Middlewich, Cheshire, increasing manufacturing capability by about 70%. The expansion followed a seven-figure funding deal from NatWest and aims to double the workforce to 80 people.

CANPACK's 862,000-square-foot beverage can manufacturing plant in Muncie, Indiana, cost $380 million and created more than 300 jobs. The plant began producing cans in 2023, with AEP supporting the site's development.

Shareholders of Amcor and Berry Global approved Amcor's acquisition of Berry Global, a deal valued at US$8.43 billion announced in November 2024. Completion is still subject to closing conditions, with the combination expected by mid-2025.

Saica Pack, the corrugated packaging division of Saica Group, is investing £10m in a new warehouse in Hartlepool with space for up to 9,000 pallets, with solar panels expected to supply up to 10% of energy needs. Construction is set to run through 2025 from 6 January 2025.

Evertis, part of IMG Group, plans a $100 million plant in Columbia, South Carolina, to make PET multilayer packaging film. The first phase adds 30,000 tons of capacity and more than 100 jobs, with operations expected in Q2 2026, and a second phase would bring total capacity to 60,000 tons by Q2 2028.

Ulma Packaging of Memmingen, Germany, has acquired a 40% stake in Italian packaging machinery firm Rama S.r.l., which specialises in automatic machines and end-of-line systems. The companies have cooperated for 15 years.

Berry Global Group acquired CMG Plastics, a North American producer of containers, bottles, closures and specialty packaging with about 170 employees. PMCF Investment Banking served as exclusive financial advisor to CMG.

Dutch firm Avantium signed a joint venture agreement with Amcor Rigid Packaging USA to explore using its plant-based PEF polymer Releaf in rigid containers. Amcor has committed to a multi-year capacity reservation for Releaf.

Rajshree Polypack Limited has secured an order worth USD 0.28 million to supply customised injection-moulded food containers to a US-based distributor, to be delivered by March 2025.

British eco-packaging maker Corplex plans to significantly expand its Hurbanovo, Slovakia plant, adding new operations of nearly one hectare that will be twice the size of the current site. The plant reportedly reached EUR 20 million in revenue in its first year.

Packaging company Pulpex raised a £62 million Series D round led by the National Wealth Fund and the Scottish National Investment Bank. The funding will finance construction of its first commercial-scale manufacturing facility near Glasgow.

Schumacher Packaging Birmingham commissioned a Delta SPC 130 FlexLine Eco+ digital printing press from Koenig & Bauer Durst, starting commercial digital printing for corrugated packaging. The machine is part of a EUR 30 million investment in the Birmingham site.

Mondi has agreed to acquire the Western Europe packaging assets of Schumacher, with completion expected in the first half of 2025. Deal value is not given in the excerpt.

SIG Combibloc's board has approved installing an extrusion line at its Ahmedabad, India site at a cost of around EUR 50 million, scheduled to come online in 2027.

Swiss packaging maker SIG Combibloc opened a new aseptic carton packaging plant in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, with an initial capacity of 4 million packs a year and over 300 planned jobs. The investment was EUR 90 million.

Chubby Gorilla has opened a new manufacturing facility in Thailand to boost production capacity and supply U.S. customers. The plant makes bottles, containers and closures.

The UK National Wealth Fund committed £43.5 million in direct equity to Pulpex, which will build a commercial-scale fibre bottle plant near Glasgow producing 50 million bottles per year. The Scottish National Investment Bank adds £10 million, bringing total funding to £62 million, and 35 jobs are expected.

Novolex agreed to acquire Pactiv Evergreen for $18 per share in cash, a deal valued at about $6.7 billion, creating a larger North American packaging company. Apollo Funds and CPP Investment Board will contribute about $1 billion, and closing is expected in mid-2025.

NEXE Innovations made a third delivery to Bridgehead Coffee under a purchase order placed in January 2025, supplying compostable coffee pods under a two-year master manufacturing agreement signed in December 2024.

Dunstable-based Twinplast won a contract to design and manufacture custom corrugated polypropylene shipping containers for a UK Buckfast bee supplier and breeder. The containers are designed for safe transport of live bees.

CocoPallet, a Netherlands-based company, is launching a wood-free export pallet made from coconut husks, with its first global factory in Tiptur, India, in partnership with Superpacks. The initiative targets 1 million pallets by 2028.

Coveris is investing £5 million to triple the production footprint of its St Neots packaging site in Cambridgeshire, UK, to about 3,158 sqm. The project, begun in October 2024, adds capacity for around 700 million recyclable food-to-go packs a year.

Premier Packaging relocated its headquarters and production operations to an expanded facility in Memphis, Tennessee.

Eagle Flexible Packaging plans a new 52,000 square foot, $5 million facility in Waupun, Wisconsin, expected to be largely complete by year end and to create up to 40 jobs.

SIG opened its first aseptic carton pack plant in India in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, an investment of 90 million euros with initial capacity of up to 4 billion packs per year and over 300 local jobs.

Ondupack inaugurated a corrugated cardboard plant in Navalmoral de la Mata, Cáceres, with an investment of 49 million euros, capacity for 200 million square meters per year and 50 direct jobs.

Massilly Group, a French family metal packaging company, agreed to purchase the tinplate division of Hoffmann Neopac. The division includes the CM Packaging plant in Dronten, Netherlands.

Private equity firm Emerald Lake agreed to sell Inno-Pak, a food packaging company it had owned since 2020, to Handgards. No deal value or location was disclosed.

VPK Packaging Group's AQUILA plant in Września, Poland has installed a new Fosber corrugator as part of an investment that includes a 13,000 square metre production hall.

Hinojosa Packaging Group acquired Envases Toledo, a corrugated cardboard packaging maker with 25 staff and EUR 5.5 million in 2024 sales. The new plant in Aldaia, Valencia, will support the group's other packaging plants in the Valencian Community.

Alpla Packaging (Thailand) held a grand opening for its new factory on February 11, 2025, which will expand its production capacity. Tokura (Thailand) Co., Ltd. managed the construction project.

The Competition Authority of Kenya approved Metal Cans & Closures acquiring plant, machinery, properties and inventory from Nampak Kenya, a subsidiary of South Africa-based Nampak. The deal expands Metal Cans into feed cans, crown caps and shoe polish containers, with no employment impact stated.

CANPACK announced that Giorgi International Holdings S.à r.l. was merged into its wholly owned subsidiary CANPACK S.A. effective 31 January 2025, with CANPACK Group becoming sole shareholder of CANPACK S.A.

VPK UK and Ireland plans to close its corrugated packaging site in Leeds, UK, by 29 August 2025, affecting 59 employees. Operations will move to other VPK locations and consultation with unions has begun.

Serioplast, an Italian rigid plastic packaging maker, will invest $25,725,000 to occupy a 140,000 sq ft industrial facility in Shenandoah County, Virginia, creating 45 new jobs.

AQUILA Września, part of VPK Group, is building a 13,000 sqm production hall and installing a new FOSBER 2.8m corrugator in Greater Poland. The line is expected to launch in early 2025 and produce up to 20 million m2 of corrugated board monthly.

Duravant LLC signed a definitive agreement to acquire Pattyn Group BV, a Bruges-based designer and manufacturer of packaging automation systems for bag-in-box and other packaging applications. The deal value was not disclosed.

Belgian public buyer IVAREM awarded Dimensio Verpakkingen BV a contract to supply PMD bags and waste containers worth EUR 908,850 excluding VAT, with a planned end date of 1 January 2029.

Gestión de Medio Rural de Canarias awarded a single-lot contract for corrugated cardboard boxes for its Tenerife marketing activity to Klingele Embalajes Canarias for €1 excluding VAT, after receiving one bid. The estimated value was €981,670.

Mondi produced a bespoke 190g containerboard outer pack for Zwiesel Glas's Handmade collection at its Grünburg corrugated plant. The packaging was reported on 6 February 2025.

Morocco's Competition Council approved Amcor Plc's $8.4 billion acquisition of Berry Global Group at its session on 5 February 2025. The deal still awaits approval in the United States, Canada, China and Turkey.