Winpak Portion Packaging agreed with Dermody Properties' DP Partners to develop a 267,000 sq ft manufacturing facility in the DP LogistiCenter at Sauk Village, Illinois, creating 40 jobs, as part of a $30m investment.

ARI Packaging signed a 10-year lease for a building at 456 International Parkway in Minooka, Illinois, to serve as a manufacturing and distribution site. The article gives the size as both 445,479 and 456,479 square feet.

A Dutch-headquartered international group invested €28 million to build the Nova Packaging corrugated carton plant in the Sindos industrial area, which began production in January 2017. The plant has annual capacity of about 85,000 tonnes and employed 65 people.

Pratt Industries opened a $60 million corrugated packaging facility in Beloit, Wisconsin on 20 March 2017. At full capacity the 350,000 sq ft plant will employ 140 people and produce 600 tons of recycled boxes a day.

Lindal Group finalized plans to build a $20 million, 100,000-square-foot manufacturing facility on 15 acres in the Woodside Northwest Industrial Park in Columbus, Indiana, consolidating its three local facilities. Peterson Co. of Indianapolis was chosen to build it, with groundbreaking planned for spring 2017.

Finnish packaging group Huhtamaki will open a new paper cup production unit in Kyiv, Ukraine, producing a full range of cups for hot and cold drinks. Production is expected to start in 2018 and create about 50 jobs.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sonoco Products will invest about $20 million in a new packaging center in Fairburn, Fulton County, Georgia, creating 130 full-time and 465 part-time jobs to support Duracell's North American battery packaging operation.

Linhardt GmbH & Co. KG of Viechtach is building its first laminate tube plant in Pausa in the Vogtland, Germany, investing EUR 20 million in a standalone factory beside its existing aluminium tube plant.

Colorado Springs-based Packaging Express has a new 30,000 square foot plant in Denver to make custom corrugated boxes for customers on the northern side of Colorado.

UFlex is building an aseptic liquid packaging manufacturing plant that it expects to be commercially operational by April 2017.

Food and beverage container maker Genpak agreed to buy the 333,000 sq ft former International Paper building at Westlake Business Commons in Charlotte for about $15.8 million. It will use the site as its new headquarters and manufacturing plant.

Oji Holdings will construct a new Queensland plant making food-grade pulp-based cardboard boxes for meat processors and farmers, costing about 5 billion yen, with operations starting around October and capacity rising to 3-4 million square meters a month by 2019.

LBP Manufacturing, a maker of paper and plastic food packaging, will spend $6 million to renovate the former BAE Systems building in Jessup, Lackawanna County, and create 74 full-time jobs over three years.

Crown Cork and Seal, part of Crown Holdings, is set to begin production in January 2017 at its $132 million beverage can plant in Nichols, Tioga County. The plant is expected to eventually employ 160 people.

Visy Board New Zealand opened its second corrugated packaging plant in the Waipa district near Hamilton, Waikato, in May 2018 after a NZ$100 million investment that created about 75 jobs.

Thimm Group's new corrugated cardboard plant in Holledau, Wolnzach, Bavaria started series production at the beginning of 2017, described as one of the most modern corrugated cardboard plants in Europe.

Ball Beverage Packaging will install a new can factory in Cabanillas del Campo, Guadalajara, with an initial investment above EUR 100 million and more than 110 direct jobs. The plant will make about 1.2 billion aluminum cans a year, with a second line planned later.

Sealed Air's subsidiary CJSC Sealed Air Kaustik has started construction of a €9.5 million food packaging plant in Volgograd, Russia, within a renovated factory of partner JSC Kaustik. The plant will make multilayer PP film packaging for processed meat and employs 45 workers, with plans to grow to 68.

SKS Bottle & Packaging plans to move to a 22-acre site off Geyser Road in Saratoga Springs, New York, with a 128,000-square-foot headquarters, warehouse and distribution center, with a long-term goal of 250,000 square feet.

Schumacher Packaging took over the Fabryka Papieru Myszków paper mill in Poland and will convert the former newsprint plant into a cardboard factory with 250,000-300,000 tonnes annual capacity, with production starting in 2019 and EUR 100 million invested to expand capacity.

Oji Holdings decided to build a heavy-duty corrugated cardboard factory in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, investing 1 billion yen in a first phase at Valam Vadakar Industrial Park, with operations scheduled for December 2018.

Sonoco will invest $20 million in a new packaging center in a leased Atlanta-area facility to support Duracell's North American battery packaging operation. Full production is expected in the fourth quarter of 2018 under a five-year contract.

Clariant plans to begin desiccant canister production at its new greenfield plant in Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu, by the second half of 2017. The plant will serve the Indian pharmaceutical industry.

Oji Fibre Solutions is developing a new paper-based corrugated packaging facility in Yatala, Queensland, with about A$68 million invested. The plant will initially employ 50 staff and is on track for completion by the end of 2016.

Tetra Pak has announced a £88.5 million investment in a new regional packaging material factory near Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It is expected to start operations in Q1 2019 with capacity of about 20 billion packs a year.

Berlin Packaging opened a new integrated warehouse and assembly facility of nearly 300,000 square feet at 2300 Sweeney Drive in Clinton, Pennsylvania, tripling its Pittsburgh operations. Qorpak is already operating from the site, and Dangerous Goods is expected to move in by mid-2017.

Globalpak LLC plans to build a metal and polymer packaging factory for food and cosmetics in the Feodosia industrial park in Crimea, with an investment of over 250 million rubles. A cooperation memorandum was signed with the Crimea Development Corporation.

American Packaging will build a new $170 million flexible packaging plant on Beaver Road in Chili, New York, instead of Altoona, Iowa. The state will invest up to $14.7 million and groundbreaking is planned for early next year.

Vijayshri Packaging formally inaugurated its new greenfield carton and corrugated plant on the outskirts of Indore, Madhya Pradesh, on October 21, 2016, after starting operations in August.

Schur Pack International inaugurated a new carton packaging factory in Gallin, east of Hamburg, on September 21, 2016. The 70 million euro investment replaces an older plant at Büchen, with 150 employees transferred.

Rondo-Pak opened a new plant in Camden, N.J., combining its North American headquarters with Contemporary Graphics' assets. The facility has been operating since summer 2016.