BENZ Packaging announced a Rs150 crore investment over five years to expand manufacturing, enhance technology and extend its presence to Vietnam and Japan.

SFT Group estimates total investment in its Adygea projects through 2030 at 30 billion rubles, including a high-tech paper machine to be launched by 2028 with capacity of 250-270 thousand tonnes of board per year and site capacity rising to 350 million sq m.

Saica Group's flexible packaging division Saica Flex unveiled a €7.1 million investment in new printing and conversion equipment at its Wigan site, aiming to create up to 20 local jobs.

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.

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.

Schumacher Packaging Birmingham began full commercial digital production on a Koenig & Bauer Durst Delta SPC 130 single-pass press, the first six-colour FlexLine Eco+ installation in the UK. The installation is part of a €30 million investment that also upgrades its Birmingham plant and two nearby warehouses.

ZTI Group is investing 2.04 billion rubles in a polyethylene container plant in the Khimprom special economic zone in Volgograd Region, with about 76 jobs and planned capacity of about 15 million units a year. The complex is due to be commissioned in 2027.

Green Bay Packaging will make a multi-year investment to modernize its Arkansas Kraft paper mill in Morrilton, replacing the recovery and biomass boilers and installing an electric turbine generator. The project also includes buying about 300 acres of land for future expansion.

Bien Hoa Packaging JSC (Sovi) will spend VND1,175 billion on relocating its Bien Hoa 1 plant to Loc An-Binh Son industrial park in Dong Nai and expanding its Binh Duong factory. Shareholders are to vote at an extraordinary general meeting on December 18, 2024.

DS Smith announced over €25 million of investment in its Polish sites, mainly expanding the Kielce packaging facility with a new BOBST die-cutter. Lines for Bełchatów and Sosnowiec will add fresh-food and paper-bag production.

DS Smith is investing more than EUR 25 million in machinery in Poland to increase its production capacity for corrugated packaging. Most of the 100 million zloty investment goes to one plant.

Intraplás, a Portuguese sustainable dairy packaging maker, invested more than €15 million between 2023 and 2024 in new PET and PS extrusion and IML-T packaging lines in Santo Tirso. The investment created more than 20 direct and indirect jobs.

Evopack has started an investment in two new production lines for food cardboard boxes and new storage space at its Piatra Neamț factory, estimated at EUR 1.8 million.

Soft drinks maker Belvoir Farm invested £2 million in a new canning line at its on-farm factory in Leicestershire, equipped with a cartoning machine from T. Freemantle.

Norway-based packaging maker Elopak will invest an additional $25 million in its Port of Little Rock facility to expand production capacity, bringing the project total to $95 million. The first production line is already sold out.

JBS will invest R$70 million in its metal packaging unit Zempack, raising output at the Lins plant by 180% for food packaging and at the Guaiçara plant for aerosol cans by 25%. The investment funds new production line machinery, with Lins capacity increase due by November 2024.

Mill Point has made an investment in Garyline, a packaging company founded in 1963. The article does not disclose deal terms or location.

UK corrugated box maker Sheard Packaging has invested £13 million in a fully automated Asahi flatbed die cutting line, Dücker pre-feeders and palletiser, and a Göpfert 5-colour HBL HQPP die cutter at its Halifax site.

DS Smith has invested more than €50 million in its packaging facilities in Portugal over the last three years. Investments include new fluting machines for Oporto and Leiria, and a corrugator upgrade at Lisbon.

Corrugated packaging specialist Twinplast invested £1.5 million (US$1.9 million) in a new extrusion line made by Omipa Extrusion Machinery in Milan, Italy, which will increase extrusion capacity three to four times while cutting energy use per ton by 40%.

DS Smith has invested over €50 million in its packaging facilities in Portugal over the last three years, including corrugating machines for Porto and Leiria and solar panels at Esmoriz, Leiria and Lisbon.

Imbal Carton spent about EUR 9.3 million on investments in 2023, of which EUR 5 million went to a new production line for large boxes. The company targets a 50% increase in transformed square metres by 2030.

Grifal aims to build about 14 new production sites for Cartù in main European countries, in partnership with local entities, with an assumed investment of about EUR 2 million per site.

Ascent Rift Valley Fund II acquired a minority equity stake in Dune Packaging Limited, a Kenyan packaging manufacturer, to support its expansion into new markets and operational capabilities.

Labatt Breweries of Canada invested $9 million in new machinery at its Turning Point Brewery in Delta, British Columbia, to eliminate plastic rings from can packaging and enable new can formats.

Acme Corrugated Box Company announced it will add a second Isowa Falcon to its production capacity for 2025, following its first Falcon added in mid-2023.

Bericap invested in a production facility in China, according to a brief industry roundup. No amount, capacity or site details were given.

Riyadh-based Al-Shamrani Industry Company invested in a new BOBST VISION CI flexo press to modernize and expand production capacity at its 25,000 square metre packaging facility. The company makes polyethylene flexible packaging for the Saudi market.

Taerim Packaging, a Korean corrugated cardboard maker, began construction of 5.5MW roof-type solar power facilities at its Cheongwon Campus 1 and 2 in the Ochang 3rd Industrial Complex, Cheongju. The facilities are expected to generate about 7,026 MWh per year and cut about 3,220 tons of greenhouse gases annually.

Coleus Packaging invested R40 million (US$2.14 million) in a PMC500 metal crown manufacturing machine for its Alrode factory in Alberton, Johannesburg, able to produce 5,000 crowns per minute.

Cardbox Packaging announced a €6.5 million investment in its new Czech subsidiary to buy a Koenig & Bauer Rapida 106 printing press and a Bobst Visioncut 106 LER die-cutter. The investment aims to raise production efficiency and capacity.

IVE Group plans to invest in new die-cutting and gluing finishing equipment at its Silverwater, NSW facility to generate about AUD 30 million of packaging capacity in the short term. Implementation begins in the new financial year.

Kellanova invested £86m in new technology to produce a 90% paper-based Pringles tube, sold first exclusively in Tesco and One Stop stores in the UK from January 2024 and rolling out to other supermarkets later in 2024.

Pawi Packaging Schweiz AG invested CHF 330,000 to switch its heating from gas to district heating from Stadtwerke Winterthur. The connection was made in 2021 and is reported in January 2024.

Inter Group Packaging is implementing a two-phase investment programme to expand and upgrade its corrugated plants in Bangkok and Prachinburi.

DS Smith Packaging plans to invest EUR 16 million in its Krusevac production site in Serbia, adding 25% capacity and installing a six-color flexo printer and upgraded corrugators.

RHIEM Packaging & Print has invested almost EUR 2 million in new die-cutting machines at its Voerde site in Germany, raising production capacity by almost a third. The systems are now in production.

CORE Industrial Partners has announced a new investment in Century Box, a Methuen, Massachusetts-based maker of folding cartons for store-brand food and consumer products.

Smurfit Kappa Norteamérica plans to invest about $67 million in 2023 in machinery, process upgrades and service expansion at its plants in Nuevo Laredo, Tijuana, Mexicali and Nogales, Mexico. The company has invested over $350 million in Mexico over the past five years.

Pratt Industries pledged a further $500 million over 10 years in Pennsylvania for recycling, remanufacturing and clean energy infrastructure, creating hundreds of new jobs, as announced with Governor Josh Shapiro.

Dart Container became a strategic equity partner in Red Leaf Pulp, securing exclusive rights to its wheat straw-based alternative fibre for molded fibre packaging. Red Leaf's initial conversion facility in Regina, Saskatchewan is scheduled for completion in 2026.

Pratt Industries committed to invest $500 million in Pennsylvania over the next ten years in recycling, remanufacturing and clean energy infrastructure, creating hundreds of jobs, announced with Governor Shapiro.

Pratt Industries is building a new $120 million production facility in Peach County, Georgia, expected to be operational in late 2024 and producing corrugated boxes and containerboard.

Beneco Packaging is investing $7 million to buy new automated equipment in Cobourg, Ontario, to expand its product line and speed up production, supported by C$500,000 from the Ontario government.

Hinojosa Packaging Group invested €36 million to convert its Alquería d'Asnar paper mill in Valencia into a circular economy reference site. The Generalitat president visited the plant on 29 June 2026.

TC Transcontinental Packaging announced a US$60 million investment in a new biaxially oriented polyethylene film line and a 120,000 sq. ft building expansion at its Spartanburg, South Carolina facility, with completion expected in fiscal 2024. Brückner was selected to supply the equipment.

Depak Company Limited received approval to raise its investment in a packaging factory at Bim Son Industrial Park, Thanh Hoa, from VND85 billion to VND394.2 billion (about $14.74 million). The plant will make carton packaging and plastic wood products, with operations expected 37 months after land handover.

Pact Group is investing more than $76 million in new packaging manufacturing equipment across its Australian operations to produce recycled packaging. The investment is currently underway as of June 2023.

Atlantic Packaging Products commissioned a six-colour Delta SPC 130 digital printing press, made in Austria by Koenig & Bauer Durst, at its Tiffield Road retail packaging facility in Toronto in June 2023.