Poly Craft Industries opened a 72,000 sq ft flexible plastic packaging facility in Middletown, New York, costing $27 million, consolidating two Long Island locations and serving as corporate headquarters.

Nextera Packaging has opened a new headquarters in White Bear Township, Minnesota, with a 114,000 sq ft warehouse and office facility that is 116% larger than its previous HQ.

Mondi has opened a highly automated paper bag plant in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, consolidating production from its Wellsburg, West Virginia and Oakdale, Pennsylvania sites. After ramp-up it is expected to reach 300 million paper bags a year.

Mondi Bags USA will relocate its manufacturing from Oakdale, Pennsylvania and Wellsburg, West Virginia to a 200,000-square-foot facility in Findlay Township, Allegheny County. The project creates about 170 jobs over three years, supported by a $1,036,000 Pennsylvania First grant announced on 21 April 2026.

CANPACK, in partnership with Bavaria, announced a new aluminum beverage can plant in Malambo, Atlantico, Colombia, with an investment of 548 billion Colombian pesos. The plant is expected to be operational by 2027 and create about 150 direct jobs.

AGI Greenpac is building a greenfield glass plant in Madhya Pradesh with a Rs 700 crore outlay, expected to raise production capacity by 25% and become operational by March 2027.

Tetra Pak broke ground on a new Product Development Center at its U.S. and Canada headquarters in Denton, Texas, with 12,000 sq ft for product development and 3,000 sq ft for a Customer Innovation Center. The facility is scheduled to open in Q1 2027 and create eight jobs.

Tetra Pak announced a €60 million investment to develop paper-based barrier technology for low-carbon aseptic cartons at a new facility in Lund, Sweden. The technology could cut packaging carbon footprint by up to 43%.

Yazoo Mills completed construction of a new $14 million, 107,000-square-foot manufacturing plant in Hanover, Pennsylvania, and is phasing in equipment installation.

International Paper will spend $225 million on a greenfield 468,000-square-foot box plant in Brandon, Mississippi. Construction is slated to begin in June with operations expected in Q4 2027.

ePac Flexible Packaging is opening a new facility in Phoenix, Arizona, its largest plant, to serve Southwest U.S. customers. It is also adding capacity at sites in Atlanta, Philadelphia and Vancouver.

SIG's first aseptic carton plant in India, in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, reached full operations in December 2025 after opening in February 2025. The Rs8.8bn ($105m) plant has a capacity of about 4 billion carton packs a year and created around 300 jobs.

Perfectpac Limited plans a second manufacturing unit in Greater Noida with 42,000 MT per annum capacity and an estimated ₹125 crore investment, creating about 700 jobs, after receiving a YEIDA land Letter of Intent.

BASF and Schütz signed an agreement for Schütz to build a highly automated IBC production and storage facility at BASF's Ludwigshafen headquarters. Construction is scheduled to start in the third quarter of 2026.

Edible Garden AG is expanding its Zero-Waste Inspired platform with a ready-to-drink manufacturing hub at its Midwest facility of over 200,000 sq ft. It selected Tetra Pak for planning, installation and integration of proprietary processing and aseptic carton packaging, with an agreement to be executed on March 4, 2026.

Georg Utz plans a 90,000-square-foot facility in Sumter County, South Carolina, for rigid returnable packaging, with roughly $40 million investment and 50 jobs, scheduled to start manufacturing in 2028.

Disruptive Packaging opened a new manufacturing and recycling facility in Mexicali, Mexico, on February 18, 2026, with two production lines producing up to 20 million URTHCOR boxes.

Japanese-owned Tri-Wall Group has started construction of its paper packaging plant in the Trakia Economic Zone near Plovdiv, Bulgaria. The investment has grown to over 40 million euros and production is expected to begin by mid-2027.

L-PAK launched the first phase of its corrugated cardboard and packaging plant in the Kashira special economic zone in Moscow Oblast on February 11, 2026, with a total investment of 7.7 billion rubles and capacity of 240 million sq m per year.

CBS Packaging announced the acquisition of a new 120,000 square foot facility in Walsall, West Midlands, to support a planned plant expansion scheduled for mid-2026.

Canpack and Bavaria announced a COP 548,000 million investment to build an aluminum can plant in Malambo, Atlantico, expected to be fully operational in 2027 with 150 direct jobs. The plant will serve Bavaria's beverage operations and enable exports through nearby ports.

ZeeQuest Holding signed an agreement with Impact Investments Group to begin construction of the first KraftPal recyclable corrugated cardboard pallet factory in Montenegro, which will be its seventh factory globally.

The Bulgarian unit of Tri-Wall Limited has started construction of a €30 million corrugated cardboard and packaging plant in the Trakia Economic Zone near Plovdiv, expected to create 150 jobs.

CMSA has opened a new 2,700 m² packaging hub in Beniaján, Murcia, after investing EUR 1.8 million in robotics, quality control and automation. The company targets EUR 28 million in turnover in 2026.

Smurfit Westrock announced a USD 65 million investment in a new packaging production plant in Sonora, Mexico, making corrugated, microflute and high-graphic folding packaging. Operations are expected to start in early 2027, with more than 800 jobs, and the first stone has been laid.

SunDance announced on January 30, 2026 that it added a new production facility to its Florida hub for flexible packaging manufacturing.

Palm is consolidating two existing Alzenau and Hasselroth-Gondsroth plants into a new EUR 200 million corrugated board plant on a greenfield site. Operations start in Q2 2026, with installation of production lines ongoing.

Construction has started on a high-tech corrugated board and packaging plant in the Trakia Economic Zone near Plovdiv, with Tri-Wall investing over EUR 30 million and planning 150 jobs.

Tetra Pak is investing 60 million euros in a new paper-based barrier pilot plant at its Lund, Sweden facility to develop an aseptic packaging material that replaces the aluminium foil layer. The plant will also serve customers for trials across the manufacturing journey.

Smith Anderson & Ara, an Anglo-Turkish paper packaging maker, has opened a new plant in Burgas after investing over 10.2 million euros. The plant employs 60 people, with the investor aiming for at least 160 by summer.

Eroğlu Global Holding signed an agreement with the Suez Canal Economic Zone to build a carton and packaging factory in Qantara West Industrial Zone, with a $175 million investment and about 2,000 direct jobs. The plant will span 70,000 square meters.

Specialty Packaging Group opened a 50,000-square-foot facility in Guadalajara, Mexico, to make crates for shipping advanced technology and data center equipment.

Buckeye Corrugated has opened a 100,000-square-foot corrugated manufacturing and distribution facility in Reno, Nevada, its first entirely new corrugated plant, expected to employ 20 to 25 production workers.

Pratt Industries has opened a 496,000-square-foot corrugating facility in Warner Robins, Georgia, creating more than 125 jobs in Peach County. The plant will produce corrugated boxes from recycled containerboard.

Flexcraft will open a new 194,000 square foot automated manufacturing and warehousing facility in Fort Worth, Texas in March 2026, producing bottles and closures and roughly doubling its manufacturing capacity.

Organización Editorial Mexicana (OEM) inaugurated PRONAL Corrugados, a corrugated packaging plant in the capital of Nuevo León, fed by paper from PRONAL mills in San Luis Potosí. The plant has annual conversion capacity of 100 thousand tonnes of paper and up to 215 million sqm of corrugated board.

TRICOR Packaging & Logistics built a heavy-duty corrugated board plant in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, with an investment of about EUR 170 million, funded by parent Rengo. The plant began operations in July 2025 with planned output of 140,000 tonnes per year and more than 200 jobs.

APackaging Group broke ground on a $25 million, 300,000-square-foot packaging manufacturing facility on a 35-acre site in the Enterprise Industrial Park in Defiance, Ohio, built by Rupp Rosebrock Inc., with $12.5 million in production technology.

Axium Packaging celebrated the opening of a 227,000-square-foot plastic packaging plant in Brampton, Ontario, its third Ontario location. The facility uses more than 45 packaging equipment lines and 10 plastic resin silos. The article is dated December 16, 2025.

Smurfit Westrock has broken ground on a USD 65 million corrugated and folding carton plant in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, with operations scheduled to begin in early 2027. Construction and start-up are expected to create more than 800 direct and indirect jobs.

Canned beverage maker DrinkPAK will establish its first Pennsylvania plant with a $195 million investment, leasing a 1.4 million sq ft build-to-suit facility in the Bellwether District of Philadelphia. The Commonwealth is investing $2 million and the project will create 174 jobs over three years.

Xpert Pack inaugurated a R$100 million, 25,000 square metre flexible packaging plant in Feira de Santana, Bahia, producing big bags including the Fusion seamless big bag. The group becomes the municipality's largest individual employer.

PackBenefit launched a new state-of-the-art fibre-based food packaging plant in Aldeamayor de San Martín, Valladolid, which more than doubles its production capacity.

CANPACK Group plans a second aluminum beverage can plant near Barranquilla, Colombia, with about USD 140 million investment, capacity of around 1 billion can bodies a year and about 160 direct jobs. Operations are expected to start in Q1 2027.

Gaia Biomaterials established a supply hub in Los Angeles for its compostable, microplastic-free materials, created with distributor Mitsubishi International Corp to shorten lead times for US customers.

Organizacion Editorial Mexicana's Paper and Packaging Division opened PRONAL Corrugados, a corrugated packaging plant in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, with annual conversion capacity of 100,000 tonnes of paper.

Shri Krishana Overseas (SKL) PLC is completing a new packaging plant in Kisaju, Kajiado County, Kenya. The facility will produce 22,000 tonnes of packaging materials a year, up from 3,000 tonnes, with commercial operations expected in early 2026.

Amcor is considering building a new factory in Jiangyin, Jiangsu province, to expand production of medical, pharmaceutical and food packaging, according to senior executives.

Multinova, a maker of bubble wrap and expanded polyethylene and polypropylene plastics, will move its headquarters and plant from Farroupilha to Caxias do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul. Operations at the new 20,000 sq m building are projected to start in January 2027, raising processing capacity by 20% to 30%.

The Angelcare Group announced a CAD 20+ million investment in a new 130,000 sq. ft. logistics and packaging centre in Milton, Ontario. It will be the company's first dedicated packaging facility for clumping cat litter and will initially create 15 full-time jobs.