Fort Smith, Arkansas corrugated packaging maker Corrugated Specialties was acquired by its president Marcus Slavens, who takes over as chairman and CEO from Paul Henson. The sale was announced on 8 January 2025.

Ringmetall SE agreed with the owner family to acquire all shares of Hutek Oy of Nastola, Finland, a producer of bag-in-box packaging, effective 8 January 2025. Hutek generated revenue of about EUR 4 million last year.

Orora has committed roughly AUD 130 million to expand can production capacity at its Rocklea facility in Queensland, adding a new 375ml classic can line that will raise Cans capacity by more than 30% together with other projects. Installation is expected by late FY26.

Southern Graphic Systems, LLC agreed to acquire Schawk, Inc. from Matthews International for total upfront consideration of $350 million, including $250 million in cash, with Matthews taking a 40% stake in the new entity. The deal is expected to close in mid-2025, subject to regulatory approvals.

SCHÜTZ signed a licence agreement with National Plastic Factory Company (NPF) under which NPF will build a factory near Dammam, Saudi Arabia, to produce ECOBULK 1,000-litre intermediate bulk containers for Saudi Arabia and the GCC. Production is scheduled to start in 2026.

RMB Corvest and Dlondlobala Capital concluded a management buyout of Nampak Liquid Cartons, Nampak Zambia and Nampak Malawi, which will be held in the newly formed Diversified Liquid Packaging Group.

ESPO published a contract award notice for its packaging materials and pallet supply framework, with Lot 1 awarded to three suppliers. The notice confirms the awards made in the same procurement.

ESPO, a UK central purchasing body, appointed four suppliers to a packaging materials and pallet supply and collection framework worth £2,000,000, with a contract period from November 2024 to August 2026.

McKinley Packaging, a subsidiary of Bio Pappel, has opened a 500,000 sq ft corrugated box manufacturing plant in Lancaster, Texas, its seventh US packaging plant, expected to employ about 125 people at full capacity.

Weilong Delicious Global (HKG:9985) renewed its agreement to buy food packaging materials from Luohe Delong Color Printing Development for three years, running from Jan. 1, 2025 to Dec. 31, 2027.

Amcor completed the sale of its 50% interest in the joint venture Bericap North America for $122 million, with proceeds used to reduce debt.

Engineered Foam Packaging announced a $31.5 million project to enlarge its Browntown Road plant in Bishopville, South Carolina by 200,000 square feet. The state granted a $750,000 infrastructure grant to Lee County.

VPK Group revealed plans in early 2025 to close its Leeds facility on August 29, 2025, citing concerns over the plant's long-term commercial viability.

In January 2025 TricorBraun reached an agreement to acquire family-owned Euroglas in Germany and Glaspack in Austria, suppliers of rigid packaging to the European market.

CorruEmpaques inaugurated a new 17,000 m² corrugated cardboard plant in Querétaro Industrial Park, Mexico, with an investment of 150 million pesos, seven flexo machines and capacity of 2,000 tonnes per shift.

Meerut Packaging, a corrugated packaging maker with a 22-acre plant in Mussorie village near Meerut, India, plans to expand into litho-laminated and monocartons.

UK aluminium foil tray maker i2r Packaging Solutions has secured an exclusive sole supply agreement to supply Greencore with smoothwall aluminium products and wrinklewall containers, expanding an existing relationship.

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.

Spanish postal operator S.E. Correos y Telégrafos awarded three lots for manufacturing and supply of retail packaging to Tompla, Cartonajes Gisbert and Formpaper Packaging, with a total awarded value of €6,394,523.

The Al-Khair Corrugated Carton Factory, an eco-friendly packaging plant owned by Khair Mohammad, was inaugurated in Quetta, Balochistan, with a PKR 30 million matching grant under the EU-supported GRASP programme.

Corruempaques, a corrugated cardboard box maker, inaugurated an expansion of its plant in the Parque Industrial Querétaro, adding a 17,000 m² facility for storage and production that will generate 300 new jobs.

Packaging Corporation of America plans to invest $229 million in a new facility on a 78-acre site on Thornwood Drive in Newark, replacing its South 21st Street sheet plant. The company will keep all 131 employees under an enterprise zone abatement agreement.

Dutch company Nova Paper, affiliated with Turkey's Eren Holdings, acquired 100% of Wolverhampton-based Onboard Corrugated from Klingele Paper and Packaging Group and Paul Jundu. Onboard is completing a second BHS corrugator that will raise capacity to 250 million square metres a year.

McLaren Packaging is forming a 50/50 joint venture called McLaren Corrugate Limited with VPK Packaging UK & Ireland, combining its Port Glasgow corrugate plant with VPK's East Kilbride site to serve the Scottish corrugated market.

Italian food packaging maker Carton Pack, controlled by UK private equity firm A&M Capital Europe, has taken majority control of Fimat, a Boffalora sopra Ticino (Milan) company specialised in printing and carton packaging production technologies. The report was published on 18 December 2024.

Spanish carton printing group Alzamora has acquired Offset Print & Packaging of Aylesford, near Maidstone, UK. The combined businesses will have 300 staff. The deal value was not disclosed.

Portuguese packaging manufacturer Intraplás announced a new production plant in Van Wert, Ohio, with a total investment of around €40 million. The plant will use extrusion, thermoforming and printing technology, is scheduled to start operations in summer 2025, and will create more than 50 local jobs.

Ball Corporation has acquired European impact extruder Alucan for €82 million ($88 million). The deal includes Alucan's plants in Linars del Vallés, Spain and Lummen, Belgium, expanding Ball's capacity for aerosol cans and impact-extruded bottles.

TekniPlex Consumer Products opened a 200,000-square-foot specialty molded fiber facility in Van Wert, Ohio, representing a $40 million investment. The company plans to hire at least 100 people at the plant, its eighth specialty molded fiber plant.

Mondi completed a EUR 90 million modernization of its Mondi Warsaw corrugated packaging plant in Mszczonów, near Warsaw, doubling production capacity and making it the largest corrugated packaging plant in Poland. The upgrade was marked at an event hosted for Polish manufacturers.

NEXE Innovations made a second delivery of its BPI-certified compostable coffee pods to Bridgehead Coffee and signed a multi-year master manufacturing agreement initially covering two years.

Opus Packaging Florence is expanding into a 50,000 square foot property adjacent to its current facility at 1131 Edwards Circle in Florence, South Carolina, to increase corrugated products manufacturing.

Constantia Tobepal announced a €14.1 million investment in a new tandem extruder at its Burgos facility in Spain to boost pharmaceutical and food packaging capacity. The line is expected to be fully operational by mid-2026.

BUA Group signed an agreement with Austria's Starlinger for machinery for a packaging facility with capacity of 600 million polypropylene block-bottom bags per year. The deal is Starlinger's largest contract in Africa.

SIG and Colombian co-packer Celema agreed to use SIG's Small 12 Aseptic filling system at Celema's Manizales site, with production expected to start in late Q4 2024.

Austria's Starlinger will equip Nigeria-based Bua Group with packaging machinery for a new facility expected to produce 600 million PP block-bottom bags annually. Starlinger calls it its largest contract in Africa and its second-largest globally.

Inteplast Group, described as North America's largest film and sheet maker, acquired CoolSeal, a maker of polypropylene corrugated sheet and boxes.

TricorBraun agreed to acquire the rigid-containers business of Veritiv, strengthening its North American reach. Deal value and closing details are not stated in the article excerpt.

Viscofan inaugurated a new production plant in Rayong, Thailand, for finishing cellulosic and collagen casings, after an investment of close to EUR 22 million. The 30,000 m² site has 8,630 m² of floor space and will also serve Southeast Asia.

Arnest Packaging Solutions, a division of Russia's Arnest Group, signed an agreement with the Uzbek government to build an aluminum beverage can plant with annual capacity above 1.5 billion cans. The investment is about $100 million and should create over 200 jobs, with production expected by next fall.

Sonoco announced the closing of its acquisition of Eviosys, a European metal packaging manufacturer, from KPS Capital Partners.

DS Smith collaborated with Denmark's Vilsund Blue A/S to replace plastic pallets with corrugated cardboard pallets for its canned seafood products, increasing cans per pallet from 1,800 to 2,700, reported 5 December 2024.

2M Group of Companies signed a multi-year commercial supply agreement with Transcend Packaging to deploy Xampla's plastic-free Morro coating on paperboard packaging across the UK, manufactured at 2M's Milton Keynes facility, announced 5 December 2024.

The Massachusetts State Lottery Commission posted an open-market solicitation for corrugated kraft boxes for a three-year contract with two optional one-year extensions. Bids are due January 7, 2025, and deliveries will go to Braintree and Canton warehouses. The source's value range is an AI estimate and is not a stated contract value.

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.

California-based Multipack is establishing a $10.4 million beverage can production facility in Caddo Parish near Shreveport, Louisiana, planning 141 direct jobs and output of more than 100 million cans annually.

Canpack signed a letter of intent to build a new beverage can plant in the Poços de Caldas industrial district, Minas Gerais, with R$710 million investment and 140 direct jobs within two years. The plant will have initial capacity of about 1.3 billion cans per year, with construction expected to start in early 2025.

Leidos Supply issued a prior information notice for a framework supplying packaging and soft consumables to the UK Ministry of Defence, estimated at £29 million to £73 million over up to four years from 2026. The notice is for market research only and is not a formal tender.

Arkema, through Bostik, finalized the acquisition of Dow's flexible packaging laminating adhesives business, which has around US$250 million in annual sales and five production sites in Italy, the United States and Mexico. The enterprise value is US$150 million.

Perfektüp Ambalaj launched a new aerosol can production line at its Kırklareli production base in Turkey, raising its aerosol can capacity to 240 million units annually. The base spans 75,000 m² of land and 100,000 m² of closed area.