Packaging maker Thimm became the new central supplier for online pharmacy DocMorris and developed optimised shipping boxes with reduced height and digital internal printing. The change cuts material use and saves 40 HGV journeys per year.

Italian plastic packaging company Capardoni completed its merger with Capsol at the end of 2024, creating a group with more than EUR 50 million turnover and three production sites in Lombardy. The merger was reported in July 2025.

McLaren Packaging and VPK UK and Ireland launched a 50/50 joint venture, McLaren Corrugate Limited, combining McLaren's Port Glasgow corrugated plant with VPK's East Kilbride site. McLaren will hold operational management control.

Flexible packaging and pouch manufacturer Global Packaging Solutions grew by 25,000 square feet in Albemarle, North Carolina, adding 10 jobs with a state building reuse grant of $80,000.

Contract food packaging company Econo-Pak announced a 125,000-square-foot addition to its 200,000-square-foot facility in Milford, Pennsylvania, for packaging automation and expanded storage.

Earthrings, a startup brand under Promac, opened operations in Elgin, Illinois, producing biodegradable cardboard beverage rings for brewery customers.

Bischof+Klein extended its clean room extrusion facility at Lengerich, Germany, with new blown film extrusion lines for packaging films, commissioned from December 2024 onward.

TOPPAN Holdings signed an agreement to acquire the flexible packaging and thermoformed container business of SONOCO Products Company for about 1.8 billion US dollars, expanding its sustainable packaging operations in North and South America.

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

Novolex and Pactiv Evergreen agreed to combine into a food, beverage and specialty packaging manufacturer, with Pactiv shareholders receiving $18.00 per share in cash. CPP Investments will contribute about US$1 billion and become a significant minority shareholder.

Nefab's PolyFlex unit opened a new packaging facility in León, Guanajuato, producing heavy-gauge thermoformed and injection-molded packaging for battery, e-mobility and automotive customers. Additional equipment is planned for late 2025 or early 2026.

DS Smith announced a €34.4m investment at its Füzesabony, Nagykáta and Győr sites in Hungary, aiming to raise manufacturing capacity by over 40%, with completion expected by April 2026.

Quang Tri province approved the investment plan for A&C International Packaging's aluminum can factory at Quan Ngang Industrial Park, Gio Linh district, with total investment just over $100 million and planned capacity of 1 billion cans per year.

Italian packaging group Carton Pack has acquired Clifton Packaging Group, a Leicester-based maker of flexible food and drink packaging, backed by private equity firm A&M Capital Europe.

Stora Enso is starting a new production unit in Skene, Västra Götaland, under a license from Gothenburg-based PulPac to make molded-pulp paper lids and biobased food packaging, with commissioning planned for late 2024.

Hinojosa Packaging Group is rebuilding its PM 1 paper machine at Alquería, Spain with supplier Voith, raising containerboard output about 19% to 128,000 tons per year. The shutdown and restart are scheduled for Q1 2026.

TriMas launched a new 225,000 square foot, highly automated packaging facility in Haining, China, consolidating its Hangzhou and older Haining plants. The site makes dispensing and lotion pumps, caps and closures.

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.

Thimm developed optimised standard shipping boxes for the DocMorris online pharmacy and became its new central packaging supplier for all shipping locations. The redesign reduced box height and cut 40 truck journeys per year.

Coveris is investing in its Winsford, Cheshire polyethylene extrusion site, adding a nine-layer blown EVOH barrier film line, a cast stretch film line and a 5,000-pallet warehouse. The cast line is set to start production in December 2024 and the warehouse is expected to be fully operational by the end of Q1 2025.

Berlin Packaging has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Rixius AG, a German rigid packaging supplier serving DACH and Benelux, with closing expected in Q4. Private equity firm BWK will exit its stake.

Mondi started up a new extrusion line at Mondi Coating Štětí in the Czech Republic, part of a wider investment including a new production building, coating and slitting machinery, to expand FunctionalBarrier Papers output.

Swiss company Bourquin SA put a new state-of-the-art corrugated cardboard machine into operation at its Oensingen site on November 19, 2024, as part of an investment package to raise capacity and productivity.

DS Smith and Zalando renewed their long-term partnership under which DS Smith will supply fibre-based corrugated packaging for Zalando's e-commerce operations across several European countries, starting April 2025.

Amcor agreed to combine with Berry Global in an all-stock merger in which Berry shareholders receive 7.25 Amcor shares per share, creating a combined company with an enterprise value of about $37 billion. Closing is targeted for mid-2025.

Atlanta-based packaging supply chain firm Coregistics, a Red Arts Capital portfolio company, acquired contract packager Belvika Trade & Packaging, which operates from Mississauga, Ontario. No financial terms were disclosed.

Saudi dairy company Almarai named Swiss packaging group SIG a strategic partner for its five-year expansion plan, focused on flexible packaging and sustainability. The companies also launched a campaign marking 20 years of collaboration.

SIG is building its 10th global aseptic carton plant in Ahmedabad, India, with an EUR 60 million investment and an initial capacity of 4 billion packs per year, with ramp-up expected in early 2025.

Brazilian packaging maker Wyda Packaging has opened a 15,000 sq ft factory in Charlotte, N.C., to produce recyclable aluminum foil and trays with capacity of 6,000 tons per year.

Rajshree Polypack Limited won an order worth USD 0.67 million (about INR 56.0 million) from an international entity, a leading USA-based distributor of food containers, to supply customized injection moulded food packaging by 25 February 2025.

Novapet, part of the SAMCA Group, announced the acquisition of PET packaging maker ENSO from GED Capital. The deal creates a vertically integrated group with five production plants in Spain and Portugal, with projected annual turnover above 400 million euros.

DS Smith has strengthened its partnership with Zalando as a primary supplier of corrugated cardboard packaging for Zalando's European delivery centers, starting April 2025.

Italian packaging maker Scotton SpA has recently installed a new 1.8m Quantum corrugator at its Borso del Grappa, Treviso plant to improve board quality and output.

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.

E. Hofmann Plastics acquired Czech packaging maker PAP Packaging from Italy's Manfreplast in Liquidazione in an auction linked to the seller's liquidation. The deal prevented insolvency and kept production running.

The European Commission approved Sonoco Products' acquisition of the Eviosys group, which includes metal packaging and closure plants in Spain, under EU competition rules.

French biopolymer firm Lactips and Finnish packaging converter Walki signed a Joint Development Agreement to create fully biodegradable, paper-stream recyclable food packaging using natural polymer coatings.

Palm Group has completed the acquisition of 100% of John Hargreaves (Collyhurst & Stalybridge) Ltd, a corrugated products producer in Stalybridge near Manchester, in October 2024.

Aquapak Polymers, Maxim and N Brown announced a collaboration under which N Brown begins rolling out Hydropol-based garment bags for its own-label products. N Brown expects plastic use to fall by 44% once rollout is complete.

Peak Packaging UK signed a supply agreement to provide bag-in-box packaging to Britvic Soft Drinks for its Leeds filling site, starting in 2025.

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.

DS Smith extended its partnership with Zalando through a preferred supplier contract covering e-commerce and fibre-based corrugated cardboard packaging for European order and delivery hubs. The contract commences in April 2025.

Nova Circular Solutions, a unit of Nova Chemicals, signed a long-term agreement to supply Winpak with post-consumer recycled polyethylene (rPE) under the Syndigo brand for flexible packaging.

Mondi agreed to acquire the German, Benelux and UK corrugated converting and solid board operations of Schumacher Packaging, including seven converting plants, two solid board mills and four solid board converting plants.

Winpak signed a long-term agreement with NOVA Circular Solutions, a NOVA Chemicals unit, to procure post-consumer recycled polyethylene under the SYNDIGO brand for flexible packaging. NOVA's Connersville, Indiana recycling facility is due to start in early 2025.

Amcor announced in November 2024 that it would acquire Berry Global in an all-stock transaction valued at $8.43 billion, combining consumer and healthcare packaging operations.

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.

Saica Groupe acquired all of Schumacher Packaging's operations in Poland, including two corrugated board plants in Bydgoszcz and Wroclaw, two paper mills in Grudziadz and Myszków, and three service centres, effective 31 October 2024 after anti-trust approval.

DS Smith confirmed an extended partnership with Zalando to supply e-commerce and fibre-based corrugated packaging across Europe, starting April 2025.

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.