Nylene broke ground on Nov. 13, 2018 on an $8 million expansion at its Henderson, Kentucky plant, adding an 80,000 sq ft building and 40 jobs, with completion expected by July 2019.

Coral Products PLC's Haydock Mouldings division received a further £795,000 order under a supply contract for plastic totes for a customer's UK fulfilment centres, expected to continue into the fourth quarter to April 2019.

KP Linpac ordered a third Infrared Rotary Drum from Kreyenborg to expand thermoformed PET packaging capacity at its Beeskow site in Germany, with delivery planned for early 2019.

US packaging material maker Tekni-Plex has acquired Beyers Plastics from Famo, according to the article.

Chinese brewer Great Leap Brewing agreed to collaborate with British PET packaging provider Petainer on producing petainerKeg kegs next year at a new blow-moulding facility in Tianjin.

Auer Packaging is building a third block warehouse with 6,300 square metres of floor space at its Amerang site in Germany. The investment is about seven million euros and completion is planned for December 2018.

Reid Canada, a subsidiary of Consolidated Container Company, acquired plastic bottle makers Polybottle Group and Humberline Packaging from ABC Group, with plants in Toronto, Vancouver and Edmonton. Terms were not disclosed.

Sinclair & Rush, through its VisiPak division, completed the acquisition of thermoform packaging maker MasterPac Corporation of St. Louis, Missouri, expanding VisiPak's thermoforming capacity. Production continues at existing MasterPac sites.

Carolina Poly Inc., which markets products under the Husky brand, is spending $25 million to expand operations in Chester, South Carolina. The announcement was reported in November 2018.

Unilever and Veolia agreed to collaborate on processes and technologies for a circular economy on plastics waste, including used packaging collection, supporting Unilever's target of 25% recycled plastic content by 2025.

B.C. Jindal Group, a specialty packaging film maker, acquired Treofan Europe, a manufacturer of biaxially oriented polypropylene films. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Kumho P&B Chemicals will invest 200 billion won to add 200,000 tonnes per year of BPA capacity at a new site near its Yeosu plant, raising capacity from 450,000 to 650,000 tonnes. Completion is due in the second half of 2021.

Plastipak Packaging will invest $10 million in its Garland, Texas production facility, a roughly 400,000 square foot plant operating since 1996, expected to create six new jobs.

thyssenkrupp commissioned the world's first commercial plant using its PLAneo technology to make polylactide bioplastic in Changchun, China. The plant is operated by Jilin COFCO Biomaterial, a COFCO subsidiary, and started production in October 2018.

PepsiCo signed a multi-year supply agreement to buy sustainable packaging from a joint venture facility established by Loop Industries, and will incorporate Loop PET recycled material into its packaging by 2020.

Glenroy Inc. of Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, was selected as the exclusive converter of the new premade STANDCAP Pouch, which it produces using VOLPAK converting technology. The pouch was shown at PACK EXPO International 2018.

Rubber and plastics manufacturer Lavelle Industries is expanding its operations in Burlington and Whitewater, Wisconsin, with up to $14 million in investment over three years. The expansion is expected to create 70 new jobs and is supported by state tax credits.

Rohrer Corporation, a ShoreView portfolio company, acquired Transparent Container, a Addison, Illinois maker of retail packaging with more than 400 employees and six locations. The deal adds thermoforming capacity to Rohrer's packaging business. It was announced on October 1, 2018.

Toyo Seikan Group's subsidiary Toyo Seikan will build a new plant building at its Toyohashi factory in Aichi Prefecture to make plastic pouches and cups, with total investment of about 9 billion yen including capacity equipment. Completion is planned for March 2020.

Bockatech and Borealis AG agreed to jointly develop reusable and recyclable foam injection moulding solutions for lightweight plastic packaging.

Oxy Capital agreed to take an 80% stake and operational control of Italian flexible plastic packaging maker Gruppo Manuli Stretch, with Credito Fondiario providing a 12 million euro super-senior loan. The group will be renamed Gruppo M Stretch.

BASF plans to acquire Belgian chemicals company Solvay's worldwide polyamide business. The deal is under EU merger review, with the deadline extended to January 11, 2019.

Danimer Scientific will locate a fermentation facility in Winchester, Kentucky, investing $36.2 million to produce its Noda PHA biopolymer and create 37 full-time jobs. Operations are targeted to start in Q4 2019.

Amcor and Huhtamaki are reportedly in preliminary talks with the promoters of Essel Propack to acquire a controlling stake in the Indian laminated tube maker. Morgan Stanley is handling the sale, according to unconfirmed reports.

Illinois-based Transparent Container is opening a new production facility in Tijuana's La Encantada industrial park, an 87,750-square-foot plant with 11 thermoforming lines. The company has not disclosed investment or job numbers.

IntraPac International, a North Carolina rigid packaging manufacturer, acquired Quality Plastics, an Arizona-based maker of extrusion blow molded plastic containers. The deal was announced on September 24, 2018.

Blue Wolf Capital portfolio companies Pearl Technologies and TGW Holdings merged to form Edge Industrial Technologies, a machine knife, blade and packaging manufacturer headquartered in Wilder, Kentucky, with plants in England, the US and India.

Green Leaf, parent of TerreMax, has completed construction of a new 45,000 sq ft warehousing and order processing facility in the American heartland for its fluid flow products.

RPC is in preliminary talks with two major private equity firms over a possible sale of the plastic packaging company.

BEWiSynbra Group has entered agreements to acquire BEWi Produkter, BEWi Polar (together BEWi Norway) and BEWi Automotive, partly paid in new shares and partly in cash. Completion is subject to financing and shareholder approval.

RPC Group, a European plastic packaging maker, confirmed it is holding discussions with private equity firms Apollo Global Management and Bain Capital about a possible sale of the company.

United Caps and Braskem have partnered to supply GREENER bio-sourced plastic caps and closures based on I'm green polyethylene made from sugarcane ethanol. The first two closures target dairy products and still drinks.

RPC sold its foodservice business, Letica Corporation, to US-based Graphic Packaging International for $95 million (£74 million).

ContiTech opened a RMB70 million (about €10 million) plant in Changshu, China, producing 3D blow-moulded thermoplastic elastomer hoses for turbochargers used by automotive OEMs. The plant is Continental's fourth site with this technology and was set to start mass production in Q3 2018.

Toyo Seikan decided to construct a new factory building for manufacturing flexible packaging containers within its Toyohashi Plant in Aichi Prefecture. The project costs 9 billion yen and is scheduled for completion in March 2020.

Flexible plastics firm STM Packaging has entered administration following declining business.

RPC bpi recycled products has acquired PLASgran, a UK rigid plastics recycler, in a £34.5 million deal.

Anhui Guoding Packaging Co. was named first candidate in a public tender for 40 tonnes of PE heat-shrink film for the Guigang branch of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region tobacco company, with a bid of CNY 619,600. The candidate publicity period runs from August 21 to 23, 2018.

Cooper Standard laid the foundation stone for a $12 million polymer mixing plant in Aguascalientes, creating 100 direct jobs, with completion expected in the first quarter of 2019.

Craft brewer Oskar Blues worked with Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics, Berry Global and Ampacet to develop a printed co-extruded shrink film for its 24-can cases, which cut its packaging costs by 40 percent.

Plastic product maker Transcendia has completed its acquisition of Precision Poly, a flexible packaging and blown film bag provider, from Spire Flexpack.

United Caps is investing EUR 20 million in a new factory in Dinnington, Rotherham, its first UK facility, creating 20 jobs. The plant will make plastic caps and closures for beverage and dairy packaging, with production expected to begin at the end of 2019.

Australian packaging company Amcor is reportedly in advanced talks to acquire U.S. rival Bemis, which had a market value of about $4.20 billion; a deal could be announced as soon as the following week.

Amcor agreed to buy Wisconsin-based Bemis in an all-stock, cash-free transaction valued at about US$9.2 billion, announced in August 2018, creating the largest flexible packaging company.

Private equity firm Lindsay Goldberg acquired packaging maker COVERIS Rigid from Coveris and Sun Capital Partners, and the company will be rebranded as PACCOR. COVERIS Rigid has 18 plants and 3,500 employees in Europe and the USA. The deal was reported on 2018-08-01 and no deal value was disclosed.

Pretium Packaging has acquired Cox Container, a manufacturer of HDPE containers in Alabama, USA, on a 13-acre site. The deal is Pretium's fifth acquisition in four years and raises its manufacturing locations to 17.

Indorama Ventures has agreed to acquire Sorepla Industrie S.A., a French plastics recycler with a combined capacity of 52,000 tonnes per year and 58 employees. The deal expands its food-grade rPET supply in Europe.

Alpla Inc. will expand its Bowling Green, Kentucky plant with a 100,000-square-foot warehouse project costing $6.9 million, creating 24 full-time jobs. Completion is expected in 2019.

Wendel granted Aptar Group exclusivity to finalize the sale of CSP Technologies, a specialty protective packaging maker, at an enterprise value of $555 million, about 13 times adjusted EBITDA. Closing is expected in Q4 2018.

Hebert's Recycling Inc. officially opened a new recycling plant on Glencoe Drive in Mount Pearl, Newfoundland and Labrador, which grinds plastic bottles into flakes and bales tin cans. The plant employs 18 people and can process 78 million plastic containers per year.