Ecopax is expanding its Bethlehem, Pennsylvania facility by more than 100,000 square feet for food service packaging production, expected to create up to 20 jobs.

Polykar announced a $20 million expansion of its Edmonton, Alberta facility adding 50,000 square feet and 25 permanent jobs. Output is expected to reach 40 million pounds annually by fall 2026. Announced 9 October 2025.

Smurfit Westrock is investing nearly $19.3 million to expand its corrugated operations in Saltillo, Lee County, Mississippi, with new equipment that raises production capacity by 50 percent. The expansion is expected to be completed by October 2026.

Gerresheimer has broken ground on a new 4,000 m² production hall at its Wertheim site in Germany for ready-to-fill vials on the EZ-fill Smart platform, with a total investment of about EUR 30 million. Production is expected by mid-2027 and the expansion should create around 50 jobs.

Ondupack, part of CL Grupo Industrial, will invest €9 million to add a production line at its Navalmoral de la Mata plant in Cáceres, raising annual capacity from 50 million to 90 million m2, with start-up planned for April 2026.

SFT Group's corrugated packaging plant in Taganrog, Russia, raised capacity by 10% to 200 million square meters per year after modernizing its main equipment with China's Fosber Group. The investment amount was not disclosed.

GPC Papier et Carton, part of Ynna Holding, announced a MAD 500 million investment to modernize its Mohammedia plant, raising cardboard output from 90,000 to 160,000 tons per year by 2030 and adding over 100 jobs by 2027.

Cepac is starting the first phase of its 36-month Rotherham 2 project, with over £53 million for infrastructure, equipment and new jobs at its Meadows Road site in Rotherham.

RRK Wellpappenfabrik in Bottrop, part of Panther Group, plans a new fully automated corrugator and warehouse on a neighbouring 30,000 m2 plot, with about EUR 40 million invested and capacity above 300 million m2 a year. Timing depends on economic development and will be set in 2026.

Resilux Ibérica Packaging is expanding its PET preform and packaging plant in Higuera la Real, adding capacity, storage and multilayer preform products with an investment above EUR 28 million. The works began in 2022 and completion is expected in 2025, creating 35 permanent jobs.

Tetra Pak launched its second aseptic carton packaging material production line at its Binh Duong facility in Vietnam as part of a €97 million expansion. The line more than doubles plant capacity and adds 15 packaging formats.

Polish-American packaging group CANPACK is investing over PLN 440 million to expand its Bydgoszcz plant, adding a new production and warehouse hall and over 1 billion cans per year of capacity, with more than 100 new jobs. Construction contractor is ALSTAL.

Orora has begun commercial production with its Helio high-speed digital can printing system at its Dandenong can plant in Victoria. The technology serves beverage customers across Oceania and was announced on 11 August 2025.

Jaipur-based Miracle Group will invest Rs 125 crore in capacity expansion across its eight packaging plants in the current financial year, adding new printing and converting machinery and lifting production capacity by up to 30%.

Schütz Container Systems will expand its St. Joseph, Missouri site with a new building and a new manufacturing line for industrial packaging, investing $31 million and creating 20 jobs. The announcement was made on 31 July 2025.

Sappi North America completed Project Elevate, a $500 million rebuild of Paper Machine No. 2 at its Somerset Mill in Maine that doubled capacity for SBS paperboard. Full volume is expected by 2026 as customer qualifications continue.

Panther Group's Coswiger Wellpappe is adding a new production and warehouse building in Coswig, Saxony-Anhalt, due to go into operation in August 2025. The site is expected to grow by around 30 per cent.

Panther Group plans to build a €40 million fully automated corrugator at its RRK Wellpappenfabrik site in Bottrop, after buying an adjacent 30,000 square metre plot. Annual capacity is to rise above 300 million square metres, with timing to be finalised in 2026.

Crown Hellas Can plans to expand capacity at its Corinth aluminium can plant with an investment of about €136.2 million, adding two industrial buildings and upgraded equipment and creating 50 jobs. The project has applied for strategic investment status and is in consultation until 3 August.

ePac has installed an HP Indigo 200K digital press at its Sheffield production site, its first such press in Europe. Installation was completed in April 2025 to add capacity for flexible packaging such as pouches.

Flair Packaging is adding a 10-color flexographic press and a solventless laminator at its Calgary, Alberta plant, and has acquired a second Calgary plant of 35,000 square feet for its converting equipment. It is the first of a series of planned Canadian expansions.

Arglass fired up a new, larger furnace at its Valdosta, Georgia glass container plant as part of a $230 million project. The furnace is expected to produce more than 350 million glass containers per year and more than double site capacity.

American Packaging Corp plans to expand its Story City, Iowa facility to add pouch production capacity. It plans to break ground in October 2025 and complete the project by September 2026.

Russian plastic packaging maker Ai-Plast signed an agreement with the Rostov region government to expand production of plastic containers for cottage cheese at its Azov plant. Total investment exceeds 400 million rubles and about 20 new jobs are planned.

SIG will invest an additional $35 million in the first expansion of its aseptic carton plant in Querétaro, Mexico, boosting output by 50%. Production from the expansion is scheduled to start in the second half of 2026.

ZÁLESÍ a.s. is investing almost CZK 90 million in a new high-speed automated laminate tube line using Swiss SAESA 240 technology in Luhačovice, raising plant capacity by 45%. Serial production is planned for January 2026.

Tetra Pak inaugurated its second aseptic carton packaging material production line at its Bình Dương facility in VSIP II-A Industrial Park, Ho Chi Minh City. The 97 million euro investment more than doubles the site's capacity to over 30 billion packages a year.

ALSTAL Grupa Budowlana signed a contract to build a production and warehouse hall for CANPACK in Bydgoszcz, adding a line for about 1 billion aluminium cans a year, with investment above 440 million PLN; construction runs to August 2026.

Arnest Packaging Solutions is launching a third production line and building a 26,000 m² warehouse at its Ulyanovsk aluminum can plant, with investment exceeding 5 billion rubles and the new line due in Q4 2025.

Anima Infinita Flex Novgorod, part of the NEOPOLIS holding, will build a new production and warehouse building at its Veliky Novgorod plant for over 1 billion rubles. The agreement was signed on 18 June, and production launch is planned for April 2026, with 60 jobs.

DuPont expanded a Costa Rica facility with a 16,000-square-foot addition to produce sterile healthcare packaging such as pouches, header bags and lids.

Sonoco is investing in four US facilities in West Chicago, Illinois; Greenville, Wisconsin; Dayton, New Jersey; and Norwalk, California to add paper-bottom can lines. The investment is described as multimillion-dollar, with no exact figure given.

Cosmo First commissioned a new BOPP packaging film line with capex above Rs 400 crore at its Aurangabad, Maharashtra plant on June 1, 2025. The line has annual capacity of 81,200 MT, raising total BOPP capacity about 40% to 277,000 MT.

Amcor announced in June 2025 that it will expand capacity for packaging with postconsumer recycled content at its existing Nicholasville, Kentucky facility. The added dedicated silos allow PCR blending up to 100%, mainly for spirits customers.

Green Bay Packaging is expanding its Morrilton, Arkansas facility with an investment of more than $1 billion, creating 35 new jobs and acquiring about 300 acres for future growth. The mill's production capacity could more than double.

Crown Holdings will add a third high-speed production line to its beverage can plant in Ponta Grossa, Parana, lifting capacity from 2.4 to 3.6 billion cans, with commercial production expected in Q3 2026.

SIG announced an R$44.1 million investment to expand its production unit in Vinhedo, São Paulo, creating more than 60 jobs. The project is expected to be completed later in 2025.

International Paper is adding 40 jobs at a container plant in McAllen, Texas, as it consolidates its manufacturing footprint along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Charter Next Generation announced a $106 million investment to expand operations in Northeast Ohio, adding 12 film packaging lines in Lexington and four extrusion lines in Ontario, with 125 new jobs.

Van Genechten Packaging Group announced the start of a €10 million expansion at its VG Kvadra Pak plant in Riga, Latvia, adding construction, automation and sustainability upgrades to increase production capacity. UPB Nams is the building contractor for the nine-month project.

Hinojosa Packaging Group has finished a €30 million expansion of its Xàtiva plant in Valencia, adding 15,000 square metres and installing a 3.35-metre corrugator that raises capacity to two million boxes per day. The project began in 2022 and was announced on 14 May 2025.

Constantia Flexibles is expanding its rolling mill to increase aluminum foil production by 30%. The location and investment were not given in the excerpt.

Asahi Beverages has unveiled a new $60 million canning line at its Yatala brewery in Queensland, able to produce up to 400 million cans a year and adding 27 net full-time jobs.

Canpack Group plans to add a line producing about 1 billion beverage cans at its Bydgoszcz plant in Poland, with commissioning targeted for Q2 2026. The project was first announced in 2022 and postponed in 2023.

SIG announced a €6.7 million investment to expand its Vinhedo, São Paulo production site, including new machinery, with the work planned for 2025.

L&M Corrugated Container Corp. unveiled a German-made Göpfert five-color rotary machine with dual die cutter at its Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin plant, part of an $8 million machinery expansion. The unveiling took place on Friday, 2025-04-11.

Grupo Empresarial Salaverry started flexographic printing and five-layer extrusion processes at its Xiloxoxtla plant in Tlaxcala, Mexico, which the state governor says will raise production capacity by 38%. The start-up was reported on 2025-04-11.

Forming Technologies is expanding its Muskegon, Michigan facility with an anticipated capital investment of up to $18.8 million, creating 70 new jobs in a building of at least 150,000 square feet that will also house its headquarters.

Mid South Extrusion is investing $12.5 million to add two polyethylene extrusion lines at its Monroe, Louisiana facility, creating 12 new jobs with operations expected in 2026.

VPK Group's Aquila commissioned a new Fosber 2.8m S/Line corrugator at its Września plant in Poland as part of a €25 million investment. The line can produce up to 20 million square meters of corrugated board per month, and the official ribbon cutting took place in early 2025.