Schur Flexibles Group acquired packaging firms Cats-Hansel and Nimax from Clondalkin, including plants in Rotterdam, Freital and Elst.

Berry Global Group acquired plastic products company Clopay for $475 million to optimise production capacity and reduce costs.

Welch Packaging Group of Elkhart, Indiana completed its acquisition of Cooper Container II, a corrugated sheet plant near Nashville, Tennessee, strengthening its Midwest footprint. Terms were not disclosed.

National Container Group, the reconditioning division of Mauser, acquired a 51% stake in Noreko AS effective February 1, 2018, forming a joint venture that extends its reconditioning business into Scandinavia.

Swedish business Duni bought Worcestershire-based disposable food and beverage packaging firm Biopac for an undisclosed fee, reported on 12 February 2018.

M&Q Holdings, through subsidiary M&Q Acquisition, acquired US food packaging company Flavorseal, which will operate as a division in Ohio.

Aurelius Equity Opportunities completed its acquisition of Abelan Board Industrial S.L., a Southern European producer of core board and solid board packaging, effective January 31, 2018. Abelan will be combined with Aurelius portfolio company Solidus Solutions.

Platinum Equity has acquired Green Bay, Wisconsin-based WS Packaging Group, a labels and packaging solutions provider, from J.W. Childs Associates; no financial terms were disclosed.

WestRock agreed to acquire KapStone Paper and Packaging Corp. for about $3.5 billion, or about $4.9 billion including KapStone's net debt of about $1.36 billion. The deal is expected to close in the quarter ending September 30 and generate about $200 million in savings by fiscal 2021.

Leonard Green & Partners is reportedly nearing a deal to acquire packaging company Pro Mach Group from AEA Investors for more than $2.2 billion including debt, according to Reuters.

Portugal's Amorim acquired a 60% stake in Bourrassé, a cork stopper producer based in Tosse, Landes, for EUR 29 million. Amorim holds an option on the remaining capital until 2022.

Saica acquired French group Emin Leydier, a paper and corrugated packaging maker with eight French plants and 1,029 employees, adding 800,000 tonnes of recycled paper capacity. The deal was announced on 28 February 2018 and no price was disclosed.

Perlen Packaging AG, the packaging division of the CPH Group, agreed to acquire a 60% majority stake in Brazilian company Sekoya Industria e Comercio Ltda., effective retroactively from 1 January 2018, with formal closing planned for end of February. The price was not disclosed.

Belvac Production Machinery has acquired Rosario Handel B.V., doing business as Rosario Can Technology, based in Dongen, Netherlands. Rosario makes can decorators and base coating machinery and provides rebuild and replacement-parts services.

Tapì Group, a beverage closures maker owned by Wise SGR, has entered a binding agreement to buy 80% of T&G GmbH, the sole distributor for Germany, Switzerland, Poland, Austria and the Netherlands. The founder keeps the remaining 20%.

AST Kunststoffverarbeitung GmbH of Erndtebrück, Germany, has acquired a majority stake in Dutch plastic drum and canister maker Euromouldings in Nijverdal from Wadinko NV, effective retroactively from December.

Flexible packaging manufacturer ProAmpac has acquired paper packaging products manufacturer Bonita Packaging Products, which will operate as a unit of ProAmpac's US Flexibles Division. The deal value was not disclosed.

Graphic Packaging has closed its $6 billion deal to buy International Paper's North American Consumer Packaging business, merging it with Graphic's existing operations. The closing took place in early January 2018.

Brookfield Asset Management's private equity group agreed to acquire a 75% interest in Dutch returnable plastic packaging maker Schoeller Allibert Group for about EUR 205 million (about USD 245 million), buying it from JPMorgan Chase. The Schoeller family keeps 25%.

Brookfield Business Partners and partners agreed to acquire a 75% controlling stake in Schoeller Allibert, a European returnable plastic packaging maker, for €205 million from a J.P. Morgan subsidiary.

Duravant has acquired Ohlson Packaging of Taunton, Massachusetts, a manufacturer of weighing, counting and filling machines, which will operate as a stand-alone company in Duravant's Packaging Segment.

TricorBraun Inc. acquired Package All Corp., a 33-year-old healthcare packaging distributor based in Bayport, New York, which becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary and operates seven locations.

In 2018, Advent International acquired a 77% stake in Indian rigid plastic packaging maker Manjushree Technopack from Kedaara Capital and the promoters. The deal value was not disclosed.

Japan's Rengo acquired a 25% stake in United Packaging Malaysia Pte Ltd, a corrugated box maker in Shah Alam near Kuala Lumpur, in early 2018.

Placon completed the acquisition of privately held rigid plastic container maker Plastic Packaging Corp. The target has a 100,000 sq ft plant in West Springfield, Massachusetts, and 141 employees.

Germany's Schütz signed an agreement to acquire Mexican rigid industrial packaging company Envases y Laminados (ELSA) for an undisclosed sum, with completion expected in early 2018.

Mondi Group signed an agreement to acquire 100% of Powerflute Group Holdings from NPAC Holdings for €365 million on an enterprise value basis. The Kuopio, Finland mill makes 285,000 tons a year of semi-chemical fluting and completion is expected in the first half of 2018.

Norway's Bewi has acquired Trondheim-based packaging supplier Tommen Gram Holding, which has about 60 employees and roughly NOK 320 million in annual revenue; the price was not disclosed.

Crown has agreed to buy an unnamed global company that provides industrial and transit packaging systems. The article gives no target name, value or closing details.

WestRock has entered into agreements to acquire substantially all assets of Plymouth Packaging, a corrugated packaging company, including its Box on Demand systems and its equity interest in Panotec. The announcement was made on December 19, 2017.

Sappi Limited signed an agreement to acquire the speciality paper business of Cham Paper Group for CHF146.5 million (about $149 million), including mills in Carmignano and Condino, Italy and a digital imaging business in Cham, Switzerland. Completion is expected in Q1 2018, subject to competition approvals.

Adam Pack S.A., a Greek maker of gable-top cartons and plastic spouts in Lavrio, became part of the S.O. Holding group in October 2025. A major investment plan is aimed at more than doubling production capacity.

The European Commission granted unconditional approval under the EU Merger Regulation for the combination of Amcor and Berry Global, the final regulatory clearance needed. Closing was expected on April 30, 2025.

Novolex, a portfolio company of The Carlyle Group, agreed to acquire certain assets and business operations of Shields Bag and Printing Co., a flexible packaging maker in Yakima, Washington. Terms were not disclosed and closing is expected near year end 2017.

Cascades is acquiring four containerboard packaging plants in Ontario from the Coyle family, adding about 500 million square feet of annual capacity. The total cost of the transaction, including its Greenpac and Tencorr stakes, is C$49 million.

Virojanglor, a French metal packaging maker, agreed to acquire Interesting Sourcing, a France-based manufacturer of multi-material packaging. Virojanglor expected consolidated revenue of about 25 million euros in 2018.

Tri-Wall Japan Co., Ltd. acquired 100% of J-Pack Co., Ltd., according to a Tri-Wall news item dated 14 October 2024. The article text is truncated so further details are unavailable.

Tri-Wall Japan acquired a 90% stake in Pronk Multiservice India Private Limited, which operates heavy-duty packaging manufacturing in Bangalore, Faridabad, Mumbai and Chennai.

Tri-Wall Europe Holding acquired a 100% stake in Pronk Multiservice ME FZE, a heavy-duty packaging manufacturer headquartered in Jebel Ali Free Zone, Dubai, with a focus on wooden packaging.

Cascades increased its holding in Greenpac Mill from 62.5% to 66.1% by acquiring an additional interest in Containerboard Partners. It also bought the Coyle family's 33% stake in Tencorr Holdings, a sheet stock maker for box producers, for a combined cost of about $21 million.

Cascades Inc. acquired four Ontario plants from the Coyle family: McLeish Corr-a-Box, Brown Packaging, Coyle Corrugated Containers and Coyle Packaging. Consideration was CAD 28 million including CAD 4 million assumed debt, completed on 4 December 2017.

Japan's Kyoto Seisakusho acquired PMI Cartoning, Inc. of Elk Grove Village, Illinois, to form PMI KYOTO Packaging Systems, which will keep operating from the Illinois site and offer cartoners, case packers, over-wrappers and palletizers.

ONCAP, the mid-market private equity platform of Onex, acquired IntraPac International, a specialty rigid packaging maker, from funds managed by CI Capital Partners on December 4, 2017. Terms were not disclosed.

Praxis Packaging acquired Unette Corporation of Randolph, New Jersey, a personal care packaging company, expanding its offering to liquid, cream and paste products in tubes, bottles, jars and stick packs.

GPack Group signed an agreement with Oaktree Capital Management to acquire Alliora Coffrets in Fougères, France, with Alliora's capital increased by 7 million euros to expand its gift-box business.

Mold & Robotics Group, parent of Swiss company Müller, acquired CBW Automation, a US leader in robots and automation for thin-walled packaging, creating a global tooling and automation leader.

Tri-Wall Limited acquired a 100% stake in Scart Imballaggi S.r.l., which operates plants in Northern and Central Italy making corrugated packaging, wood packaging and pallets.

TC Transcontinental completed its acquisition of Ultra Flex Packaging Corp., a flexible packaging supplier in Brooklyn, New York with close to 300 employees, on October 1, 2015. The deal was announced September 1, 2015. Price was not disclosed.

Graham Partners, a private investment firm, announced its acquisition of EasyPak LLC, a thermoformed packaging provider headquartered in Leominster, Massachusetts. Atlas Advisors acted as exclusive financial advisor on the sale, and management retains a minority stake.

Italian packaging producer Sirap-Gema agreed to buy rigid plastic food packaging maker Kama Europe, trading as Pactiv, from Reynolds Group Holdings, with completion expected mid-January 2018. Kama Europe has a plant in Sedgefield employing 110.