Shandong Furuida Pharmaceutical Group announced winning bidders in its supplier selection tender for cosmetic packaging boxes, naming 12 printing and packaging companies in China.

Grupo Erum and ITC Packaging signed an agreement to create ITCErum Packaging, a joint venture that will make household and food packaging at Erum's factory in Tangier, Morocco. The venture aims to expand internationally and develop sustainable packaging.

VPK Group signed an agreement to acquire a majority stake in Zetacarton, an Italian corrugated cardboard manufacturer near Como that makes fanfold and big-box packaging. The company had 110 employees and about EUR 75 million revenue in 2022. The financial terms were not disclosed.

German carton and boxes specialist Carton Group acquired London-based luxury packaging company Wrapology for an undisclosed fee.

Saica Pack signed a notarial deed with the mayor of Santa Maria Hoè to invest €33 million expanding its paper and cardboard packaging plant, with works starting within days and more jobs expected.

JK Paper signed a share purchase agreement to acquire 100% of Manipal Utility Packaging Solutions for about Rs 90 crore, a maker of folding cartons, corrugated boxes and labels with four plants in India. Completion is expected within six weeks.

Sumitomo Bakelite signed an agreement to acquire 90% of SB Pax, a new company split from Asahi Kasei Pax's laminated plastic film business, to expand its films and sheets business for pharmaceutical packaging. SB Pax is scheduled to begin operations on 1 April 2024.

Smurfit Kappa Norteamérica plans to invest about $67 million in 2023 in machinery, process upgrades and service expansion at its plants in Nuevo Laredo, Tijuana, Mexicali and Nogales, Mexico. The company has invested over $350 million in Mexico over the past five years.

Broadland Drinks signed a contract with Frugalpac and Journey's End to fill and distribute Interpunkt wines in Frugal paper bottles, making it the largest UK filler of Frugal Bottles. Journey's End will expand the bottles into the UK and beyond.

Minnesota-based canning company Lagersmith Can Supply Co. is investing $10 million to build a 25,000-square-foot warehouse and production facility in Bark Creek Industrial Park, Fremont, creating more than 20 jobs over three years.

Gruppo Fanti celebrated the opening of Fanti USA, its first US manufacturing facility, in a former vacant building in the Half Moon Industrial Park in Weirton. The roughly $30 million investment is the company's largest expansion project, and production begins in the coming weeks.

Georgia-Pacific completed a $175 million investment at its Dixie tableware plant in Darlington, South Carolina, expanding plate and bowl production and adding 100 full-time jobs. The expanded facility is now over 530,000 square feet.

Green Bay Packaging announced that its new 600,000-square-foot corrugator plant in Fort Worth, Texas, is nearing completion this fall. It will replace an older facility built in 1986 and will house a new 110-inch Fosber corrugator.

TricorBraun signed an agreement to be the preferred distributor of AFA Dispensing Group's rechargeable Flairosol sprayer in the US and Canada. The device is an alternative to aerosol packages.

Coca-Cola HBC Austria replaced plastic shrink film on four soft drink multipacks with kraft paper and cardboard packaging, developed with Krones, DS Smith and Mondi. The line was installed at its Edestal plant in Burgenland.

Belgian dairy Solarec is replacing its production lines with four SIG Midi 12 aseptic filling machines and packaging supplied by SIG. The first machine was installed in Q3 2023.

GHK Capital Partners completed its acquisition of JohnsByrne, a Niles, Illinois maker of premium folding carton packaging and specialty print solutions. Terms were not disclosed.

SIG announced an €8.4 million investment in the fifth expansion of its carton packaging plant in Campo Largo, Paraná, raising capacity to 5.2 billion packs per year. The plant employs about 500 people.

CPMC's subsidiary Benepack Hungary Kft has started construction of a 24,000 square metre aluminium beverage can plant in Makó, Csongrád-Csanád county, with production due in autumn 2024. The €65 million project will create 120 jobs and is designed to produce one billion cans per year.

Massimo Zanetti Beverage USA signed an agreement with Ultramar Caffè - La Natura Lifestyle AG to install a new packaging line for aluminum espresso capsules at its Suffolk, Virginia facility by the second half of 2024, with capacity of 100 million capsules per year.

Manjushree Technopack (MTL), a rigid plastic packaging maker backed by Advent International, signed a collaboration with the bottle-to-bottle recycling division of Ganesha Ecosphere Group to co-develop and supply food and non-food packaging made from up to 100% recycled plastic in India.

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners announced a €35 million investment in a new high-speed canning line at its Wakefield site, capable of 2,000 cans per minute and due to be operational in 2024. The line will create 28 roles.

Crown Holdings completed its acquisition of Helvetia Packaging AG, a beverage can and end manufacturing facility in Saarlouis, Germany. The deal adds about one billion units of annual can capacity and assumes 200 current employees.

Massimo Zanetti Beverage USA signed an agreement with Ultramar Caffè - La Natura Lifestyle AG to create a new packaging line for aluminum espresso capsules at its Suffolk, Virginia facility. The line, due by the second half of 2024, will produce 100 million capsules per year.

Relife Group acquired Scatolificio Deles Spa and its subsidiary Ondulati Menegazzi in October 2023, expanding its corrugated board business in Italy. The deals are expected to lift Relife Paper Packaging capacity to almost 315 million m² of corrugated products next year.

Grupo Lappi acquired CPM-Penta Group, a Madrid-based maker of flexible packaging and labels, in October 2023. Terms were not disclosed.

Visy opened its A$175 million corrugated cardboard box factory in Hemmant, Queensland, capable of making up to one million boxes a day from recycled paper. The facility directly employs over 100 people.

Advent-backed Imperial Dade acquired the Eugene Allard Produits d'Emballage et d'Entretien division of the Eugene Allard family of companies. Deal value and location were not disclosed in the article.

RECUP GmbH took over reusable container manufacturer Crafting Future GmbH, which became its subsidiary, combining their reusable packaging expertise. The announcement is dated 28 September 2023.

Pratt Industries pledged a further $500 million over 10 years in Pennsylvania for recycling, remanufacturing and clean energy infrastructure, creating hundreds of new jobs, as announced with Governor Josh Shapiro.

SIG laid the foundation for its first aseptic carton plant in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, with planned phased investment of about ₹880 crore, expected to add 4 billion packs per year and create about 300 jobs.

Ball Packaging officially started two additional modules producing aluminium beverage can ends at its Lublin plant, which serves customers across Europe.

Workshop X260 of the Army Department tendered a package for adhesive tape, carton boxes and PE bags for production, valued at 1.603 billion VND, with approval dated 21 September 2023. A winning contractor was listed in the tender result.

Hong Kong-backed Benepack Hungary is building an aluminium can factory in Makó's industrial park, with a €65 million investment whose foundation stone was laid on 26 September 2023. The plant is due to open in September 2024 with 120 jobs and capacity of up to one billion cans a year.

Isem Packaging Group closed the integration of Sacchettificio Toscano, a historic Italian luxury packaging maker, strengthening its position in luxury packaging.

T.G. Nuttall Packaging Ltd signed a sales contract with GTS Europe for a two-colour Weipong Venus 820 casemaker, to be installed at its Manchester site in the second quarter of 2024.

Metsä Board completed a development programme at its Kemi, Finland white kraftliner mill, adding 40,000 tonnes of annual capacity to reach 465,000 tonnes and cutting energy use by 5% and water use by about 40% per tonne. The work was completed in parallel with Metsä Fibre's new bioproduct mill.

Dart Container became a strategic equity partner in Red Leaf Pulp, securing exclusive rights to its wheat straw-based alternative fibre for molded fibre packaging. Red Leaf's initial conversion facility in Regina, Saskatchewan is scheduled for completion in 2026.

Mason Wells acquired Accord Carton, a manufacturer, with members of the Codo family and other board members and co-investors also holding stakes. The deal was reported on 18 September 2023.

Pratt Industries committed to invest $500 million in Pennsylvania over the next ten years in recycling, remanufacturing and clean energy infrastructure, creating hundreds of jobs, announced with Governor Shapiro.

Northern Ireland's Procurement and Logistics Service awarded a corrugated boxes supply contract to Diamond Corrugated Cases Limited for £860,005 (about €998,369), with three bids received.

R.R. Donnelley installed an EFI Nozomi C18000 Plus single-pass digital inkjet printer at its Milwaukee packaging facility to expand into corrugated packaging, cutting time-to-market by 25%. The press is expected to be operational by fall 2023.

International Paper celebrated the opening of its new $100 million corrugated packaging facility in Atglen, Pennsylvania, providing more than 100 manufacturing jobs.

Pratt Industries opened a $700 million recycled paper mill and corrugated box factory in Henderson, Kentucky, employing 325 people, with a new paper machine producing 1,500 tons of paper daily.

Pratt Industries officially opened its new $500 million paper mill and box factory in Henderson, Kentucky, across two facilities, creating over 320 jobs. The project is the largest investment in the region in more than 25 years.

Tetra Pak announced its first Custom Printing collaboration with Flow Beverage Corp., with five bespoke carton designs to appear at Live Nation Canada venues this fall.

Trioworld Nyborg, a plastic packaging film producer in Denmark, signed a ten-year power purchase agreement with Better Energy covering a third of its annual electricity use, about 7.5 GWh a year, from a solar park on Lolland.

German luxury packaging maker Rissmann, owned by vph GmbH & Co, plans to increase capacity at its production site in Bulgaria to meet demand for made-in-Europe packaging. The Bulgarian plant has been operational since 2022.

Smurfit Kappa and WestRock announced a merger creating Smurfit WestRock, which will be domiciled in Ireland with global headquarters in Dublin. Smurfit Kappa shareholders will hold 50.4% and WestRock shareholders 49.6%, with closing expected in Q2 2024 subject to regulatory approval.

Coca-Cola HBC Austria replaced plastic films on 1.5-litre PET multipacks with recyclable cardboard and kraft paper outer packaging at its Burgenland production center, saving an estimated 200 tons of plastic annually. Krones, Mondi and DS Smith collaborated on the project.