Pratt Industries plans a new 496,000-square-foot corrugated box factory in Warner Robins, in Peach County, Georgia, with more than 125 jobs and over $120 million of investment. Operations are expected to begin in late 2024.

Axium Packaging is constructing an 80 million dollar manufacturing site in Brampton, Ontario, expected to open in July 2024. The facility will make plastic containers, tubes and caps, and is designed to be LEED Silver compliant.

Bulgarian flexible packaging maker Ate Plast opened a new plant in the Zagore industrial zone in Stara Zagora after a 20 million lev investment. The plant has hired 40 people and is expected to double the company's output volumes.

Packaging specialist Papacks has opened a second hall at its Arnstadt, Thuringia site after investing around 14 million euros, and is planning a third gigafactory that will include a research institute. The company makes plastic-free, biodegradable packaging.

Pratt Industries is building a new $120 million production facility in Peach County, Georgia, expected to be operational in late 2024 and producing corrugated boxes and containerboard.

Cartonajes Vir signed an agreement on August 31, 2023 to acquire 100% of the shares of Cartonastur, S.A. in Asturias, Spain. The combined company will have over 150 workers and revenue above 30 million, with the deal to close before the end of 2025.

Zipform Packaging opened its new A$8 million manufacturing facility in Dandenong South, Victoria, doubling its production capacity with a linear forming line for composite food packs.

Treplar, a joint venture of Klarpet of Turkey and Triton International Enterprises of the USA, is setting up a food packaging facility in Berkeley County, WV with a total investment of $50 million and about 600 jobs by year three.

Zempack, a JBS company, is finishing construction of its new metal packaging plant in Três Lagoas, Mato Grosso do Sul, with an investment of over R$15 million, creating about 120 jobs, with opening planned for early in the second half of 2023.

Mimir Invest AB completed its acquisition of Billerud Managed Packaging AB from Billerud AB, a unit with 143 employees in Asia, Europe and the USA and 2022 net sales of SEK 770 million.

Beneco Packaging is investing $7 million to buy new automated equipment in Cobourg, Ontario, to expand its product line and speed up production, supported by C$500,000 from the Ontario government.

Axium Packaging is constructing a new manufacturing facility in Brampton, Ontario, investing over CAD 80 million and employing 250 people. The site is expected to open in July 2024.

Shore Capital-backed packaging distributor 360Pack acquired Colorado-based custom packaging solutions provider Team Packaging. No financial terms were disclosed, and founder Mike Anderson will continue to lead commercial strategy.

Europe Technologies built a semi-automated pilot assembly line for LivingPackets' The Box packaging in Nantes, and the partnership continues with planned mass-production lines of 500,000 to 1 million units a year.

Saica Group has agreed to acquire a minority share of Pacapime, a Belgian corrugated cardboard company based in Halle with 109 employees and EUR 61 million revenue in 2022. The deal strengthens Saica's presence in the Benelux and France.

Hinojosa Packaging Group invested €36 million to convert its Alquería d'Asnar paper mill in Valencia into a circular economy reference site. The Generalitat president visited the plant on 29 June 2026.

Orora Beverage invested $110 million to expand beverage can manufacturing in Victoria, establishing a new aluminium can line at Dandenong and increasing capacity at Ballarat. The project creates up to 18 jobs.

Orora invested $110 million to expand can manufacturing at its Dandenong and Ballarat plants in Victoria, partly funded by a Victorian Government grant. The expansion creates 18 new jobs.

Stora Enso built a second corrugated packaging factory with two new corrugators at its existing De Lier site, doubling capacity. The investment was about €120m and the facility opened in June 2023.

Coastal Container, a packaging company in Holland, Michigan, invested in eProductivity Software CorrTrim and CorrTrac solutions to support a new corrugator and expansion adding 65,000 square feet of manufacturing space. The system is expected to go live in mid-2023.

Xano Industri completed its acquisition of Integrated Packaging Solutions, a Denver-based canning-industry packaging company with about $16 million turnover, for $21 million in cash, announced August 22, 2023.

TC Transcontinental Packaging announced a US$60 million investment in a new biaxially oriented polyethylene film line and a 120,000 sq. ft building expansion at its Spartanburg, South Carolina facility, with completion expected in fiscal 2024. Brückner was selected to supply the equipment.

Liaoning Tobacco Dandong Company awarded a 2023 packaging materials procurement to Xiangyang Baoli Ying Packaging Materials Co. for 1,137,819 yuan. The order covers sacking cloth, hemp rope and twine.

XANO signed an agreement, through a subsidiary, to acquire all shares in Integrated Packaging Solutions and its subsidiaries, based in Denver, Colorado. IPS supplies machine equipment and integration technology to metal can manufacturers.

India Security Press in Nashik awarded a contract worth 2,057,000 (currency not stated, assumed INR) for corrugated boxes measuring 470 x 270 x 210 mm to Rainbow Packaging Industries and Raghav Packaging LLP, both of Nashik. The award was dated 21 August 2023.

Saueressig is building a new company building at its site on Ottensteiner Straße in Vreden, Germany, investing €18 million and creating new jobs.

Max Fame Group opened its first UK base in Trafford, Greater Manchester, leasing a 21,500 sq ft logistics building at Carrington Gateway with an initial £1m capital investment expected to create 100 jobs within three years.

Smurfit Kappa announced the acquisition of Cartonajes Carrion, a Spanish packaging producer located in Alcolea, Cordoba, with a strong presence in high-quality retail packaging and printing. No financial details were published.

Amcor agreed to acquire Phoenix Flexibles, which operates one flexible packaging plant in Gujarat, India, to expand its capacity in India. The deal is expected to close in the September 2023 quarter.

Flexi-Hex launched a North America partnership under which Orora Packaging Solutions will stock its full product range, with a focus on demand from the US wine and surfing industries.

Berry Global is combining its M&H and PET Power businesses into a new Europe-wide operation called Berry Agile Solutions, offering short lead times and low minimum order quantities.

Graphic Packaging Holding has agreed to acquire Bell Incorporated, which has three packaging facilities in the Midwest consuming 95,000 tons of paperboard a year. The deal is expected to add about $200 million in sales and close in Q4 2023, subject to regulatory approvals.

Aluflexpack is investing EUR 70 million to expand and upgrade its plant in Croatia, according to a SeeNews report dated 7 August 2023. The article text is limited to the headline and metadata.

Private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice agreed to buy packaging firm Veritiv in a $2.3 billion deal that would take it private. CD&R will pay $170 per share in cash, a nearly 20% premium to the last close.

Protective packaging company Glenhaze, based in Bathgate, Scotland, was acquired by McLaren Packaging in September 2023, according to a company profile page.

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) collaborated with Petainer to develop a standardized 1L 'Universal refPET Bottle' for its refillable system in the German market. The design supports fill speeds of 36,000 bottles per hour.

UK packaging firm Frugalpac agreed to sell its Frugal Bottle Assembly Machine to California-based Monterey Wine Company, which will use it to make paper wine bottles on-site. It is Frugalpac's first US sale and its second machine sold overall.

Crown Holdings announced the acquisition of Helvetia Packaging AG's beverage can and end manufacturing facility in Saarlouis, Germany, adding about one billion units of annual can capacity. Completion is expected by the end of 2023, subject to German antitrust approval.

Corrugated Partners Group will invest $52.7 million to establish Keystone Sheets, creating at least 80 jobs in a 420,000-square-foot facility in Chambersburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania. The plant will produce single, double and triple wall corrugated sheets.

Mondi supplies Turkish flavour company Aromsa with TankerBox, a corrugated cardboard substitute for stainless-steel containers and IBCs, after a trial on Aromsa's production line. The article gives no contract value or exact date.

Autajon, a packaging and labelling company, completed its acquisition of packaging firms Simply Cartons and Simply Luxe on 2 August 2023. Financial terms were not disclosed.

TC Transcontinental Packaging will install a $60 million biaxially oriented PE (BOPE) film line supplied by Brückner at its Spartanburg, South Carolina plant, which expanded the site by 120,000 square feet, with commissioning planned for spring 2024.

American Packaging Corporation held the grand opening of its 275,000-square-foot Center of Excellence flexible packaging plant in Cedar City, Utah, a $100 million facility expected to create over 135 jobs.

LMI Packaging held a groundbreaking for a roughly 50,000-square-foot expansion at its Pleasant Prairie facility, mainly for internal warehouse space. The expansion is planned for completion by December 6.

One Rock Capital Partners agreed to acquire packaging manufacturer Constantia Flexibles from Wendel for net proceeds of around EUR 1.1 billion. Closing is expected in the second half of 2023, subject to regulatory approval.

Pact Group extended its crate pooling contract with Woolworths Group for a further 10 years, with Pact owning, operating, washing and storing reusable plastic produce crates. The contract generates annual revenue above $50 million.

DS Smith agreed to acquire Bosis doo, a Serbian maker of offset cardboard and blister packaging, via a share transaction expected to complete in the second half of its financial year. The deal strengthens its East Europe packaging business.

Depak Company Limited received approval to raise its investment in a packaging factory at Bim Son Industrial Park, Thanh Hoa, from VND85 billion to VND394.2 billion (about $14.74 million). The plant will make carton packaging and plastic wood products, with operations expected 37 months after land handover.

Carton Group, owned by Waterland, signed an agreement to acquire the operating business of Europoligrafico, an Italian packaging supplier with about EUR 60 million turnover and two Italian plants. Closing is expected in early autumn 2023.

Nexgen Packaging will invest in infrastructure, equipment and services to support ARISE IIP's textile and apparel facilities in Togo and Benin. The partnership was announced on 26 July 2023.