India Security Press Nashik, a unit of Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India, awarded a contract to Raghav Packaging LLP of Nashik to supply OPP corrugated boxes of 470 x 270 x 260 mm. The contract value was INR 4,349,999.97 and the award date was 11 September 2023.

Klabin has started up the PM 28 board machine supplied by Valmet as phase 2 of its Puma II project in Ortigueira, Brazil. The line, with a related fiber line and automation, targets 460,000 tons of coated board annually. The start-up occurred on May 9, 2023 and was reported on June 21, 2023.

Irish investment group Packaging Holdings has merged with Grafham Holdings, a UK maker and distributor of food packaging and DayMark printed labels with turnover of about GBP 30 million and around 120 employees. Grafham operates sites in Birmingham, Kent, Cheshire and Nottinghamshire. The deal was announced on 21 June 2023 and the price was not disclosed.

Zeus Group has acquired James Hamilton Group, a Northern Irish print and packaging business with annual sales of EUR 18 million and over 120 employees. The deal supports Zeus Group's 2023 growth strategy targeting group revenues above EUR 500 million.

La Doria has added a third SIG Safe 12 Food Retort filling line at its Sarno plant in Italy to fill canned food products in SIG SafeBloc carton packs. The article gives no investment amount.

Allpack and Eastpac Group announced a merger under the Allpack name, combining their packaging product ranges, production and warehouse capacity and distribution networks. The article does not give a deal value.

Stora Enso opened a new corrugated packaging factory at its De Lier site in the Netherlands, adding a second factory with two new corrugators. The site is now the largest and most modern corrugated packaging facility in Europe.

Chinese company Yuanshun Enterprise will invest US$9.49 million to set up a packaging plant in Mongla Export Processing Zone, Bangladesh, producing 10 million boxes a year and employing 490 people. The agreement was signed with BEPZA.

Flex Accipto, a UFlex Group subsidiary, signed a $120 million deal with Orascom Industrial Parks to expand its packaging plant on a 150,000 square metre area in Sokhna within the Suez Canal Economic Zone. The signing was witnessed by the SCZONE chairman on 20 June 2023.

PAPACKS opened its Gigafactory 2 in Arnstadt, Thuringia, more than doubling its production area with a completed extension. The company invested almost 30 million euros with state support of around 6 million euros.

thyssenkrupp Rasselstein will supply up to 3,000 tonnes of CO2-reduced bluemint packaging steel in 2023 to metal packaging maker Muhr & Söhne, which will use it for Sika Deutschland's tinplate pails.

Sarantis Group completed on June 14, 2023 the acquisition of the 20% minority stake in Poland-based packaging maker Polipak sp. z o.o. for 22 million PLN via its subsidiary Sarantis Polska, giving it full ownership.

Thimm Group has commissioned a CorruCUT rotary die-cutter from Koenig & Bauer at its Wolnzach site in Bavaria, investing about €5.5 million to add at least 30 million square metres of annual capacity.

Tomypak Holdings Bhd, via its subsidiary Tomypak Flexible Packaging, proposed to acquire a 70% equity interest in flexible plastic packaging firm EB Packaging Sdn Bhd for RM73.5 million, with completion expected in Q4 2023.

Saudi Arabia-based United Carton Industries Co (UCIC) has completed the acquisition of Gulf Paper Manufacturing Co, whose Dubai mill produces fluting, testliner and tissue paper.

Ball Corporation has started production of recyclable aluminium beverage cans at a new plant in Plzeň, Czech Republic, with an investment of over CZK 4 billion; it currently employs 150 and plans to reach 200.

Frugalpac begins supplying vodka and gin in its paper Frugal Bottle to Australia and New Zealand after Free Trade Agreements with the UK took effect. Two local brands and two contract bottlers have adopted it, and an Australian packaging group intends to buy the assembly machine.

Sydney private-equity firm Adamantem is understood to be in talks to acquire PAC Trading, a western Sydney wholesale food packaging supplier. The report is unconfirmed and no value was given.

Constantia Flexibles has completed its acquisition of Drukpol Flexo, a Polish flexible packaging company known for printing and converting for food and HPC markets. The deal strengthens its European flexo printing platform. Deal value was not stated.

PM Corporate Group acquired AMP Printing + Graphics, strengthening its high-graphic packaging manufacturing in Sacramento, Tijuana and China. The combined business will operate as PM Packaging with about 1,500 employees across six units.

Anfra Oy signed contracts with Stora Enso for cast-in-place and element construction works for the conversion of a former paper machine at Stora Enso's Oulu mill into a consumer packaging board line, a billion-euro investment creating 300 jobs.

Plastilene Group opened its Sustainable Food Packaging Innovation Center at the Rocktenn building in Washington Court House, Ohio, its first US facility, on Wednesday June 7, 2023. The $47 million facility is expected to create 58 new jobs.

Rondo Ganahl AG invested 36 million euros in its St. Ruprecht site in Styria, Austria, opening a new corrugated packaging print centre built around a Koenig & Bauer Rapida 164 press.

PakTech, maker of recycled secondary packaging, announced a partnership with Visy and a contract manufacturing facility in Victoria, Australia, with capacity for 100 million units a year.

National Bank Private Investment acquired a stake in Induspac Group, a Canadian designer and manufacturer of customized industrial packaging. The stake size and deal value were not reported.

Cullen Eco-Friendly Packaging completed a £4.2 million extension of its Glasgow plant in Kelvindale to add energy-efficient machinery, creating 34 new jobs. The extension was officially opened in June 2023.

SB Packagings and Constantia Flexibles have finalised their joint venture after CCI approval, under which SB Packagings acquires C-Flex India entities (Creative Polypack, Aparna Paper, Vibgyor, Parikh Flexibles) in a share swap, with Premji Invest as shareholder.

Atlantic Packaging Products commissioned a six-colour Delta SPC 130 digital printing press, made in Austria by Koenig & Bauer Durst, at its Tiffield Road retail packaging facility in Toronto in June 2023.

Orora Beverage completed construction of an AUD 80 million multi-size can line at its Dandenong, Victoria facility in June 2023, increasing production capacity by around 10 per cent.

Pratt Industries opened its $253 million advanced corrugated box factory in Cedar Hill, Texas, on June 27, 2023. At capacity the 1.1 million square foot plant will employ 375 people.

Constantia Flexibles and SB Packagings have finalised a joint venture, SB-Constantia Flexibles, to make sustainable food and hygiene packaging in India and South Asia, with investment from Premji Invest after Competition Commission of India approval. The JV operates nine plants.

Grupo Envases intends to acquire Domiberia, a Spanish maker of metal packaging for food and industrial products with operations in Spain and the Netherlands, from Everest Holdings/La Familia Domínguez in a cash deal. Closing is subject to competition approval and expected in Q3 2023.

Wellpappe Alzenau, part of Papierfabrik Palm, has begun ground surveys for a new corrugated board plant in the Alzenau-Nord industrial area, the first step of a project that also upgrades the existing city-centre site. The plant will consolidate the 250 employees of its Alzenau and Hasselroth-Gondsroth operations at one site.

Premier Packaging, a unit of DSS, Inc., signed a three-year contract extension with an existing retail client worth a minimum of $12 million, with a fourth-year option bringing potential revenue to over $15 million.

Stora Enso laid the foundation stone on 30 May 2023 for a new high-volume consumer board line in Oulu, Finland, with capacity up to 750,000 tonnes of renewable packaging materials, due in 2025.

Smurfit Kappa's Corrugados de Baja California subsidiary started operations at a new $11 million plant in Baja California, Mexico, which expanded its industrial building and added machinery to raise production capacity. The company is the main corrugated cardboard box manufacturer in the state.

ALPLA Group acquired the iTEC Packaging (Mansfield) business, a producer of closures mainly for dairy, in the UK. The takeover was contractually agreed on 26 May 2023 and the staff will be taken over in full. Terms were not disclosed.

Perint, a plastic packaging manufacturer, is building a new 15,000 square meter production and warehouse building on a three-hectare plot in the Sorzha-Staraya industrial zone, Vsevolozhsky district, Leningrad Region. The one billion ruble investment is expected to take about two years and will raise output from 4.5 to 6.5 million units per day.

Mondi plc completed the acquisition of the Western Europe packaging assets of Schumacher Packaging, adding corrugated converting and solid board operations in Germany, Benelux and the UK. The acquired plants include two mega box plants at Ebersdorf and Greven in Germany, and the deal adds over 1 billion square meters of capacity.

Coral Products subsidiary Tatra Rotalac signed an exclusive three-year agreement with a leading UK distributor of BRC packaging containers to supply ice cream and food containers, expected to generate £1.5-2.0 million in sales per year. The announcement was made on 20 March 2025 in Wythenshawe, Manchester.

Norfund and AFIG Funds announced the joint acquisition of Nouvelle Mici Embaci, a subsidiary of Carré d'Or Group and a leading packaging maker in Côte d'Ivoire, to modernise operations and expand regionally. Acquisition financing was provided by Bridge Bank and Mauritius Commercial Bank.

Amcor Rigid Packaging's Cali plant in Colombia is now powered entirely by renewable energy through a supply deal with Celsia, which built a dedicated nearby solar plant and supplies hydroelectric power, cutting annual emissions by 7,388 tonnes of CO2.

The Saica Group confirmed an investment of more than €100 million in a new Saica Pack corrugated packaging factory in Sant Esteve Sesrovires, Barcelona, which will consolidate its El Prat and Barcelona plants, with installation of the first machines expected by end-2024.

UN1F1ED² Global Packaging, a Kraft-owned company, has a roughly 300,000-square-foot building adjacent to the Rand-Whitney plant in Boylston, which it intends to use for storage. It makes foam, air pack and wood packaging components.

Rand-Whitney Container, owned by The Kraft Group, opened a 384,000-square-foot corrugated box plant in Boylston, Massachusetts, backed by a $125 million investment. The plant can make up to 300 million boxes a year.

Braintree District Council awarded Paramount Packaging (UK) Ltd a one-year supply contract of up to 5 million pink recycling sacks worth £122,500 on 22 May 2023.

good natured Products signed a two-year contract to supply GoodGuard tamper-evident Bio-PET packaging to a regional US snack food producer, produced at its Houston, Texas facility. Revenue of about USD 1.2 million is expected in the first year, with first shipment in Q3 2023.

Gelpac, a Canadian packaging manufacturer, announced the acquisition of Standard Multiwall Bag Mfg. Co., a maker of industrial and food-grade multiwall bags with plants in Beaverton, Oregon and Lubbock, Texas. The deal was financed by CDPQ, W Investments and a bank syndicate led by National Bank of Canada.

Omni-Pac opened a new 60,000 sq ft packaging site in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, after more than GBP 3 million of investment. The company plans to create 100 more jobs and double turnover over three to five years.

Compack Cartons officially opened a new GBP 13.5 million packaging operation in Livingston, Scotland, following an investment by McLaren Packaging. The investment creates 26 jobs and safeguards 59 existing jobs.