Statkraft and packaging maker ALPLA signed two long-term wind and solar power purchase agreements worth 76 GWh per year for 10 years, starting in 2024. The power comes from six solar parks in Bavaria and a wind farm in Schleswig-Holstein.

Hinojosa Packaging is investing about €30m to expand its Xàtiva plant in Spain, adding a 7,500 m2 warehouse in the first phase and a 15,000 m2 building in a second phase. Works are due to finish by September 2024.

Ambev plans a new sustainable container glass plant in Carambei, Parana, Brazil, with an investment of 870 million reais ($154m) using recycled glass. HORN Glass Industries is the contractor, and operations are expected from 2025.

India's Yash Pakka has announced it will set up its first international plant in Guatemala to make compostable sugarcane bagasse packaging and moulded fibre products. It has signed a memorandum of understanding with sugar mills to supply bagasse.

UAE-based packaging maker Hotpack has signed an agreement with Maxbyte to digitise its 15 factories in the UAE and other countries. The first wave will cover three plants, with the full transformation planned over three to five years.

TekniPlex Consumer Products plans a 200,000 sq ft specialty molded fiber manufacturing facility in Ohio, scheduled to start operations in early 2024. It is the company's eighth molded fiber facility and follows three recent acquisitions.

Silgan Dispensing announced the expansion of production of its MELODIE fragrance pump to its existing Wuxi facility in China to meet rising demand in the Chinese and Asia-Pacific markets. The announcement is dated May 8, 2023.

Amcor signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Moda Systems, a New Zealand manufacturer of automated vacuum protein packaging machines for meat, poultry and dairy. The deal adds equipment and services to Amcor's film portfolio. No value was disclosed.

Bobst Group acquired a 70% equity stake in Dücker Robotics s.r.l., an Italian maker of robots for loading and palletizing in the corrugated board sector. The deal closed on April 28, 2023, and the current management stays in place.

New-Indy reached an agreement with Georgia-Pacific to acquire Reliable Container, which has facilities in Santa Fe Springs, California and Tijuana, Mexico. The units will join New-Indy's Tripaq-Group converting operations on the West Coast.

TIPA Compostable Packaging acquired Bio4Pack, a European compostable packaging maker, on May 4, 2023. The deal adds paper packaging, trays and nets to TIPA's range and brings sales staff and warehousing in the Netherlands and Germany.

Ardagh Glass Packaging North America signed a supply agreement to continue manufacturing all of Sprecher Brewing Company's glass beer and beverage bottles, including a redesigned custom 16oz bottle made at its Burlington, Wisconsin facility.

P. Wilkinson Containers and William Say are supplying three separate commissions of Coronation tins for The Royal Collection, Waitrose and Daylesford. The Royal Collection and Waitrose orders integrate with existing ranges.

A cooperative in India issued a multi-state tender to procure packaging materials, dairy equipment, chemicals and other supplies for milk and milk products. Suppliers with in-house production are invited to register and submit bids.

Food and drinks packaging supplier Max Fame Paper Products agreed a new 10-year lease on a 21,500 sq ft logistics building at Carrington Gateway in Greater Manchester. The site will serve as a centrally located base to nearshore services for UK clients.

Cascades began production at its converted Bear Island, Virginia mill, which has annual capacity of 465,000 short tons of 100% recycled containerboard and 180 permanent jobs.

RDM Group signed an agreement to acquire Fiskeby, a Swedish producer of recycled packaging board from 100% recovered fiber, with a mill capacity of 170,000 tonnes per year; closing is expected by Q3 subject to antitrust clearance.

SIG is making a €60 million investment in constructing an aseptic carton plant in India, expected to reach a yearly production capacity of 4 billion packs.

Macfarlane Group acquired 100% of A & G Holdings, owner of Gottlieb Packaging Materials, a Manchester-based protective packaging distributor, for a maximum cash consideration of £3.55 million including an earn-out.

MHI received a significant order from Brazil-based Klabin for five casemaker machines for its new corrugated board plant in Piracicaba, São Paulo, with two lines due for delivery before the facility opens in late 2023.

Private equity firm Kent Road Capital completed the acquisition of a majority stake in CuBE Packaging Solutions, a reusable packaging solutions provider. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Novvia Group acquired Northern Container, a stocking distributor of industrial rigid containers based in Alsip, Illinois, in May 2023. Terms were not disclosed.

Rand-Whitney held a ribbon-cutting for its new 384,000 square foot corrugated packaging facility in Boylston, Massachusetts, costing $120 million. The plant has a BHS corrugator and can produce 300 million boxes annually.

Smurfit Kappa has completed a €40 million investment at its Pruszków corrugated plant in Poland, adding a high-tech corrugator and a new warehouse for 12,000 pallets. The expansion makes it the company's largest plant in Poland and adds 50 jobs.

Alongside the Esterpet deal, Biffa Polymers made a minority investment in its sister company Esterform, a manufacturer of PET preforms. The stake size and value were not disclosed.

Biffa Polymers announced the acquisition of Esterpet Ltd, a PET plastic recycler with a facility near Leeds that converts 25,000 tonnes of plastic flakes a year into pellets. The deal extends Biffa's recycled PET capability.

Progroup held the topping out ceremony for its new corrugated sheetfeeder plant at Petersberg/Höheischweiler, Germany, with production scheduled to start in the first half of 2024. The company is investing more than EUR 90 million, and the plant will supply board sheets directly to neighbour G&G Preißer.

Jiugang Group's Ziyuan Wine company awarded Lanzhou Fangzheng Packaging a centralized procurement contract for corrugated cardboard boxes and paper bags for April 2023. The total awarded value was RMB 1,491,100.

SIG Combibloc inaugurated its first Mexican plant in the Aerotech industrial park in Querétaro, built with a €73 million investment. The plant will initially produce up to 500 million containers per year and create 200 jobs, rising to 1,200 million containers by 2024.

Spanish carton maker Hinojosa Packaging entered exclusive negotiations to acquire a 49% stake in French corrugated packaging maker ASV Packaging, which has 210 employees and 64 million euros in revenue. The deal would also give the two groups joint control of Halopack tray production in Iberia and France.

B2B Industrial Packaging, a GenNx360 company, announced the acquisition of Millennium Packaging Inc., a South Elgin, Illinois provider of shrink film, stretch film, packaging equipment and corner board. It is B2B Industrial Packaging's 29th acquisition.

Alto Partners S.G.R. acquired a majority stake of about 71% in Lario Plast S.r.l., a maker of HDPE and PET bottles, through its Alto Capital V private equity fund. Proactiva Strategy M&A advised Lario Plast on the deal.

German packaging producer August Faller plans to add a new folding carton plant in Horsens, Denmark, investing between EUR 10 million and EUR 15 million. The plant will expand its folding carton production in Denmark.

Rengo subsidiary TRICOR Packaging & Logistics will build a new automated corrugated board plant in Goch, North Rhine-Westphalia, with a total investment of about EUR 170 million. Completion is targeted for July 2025.

Belgian bottle maker Resilux plans to expand its Bucharest PET preforms factory by about 30% under a EUR 3 million investment, including a new rPET pellets production line, according to sources cited by Profit.ro.

SCG Packaging's board approved buying a 70% stake in Starprint Vietnam JSC, an offset folding carton maker in Dong Nai, Vietnam, for up to 1,050 billion dong (about 1.5 billion baht). Flexible packaging maker Starflex will take 25% of the vehicle after the deal, which is expected to close in Q3 2023.

SIG has started operations at a new aseptic carton packaging plant in Querétaro, Mexico, with a total investment of 73 million euros. The plant creates more than 200 jobs and will serve North American markets.

Canadian packaging firm Kruger has opened its first US corrugated plant in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, a $142 million facility with high automation. It is expected to employ 150 people and produce 2.4 billion sq ft of recycled corrugated boxes a year when fully operational.

Constantia Flexibles has acquired Lászlópack Kft, a Hungarian flexible packaging manufacturer specialising in flexographic printing, with a plant in Komarom. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Romanian beverage producer Alconor is installing SMI machinery, including rotary stretch-blow moulders for PET/rPET bottles, secondary and tertiary packaging plants and conveyor lines, at its Romanian plants.

German packaging company Packners has ordered a Bobst Masterline DRO flexo printing and rotary die-cutting line, plus further machines, for its new Emsbüren factory in north-west Germany. The line is Bobst's 600th rotary die cutter installed worldwide.

Macfarlane Packaging unveiled a £1.3m packaging innovation lab at its North West Regional Distribution Centre in Heywood, Greater Manchester, built by MC Construction. The 5,000 sq ft facility includes design, digital print and testing equipment and a packaging automation showroom.

PulPac signed a partnership making HZ Green Pulp its first licensee in Malaysia for dry molded fiber technology. HZ Green Pulp, based in Perak, plans a fast market launch of molded pulp products such as lids, food trays and cutlery.

Plastopil's wholly owned subsidiary completed the purchase of Polishak, a MOPE film maker for flexible packaging based at Nir Yitzhak, for about NIS 22 million plus about NIS 9 million of acquired inventory. Polishak exports about 98% of output mainly to Europe and the US.

Sofidel has entered into an agreement with Hakle GmbH to acquire the Hakle trademark and other consumer brands such as Dick&Durstig and Servus, with IP rights and domains. Hakle GmbH will keep producing at its Düsseldorf-Reisholz site under a new name; the deal takes effect after regulatory authorization.

Pleasant Prairie approved site and operational plans for a roughly 50,000-square-foot addition to LMI Packaging's facility. LMI plans to start construction in May 2023 and finish in November, and expects employment to rise to 200 or 300 full-time.

Cullen Packaging plans a £15m expansion at its Glasgow facility, adding production lines and an innovation hub and creating more than 100 jobs. The expansion is due to start within months of the April 2023 announcement.

Polaris has acquired a majority stake in Sealing System, a supplier of intralogistics and automated packaging and palletising lines. The article is dated 17 April 2023 and gives no deal value.

Consumer health companies Sanofi and Haleon joined the Bottle Collective, an initiative led by PA Consulting and PulPac to industrialise dry moulded fibre bottles. They will support a feasibility study and co-development of cellulose-based packaging.

TPC Printing & Packaging plans a $21 million expansion in East Ridge, Tennessee, adding a 60,000 square foot building connected to its existing plant and more than 90 new jobs. The building is expected to be operational in October 2023.