SIG has announced the construction of a 10.25 MWp solar installation at its production site in Linnich, Germany. The announcement is dated 3 January 2023.

China Resources Sanjiu (Tangshan) Pharmaceutical awarded its 2023 carton procurement tender, with Baoding Rongda Packaging receiving a 70% share and Hezhong Chuangya Bohai (Tianjin) Packaging 30%. The result was published on 2 January 2023.

EFP, a J. B. Poindexter subsidiary, has opened its first South Carolina plant in Bishopville, Lee County, a 117,000 sq ft facility for custom protective packaging and cold chain solutions. The $15 million investment was first announced in January 2023 and the company has hired 30 employees toward a planned 50.

Mondi installed a 3.35m BHS Corrugated Width Line at its Mszczonów plant near Warsaw, following a factory extension, lifting planned output to over 320m sqm per year. The extension and new corrugator were implemented in 2023.

Saica Pack opened a new flagship corrugated packaging facility in Livingston, Scotland during 2023, with a total investment of over £50 million. The project began in 2020 and was delayed by COVID.

Sealed Air, which is rebranding as SEE, completed its $1.15 billion purchase of Liquibox, a maker of bag-in-box fluids and liquids packaging, during the first quarter of 2023.

Stora Enso completed its acquisition of Netherlands-based corrugated packaging producer De Jong Packaging Group, with an enterprise value of about EUR 1,020 million. The deal adds roughly 1,200 million m2 of corrugated packaging capacity to Stora Enso.

Trioworld Group signed an agreement to acquire Malpack Ltd. (Canada) and Malpack Corp. (US), a North American maker of high-performance stretch film for transit packaging. The announcement was made on 30 December 2022.

Prinzhorn Group made a strategic investment in Scatolificio La Veggia, an Italian packaging company, marking its entry into the Italian market. The article is an advisory firm's page, and the deal value and closing terms are not stated.

Pusterla 1880 is merging with Burt Rigid Box, a rigid box maker in Oneonta, New York, founded in 1886, as its first US site. Burt's president Laura Brodie becomes the first non-family shareholder in Pusterla and heads its North American operations.

Paperboard maker Holmen Iggesund entered a long-term agreement with dry-forming technology firm Yangi to develop renewable packaging to replace rigid plastics in beauty and cosmetics. Holmen Iggesund will supply fiber-based material while Yangi contributes its dry-forming technology.

Amcor's Australia and New Zealand business signed a memorandum of understanding with Licella Holdings to invest in a plastic advanced recycling facility in Melbourne. Stage one is expected to process 20,000 tonnes per year of waste plastic using Licella's Cat-HTR technology, subject to final terms.

Stirling Square Capital Partners signed a contract with Wise Equity to acquire 100% of Tapì, an Italian maker of premium beverage closures. The deal is expected to close in early 2023. No price was disclosed.

Nottingham-based packaging firm Wilkins Group unveiled a multi-million pound 50,000 sq ft extension to its Colwick factory, built by Lindum Group. The extension is expected to add investment in new machines and increase turnover.

Private equity firm Stirling Square completed its acquisition of Tapi, a beverage packaging closures group, from Wise Equity for €300m. The announcement was dated 20 December 2022 and the deal was completed in February 2023.

Packaging maker Caps Cases placed an order for a JS Printer 924 five-colour open and close casemaker, to boost high-quality print capacity at its Newmarket site in Scotland. The machine follows a flexo printer and digital printer installed in 2021 and 2022.

Mondi has started production at a €16 million greenfield paper bag plant in Tangier, Morocco, capable of 100 million bags per year, bringing its West Africa paper bag capacity above 500 million bags annually.

France's Alliance Etiquettes purchased Italian label printer Tonutti Tecniche Grafiche, extending its reach into wine and Prosecco production regions in northern Italy, its tenth acquisition since 2015.

Luxury packaging specialist GPA Global acquired family-owned rigid box manufacturer Jenco Productions, extending its North American footprint and adding a presence in Mexico.

Guangxi China Tobacco Industry Co. published a winning-bidder shortlist for its 2022-2025 packaging paper procurement, with Guangxi Zhenlong Color Printing Packaging Co. as first candidate at a total bid of about 165.6 million yuan excluding tax.

Nelipak Healthcare Packaging will initially invest at least $11.8 million to establish a flexible healthcare packaging production site in Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, creating at least 36 jobs.

Private equity group Five V Capital has agreed terms to acquire a 30% stake in Australian packaging brand BioPak, valuing the company at about $275 million.

Encirc's glassworks in Elton, Cheshire, UK will begin glass production in 2027 in a hybrid hydrogen-powered furnace, aiming to produce 200 million net zero spirits bottles for Diageo brands.

Encirc, a Vidrala company, and Diageo announced a hydrogen-powered hybrid glass furnace at Encirc's Elton plant in Cheshire, to be fully operational by 2027. It aims to produce up to 200 million net zero bottles annually by 2030.

TCP Group and Crown Holdings formed a joint venture, Crown TCP, investing 1,500 million baht in an aluminum can factory in Nong Khae Industrial Estate, Saraburi Province. The plant will produce over 820 million cans per year for Red Bull exports.

Politie Nederland awarded De Ridder BV a EUR 4,000,000 open-tender contract to supply packaging materials for police logistics. The award was published on 2022-12-13.

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners unveiled a $43.7 million upgrade of its Moorabbin canning facility, allowing 11 million more cases for the Victorian market. KHS supplied processing and packaging lines as project lead.

Universal Carton Industries is investing US$15 million (AED 55 million) to expand its corrugated box production in Ras Al Khaimah Economic Zone, tripling capacity to 100,000 tons per year, with completion scheduled for 2023.

Gatner Packaging, formerly Janmar Centrum, is close to commissioning its corrugated packaging plant in Stryków, Poland, and will start production in December 2022.

Ardagh Glass Packaging South Africa, formerly Consol Glass, is expanding its Nigel plant east of Johannesburg with two additional furnaces, a R3bn investment that will add about 30% capacity and create 300 jobs.

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners opened a A$43.7 million, highly automated canning line at its Moorabbin production site, built with KHS, GPI and Matthews Australasia, to serve Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia.

Axium Packaging is investing $45 million to construct a new facility called Vertix in New Albany, Ohio, which will also house a new product line for recycled plastic packaging.

Russian group Arnest, the new owner of former Ball Corporation assets, will resume building an aluminium beverage can plant in the Zavolzhye industrial zone of Ulyanovsk Oblast. Total investment will exceed 10 billion rubles, with completion planned by end of 2023 and up to 200 jobs.

Crown Bevcan is building a 625,000 square foot aluminium beverage can factory on the former Mars Petcare site in Woodston, Peterborough, with more than £150 million invested. The factory is expected to be operational by the end of 2023 and will create 280 vacancies.

UFP Packaging, an affiliate of UFP Industries, acquired Titan Corrugated, a corrugated packaging manufacturer, and its affiliate All Boxed Up, a corrugated box distributor. The combined companies had trailing 12-month sales of about $46.5 million, and Titan operates an automated facility in Flower Mound, Texas.

Prinzhorn Group has made a proposal to acquire corrugated packaging plant Scatolificio La Veggia S.p.A. in Roteglia, Italy, which is undergoing restructuring under Italian law. The final takeover is expected in 2023 after court approval; financial terms were not disclosed.

Saica Group has begun operations at a new plant in Hamilton, Ohio, producing corrugated board and packaging. It is the company's first manufacturing site in the US and its tenth country of operation.

Sonoco plans a new protective packaging facility in Bursa, Turkey, to produce Sonopost cornerposts, with production expected to start in the fourth quarter of 2022. It is the company's second Sonopost plant in Europe after one in Sochaczew, Poland.

L-PACK Kashira LLC plans to build a factory worth 2 billion rubles in Kashira, Moscow Region, to make corrugated cardboard and secondary corrugated packaging for milk and juices, with commissioning scheduled for 2024.

WestRock completed its acquisition of the remaining interest in Grupo Gondi for $970 million plus assumed debt. The Mexican business includes four paper mills, nine corrugated packaging plants and six high graphic plants.

Riverstone Credit Partners provided Katy, Texas-based sustainable packaging provider Hoover CS a $160 million senior term loan. The financing gives Hoover CS additional liquidity to execute its growth strategy.

Akers Packaging Service Group acquired SCI Box, a family-owned corrugated packaging business of Mount Vernon, Illinois, founded in 1976. The deal supports Akers' Midwest expansion strategy and adds the Mount Vernon facility.

aXpel s+r AG and aXpel one for all AG began operating together under the aXpel one for all AG name on December 1, 2022, with a broader range of paper and PE sacks. The certified production site in Burgdorf, Switzerland will remain and be expanded.

Dutch can coatings company Diostyl Holding B.V. announced that Mexican firm Grupo Sayer S.A. de C.V. intends to invest in and acquire 50% of Diostyl Holding BV. The deal was reported on January 4, 2023.

SCG Packaging acquired flexible packaging assets from Cyberprint Group in Thailand through its subsidiary Prepack for Baht 450 million, raising its Thai flexible packaging capacity by 12%. The assets are being integrated at Sinsakhon Industrial Estate, Samut Sakhon.

Novvia Group, a packaging distributor backed by Kelso & Company, acquired Innovative Container, a La Mirada, California distributor of plastic, metal, glass and corrugated containers. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Huhtamaki inaugurated a 12,500 m2 extension to its Nules, Spain factory for paper-based packaging, a EUR 20 million investment with a EUR 2.2 million regional grant, doubling site capacity and creating around 130 jobs; production starts January 2023.

All4Labels Global Packaging Group signed an agreement to acquire Romprix Exim, a Romanian manufacturer of self-adhesive labels, making it a 100% subsidiary. The transaction is subject to closing conditions including regulatory approval, and terms were not disclosed. Both production sites are near Bucharest.

British Euro Packaging Group (EP Group) reportedly will invest nearly €47 million in a new plant at the Port of Marseille Fos, France, to produce paper bags and packaging.

CANPACK FPN Brzesko opened new production lines for aluminium beverage can ends, raising capacity to over 12 billion units a year, in a USD 50 million brownfield investment expected to create 50 direct jobs.