Axium Packaging has opened a 227,000-square-foot manufacturing plant in Brampton, Ontario, its third Ontario location, using more than 45 blow molding and injection molding lines.

Rajshree Polypack has won a repeat domestic contract worth about ₹1.62 crore to supply plastic rigid sheets to a major packaging manufacturer listed on an Indian stock exchange.

PolyFlex Products, part of Sweden's Nefab Group, will invest $8.3 million to open a new manufacturing facility in McMinnville, Warren County, Tennessee, creating 58 jobs. The plant will add material extrusion and reuse of end-of-life industrial packaging.

Bulk container maker WERiT opened its expanded Irlam site after an £8m investment adding a 3,000 m2 warehouse, office complex and blow-moulding machinery. The investment created nine jobs, with more recruitment planned.

Shell Polymers agreed to supply polyethylene made from chemically recycled feedstock, produced at its Monaca, Pennsylvania plant, to specialty film producer Charter Next Generation for flexible packaging.

Bangladesh's Ministry of Industries directed state-owned BCIC to buy 50% of its woven polypropylene and polyethylene bag requirement from Miracle Industries, up from 20%. Miracle has not yet made an official disclosure.

Time Technoplast signed an MoU to acquire a 74% equity stake in Ebullient Packaging, a FIBC and packaging maker, at an enterprise value of about ₹200 crore. Completion is expected in 4 to 6 months, subject to due diligence.

Hunan China Tobacco Industrial published winning-candidate results for its 2026-2027 cigarette plastic bag procurement and service tender worth RMB 6,010,515.20. Tongcheng Sunshine Plastic Industry is the first-ranked candidate with a bid of RMB 5,200,580, with Nanxiong Jinye and Anhui Guoding Packaging as the other candidates.

ProAmpac has signed a definitive agreement to acquire flexible packaging provider PAC Worldwide, headquartered in Redmond, WA. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Resilux Ibérica Packaging is expanding its PET preform and packaging plant in Higuera la Real, adding capacity, storage and multilayer preform products with an investment above EUR 28 million. The works began in 2022 and completion is expected in 2025, creating 35 permanent jobs.

Westlake Corporation agreed to acquire the global compounding solutions businesses of Portugal-based ACI/Perplastic Group, a maker of PVC, polyolefin, silicone and thermoplastic rubber compounds with four plants, with closing expected in early 2026.

Canadian plastic packaging producer E. Hofmann Plastics has broken ground on a $43 million production facility in Madisonville, Kentucky, its first US operation. The plant is expected to create 164 jobs and be completed in 2026.

Berlin Packaging agreed to purchase Origin Materials' sustainable PET 1881 bottlecaps for sale and distribution to its beverage customers. The agreement was announced August 5, 2025.

Tiderock Companies' subsidiary Tiderock Distribution Ltd. signed a multi-year exclusive distribution agreement with NextGen Bioplastics to sell its bioplastic packaging in the EU, Great Britain and Ireland.

thyssenkrupp Uhde's subsidiary Uhde Inventa-Fischer signed a Letter of Intent with KÖKSAN to deliver two PET resin plants, one in Gaziantep, Türkiye and one in Babylon, Iraq with Al Mutahida Packaging, each with 324,000 tons per year capacity. Completion is planned for 2027 and 2028.

ACON Investments agreed to sell its controlling interest in Colombian packaging company Amfora Packaging S.A.S. to Albéa Group. Terms were not disclosed.

Schütz Container Systems will expand its St. Joseph, Missouri site with a new building and a new manufacturing line for industrial packaging, investing $31 million and creating 20 jobs. The announcement was made on 31 July 2025.

Origin Materials and Dutch packaging producer Royal Hordijk Packaging announced a partnership in which Hordijk will supply PET extruded sheet for Origin's CapFormer lines, operated by Hordijk at its EU facilities, to mass produce PET bottlecaps.

NovoPacks, based in Bulgaria, obtained exclusive European distribution rights for FIBC big bags and woven polypropylene products made by Uzbekistan's Sirdaryo Mega Luks. The multi-year agreement covers about 2 million FIBC bulk bags monthly.

Rajshree Polypack Limited has won a repeat international order worth USD 0.40 million from a USA-based food packaging distributor for custom injection-moulded products, to be fulfilled by August 2025.

Canada-based E. Hofmann plans its first U.S. facility in Madisonville, Kentucky, with a $43 million investment in a 100,000-square-foot building and equipment. Construction is slated for completion next year, and the project commits to 164 jobs.

Navitas Capital and Dijkstra Plastics reached an agreement under which Navitas will acquire a majority stake in the Dutch maker of plastic packaging buckets. The deal was announced on 15 July 2025 from Haaksbergen/Alphen aan den Rijn.

Russian plastic packaging maker Ai-Plast signed an agreement with the Rostov region government to expand production of plastic containers for cottage cheese at its Azov plant. Total investment exceeds 400 million rubles and about 20 new jobs are planned.

BEWI completed the combination of its raw material business BEWI RAW with Dutch company Unipol, owned by The Rock Capital Group. The total value is up to EUR 75 million, with EUR 30 million settled on completion. The announcement is dated 10 July 2025.

Stonepeak agreed to acquire an approximately 50% co-controlling stake in IFCO Group, a reusable plastic container provider, from a subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. Triton remains a partner with equal governance. The announcement is dated 9 July 2025.

Nefab Group has acquired Plasticos Flome, a Valencia-based specialist in sustainable thermoforming and injection molding. The deal was announced on 9 July 2025 and the amount was not disclosed.

ZÁLESÍ a.s. is investing almost CZK 90 million in a new high-speed automated laminate tube line using Swiss SAESA 240 technology in Luhačovice, raising plant capacity by 45%. Serial production is planned for January 2026.

Rajshree Polypack announced a new order worth Rs 2.58 crore to supply plastic rigid sheets to a listed packaging manufacturer, to be executed by August 2025.

IPL and Schoeller Allibert completed their previously announced merger, creating IPL Schoeller, a sustainable packaging provider with 26 manufacturing locations in North America, Continental Europe and the UK. Proforma 2024 revenue is over US$1.4 billion with more than 4,000 employees.

CS Interpharm General Trading signed an MOU and NDA with UAE-based Gulf Center Group, which will provide custom bottle design, filling and production for the MEDUSA product line. The announcement was made on July 1, 2025.

Capardoni introduced a mono-material PP dropper, a tamper-proof flip-top cap, a new glass bottle called Chico, and the Ruby Stick mono-material PP stick. The products are aimed at cosmetics and skincare packaging.

ExxonMobil introduced its ExxonMobil Signature Polymers portfolio brand, uniting its polyolefin products.

Sulapac partnered with Scanfill to make Degrafoil Flow 1.7, a wood-composite foil, available to thermoformers across Europe.

Canadian plastics packaging producer E. Hofmann Packaging plans a 100,000-square-foot production facility in Madisonville, Hopkins County, Kentucky, with a $43 million investment that will create 164 jobs. Construction is expected to start in 2025 and finish in 2026.

ALPLA Group agreed to acquire Germany-based KM Packaging to strengthen its ALPLAinject division, with completion subject to competition approval; financial terms were not disclosed.

Avantium signed a multi-year capacity reservation agreement with Dutch packaging producer Hordijk, securing future PEF polymer volumes from licensed industrial-scale plants.

Avantium signed a multi-year capacity reservation agreement with Dutch packaging producer Hordijk, securing PEF polymer volumes from future licensed plants for trays and injection-molded packaging.

The European Commission cleared under the EU Merger Regulation the acquisition of sole control of the Schoeller Group by US firm Madison Dearborn Partners; closing is expected in Q3 2025.

Les Industries Gould will manufacture Canadian Tire's private-label garbage bags for at least four years, producing them at its Anjou plant in Montreal and hiring at least 10 new workers.

Turkish company UR-SA signed an investment contract with Egypt's SCZone to build a 35,000 square meter industrial textiles and plastic packaging plant in Qantara West, with $20 million investment and 1,000 expected jobs.

Hon Chuan signed a long-term on-site contract at a Guangdong plant for a European major, with annual capacity of 600 million preforms.

Hon Chuan secured a whole-set supply contract for bottle bodies, labels and caps for Taiwan Tobacco & Liquor's 10-year rice wine PET bottle, starting next year.

Hon Chuan held a topping-out ceremony for the third phase of its aseptic beverage plant in the Taichung Free Trade Port, costing NT$1.92 billion, with completion expected in Q4 2025 and commercial operation in Q2 2026. Total investment in the zone is set to reach NT$8 billion.

Rajshree Polypack Ltd won a INR 31.7 million order from a domestic FMCG conglomerate for recyclable polypropylene tubs for a dairy-dessert line, to be served from its Unit-IV plant in Daman, with first deliveries scheduled for August.

Anima Infinita Flex Novgorod, part of the NEOPOLIS holding, will build a new production and warehouse building at its Veliky Novgorod plant for over 1 billion rubles. The agreement was signed on 18 June, and production launch is planned for April 2026, with 60 jobs.

Shore Capital-backed FirmaPak, a manufacturer of blow molded packaging solutions, has acquired Lighthouse Packaging. The article gives no deal value or location.

Montreal plastics maker Les Industries Gould signed a strategic partnership with Home Depot Canada to supply contractor bags, creating, retaining and consolidating 88 jobs at its Montreal plant. The deal includes new production lines and about 3 million additional pounds of recycled plastic processed annually.

SCG Packaging, a subsidiary of Siam Cement Group, acquired the remaining 30% stake in Vietnamese rigid plastic packaging maker Duy Tan Plastics, becoming its sole shareholder. The transaction was valued at USD 108.6 million and was reported on 2025-06-12.

Amcor finalised its merger with Berry Global's Consumer Packaging division, creating one of the world's largest flexible packaging companies focused on personal care, home care, healthcare and aerosol packaging.

ADNOC L&S secured a 15-year contract to manage up to 70% of Borouge's output transportation, including port operations, container handling and feeder ship services at Al Ruwais, with a minimum guaranteed value of $531 million.