Parikh Flexibles, part of Constantia Flexibles, purchased a 1350 mm Bobst Expert K5 metallizer to be installed in 2021 at its new greenfield Ecoflex facility in Ahmedabad, India, for producing ultra high barrier MDO PE film.

AST Plastic Containers, based on the Wrexham industrial estate in North Wales, was awarded a contract by Yara to supply its 10 litre jerry cans for use with AdBlue.

thyssenkrupp's plant engineering business won a second order from Turkish packaging producer KÖKSAN to build a PET plant next to an existing line in Gaziantep. The plant will double site capacity to 432,000 tons of PET resin per year, with completion planned for 2022.

Coral Products' subsidiary Tatra Rotalac signed an exclusive three-year supply agreement with a leading UK distributor of BRC packaging containers. The contract is expected to generate £1.5m to £2m in annual sales.

Procter & Gamble signed a five-year contract with UK recycling company Viridor to buy recycled high-density polyethylene for its European Ariel laundry packaging, enough to make about 200 million bottles.

IE Plast of Munich was commissioned to plan the operational and logistics processes and realize the new SCHOTT polymer packaging plant in Müllheim, and to support qualification and validation.

Tosca will ship Wegmans Food Markets' case-ready meat in reusable plastic containers (RPCs), replacing corrugated packaging. The change is intended to meet Wegmans' sustainability goals.

Auer Packaging GmbH of Amerang, Germany received its first order from Rolls-Royce for Eurobehälter 'Made in Amerang' plastic containers and closed-lid large boxes to support Rolls-Royce's engine intralogistics. The order was placed in December 2019.

German plastic container maker Auer Packaging received its first order from Rolls-Royce, for Euro containers with hinged lids and closed big boxes used in engine production logistics. The order was received in December 2019 and reported on January 16, 2020.

Family-owned Auer Packaging of Amerang has won its first order from Rolls-Royce for plastic containers for intralogistics. The order covers Eurobehälter containers.

SGL Carbon received a substantial contract from a North-American automaker for high-volume serial production of carbon and glass fiber composite battery enclosure layers, with serial production starting end of 2020. A smaller contract from a European sports car maker was also won.

Halifax County commissioners awarded STX Corporation the contract to build a rail spur serving JBB Packaging's plastics packaging plant in Weldon, North Carolina, at $529,220, with North Carolina Railroad and DOT funding the project. Completion is expected within 60 days.

Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) has started using M&G Packaging's BioNatur Plastics biodegradable protective sheeting and wrap in its cargo handling operations, replacing most of its conventional plastic wrap. The move was reported on 29 October 2019.

Venture Plastics was awarded a contract to mold the plastic trunk finisher that protects the latch mechanism of the 2019 Nissan Altima. The contract drove the company's expansion in Newton Falls, Ohio.

Trelleborg's offshore operation was awarded a major multi-million-dollar contract by Pemex to supply its Elastopipe rubber-based flexible piping system for the Abkatun A complex in the Gulf of Mexico. The contract was announced on 3 July 2019.

Carlsberg has begun using ExcelRise's R100 100% recycled plastic film for beer multipacks in Sweden, as part of its Together Towards ZERO sustainability program. The film contains at least 30% recycled content from Carlsberg's European breweries.

Spanish postal operator SE Correos y Telegrafos awarded Innovaciones Plasticas a supply contract worth EUR 404,296 for multiservice and plastic bags for its sales network, with the award dated May 14, 2019.

GRUBER Logistics agreed a 4PL logistics contract with Italian PET preform maker Garda Plast, covering raw material receipt, line supply and delivery to customers. The announcement was published on 8 May 2019.

Phu My Plastics Production JSC will use Honeywell UOP propane dehydrogenation technology to produce polymer-grade propylene at its plant in Vung Tau Province, Viet Nam, with expected output of 306,000 tonnes per year.

Alupol Films, an indirect subsidiary of Grupa Kęty, signed a contract with Basell Orlen Polyolefins Sprzedaż to buy raw materials for BOPP film production, valued at about PLN 147 million and running until the end of 2019.

Alupol Films, an indirect subsidiary of Grupa Kęty, signed a contract with Basell Orlen Polyolefins Sprzedaż to buy polypropylene raw materials for BOPP film through the end of 2019, estimated at about 147 million zloty.

Ceisa Packaging, a subsidiary of ExcelRise, will produce R100, a 100% recycled plastic film, at its Bernay plant in Eure, France, for Carlsberg multipacks in Sweden. The Bernay plant is to produce 1,000 tonnes of R100.

Danone SA signed a multi-year packaging supply agreement with Loop Industries to buy 100% sustainable, upcycled Loop-branded PET produced at Loop's joint venture facility with Indorama Ventures in the US.

L'Occitane and Loop Industries signed a multi-year supply agreement for Loop branded 100 percent sustainable PET plastic. L'Occitane en Provence will start using it in product packaging from 2022.

RPC Group signed a three-year cooperation agreement with Norwegian dairy company TINE, covering plastic containers, pails, pots and bottles from three RPC companies. The deal aims to improve efficiency and packaging development.

McDermott's Lummus Technology was awarded a technology contract by HPCL Rajasthan Refinery for the license and basic engineering of two 490 KTA polypropylene plants in Barmer District, Rajasthan, India. The award was reflected in McDermott's third quarter 2018 backlog.

Innovaciones Plasticas S.A. was awarded a contract by Spanish state postal operator S.E. Correos y Telegrafos for manufacture and supply of packaging products for post office sales, valued at EUR 510,410 across three lots.

Nestlé Waters North America signed an agreement with recycled PET supplier CarbonLITE, which is building a third facility in Pennsylvania expected to produce 80 million pounds of rPET pellets per year.

Cross Enterprise Procurement Group has secured a multi-year supply framework contract from Canada-based Loop Industries for 100% recycled PET plastic to Coca-Cola bottlers.

An Phat Plastic & Green Environment JSC signed a contract to supply thin film packaging worth VND 1.4 trillion (US$60 million) to an unnamed Japanese partner.

Subsidiaries of Suzhou Hycan Holdings won five-year contracts to supply plastic lubricant bottles to ExxonMobil's lube blending plants in Taicang, Jiangsu and Tianjin, China.

iMD Companies announced that its subsidiary LCG Plastic signed a purchase order and contract to supply about $1.78 billion of PVC pipes over two years to RWS&S Odisha, Bhubaneswar, India. Deliveries are to ramp up to 10 million pipes per month.

Syndicat Mixte du Port de Dieppe awarded Schoeller Allibert a EUR 37,809 contract for 1,500 food-grade crates with lids and 160 stackable plastic pallets. The award was dated November 26, 2018 and published February 5, 2019.

Nestlé Waters North America signed a significant agreement with recycled PET supplier CarbonLITE, which is expanding its U.S. operations. The company already buys rPET from CarbonLITE facilities in California and Texas.

Coral Products PLC's Haydock Mouldings division received a further £795,000 order under a supply contract for plastic totes for a customer's UK fulfilment centres, expected to continue into the fourth quarter to April 2019.

PepsiCo signed a multi-year supply agreement to buy sustainable packaging from a joint venture facility established by Loop Industries, and will incorporate Loop PET recycled material into its packaging by 2020.

Anhui Guoding Packaging Co. was named first candidate in a public tender for 40 tonnes of PE heat-shrink film for the Guigang branch of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region tobacco company, with a bid of CNY 619,600. The candidate publicity period runs from August 21 to 23, 2018.

RPC Superfos provided Sweden-based cheese maker Skånemejerier with a wedge-shaped, fully recyclable injection-moulded polypropylene pack with an oxygen-barrier label.

Packaging maker FIPCO won a competitive tender from SABIC to manufacture and supply plastic bags worth an estimated SAR 20.49 million. The supply contract was signed April 23, 2018.

Greek food processor Provil selected RPC Corby's 900g Euro Squeeze multi-layer polypropylene bottle for its new Sandwich Creams sauce range.

Walther Faltsysteme completed one of its largest logistics contracts, supplying recyclable plastic pallets with RFID chips to retailer Hofer in Austria, with pallets in circulation since the start of 2018.

Polibak, a subsidiary of Bakioğlu Holding, signed a contract with Brückner for the largest BOPP film production line in Turkey, with 10.4m line width and output over 7,400 kg per hour, boosting its capacities by 40%.

Turkish film producer Polibak signed a contract with Germany's Brückner to build the largest BOPP film production line in Turkey in Izmir, expected to raise its nameplate capacity by 40% to 180,000 tons/year by Q3 2019.

Georg Menshen GmbH & Co KG and logistics provider Schäflein AG renewed their logistics cooperation through a multi-year follow-on contract. Menshen products are stored at Schäflein sites in Schwerte and Kitzingen, Germany, on 16,500 square metres.

Belgian public buyer ICDI awarded Plastic Omnium SA a contract worth EUR 172,638 for containers of 40 to 45 litres, through an open procurement process with award date 2018-02-20.

UK packaging company DS Smith designed injection-moulded reusable plastic tote boxes for Spanish retailer Zara, suited to its automated picking system.

Auer Packaging of Amerang, Germany, won a Europe-wide tender from Volkswagen for around one million RL-KLT plastic small load carriers, worth three million euros. The containers will be delivered to Volkswagen suppliers across Europe.

HOCHTIEF Polska's Krakow branch won a design and build contract from Alupol Films to erect a building of over 5,500 square metres for packaging material production in Oswiecim, due for completion in summer 2019. The contract value is confidential.

Alupol Films Ltd., a subsidiary of Alupol Packaging, signed a contract with Brückner Maschinenbau for a high-performance BOPP film production line. The line will be installed in 2019 at a new plant in the Krakow Technology Park in Oswiecim, Poland.

Belgian public buyer ICDI awarded Plastic Omnium SA a contract worth EUR 272,902 to supply containers of various capacities, with the award dated 16 November 2017 and published 7 December 2017.