DS Smith Hellas has completed a €17.6 million upgrade of its Korinthos corrugated packaging factory in Greece, including a new Fosber corrugator and printing equipment. The upgrade raises the plant's production capacity by 30%.

Coveris is investing £5 million in its St Neots packaging facility in Cambridgeshire, UK, to scale up recyclable food-to-go packaging production. The expansion starts in October 2024 and is due for completion in Q1 2025.

Arnest Packaging Solutions launched a new aluminium can-lid production line at its Naro-Fominsk plant in Moscow Oblast, with investment above 1.4 billion rubles. The line will let the plant produce more than 7 billion aluminium lids per year.

Coveris announced a £5 million investment to triple the production space of its St Neots, Cambridgeshire, food-to-go packaging site from 1,000 to 3,158 square metres. The project starts this month and is expected to complete in Q1 2025.

Arnest Packaging Solutions has started expanding its Ulyanovsk beverage-can plant in the Zavolzhye industrial park, with a third line due by end-2025 and a possible fourth in 2026. The investment will exceed 20 billion rubles and double capacity to 3 billion aluminum cans a year.

Coca-Cola Consolidated has announced a $25 million expansion at its West Memphis, Arkansas production facility, adding in-house blow molding of bottles and more than 25 jobs. Output is to rise from 26 million to 29 million cases a year.

Carton Service is expanding its liquid packaging production facility in Shelby, Ohio, with over $10 million in new printing, sealing and lab equipment and plans to add 20% more staff.

Plastics specialist Auer GmbH plans a fourth production hall with an attached picking hall at its headquarters technology park in Amerang, Germany, with construction possibly starting in 2026.

German folding carton producer Faller Packaging will expand its folding carton and packaging insert production capacity and has taken over the real property of the former All4Labels plant in Gebesee near Erfurt. The article is dated September 25, 2024.

The Pomorska Special Economic Zone approved a support decision for Flexopack Polska to expand production capacity of its flexible packaging materials at Tragamin, Malbork commune.

Carton Service CSI is investing more than $10 million to expand its liquid packaging production facility in Shelby, Ohio, adding new printing, skiving and sealing equipment and a packaging laboratory, plus 20% more staff.

Orora intends to bring forward A$130 million of capital investment to expand its Cans capacity at Rocklea, Queensland, which it says will increase Cans capacity by more than 30%.

Tetra Pak Binh Duong Joint Stock Company held a groundbreaking ceremony for a factory expansion at VSIP IIA Industrial Park in Binh Duong Province, adding nearly 6,000 m² with capacity of up to 19.2 billion packages per year.

Tetra Pak and general contractor SOL E&C held a groundbreaking on August 28, 2024 for the capacity upgrade of Tetra Pak's Binh Duong beverage carton plant at VSIP II-A Industrial Park. The project value was not stated.

Menasha Packaging announced a commitment of over $50 million to expand its North American preprint capacity, adding an 8-color press and automation and robotics, with 25-30 new jobs in the Fox Valley area of Wisconsin.

Northern Corrugated Cases has completed installation of a GTS Boxstar Heavy Duty 3000HD boxmaker at its Middlewich factory, allowing triplewall stock to be produced locally instead of shipped from Halifax.

Smurfit Westrock inaugurated its new Maranguape plant in Ceará, Brazil, a $33 million expansion that diversifies its portfolio and adds production capacity, including a new corrugator and printers. The opening took place on 21 August 2024.

Reliance Packaging announced on August 14, 2024 a more than $7.4 million expansion of its Aberdeen, North Carolina plastic packaging plant, adding two multi-layer film extruders and 32 new jobs.

SupplyOne, a custom packaging distributor and manufacturer, announced on August 13, 2024 that it is growing across the U.S. and into Canada with new locations in Portland, Seattle and Toronto, and is seeking acquisition partners.

VPK subsidiary Aquila is adding a state-of-the-art corrugator with a 2.80 m Fosber line in a new 13,000 sqm hall at its Września plant. The line is scheduled to start up at the beginning of 2025.

Tetra Pak will invest an additional €97 million in its beverage carton plant in Binh Duong province, Vietnam, bringing total investment there since 2019 to over €217 million. A new production line is expected to be fully operational in Q3 2025.

Wepoba Wellpappenfabrik, part of the Panther Group, has bought an adjacent property in Wustermark and plans a double-digit million euro investment to expand its logistics center. The planned automated high-bay warehouse would raise storage capacity from about 15,000 to 30,000 pallets.

deSter will make a multi-million investment in production equipment at its Prachinburi, Thailand site to double its wet molded fiber capacity to 250 million trays and bowls per year. The investment was announced on July 25, 2024.

UK packaging maker Cepac has completed a phase of its £20m three-year investment plan, adding corrugating capacity and equipment for its Flutepac food packaging at its Darlington site.

Stora Enso is investing €30m to upgrade and grow its corrugated packaging production in Ostrołęka, Poland, including a new 2.8m-wide corrugator. Construction is scheduled to start in Q3 2024 and finish by the end of 2025.

Crown Holdings is investing in its plant in the El Agba region near Tunis, doubling its annual capacity to more than 1.2 billion beverage cans.

Smolensk governor Vasily Anokhin announced an investment project at the Rudnya container plant to raise tin can production from 30 million to 50 million units per year, with investment exceeding 800 million rubles. Construction of a warehouse and production building has begun, and two new can lines will be installed.

Smurfit Kappa invested USD23.5 million to upgrade its Nuevo Laredo sheet plant in Tamaulipas, Mexico, into a fully integrated corrugated plant with a new corrugator. The new machine began operating in July 2024 and doubles production capacity.

LMI Packaging announced a 50,000-square-foot addition to its Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin building, bringing its manufacturing footprint to just over 120,000 square feet to support warehousing, manufacturing and machine capacity.

On June 19, 2024 Mondi announced completion of its EUR 125 million investment in the Kuopio containerboard mill in Finland, upgrading the wood yard, fibre line, evaporation plant and paper machine to add 55,000 tonnes per year of ProVantage Powerflute fluting capacity.

BillerudKorsnas is expanding its Gruvon paper mill in Grums with a new board machine of 550,000 tonnes annual capacity and rebuilding of the existing pulp mill, in its largest investment ever at SEK 5.7 billion.

Indopoly Swakarsa Industry allocated about US$100 million for a capacity expansion of BOPP and BOPET films. It will add two BOPP machines in Purwakarta, Indonesia and Suzhou, China, raising annual capacity from 100,000 to 165,000 tons, and two metalizing machines, targeted to be operational by end-2024.

Kraus-Anderson Construction completed an 89,856-square-foot expansion of Menasha Packaging's facility in Pelahatchie Industrial Park, Mississippi. Menasha, which invested $79 million in the project, will add 21 jobs to its 95 existing employees.

Aquila Września, part of VPK Group, is expanding its factory in Września, Poland, with a new production hall of nearly 13,000 sqm and a new corrugator that can produce up to 20 million m2 of corrugated board per month.

Walki completed an investment of more than EUR 6 million in a new production line called The Bridge at its Steinfurt plant in Germany, to make recyclable fibre-based barrier board and flexible packaging.

Mondi held a groundbreaking in Duino, Italy, on 23 May 2024 for a €200 million investment converting an existing paper machine into a recycled containerboard machine with about 420,000 tonnes annual capacity. Start-up is expected in 2025.

Tetra Pak and Stora Enso are investing a combined EUR29.1m in a new carton repulping line in Poland that will triple used beverage carton capacity from 25,000 to 75,000 tonnes per year.

Salinas Packaging Group opened a new sustainable printing and graphic arts facility in Spain, investing close to EUR 10 million. The plant serves its three rigid box plants near Alicante and its Barcelona plant, and is expected to raise capacity by 40% in 2025.

Genpak LLC expanded and reopened its renovated 400,000-square-foot Hope Hull manufacturing facility in Montgomery, Alabama, investing $22.8 million and adding 155 jobs to its existing 145 employees. The reopening was reported on 16 May 2024.

NOVAPOR is adding 2,000 square meters of warehouse and manufacturing area at its Kaltenkirchen, Germany facility, with completion scheduled for the end of 2024 to increase capacity and shorten delivery times.

EAM-Mosca opened its $20.6 million expansion of its Hazle Township, Luzerne County manufacturing operation, growing its footprint from 165,000 to 283,000 square feet and creating over 50 jobs.

Bergamo-based Grifal will inaugurate in September 2024 an expansion of its Cologno al Serio site, with four new production lines and a total investment of EUR 15 million, doubling Italian Cartù capacity.

Tetra Pak will invest an additional EUR 97 million in its beverage carton plant in Binh Duong, Vietnam, adding a production line expected to be fully operational in the third quarter of 2025 and increasing its workforce.

Tetra Pak will invest an additional €97 million ($104.3 million) in its packaging material plant in Binh Duong, southern Vietnam, adding a production line fully operational by Q3 2025 and raising total site investment above €217 million.

DS Smith invested €6m in its La Chevrolière facility near Nantes, France, adding 4,000 square metres and a new 2,500m² workshop for Kaypal cardboard pallets. The workshop has capacity of 250,000 units and potential for up to 1.5 million pallets per year.

QazAlPack, Kazakhstan's first beverage can plant in Shymkent, plans to double capacity to 1 billion cans per year later in 2024, having already installed four Standun bodymakers and a Concord decorator supplied by Stolle Machinery.

Amcor Flexibles North America announced its largest-ever expansion of dairy production capacity, enhancing printing and converting capabilities in Northeast Wisconsin over the next 18 months. The investment targets growing demand for flexible dairy packaging.

Metsä Board invested €230 million in its Husum mill in Sweden to modernise and expand folding boxboard machine BM1, raising annual capacity to 600,000 tonnes. The upgraded machine was inaugurated in April 2024.

Tetra Pak opened an expanded carton packaging plant in Pinetown, KwaZulu-Natal, as part of a R500 million investment, with exports planned to other African countries.

Italian packaging maker Imbal Carton added another production line in April 2024 at its Drizzona site, aiming to broaden its product range. The company says it is backed by its German partner Progoup.