TriMas launched a new 225,000 square foot, highly automated packaging facility in Haining, China, consolidating its Hangzhou and older Haining plants. The site makes dispensing and lotion pumps, caps and closures.

SIG is building its 10th global aseptic carton plant in Ahmedabad, India, with an EUR 60 million investment and an initial capacity of 4 billion packs per year, with ramp-up expected in early 2025.

Brazilian packaging maker Wyda Packaging has opened a 15,000 sq ft factory in Charlotte, N.C., to produce recyclable aluminum foil and trays with capacity of 6,000 tons per year.

Romanian packaging maker Evopack will open a branch and a 1,200 square meter warehouse in Budapest in December as a delivery hub for Austria, Germany and Hungary. The investment is EUR 1.1 million.

Violeta group opened the Corspack corrugated cardboard packaging factory in Grude, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on 29 October 2024. The investment is reported at over EUR 40 million, with capacity of about 60,000 tonnes per year on one shift.

TCPL Packaging plans to establish a greenfield packaging facility near Chennai in Southern India, close to major industrial manufacturing hubs. No investment value or timeline was given.

Ondupack SAU, part of CL Grupo Industrial, launched a new corrugated board factory in Navalmoral de la Mata, Cáceres, Spain, with an initial capacity of 60 million m² per year and a planned 200 million m² project capacity. The 60,000 m² plant is equipped with Fosber, BOBST and Emmepi machinery.

Uzbekistan's Ministry of Investment, Industry and Trade signed an investment agreement with JSC Arnest Packaging Solutions to build a beverage aluminum can plant in the Navoi Industrial Development Complex. The investment is about $100 million, capacity over 1.5 billion cans per year, with launch planned for autumn 2025.

TekniPlex held a grand opening for its new $17.5 million, 200,000 sq ft egg carton plant in Van Wert's Vision Industrial Park, which is expected to employ about 100 workers. Construction began in June 2023.

Graphic Packaging International is building a recycled paperboard manufacturing facility in Waco, Texas, with machine installation underway. The site is on track to ramp up in late 2025.

Twellium Industrial Company has commissioned a greenfield beverage production site in Kumasi, Ghana, with two complete PET packaging lines installed by Sidel. The plant's water line produces 80,000 bottles per hour.

Atlantic Packaging Products opened a new manufacturing plant in Hamilton, Ontario, to increase capacity for packaging customers and create local jobs. The company is hiring for the site.

Modern Ambalaj is investing $100 million in a new corrugated cardboard factory in Sakarya, Turkey, with annual capacity of 200,000 tonnes. It will be the group's eighth plant and bring its total capacity to 1 million tonnes per year.

Smurfit Westrock inaugurated a corrugated packaging factory in Maranguape, Ceará, as part of its Nordeste Complex with a investment of over US$33 million. The plant is 28 km from Fortaleza and adds to the company's Pacajus facility.

Altium Packaging opened a bottle blowing facility adjacent to Milo's Tea Company's plant in Bessemer, Alabama, to produce its one-gallon containers, creating 35 jobs. The facility began operations in summer 2024 and was formally opened September 4, 2024.

Shanghai Baosteel Packaging Co. announced a total investment of about 452 million yuan to build an intelligent two-piece can production base in Tongan district, Xiamen, Fujian, with a design capacity of 1.1 billion cans per year. The project will be executed through a new subsidiary, Xiamen Baosteel Can Making Co., and takes about 16 months to build.

BNM (Zhejiang Bosun New Materials) held a groundbreaking for a new factory in Yueqing's Shanhuan New Park with a planned investment of about 200 million yuan, expected to be completed by end-2025 and create over 300 jobs.

Colliers' Herbst|Morgan team finalized a new lease for Altium Packaging on a 28,787 square foot finished goods warehouse in Vancouver, Washington, supporting its regional expansion.

Developer Ashley Capital leased the first half of the first building at the Flint Commerce Center, the former Buick City site, to GM supplier Victory Packaging as its first new tenant, reported on August 14, 2024.

Recorp is launching a new $130 million can manufacturing facility in South Auckland on 9 September, offering low minimum order quantities of 30,000 printed cans.

Progroup's new corrugated board plant PW15 in Petersberg, near Pirmasens, has been in routine production since early August 2024, with capacity of up to 200,000 tonnes per year and 60 new jobs and training positions.

Family-owned corrugated packaging maker Welch Packaging has started up a new corrugator facility, OHCorr, in Wooster, Ohio, to produce corrugated sheets for its box plants. The site is in Wooster's Innovation Park.

Seven cArtù, a joint venture of the José Neves group and Italy's Grifal, announced a €4 million investment in a production unit in Guimarães, Portugal, for its cArtù corrugated board. The investment funds greener production lines and is partly supported by the Portugal 2030 program.

Packaging Corporation of America is replacing its existing corrugated products plant in Phoenix with a new greenfield facility expected to be operational in spring 2025. The new plant will more than double the site's capacity to over 2 billion square feet of production per year.

Axium Packaging has opened a $36 million, 130,000-square-foot plastic packaging plant in Archdale, North Carolina, its first in the Carolinas. The plant is about 15 miles southwest of Greensboro and will bring new jobs, though no number is given.

Kartontara, 100% owned by SFT Group, will commission a second corrugated packaging plant in Maykop, Adygea, by late 2024, with total investment of about 2.8 billion rubles. The plant will have capacity up to 130 million square meters per year and create over 134 jobs.

Baosteel Packaging plans an aluminium two-piece can production facility in Long An province, Vietnam, with an investment of about CNY 525 million. The plant is slated to produce 800 million cans per year.

Newry, Mourne and Down District Council's planning committee approved Saica Pack Ltd's plan to relocate from Warrenpoint Harbour and build a corrugated fibreboard factory at Invest NI's Carnbane Industrial Estate in Newry.

Green Bay Packaging broke ground on July 9, 2024 on a new 270,000 square foot facility for its Great Lakes Packaging Division in Germantown, Wisconsin, with operations expected in fall 2025 and 20 additional jobs planned.

WestRock broke ground on a highly automated corrugated box plant in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, a $140 million project with more than 580,000 square feet, expected to open in April 2025. The plant is one of WestRock's superplants and will lead to the closure of a North Chicago, Illinois facility.

SIG Combibloc built an aseptic carton packaging plant in Queretaro, Mexico, with a €73 million investment, creating more than 200 jobs; operations began in April 2023.

Tetra Pak opened its aseptic packaging material plant in Chakan, Maharashtra, India, in May 2013 after construction began in February 2011. The project cost about EUR 120 million and the plant has annual capacity of more than 16 billion carton packages.

Packaging supplier Invopak opened its first manufacturing plant in Hyde, Manchester, making tinplate containers such as UN-approved cans and lever lid tins. The EUR 5 million investment was made in response to post-Brexit supply chain issues.

Delmarva Corrugated Packaging held the grand opening of its 465,000-square-foot plant in Dover, Delaware, a $91 million investment that created 160 jobs. The plant has been operating since 2021 and is served by the Delmarva Central Railroad.

Greif is nearing completion of a new bulk corrugated manufacturing facility in Dallas, Texas, making triple wall sheets and jumbo boxes, expected to be operational in spring 2024.

EFP, LLC held a grand opening for its sixth location, a protective packaging and cold chain plant in the Lee County Industrial Park in Bishopville, South Carolina. The $15 million investment is expected to create over 30 jobs.

Crescento Packaging, a maker of disposable cups, plates and cardboard boxes for the HORECA sector, has invested over €7.6 million in a new 4,000 sq m factory in the Miroslava Industrial Park near Iași, which was inaugurated in 2023.

Visy announced a US$500m investment to build a glass container manufacturing plant and recycling facility in Yatala, Queensland, with annual capacity of about 1bn glass containers. It expects to relocate its South Brisbane glass remanufacturing operations there by 2025.

Recyclable packaging maker PakTech has launched local manufacturing of multipack beverage can handles in Australia. PakTech and its partners have capacity to make up to 75 million recycled handles annually in Australia.

Smurfit Kappa inaugurated a new corrugated cardboard packaging plant in Guarne, Antioquia, Colombia, investing over USD 50 million to expand capacity from its Medellin plant, which it describes as the group's most modern in Colombia.

Packaging maker Venturepak has invested £3m in a new manufacturing facility in Manchester to produce injection-moulded plastic containers for a household brand's ice cream products, previously imported.

Hell Energy of Hungary will open a factory in the Alat Free Economic Zone, Azerbaijan, next year with annual capacity of 700 million aluminum beverage cans, under a contract with Azerbaijan Investment Company. The investment is $211 million and more than 300 jobs are planned.

Klabin started operations at its Figueira Unit corrugated board factory in Piracicaba, Brazil, a R$1.6 billion investment with annual capacity of 240,000 tons.

Packem Umasree, a Brazil-India joint venture, inaugurated its first Indian plant near Ahmedabad on 16 April 2024 to make 100% rPET bottle-based FIBC jumbo bags, with monthly capacity of 600 metric tons and about 700 jobs.

Greif is finalizing construction of a bulk corrugated manufacturing plant in Dallas, Texas, scheduled to open in spring 2024. The plant will mainly make triple wall sheets and jumbo boxes for industrial and agricultural customers.

Paboco, The Paper Bottle Company, launched its Next Gen Paper Bottle and began full-scale production at a new manufacturing site in Slangerup, Denmark. The company aims to deliver over 20 million paper bottles by the end of 2025, backed by ALPLA.

WestRock plans to build a new corrugated box plant in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, at an estimated cost of about $140 million, partly offset by property sales. The company intends to close its existing North Chicago plant once the new facility is complete.

ORBIS Corporation signed a lease-to-own agreement with EPM Partners for 420,000 sq ft of manufacturing space in Greenville, Texas, to produce reusable pallets, totes and bulk containers. The company expects to add more than 190 jobs, with initial operations projected by the end of 2024.

Arnest Packaging Solutions officially opened an aluminum beverage can plant in the Zavolzhye Industrial Park in Ulyanovsk with total investment above RUB 13.5 billion, including a RUB 5 billion concessional loan from the Federal Industrial Development Fund. At design capacity it will produce over 1.6 billion cans per year.

Progroup laid the foundation stone for a new corrugated sheetfeeder plant in Cessalto near Venice, Italy, which will create around 60 jobs and is expected to start production by mid-2025 to supply partner Ondulkart.