Smurfit Kappa will invest over €25 million to expand its Pruszkow factory in central Poland to 37,500 square meters, adding a new corrugator and creating 25 jobs. Construction is due to start in July 2021 and finish in 2022.

ProAmpac signed a multi-year, multi-million euro contract making its Donegal facility the strategic supplier of flexible pet food packaging for C&D Foods, the pet food division of ABP Food Group, with plans to expand production and employment.

FROMM Packaging Australia was awarded a contract to supply packaging materials to Australia's Department of Defence in New South Wales, valued at AUD 14,190. The award is dated 17 May 2021.

Lindsay Goldberg agreed to sell an 80% stake in Austria-based Schur Flexibles Group to B&C Group, retaining 20% ownership, subject to antitrust approvals.

JDE Peet's announced a €110 million investment at its Andrézieux-Bouthéon site in the Loire, France, to raise aluminium coffee capsule production capacity by more than 60%, with about 40 new hires planned by year-end and works finishing in 2022.

Scholle IPN, partnering with Georgia-Pacific's corrugated packaging solutions, released a bag-in-box pack for liquids certified by Amazon as ship in own container, in sizes from 2 to 23 litres without shrink wrap.

Falu Energi och Vatten AB awarded San Sac AB a contract to supply paper bags for food waste, valued at 8,867,490 SEK, with three bids received.

West Pharmaceutical Services has doubled its workforce at its Waterford, Ireland plant to over 900 employees to supply millions of rubber vial stoppers for Covid-19 vaccines to more than a dozen global customers.

Private equity firm Oxy Capital and illimity Bank agreed to acquire Gpack Group, an Italian maker of cardboard boxes and cartons for luxury, pharma, cosmetics and food markets, for $72 million.

Plastipak will build a food-grade recycled PET recycling facility at its Toledo, Spain site, producing 20,000 tons of rPET pellets per year. The project will create about 14 jobs and is scheduled to start production in summer 2022.

Ourgin announced a plan to invest about RMB 510 million in a two-piece can production project in Zaozhuang, Shandong, built in two phases. Phase one is expected to produce 800 million cans a year, and phase two adds another 800 million.

Coveris acquired UK-based flexibles manufacturer Four04 Packaging in May 2021; the price was undisclosed.

Royal Containers is moving its western facility from London to a larger footprint at 400 South Edgeware Road in St. Thomas, Ontario, to address growth and increase capacity.

Stora Enso and Pulpex are partnering to industrialize production of wood-fiber pulp bottles, with a high-speed production line expected to be operational in 2022.

Thimm, a packaging and display manufacturer, invested around ten million euros to expand its Všetaty plant in the Czech Republic with a new 134-metre MF-A corrugator from BHS Corrugated. The installation raised corrugated cardboard capacity at the site by up to 30%.

Mondi's PM19 paper machine at its Ružomberok mill in Slovakia has begun delivering Kraft Top White containerboard to European customers. The machine has 300,000 tonnes per year capacity as part of a EUR 370 million mill upgrade.

SCG Packaging signed a share purchase agreement on May 10, 2021 to acquire 75% of Intan Group, a major Indonesian producer of corrugated containers with four strategic locations.

Amcor has taken a stake in ePac, described as the world's biggest digital flexibles printer, which operates 76 HP Indigo printers. The stake was disclosed with Amcor's third-quarter results on 6 May 2021.

MB Funds and the management invest in Pyroll Packaging, a Finnish maker of sustainable packaging with nine manufacturing sites, under a transaction signed on 5 May 2021. Pyroll had net sales of 60m EUR in 2020.

DrinkPAK signed two additional leases totaling 400,095 square feet across Buildings 3 and 4 at The Center at Needham Ranch in Santa Clarita, bringing its footprint there to 572,419 square feet for a beverage can packaging facility.

Canpack Group announced in late May 2021 that it will significantly expand its aluminum beverage can capacity in the United States. No investment value was given in the excerpt.

ProAmpac confirmed a multi-year, multi-million-euro supply contract making its County Donegal facility the strategic supplier of flexible pet food packaging to C&D Foods. The contract was announced in mid-May 2021.

Georg Utz in Schüttorf started series production of the GS1 Smart-Box, a reusable polypropylene transport container; the first 100,000 units were delivered in late April 2021 to pooling partner IPP.

Mutares completed the acquisition of RDM La Rochette S.A.S. from the Reno De Medici Group. The Valgelon-La Rochette, France plant makes virgin-fibre folding boxboard for pharma and food packaging, with revenues near EUR 120 million and about 300 employees.

Walki Group signed a definitive agreement to acquire a majority stake in Plasbel Plasticos S.A.U., a Spanish maker of recycled and compostable bags and flexible packaging with a facility in Murcia. The purchase price was not disclosed.

Constantia Flexibles has signed an agreement to acquire 100% of Turkish flexible packaging maker Propak Ambalaj from Yıldız Holding's Gözde Girişim for EUR 120 million, subject to legal approvals.

Svalinn has been awarded a total supply contract by Norwegian dairy producer TINE for caps on its gable-top cartons, covering the CueCap B and CueCap X models.

India's Forpack Industries signed an MoU with Sharjah's SAIF Zone to establish its first UAE headquarters by leasing four warehouses in the U2 area. The company plans AED 10 million in capital investment and makes packaging, stretch film and cardboard products.

Graphic Packaging announced plans to acquire North American folding carton maker Americraft Carton for around $280 million. The deal includes seven Americraft converting facilities and all its employees.

Indonesian packaging maker PT Indopoly Swakarsa Industry Tbk (IPOL) has allocated US$1.5 million in capital expenditure for maintenance of its three plants with a total capacity of 100,000 tons per year.

NKBK is adding corrugated production lines at its Novosibirsk plant, including a second single facer and new die-cutting lines, to exceed 18 million square meters per month by the end of 2021.

Cartones de Guatemala opened a new greenfield corrugated board facility of under 33,000 sqm in Escuintla, with a Fosber corrugator that started up on April 26, 2021.

Ball Corp is buying land from Rome-Floyd County development authorities for about $3.8 million to build a $51.8 million, 750,000 sq ft warehouse and distribution center expected to add 70 jobs.

Golden West Packaging Group has launched a digital corrugated packaging solution using an HP PageWide C500 press at its Livermore, California site, allowing faster speed-to-market for wine and beverage customers.

Mauser Packaging Solutions, through its joint venture NCG-Maider, acquired Italian reconditioner Global Tank Srl, adding a site in Magnago near Milan. The deal expands its industrial packaging and reconditioning footprint in Italy.

Lugrama, a printing company focused on pharmaceutical packaging, is investing about US$6 million in a new plant on Ruta 101 in Canelones, Uruguay. The plant will double production capacity from 10 to 20 million cartons per month and add 15 jobs, with operations expected in August 2021.

Graphic Packaging International developed a paperboard multipack for Estrella Damm cans to replace plastic shrink wrap. The format will initially come in six-, 12- and 24-can packs.

Packages Limited announced that subsidiary Bulleh Shah Packaging approved a Rs2.8 billion investment in a new corrugated packaging line with 115,000 tons per annum capacity, expected to start operations in the first half of 2023.

US investment firm KPS agreed to buy Crown Holdings' European tinplate packaging division, including former Mivisa, for €1.9 billion, with Crown keeping a 20% stake. The deal is expected to close in Q3 2021.

Empire State Development announced the groundbreaking of President Container Group's 100,000-square-foot corrugated packaging expansion in Wallkill, Orange County, New York. The $40 million project includes a second corrugator and is expected to create 50 jobs.

Industrial Opportunity Partners completed the sale of its portfolio company El Dorado Packaging to ProAmpac Holdings, a flexible packaging company. Terms were not disclosed.

Port Houston and Portwall Partners signed a 50-year lease for Portwall to build an 800,000-square-foot resin packaging facility at the Bayport Industrial Complex in Houston. The plant will be operated by Packwell.

Versa Pak is expanding its Celina, Ohio plastics plant with a 56,000-square-foot addition and four new custom manufacturing lines, bringing the plant to 30 lines by September. The $15 million investment is expected to add at least 12 jobs.

Amcor has made a strategic investment in US flexible packaging firm ePac, its first corporate venture-type investment, valued at around $10m to $15m, and is also providing financing for one or more ePac sites.

Coca-Cola European Partners commissioned KHS to supply a second turnkey canning line at its Wakefield beverage factory in the UK, after line 4 proved successful. The lines use Innofill Can DVD can fillers with capacity of up to 120,000 cans per hour.

Grupo WIC, a subsidiary of Western Industries Corporation, opened a new larger facility in Reynosa, Mexico, with new manufacturing capabilities, with an inauguration ceremony held on August 21, 2018.

ALLpaQ Packaging has expanded its Widnes operations by leasing unit two at Speke Approach, adding 30,000 sq ft of production and manufacturing space on a five-year lease.

Pregis has opened a 128,000 sq ft facility in Garland, Texas, producing protective packaging materials and hosting a customer demo center. The site already employs 44 people, with 40 more to be added later in the year.

Folding carton maker Joh. Leupold GmbH & Co. KG, majority-owned by Waterland Private Equity since August 2020, is merging with carton and corrugated packaging maker Strobel AG of Roth. The founding Strobel owners remain during a transition phase.

Winpak Ltd. and its European sister company Wipak formed the Wiicare brand to jointly sell and develop sterile barrier healthcare packaging worldwide. The alliance covers sales, R&D, product management and regulatory affairs, announced on 13 April 2021.