SCG Packaging completed its acquisition of a 94.11% stake in Bien Hoa Packaging (SOVI), a listed Vietnamese corrugated box maker, for about 2.07 trillion dong. The deal closed on 18 December 2020, with SOVI consolidated from January 2021.

ABX announced its acquisition of the U.S. flexible packaging converter business of Berry Global Group. The business makes co-extruded multi-layer films, mainly for food applications.

Golden West Packaging Group has installed an industrial-scale HP PageWide C500 digital corrugated press at its Heritage site in Livermore, California, to target wine and spirits packaging demand.

De Jong Packaging is building a new multilayer distribution centre with storage and production space in De Lier, Netherlands, with real estate company WDP as investor and developer, to add production capacity. Completion is expected in 2022.

Berlin Packaging has acquired Spanish plastic packaging company Repli, based in Barcelona. It is the ninth Berlin Packaging acquisition in Europe since 2016.

Novolex has acquired the business of B&H Bag Company, a paper bag manufacturer with one plant in Brookshire, Texas, to add production capacity to its Duro Bag operations. The announcement was made on 15 December 2020.

TCG Solutions, a subsidiary of Thailand's SCG, registered to buy over 12 million shares (94.11%) of Vietnamese carton packaging maker Bao bi Bien Hoa, valued at about 978 billion VND. Transactions are expected between December 16 and 31, 2020.

A.P. Moller Holding has signed an agreement to acquire Faerch, a pan-European sustainable food packaging manufacturer, from funds managed by Advent International. Faerch operates integrated recycling for circular food packaging.

Turkish film producer Polibak has purchased two BOBST EXPERT K5 2450mm metallizers with AlOx GEN II and AluBond processes to raise metallizing capacity. The first machine is already in production and the second will be installed next year.

August Faller, part of Faller Packaging, is installing a Koenig & Bauer Rapida 76 double-coater offset press at its Łódź plant in Poland, due to enter production in spring 2021 and raise carton output to about 1 billion units per year.

Main Post Partners-backed Fortis Solutions, which employs over 850 people across 14 sites, has acquired Kala Packaging, and intends to keep pursuing acquisitions.

Tjoapack will invest more than €10 million over the next two years in its Etten-Leur site, growing it from 8,500 m2 to 11,500 m2 and adding eight production lines to double oral solid dose packaging capacity to over four billion tablets a year.

Ardagh Group has purchased a facility in Huron, Ohio, to convert into a beverage can and end plant with three can lines and about 200 jobs. Production is due to begin in late 2021.

Private investment firm Graham Partners acquired Berry Global's North American extrusion, converting and coating business. It will combine with Graham's Advanced Barrier Extrusions (ABX) and operate under the ABX name.

Ardagh Group has bought a facility in Huron, Ohio, to convert into a plant making beverage cans and ends, with three can lines and about 200 jobs. Production is due to begin in late 2021.

MM Group agreed to acquire Kotkamills Group Oyj from its shareholders for an enterprise value of around EUR 425 million. Kotkamills operates a cartonboard mill in Kotka, Finland, and closing is expected by mid-2021.

ND Packaging, a subsidiary of Nine Dragons Paper, is investing over $30 million to renovate and equip a 350,000-square-foot facility in Mount Pleasant, Racine County, Wisconsin, for corrugated box production. The company plans to create 88 jobs and begin production by the end of 2020.

Investindustrial's SPSI unit acquired a 24.2% stake in Guala Closures and agreed to buy a further 16.6%, lifting its holding to 48.9%. It will launch a full takeover offer at EUR 8.20 per share, announced on December 8, 2020.

Inland Packaging announced a new third facility near the La Crosse Regional Airport in La Crosse, Wisconsin, bringing new jobs. Full production is planned by May 2021.

Bibby Distribution secured a three-year contract extension to transport goods from Jardin Corrugated's UK production sites in Ely and St Ives, renewed until early 2024. Bibby oversees more than 160 deliveries each week.

Envases Group announced plans for its first aluminum can production and distribution center in Waco, Texas, with 120 jobs and over $100 million in capital investment. Opening is projected for late 2021.

Mauser Packaging Solutions completed a new production space in Erkelenz, Germany in summer 2020, housing an IBC wash line and an automated IBC rebottle line, and increased post-consumer resin production.

Tri-Pack Films board approved a new BOPP film production line costing Rs9 billion, announced to the Pakistan Stock Exchange on December 2, 2020. The line is likely to start in 2023.

Flexible packaging company ProAmpac, a portfolio company of Pritzker Private Capital, acquired Canadian packaging manufacturers Rosenbloom Groupe, Hymopack and Dyne-A-Pak. The deal was reported on 2 December 2020.

Berlin Packaging has acquired Italian plastic packaging company Pentapackaging, based in Bergamo. It is the ninth Berlin Packaging acquisition in Europe since 2016.

Shengxing Shares plans to buy 100% of Pacific Can (Shenyang) from Pacific Can (Fuzhou) for 171 million yuan in internal funds to expand its two-piece can business in northeast China; the related agreement was signed on 30 November 2020.

Mondi will open its first South American paper bags plant in Cartagena, Colombia, in January 2021, with one production line of about 50 million bags per year, serving chemical, food and cement customers.

Progroup's PM3 containerboard paper factory in Sandersdorf-Brehna, Germany, started operating in August 2020 and has reached more than 2,000 tonnes a day, with full run-up expected by the end of Q2 2021 and output of up to 750,000 tonnes a year.

Ardagh Group's North American glass business will manufacture all of Parkway Brewing Company's 12oz long-neck glass bottles in the United States under a partnership announced on November 27, 2020.

SeaTac Packaging has taken delivery of a BOBST EXPERT CI wide-web flexo press, installed at its new Tacoma, Washington facility as part of a multi-million-dollar investment that created new jobs.

FAME S.A. of Ecuador awarded a public procurement contract for cardboard boxes worth USD 22,479 to Cajas y Empaques Industriales Clusterpack CPK S.A. The award was granted through an open electronic reverse auction.

SIG Combibloc Group has signed an agreement to acquire the 50% stake held by Obeikan Investment Group in SIG Combibloc Obeikan, giving it full ownership. The joint venture operates a manufacturing plant in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and completion is subject to antitrust approvals.

Amcor will invest over R$115 million to expand its packaging factory in Três Lagoas, Mato Grosso do Sul, doubling production capacity and raising direct jobs to 720 by July next year.

Atlas Ward Polska, as general contractor, has completed the first stage of a 10,000 sqm expansion of the Schumacher Packaging Polska plant in Krepice, Poland. A second-stage paper warehouse is planned, with completion expected in the second half of 2021.

American Carton Co., a folding carton maker in Texas affiliated with Harris Packaging, expanded its folding carton print capacity. The article gives no capacity figures or dates for the expansion.

Crown Holdings has activated renewable power at all 14 of its U.S. and Canadian beverage can plants through a 15-year wind power virtual power purchase agreement with Longroad Energy from a Texas wind farm, announced November 20, 2020.

Coca-Cola HBC has started rolling out the KeelClip paperboard alternative to plastic wrap on can multipacks across its EU markets, after a €15 million investment in a partnership with Graphic Packaging International. The rollout is due to finish by early 2022.

Italian packaging maker Gruppo Fanti will invest $30 million to buy and reuse the former Signode building in Weirton's Half Moon Industrial Park, creating at least 40 jobs. It is the group's first U.S. plant.

Mondi's Ansbach plant in Southern Germany has installed new machinery under a €30 million investment, expanding its corrugated packaging portfolio and capacity ahead of full project completion in 2021.

Europal Packaging, part of the D.I. Group, has started up a new 2.5m doublewall Quantum corrugator line at its new factory in Blandain/Tournai, Belgium. The line was installed by Quantum Corrugated and Fosber Group.

Duravant has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Cloud Packaging Solutions from its parent Hearthside Food Solutions. Cloud, based in Des Plaines, Illinois, makes high-speed flexible packaging equipment.

Atılım Ambalaj has broken ground on a new factory in the Bolu Organized Industrial Zone to produce food stretch film. Production is targeted for 2021 at about 1,300-1,400 tonnes per year.

Klöckner Pentaplast will expand its production facility in Beaver, West Virginia by adding thermoforming capabilities for sustainable food trays. The investment, worth several million dollars, will create 21 full-time jobs.

Altium Packaging has acquired the assets of SFB Plastics, Inc., a Wichita, Kansas maker of HDPE blow-molded industrial containers. The deal was announced on November 16, 2020.

Coca-Cola European Partners began manufacturing and distributing WestRock's CanCollar cardboard can collation ring at its Barcelona plant, first in the Balearic Islands, after a 2.6 million euro plant investment this year.

JBT Corp. of Chicago agreed to buy United Kingdom-based Proseal, a tray sealing technology maker, for 220 million pounds ($258.67 million), with closing expected in the second quarter of 2021 subject to regulatory approvals.

EPL Limited's board approved the acquisition of Creative Stylo Packs, an Indian maker of corrugated boxes and plastic and laminated tubes. EPL will buy a 72.5% stake for cash and the remaining 27.5% through issuance of EPL shares to the founders.

Stora Enso plans to invest about SEK 8.6 billion (EUR 800-850 million) to upgrade and expand pulp and packaging board capacity at its Skoghall mill in Värmland, Sweden. A pre-project and environmental permit application have been started, with production possibly starting in Q4 2023.

Hamilton-based packaging manufacturer HT Productions Inc. (Whitebird) will expand its facility, acquire advanced manufacturing equipment and move to a new online ordering system, backed by about $3.9 million from FedDev Ontario. The investment will create 45 skilled jobs and maintain 105 in Hamilton.

Denmark-based Faerch Group has acquired the Sirap food packaging business in Italy, Poland and Spain from Italmobiliare. The business includes three production sites, and the deal is expected to close within three months, subject to regulatory approval.