Inhance Technologies has expanded its St. Louis facility to 75,000 square feet, more than double its previous size, doubling manufacturing capacity and increasing headcount to about 40. The company also moved to a new global headquarters in northwest Houston.

Altonaer Wellpappenfabrik in Tornesch near Hamburg will replace its finished goods palletizing system in spring 2021 and add a fully automated 4-color inline folding box machine in the second half of 2021. The company says it is investing over 10 million euros in quality and productivity across 2020/21.

PF Concept International Coöperatief U.A, part of Polyconcept, completed the acquisition of UK-based print-on-demand company T Shirt & Sons Ltd. on March 2, 2021.

Smurfit Kappa announced a multi-million pound investment in its Tannochside plant in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, to improve print and conversion equipment for solid board and corrugated divisions.

Mercian Labels acquired a portion of the business of label technology firm Computype Europe, reported on March 5, 2021.

Belvac Production Machinery will invest over $3 million and add up to 50 new jobs in Bedford County, Virginia, by leasing a 40,000-square-foot shell building in Forest. The company produces can-making equipment and plans to start operations by mid-summer 2021.

Coveris acquired specialty bag manufacturer Initial Packaging, reported on March 4, 2021.

Berlin Packaging announced the acquisition of Roma International PLC, a supplier of bottles, jars and closures for high-end cosmetics and personal care products. It is Berlin Packaging's twelfth acquisition in Europe since 2016.

Italian luxury packaging company Pusterla 1880 announced the acquisition of Leicester-based Pollard Boxes, the largest rigid box producer in the UK. The deal expands Pusterla's design, development and production resources in the UK market.

Ares Management's Private Equity Group funds and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board completed the acquisition of a majority interest in packaging distributor TricorBraun, from former majority owner AEA Investors, which retains a significant stake.

Moroccan seafood canner Unimer Group selected Trivium to supply aluminium club cans for its Titus sardine and anchovy brand, produced at Trivium's plant in Pontevedra, Spain, for export to France and Belgium.

UI Investissement has entered exclusive negotiations to sell packaging maker Gault & Fremont, based in Saint-Pierre-des-Corps, France, to the listed packaging group Guillin.

Nanxiong Jinye Packaging Materials won the 2021-2023 tender for shaped cigarette packaging bags from the Zhangjiajie branch of the Hunan Tobacco Company, at a winning bid of 433,500 yuan. The award notice is dated March 3, 2021.

JBT Corporation, a NYSE-listed food and beverage technology provider, acquired AutoCoding Systems, a UK-based software company for end-of-line packaging devices, for $17 million. AutoCoding generates about $7 million in annual revenue.

US paper manufacturer Neenah signed a definitive agreement to acquire Global Release Liners, the parent of Spanish release liner maker ITASA, for a cash consideration of EUR 205 million ($247 million), with closing expected the following month.

Groupe Guillin has entered exclusive negotiations with UI Investissement to acquire Groupe Gault & Fremont, a French and Belgian maker of paper bags, cardboard boxes and baking paper with 270 employees across four sites. The announcement is dated March 2, 2021.

ROVEMA GmbH acquired inno-tech Verpackungsmaschinen GmbH (Reiskirchen) and, via its subsidiary ROVEMA Benelux, Prins Verpakkingstechniek B.V. and Prins Engineering B.V. (Veenendaal). The deals add stainless steel packaging machines and Benelux distribution capabilities.

Constantia Copenhagen opened a new fully automated 6,000 square metre production site in Ishøj, Denmark, at the end of March 2021, with over EUR 8 million invested and capacity tripled.

Richmond-based folding carton maker Dominion Packaging has leased 144,606 square feet in the second phase of Becknell Industrial's Airport Logistics Center near Richmond International Airport, Virginia, in March 2021.

Macfarlane Group agreed to acquire protective packaging maker GWP Group in a £15 million deal, reported on March 1, 2021.

Green Bay Packaging CEO Will Kress described plans for a new state-of-the-art paper mill in Green Bay, Wisconsin, to replace the original 1940s mill. The project has cost over $500 million and is the largest single development project in Brown County history.

Polish beverage producer Krynica Vitamin signed a five-year contract to produce tonic-type beverages and provide glass bottle packaging services for Schweppes International Limited, valued at about PLN 10.7 million.

Verallia will invest €60 million in its Jacutinga plant in Minas Gerais, Brazil, adding a new furnace that more than doubles glass packaging production capacity. The announcement was dated 1 March 2021.

Latour Capital acquired a majority stake in Omni-Pac Group, an ecological moulded fibre packaging maker with over 600 employees at sites in the UK, France and Germany, from Motion Equity Partners, with management reinvesting.

SIG completed the acquisition of the remaining 50% of its Middle East and Africa joint venture, SIG Combibloc Obeikan, from Obeikan Investment Group. The business is fully consolidated from end-February 2021.

International Paper acquired the Molded Fiber division of Berkley International, Berkley MF LLC, which operates a molded fiber plant near Reno, Nevada. The purchase price was undisclosed.

Folding carton maker Malnove is spending $7.4 million to upgrade a production line and grow capacity at its Jacksonville plant, creating 10 new advanced manufacturing jobs and retaining 182.

Arihant Technopack, a flexible packaging converter in Sonipat, Haryana, has installed a Bobst Nova RS 5003 rotogravure press to increase its gravure printing capacity.

The Competition Commission of India approved PGP Glass Private Limited's acquisition of Piramal Glass Private Limited's glass packaging and decoration business, along with shares in certain subsidiaries and Vivid Glass Trading FZCO and Unzapak Private Limited business divisions.

Rootree, a Burlington, Ontario flexible packaging converter, is adding a second HP Indigo 20000 Digital Press to double its print capacity for fully compostable flexible packaging.

Ardagh Group agreed to combine its metal packaging business, Ardagh Metal Packaging, with special purpose acquisition company Gores Holdings V, with the new company to list on the NYSE under AMBP. Ardagh will keep about 80% and receive up to $3.4 billion in cash.

POLIFILM EXTRUSION GmbH acquired 100% of SAXA Packaging GmbH, which operates a blown film plant in Neukirchen/Pleiße, Germany. The deal adds broad and barrier films to POLIFILM's portfolio. The purchase price was not disclosed.

Duravant, a provider of engineered equipment and automation solutions, has acquired Votech, a manufacturer of bag filling machines and palletising technology based in the Netherlands.

UFlex Limited announced it will double production capacity at its Asepto aseptic liquid packaging plant in Sanand, India, from 3.5 billion to 7 billion packs per annum, by investing in a second Heidelberg Intro web printing line.

BG Container Glass (BGC) in Thailand has approved an M&A investment plan covering two companies that make plastic films, caps, PET bottles, preforms and corrugated boxes, as part of a strategy to double revenue from 10,000 to 25,000 million baht by 2025. The plan will go to the annual shareholders meeting.

Mill Rock Packaging Partners, backed by Mill Rock Capital, has acquired All Packaging Company, a custom paperboard packaging manufacturer with facilities in Utah and Colorado. Terms were not disclosed.

Berlin Packaging announced the acquisition of French glass and metal packaging companies Sodis-Uhart and Audoubert, adding more than 9,000 square meters of warehouse space in southern France. It is Berlin Packaging's eleventh European acquisition since 2016.

Harwood Private Equity completed a management buyout of UK pharmaceutical and healthcare packaging maker Medica Packaging from Sullivan Street Partners. Managing director Gerard Harford and finance director Mark Stokes led the buyout.

Vishakha Polyfab's joint venture PT Flextech Packaging with Wilmar started up a flexible packaging plant in Indonesia in January 2021, with full commissioning expected by the end of February 2021. The plant has an initial capacity of 13,500 metric tons.

Baysek Machines sold a C-170 automatic die cutter to The Corrugated Case Company in Chesterfield, UK. The machine will be installed in Spring 2021.

Revolution acquired Jadcore, LLC, a Terre Haute, Indiana-based manufacturer of post-industrial recycled resin and plastic products.

KAP AG announced the acquisition of an 80% stake in AerO Coated Fabrics B.V., a Dutch manufacturer of thermoplastic composite materials for niche markets such as CIPP liners and agricultural applications. The stake will be increased to 100%.

Esterpet, set up by Esterform management, secured £9m of asset finance from Shawbrook Bank to buy two Starlinger rPET production lines at Sherburn-in-Elmet, Leeds, each capable of over 13,000 tonnes a year.

JobsOhio awarded Burrows a $400,000 grant to support investment in new machinery, equipment and infrastructure at its food-packaging manufacturing plants in Mount Vernon and Franklin, Ohio.

Roslavl Glass Factory, the largest enterprise in the Smolensk region, modernized one of its two glass-melting furnaces and plans to upgrade the second. The plant produces 650,000 glass bottles and jars per day and employs 860 people.

Packaging Technologies & Inspection LLC awarded its Waldner agency business to WNA Packaging Technologies LLC, which will operate under the Waldner North America brand for sales, service and new product development.

Nordmeccanica Group will supply Wipak UK with a combi laminator, part of a £5 million investment at Wipak's Welshpool factory. The machine is the first of its kind in the UK and one of the largest installations in the country.

Swedish company PulPac entered a strategic partnership with gategroup company deSter to develop and manufacture fiber-based, single-use food packaging for airline and foodservice customers, with deSter deploying a multi-million-euro investment in new machinery.

JobsOhio provided Burrows, a Novolex brand, a $400,000 grant to invest in new machinery, equipment and infrastructure at its food-packaging plants in Franklin and Mount Vernon, Ohio, where more than 300 employees work.

Progroup started construction of its PW14 corrugated sheetfeeder plant in Stryków, Poland, investing about €72 million. The plant will produce up to 200,000 tonnes of corrugated board sheets per year from Q4 2022 and create more than 50 jobs.