After buying the Duino mill, Mondi plans to invest around €200 million to convert a paper machine into a containerboard machine. The converted mill is expected to produce about 420,000 tonnes of recycled containerboard a year.

Imaflex Inc. has selected Bandera U.S. to supply a 2400 3-layer SmartFlex line and a 2400 5-layer Barrier Flex line to increase capacity at its Victoriaville plant. The first line is scheduled to be installed and started up in Q1 2023.

Ardagh Metal Packaging is investing nearly EUR 80 million to add a third production line at its La Ciotat plant, launching in the first half of 2023, to make slim beverage cans previously imported from Germany.

Mondi installed a 3.35m BHS Corrugated Width Line at its Mszczonów plant near Warsaw, following a factory extension, lifting planned output to over 320m sqm per year. The extension and new corrugator were implemented in 2023.

Nottingham-based packaging firm Wilkins Group unveiled a multi-million pound 50,000 sq ft extension to its Colwick factory, built by Lindum Group. The extension is expected to add investment in new machines and increase turnover.

Encirc, a Vidrala company, and Diageo announced a hydrogen-powered hybrid glass furnace at Encirc's Elton plant in Cheshire, to be fully operational by 2027. It aims to produce up to 200 million net zero bottles annually by 2030.

Universal Carton Industries is investing US$15 million (AED 55 million) to expand its corrugated box production in Ras Al Khaimah Economic Zone, tripling capacity to 100,000 tons per year, with completion scheduled for 2023.

Ardagh Glass Packaging South Africa, formerly Consol Glass, is expanding its Nigel plant east of Johannesburg with two additional furnaces, a R3bn investment that will add about 30% capacity and create 300 jobs.

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners opened a A$43.7 million, highly automated canning line at its Moorabbin production site, built with KHS, GPI and Matthews Australasia, to serve Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia.

aXpel s+r AG and aXpel one for all AG began operating together under the aXpel one for all AG name on December 1, 2022, with a broader range of paper and PE sacks. The certified production site in Burgdorf, Switzerland will remain and be expanded.

Huhtamaki inaugurated a 12,500 m2 extension to its Nules, Spain factory for paper-based packaging, a EUR 20 million investment with a EUR 2.2 million regional grant, doubling site capacity and creating around 130 jobs; production starts January 2023.

CANPACK FPN Brzesko opened new production lines for aluminium beverage can ends, raising capacity to over 12 billion units a year, in a USD 50 million brownfield investment expected to create 50 direct jobs.

Tempo Flexible Packaging will receive C$3.5 million from FedDev Ontario's Business Scale-up and Productivity stream to expand its facility by 10,000 sq ft and increase production of recyclable food packaging.

Sappi will invest about $418 million to convert the No. 2 paper machine at its Somerset Mill in Skowhegan, Maine to produce solid bleached sulphate board, nearly doubling machine capacity to 470,000 tons per year by early 2025.

Mondi approved a €400 million investment in a new paper machine at its Štětí mill in the Czech Republic, producing about 210,000 tonnes per year of sack kraft paper for its Paper Bags business. Start-up is expected in 2025.

Flex Américas laid the first stone of a new BoPET film plant in Altamira, Tamaulipas, as the first stage of a $200 million expansion for construction in 2022-2023. The company says the expansion will create about 1,000 jobs.

Constantia Flexibles is investing more than EUR 80 million to expand its Constantia Teich plant in Weinburg, Austria, raising aluminium foil capacity to 90,000 tonnes a year, about 30% more, and making it the largest European aluminium foil producer.

Mondi is expanding its Mszczonów plant near Warsaw, adding new machinery and automation to more than double production capacity to 320 million square metres per year by 2023.

Cardbox Packaging is investing over €14 million in its Wolfsberg site in Austria, adding premises, a new Heidelberg printing line, die-cutting machines and an off-line barrier coating line, with operations starting in Q4 2022.

Constantia Flexibles is investing over €80 million at its Teich factory in Austria to build a new rolling mill and lacquering line, raising aluminum foil output to 90,000 tons per year.

Greiner Packaging announced a £10 million expansion programme at its Dungannon, Northern Ireland plastics packaging site as part of a goal to reach £100m annual turnover within three years.

Diageo will invest GBP 16 million at its Runcorn, England site to significantly upgrade the bottling line and expand warehousing capacity.

Cullen Eco-Friendly Packaging is investing £15m in a new innovation and design hub and an additional factory at its expanded Glasgow site. The expansion will create more than 120 jobs and double output to over one billion pieces per year.

ORBIS Corporation broke ground on an expansion of its Urbana, Ohio manufacturing plant, adding 30% more space and more presses and tools for reusable totes, bulk containers and pallets. The expansion targets completion in Q2 2023 and plans 40-50 additional jobs over three years.

Lamipak is investing over $400 million to expand its Kunshan, China facility with an R&D centre and automated warehouse, raising site capacity from 12 billion to 39 billion packs per year, with commissioning expected by April 2023.

Owens-Illinois announced an R$300 million investment to expand its glass bottle factory in Vitoria de Santo Antao, Pernambuco, Brazil, creating 100 new jobs on top of 165 existing ones. A letter of intent was signed with the state government.

Ellerhold AG is building a new cardboard factory of almost 11,000 square metres at its Radebeul headquarters near Dresden, investing EUR 20 million. Completion is planned by the end of 2022, shifting the company's focus from large posters to packaging.

Novolex is investing $10 million to expand plastic bag and polyethylene film recycling capacity at its North Vernon, Indiana facility, producing up to 28 million pounds of recycled content per year.

Visy will invest A$48 million in major upgrades to its material recovery facilities on Gibson Island in Queensland. The three Queensland projects are expected to create 900 construction jobs and 300 operational jobs.

Imaflex USA, the US arm of Montréal-based Imaflex, will invest up to $15 million and add 37 jobs for a building expansion and equipment at its Thomasville plant in Davidson County, North Carolina.

BillerudKorsnäs added the KM 7 board machine at its Gruvön mill in Värmland, Sweden, with an investment of SEK 5.7 billion, and shut down three older machines. The machine has a capacity of 550,000 tonnes per year and came online in October 2019.

Mauser Packaging Solutions has invested in a new multi-layer extrusion blow molding machine at its Littleborough, UK plant to make 220-litre drums with recycled resin. The investment expands capacity for its Infinity Series products.

Anduro Manufacturing plans to more than double its manufacturing footprint in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, in the San Jose Commercial Park free zone, by late 2023 or early 2024. The expansion will also more than double in-house production capacity.

Mondi plans to convert the paper machine at its planned Duino mill to produce about 420,000 tonnes per year of recycled containerboard, at an estimated investment of around €200 million. The plan supports its Corrugated Solutions plants in Central Europe and Turkey.

Tetra Pak will invest 437 million pesos to expand its packaging plant in Querétaro by adding one cutting production line and two lamination lines, raising capacity to 12.8 billion packages per year.

Greif will invest $13 million over five years to modernize and expand production capacity at its Taylors, Greenville County facility, which makes spiral tubes and cores from recycled paperboard, with completion expected in November.

Britvic officially opened a new canning line at its Rugby factory after investing £26.9 million and creating 20 new jobs. The line produces around 120,000 cans per hour and raises site capacity by about 20%.

Thimm group expanded its folding box production capacity at its Wörrstadt, Germany site by installing a new production line, a few months after commissioning a new folder gluing machine.

Skjodt-Barrett Contract Packaging is expanding its Lebanon, Indiana facility with a 340,000 square foot addition, adding production lines and freezer space at an estimated $58 million capital investment. The expansion is expected to create 90 jobs.

Packaging manufacturer Thimm installed a new Bahmüller Turbox folder gluer and automated downstream equipment at its Wörrstadt site for EUR 4.2 million, to meet rising e-commerce packaging demand.

Mondi is investing nearly €65 million to increase production capacity at three Consumer Flexibles plants in Korneuburg (Austria), Halle and Steinfeld (Germany) for sustainable pet food packaging. Work has already started at Korneuburg.

Crown Holdings will build a second high-speed aluminum beverage can line at its Parma, Italy facility, adding over one billion cans annually and 80 jobs. Commercial production is expected in Q1 2023.

Bahrain's Labour Fund Tamkeen is supporting the expansion of United Paper Industries (Bahrain Pack), a packaging maker, which will add 7,000 tons of production capacity and raise exports over three years.

Ardagh Glass Packaging Africa announced a R1.5 billion expansion of its Nigel production facility southeast of Johannesburg, adding a new furnace and production lines. The investment more than doubles capacity and has created over 150 direct jobs.

Jamestrong Packaging is adding a new aluminium casting line at its Taree, NSW facility to make slugs for aerosol cans, with a reported investment of AUD 6 million. The line is planned for commissioning by October 2023 and will create 12 ongoing jobs.

Morocco's Industry Minister inaugurated a new 5,000 sq m extension of Compagnie Industrielle des Fibres in Tangier, with seven machines and planned output rising from 12 to 45 tons of packaging materials per day by 2025.

Ardagh Metal Packaging is investing in expanding its La Ciotat, France beverage can facility, supported by Bpifrance and Sud Attractivité, creating about 80 jobs with production expected to begin in the first half of 2023.

MMP Neupack Polska is investing 60 million euros in its Bydgoszcz plant in Poland, doubling capacity and adding an industrial digital printing line expected to start in mid-2022.

Scholle IPN will invest $31.1 million to expand its Smyth County operation by 73,000 square feet, adding new film extrusion and packaging lines and 75 jobs, plus new rail track for resin deliveries. The announcement was made on June 1, 2022.

Caddick Construction completed a multimillion-pound design and build expansion of Alpla's Warrington manufacturing facility in Golborne, including a bridge link and a warehouse extension to its logistics hub, announced 31 May 2022.