Caddick Construction has been appointed to deliver a 14,500 sq m factory extension for Smurfit Kappa at Mold Business Park in Flintshire, North Wales, part of a €40 million investment, with completion expected in summer 2022.

Sidel installed a high-speed PET water packaging line with 48,000 bottles per hour capacity for Iraqi National for Food's greenfield plant in Baghdad. The line was started up in about six weeks and first bottles reached the market in June 2020.

Schumacher Packaging commissioned Voith to rebuild its PM 2 line at the Myszków site in Poland, doubling light-weight containerboard output from 500 to 1000 tons per day, with restart scheduled for mid-2023.

The French city of Colomiers awarded supplier Sorepack a EUR 400,000 contract for compostable and biodegradable trays, films and labels for its municipal catering centre. The award was published on October 6, 2021.

Jianas Brothers Packaging was awarded a contract worth up to $47.09 million by the Defense Logistics Agency.

SOMIC America agreed to provide GOYA Foods with a proprietary retail-ready end-of-line packaging machine, the 424 T2+ case packer, announced on the opening day of PACK Expo Las Vegas.

Robinson, a UK custom packaging manufacturer, is supplying a custom 500ml recyclable PET bottle to fragrance brand My Fabulosa, with a dedicated production cell to meet rapid demand growth.

Waddington Europe, a Novolex division, agreed with Irish recycler Shabra to purchase food-grade recycled PET for making new packaging at its Arklow production site, announced August 31, 2021.

Party Decor signed a contract with a major distributor of Chinese products to exclusively produce flower boxes at its UK headquarters, previously imported from China, worth at least £750,000 a year for a minimum of two years.

Packaging maker DS Smith developed a 100% corrugated board e-commerce shipping solution for the Hesse start-up Blaue Helden, using inserts so no filler material is needed for its starter sets. The announcement was dated August 25, 2021.

Bensalem, Pennsylvania corrugated packaging maker TriState Container Corporation has become the first print provider to acquire Xeikon's IDERA digital printing press for corrugated packaging.

Spanish printing equipment maker Comexi sold an Offset CI8 printing press and an ML1 MC laminator to Thai flexible packaging manufacturer Prepack Thailand.

Huarun Shuanghe Limin Pharmaceutical (Jinan) has issued a public tender for nine lots of cartons, boxes and drug instruction leaflets, with bid opening on 23 August 2021. The total value is not stated.

Yangzhou Runyang Packaging Products was selected as the winning bidder for a packaging carton procurement tender run by Yangzhou Yezhi Food Production and Distribution. The contract price is 1,627,607.93 yuan per year including 13% tax.

Rondo-Pak, a folding carton and printed components supplier, has attained certified vendor status with Genentech's Hillsboro Technical Operations facility after supplying eight million cartons with no defects over nearly two years.

SIG partnered with contract packer Framptons to install a new combidome filling machine, the first of its kind in the UK, so Framptons can produce Lilk's plant-based beverages in SIG's carton bottle.

Leicester-based 3T Logistics and Technology Group was selected by PFF Group, a UK food packaging manufacturer, to provide a new transport management system for supplying packaging to UK supermarkets and food manufacturers.

French retailer Intermarché selected SIG's Signature packaging material for its new 100 percent pure juice under its Les Éleveurs brand. The cartons are made with around 75 percent renewable paperboard.

Caddick Construction is delivering a multimillion-pound design and build contract for Alpla's Warrington UK plant in Golbourne, including a logistics hub expansion and bridge link. Work is due to complete in autumn 2021.

Valmet will supply Klabin in Brazil a paperboard machine (PM 28), a new fiberline with Continuous Cooking G3 and a BCTMP line as part of Klabin's PUMA II investment, with start-ups scheduled for 2Q 2023. Values were not disclosed.

Eckes-Granini began producing its one-liter hohes C juice bottle entirely from recycled PET since mid-May 2021, with KHS providing bottle and shape design on its InnoPET FreshSafe block at Bad Fallingbostel.

Robertson has been awarded an £18 million construction contract by SAICA Group to convert a former distribution centre in Livingston, West Lothian, into a cardboard manufacturing facility for SAICA Pack. The £50 million plant is due for completion in December 2021.

China's Dansun Packaging in Hefei has invested in a BOBST FFG 8.20 Discovery flexo folder-gluer, following an earlier 2017 purchase and a 2019 palletizer.

C&D Foods agreed a €40 million contract with ProAmpac's Donegal facility in Gaoth Dobhair, Ireland, for flexible packaging supply across its European operations. The deal is expected to support site expansion and job creation.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Indian Oil awarded a contract to MC Packaging Pvt Ltd to supply 5-ply corrugated cartons for lube containers at its Budge Budge lube plant near Kolkata, with a contract value of ₹3.45 crore and a contract date of 30 July 2021.

Hengsheng Packaging, a Xinsheng Group subsidiary, signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Fosber Asia for a 2.5m Fosber Pro/Line corrugator. The deal is part of a planned packaging technology industrial park of nearly 1,000 acres in western China.

Mondi Group is providing Spanish clothing retailer Alvaro Moreno with recyclable paper shopping, delivery and gift bags that can replace almost 90 metric tons of plastic per year. The announcement was reported on 2021-04-01.

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.

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.

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.

Sidel supplied its Aseptic Combi Predis technology to RJ Corp, whose operating company Varun Beverages installed it at a new facility in Punjab, India, earlier in 2021. It is the first commercial dairy PET aseptic packaging line in the region.

Walmart has chosen IFCO as its exclusive reusable plastic container packaging provider for select fresh fruits and vegetables in the US under a seven-year agreement. IFCO expects to create manufacturing jobs in the US.

IFCO and Walmart completed a seven-year agreement making IFCO Walmart's exclusive RPC packaging provider for select fresh fruits and vegetables in the U.S. IFCO expects to create U.S.-based manufacturing jobs for new RPC production.

Kaas-Pack Holland of Hoogeveen, Netherlands, awarded Robertpack a contract in 2020 for a complete cheese packaging line, now installed and operational. The line includes a box erector, Fanuc robot cells, a box closer and a palletising robot.

Tranås municipality awarded TechPack in Scandinavia AB a contract for plastic food packaging worth 800,000 SEK, running to roughly December 2022 to February 2025, out of two bids.

Ball Corporation produced a new range of recyclable aluminium bottles for Norwegian water brand Lofoten Arctic Water. The brand is also investing in a new filling line that will create skilled jobs in the Lofoten Islands.

LLW Repository Ltd awarded a four-year multi-lot framework for radioactive waste packaging and associated services, with an estimated maximum spend of GBP 17 million. The award was dated 16 July 2020 and published on 30 December 2020.

Datwyler signed a new multi-year contract with Nespresso running until 2030 for capsule and seal production at its automated plant in Schattdorf, Switzerland, with continuous volume and revenue growth expected. Terms are confidential.

Delhi Milk Scheme, a government milk body, awarded Rainbow Packaging Pvt Ltd a tender to manufacture and supply 372 MT of three-layer co-extruded pigmented polythene film, with contract value of INR 5.71 crore and a 365-day work period.

Harro Höfliger is building a high-performance vial packaging line at its Backnang site for delivery to Pfizer's Belgian production plant. The line will carton, label and serialise vaccine vials.

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.

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.

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.