Visy began operations at its $25 million glass beneficiation plant in Gawler, South Australia, announced in October 2022. The plant will recycle 150,000 tonnes of post-consumer glass each year.

Ellerhold AG is building a new 12,000 m² cardboard factory at its headquarters in Radebeul, Germany, with about EUR 20 million invested in the building and machinery. Completion is expected by end of 2022, and the plant will shift the company's focus toward packaging production.

Kruger Packaging has completed construction of its 400,000-plus square foot Elizabethtown plant in Kentucky, costing $114 million, and started producing corrugated paper.

CANPACK is building its second U.S. aluminum beverage can body plant in Muncie, Indiana, on 139 acres in Monroe Township. The $380 million project is expected to create 345 jobs by 2023, with potential to reach 425 jobs and $490 million by 2025.

Nelipak Healthcare Packaging will build a new flexible packaging production site in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, its first in the Americas, with about $20 million capital investment and roughly 80 new jobs.

Visy plans a A$500 million glass food and beverage container recycling and manufacturing facility in Yatala, Queensland. The three Queensland projects are expected to create 900 construction jobs and 300 operational jobs.

DS Smith has started production at its new 34,000 sqm packaging plant in Castelfranco Emilia (Modena), Italy, with a corrugator and three converting machines running. The plant will eventually have 10 production lines and over 200 million sqm of annual capacity.

Rengo has begun construction of a new corrugated cardboard factory, the Ehime Toon Factory, in Toon City, Ehime Prefecture, to relocate its Matsuyama plant. The investment is 14 billion yen and operations are scheduled to start in January 2024.

Bryce Corporation held a groundbreaking for a new manufacturing facility in Searcy, Arkansas, part of an $80 million investment that will create 142 jobs. The groundbreaking took place on August 23, 2022.

Ardagh Metal Packaging received full planning permission for a GBP 150 million drinks can factory at Global Point Business Park in Newtownabbey, Co Antrim, creating 160 jobs. The 460,000 sq ft facility will supply customers across Ireland, Britain and Europe.

Rand-Whitney held a beam signing and topping-off ceremony for its largest corrugated packaging facility in Boylston, Massachusetts, built with PROCON as design-builder. The plant is due to open in spring 2023 with capacity of 350 million boxes annually.

Fibrasa signed a letter of intent with the Pernambuco government to build a new plastic bucket factory in the Polo Empresarial of Abreu e Lima, with R$70 million in private investment and about 100 jobs expected.

Opal Group, backed by parent Nippon Paper Group, is building a highly automated 47,000m2 corrugated cardboard packaging plant at a greenfield site in Wodonga, Victoria, as part of a total $140 million investment. Sod-turning took place in July 2022.

Canpack announced a new greenfield aluminium beverage can plant in Poços de Caldas, Minas Gerais, with a total investment of about BRL 710 million (USD 140 million) and around 140 direct jobs. Construction is expected to start in Q4 2022, with operations from Q1 2024.

Polish cardboard packaging maker Janmar Centrum opened a new production facility of about 7,300 square metres in Stryków, within Segro Logistics Park Stryków, to boost manufacturing capacity. The investment value was not disclosed.

Klabin will invest almost R$1.6 billion in a new corrugated box plant in Piracicaba, São Paulo, with annual capacity of 240,000 tonnes, scheduled to start production in Q2 2024. The Figueira Project is announced on 20 July 2022.

Premier Tech is investing $33 million in a 165,000-square-foot facility in Montgomery, Alabama, for its Systems and Automation group, serving as its US headquarters. Operations start gradually from March 2023.

Trebor Developments completed the pre-sale of a 625,000 sq ft freehold turnkey site at Delta Park, Peterborough to Crown Holdings for a build-to-suit aluminium beverage can plant, with total capital value over £150 million. Main contractor ISG began work in June 2022 with completion expected in summer 2023.

Paharpur 3P Private Limited launched commercial production at its greenfield flexible packaging plant in Sri City, Tirupati district. The first phase, with an investment of over ₹150 crore, employs 250 people.

Shree Arun Packaging (Sapco) invested Rs 20 crore to commission a new 60,000 sq ft factory near Kalyan, moving operations from Mahape and adding Bobst converting machines. The unit became fully operational in March 2022.

German packaging maker Papier-Mettler acquired an industrial building in Moorefield, West Virginia, in May and will invest $48 million to create up to 100 jobs there, its first US production plant.

Progroup has broken ground on a new corrugated sheetfeeder plant between Petersberg and Höheischweiler, investing more than EUR 90 million and creating 60 jobs. Production is set to begin in the second half of 2023.

Heineken will build a 1.8 billion peso (about $90 million) can manufacturing plant near its brewery in Mequoi, Chihuahua, Mexico, its seventh in the country. The plant is expected to employ around 120 people after opening.

Kruger Packaging's Elizabethtown team produced the first sheets of corrugated paper at its soon-to-open corrugated box plant, with construction continuing toward completion. The milestone was reported on June 27, 2022.

Keiding, Inc., a Milwaukee-based maker of molded pulp protective packaging, is opening a second factory at N90 W14507 Commerce Drive in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, creating 20 manufacturing jobs. The facility is expected to open in November 2023.

Ball Corporation announced a new aluminum can manufacturing plant in Chilca, Peru, with capacity of over 1 billion beverage cans a year. Start-up is planned for 2023 and the plant will create more than 100 direct jobs.

DS Smith is launching a 37,000 m² corrugated packaging plant in Bełchatów with annual capacity of 180 million m² at the end of June 2022. The project cost PLN 250 million and created more than 200 jobs.

Canpack marked the steel framing completion of its 862,000 sq ft aluminium beverage can plant in Monroe Township, Muncie, Indiana, with plant operations expected in Q4 2022. The $380 million facility is expected to employ about 345 people.

Pratt Industries, through subsidiary Pratt Corrugated Holdings, will locate a Regional Manufacturing & Innovation Center in Cedar Hill, Texas. The company will invest more than $200 million and employ 150 full-time workers.

Canpack announced a new aluminum caps factory in Manaus, with construction scheduled to begin in 2023. The investment value was not stated.

Eastey, a shrink-packaging equipment maker owned by Engage Technologies, moved its sealer and tunnel manufacturing into a 50,000 sq ft building in Big Lake, Minnesota, announced June 1, 2022.

Smurfit Kappa has started construction of its first corrugated packaging plant in Morocco, a 25,000 m2 facility in Rabat, with an investment of over €35 million and about 300 direct and indirect jobs. The first stone was laid on 25 May 2022.

Lamipak has started construction of its second Indonesian factory, an aseptic packaging plant in Cikande, Serang, Banten. The plant is designed for 18 billion packs per year in two phases, with 9 billion packs targeted by Q4 2023.

EcoPacking is building a 10,000 m2 plant in Lurín, Peru, to make plastic corrugated (cartonplast) boxes for agro-exporters, with inauguration planned for July 2022.

Ball Corporation has started construction of a new aluminium beverage can plant in Pilsen, Czech Republic, investing €170 million (CZK 4.5 billion) and creating up to 200 jobs. The plant is scheduled to start operating in early 2023.

Shengxing Co. (002752.SZ) announced that it will establish subsidiary Shengxing (Ya'an) Packaging in the Ya'an economic development zone, Sichuan, to build an aluminum beverage can production project. The total estimated investment is about 180 million yuan, announced May 10, 2022.

Nashville Box has started manufacturing at its 100,000-square-foot corrugated box plant in Lebanon, Tennessee, after installing converting lines, announced May 2022.

SÜDPACK officially opened its new printing and finishing plant in Kłobuck, Poland, on May 5 and 6, 2022, on a site of over 14,000 m2 that was previously Bahpol.

Visy announced a new A$150 million corrugated box factory at Hemmant, Queensland, to serve the state's agricultural sector. The projects together are expected to create over 900 construction jobs and 300 remanufacturing jobs.

Visy announced a A$500 million glass food and beverage container recycling and manufacturing facility in Yatala, Queensland, relocating its glass remanufacturing from South Brisbane, expected in 2025. The plant will produce about 1 billion glass containers a year.

Van Genechten Packaging (VGP) opened a second plant in Komárom, Hungary, with a 10,000 m2 production building, creating more than 100 local jobs. Production was starting in April 2022, about 14 months after the decision.

Rand-Whitney held a groundbreaking for a 384,000 square foot packaging facility in Boylston, Massachusetts, designed and built with PROCON. When fully operational it will be able to produce 300 million boxes annually.

APRIL Group is investing IDR33.4 trillion in a sustainable paperboard packaging facility at its Pangkalan Kerinci operations in Riau province, Sumatra. The mill will produce 1.2 million tons of folding box board annually; construction was marked with a ceremony in April 2022.

Saica Group started corrugated packaging production at its new 360,000 square-foot plant in Hamilton, Ohio, its first U.S. corrugated plant. The plant has capacity over 1,500 MSF/year and is part of a $800 million U.S. investment plan; about 500 jobs are expected.

Ardagh Metal Packaging submitted a full planning application for a $200 million beverage can plant at Global Point, Newtownabbey near Belfast, expected to create about 160 direct jobs. The plant is planned to be operational in 2023.

Saica Pack started up its first US box plant, a 360,000 sq ft greenfield facility in Hamilton, Ohio, in April 2022. It currently runs one shift with 32 employees and targets 140m sqm of corrugated board per year by 2029.

Italian packaging company Gruppo Fanti held a groundbreaking for its first US production site in Weirton, Brooke County, West Virginia, investing $30 million to make metal packaging containers and creating 40 jobs.

Haskell converted a vacant warehouse in Plainfield, Illinois into the Lincolnway facility for Diageo, with two high-speed can lines capable of 25 million cases of RTD products per year.

COFCO Packaging (00906) plans a two-piece can factory in Shenyang with total investment of about RMB 600 million. Phase one is expected to start construction in the first half of 2022 with 1 billion cans a year capacity, and phase two adds 700 million cans a year.

Majesty Packaging Systems built a new facility in Brazil through its subsidiary Majesty America do Sul Embalagens, to be operational by mid-2022, producing actuators, dip tubes and aerosol valves and pumps.