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.

KHS USA Inc. plans to purchase the assets of Scandia Packaging Machinery Co., a packaging machinery manufacturer in Fairfield, New Jersey, to expand its portfolio with compact cartoners and secondary packaging machines.

Caribbean Glass Industry announced the construction of a glass bottle factory in Pedro Brand, Santo Domingo province, with an investment of over $100 million. The plant will have an annual capacity of 500 million bottles and create 300 jobs starting February 2021.

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.

Tetra Pak is acquiring the electron beam (eBeam) sterilization operations from Swiss technology company Comet to integrate the technology in-house for its packaging equipment.

Comar is relocating and expanding its West Bend, Wisconsin manufacturing site to a 160,000 sq ft facility, tripling its local footprint. The expansion includes over $7 million in capital investment in injection molding machines and automation, with production starting in December 2020.

Blackstone Group has agreed to acquire the glass unit of Piramal Enterprises for about $1 billion. The deal could be announced in the coming weeks.

Vishakha Polyfab acquired India's first Brampton Engineering AquaFrost water-quenched blown film line. The line uses water-quenching technology for improved clarity and thermoformability in packaging.

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.

Polyplex (USA) LLC is planning a $120 million expansion of its PET film manufacturing plant in Decatur, Alabama. The project includes a 200,000-sq-ft building expansion, debottlenecking of resin production lines, and installation of a BOPET film line, increasing film capacity by 110 million lb/year and captive resin capacity to 190 million lb/year. Construction is expected to begin in Q1 or Q2 2021.

FROMM Group, a packaging solutions company, acquired Finnish stretch wrapping machine manufacturer Octomeca OY. Octomeca is based in Naantali, Finland, and specializes in premium class stretch film wrapping machines.

Ausnutria, together with Trivium Packaging, is building a new 10,000 m² can factory at its Heerenveen site, with an investment of approximately €175 million. The factory will be operational in early 2021 and will supply cans to Ausnutria's Heerenveen and Leeuwarden plants, with a capacity of over 150 million cans per year.

Golden West Packaging Group acquired Berry Pack and Progressive Packaging Group, two California-based fresh produce packaging and distribution providers with operations in California, Arizona and northern Mexico.

Oldham-based Ribble Packaging completed a £3.5 million investment project including a warehouse extension and new corrugator and fanfold stacker machinery, raising line speeds and capacity. The project ran from February to early September 2020.

Italian public buyer ERSU SPA awarded Sumus Italia srl a triennial supply contract worth EUR 1,198,110 for paper sacks for separate waste collection, with the award dated 2020-10-30.

Wenzhou Xifa Industrial signed a new order with a Ukrainian customer for 5 kg and 10 kg PE woven fertilizer bags. The article is dated November 2020.

Protective packaging supplier Pregis LLC has acquired machinery maker Technical Machinery Solutions (TMS) and its affiliated Graphic Innovators business for an undisclosed amount. TMS engineered equipment for producing recyclable all-paper mailers.

SeaTac Packaging Manufacturing Corporation has taken delivery of a BOBST EXPERT CI flexo press as part of a multi-million-dollar investment at its new facility in Tacoma, Washington. The press will expand printing capabilities and increase capacity.

Mayr-Melnhof announced a EUR 18 million investment in its Neupack folding carton plant in Hirschwang, Austria, covering an enlarged production and storage hall, new printing technology, die-cutting capacity and automation.

Mayr-Melnhof announced on November 5, 2020 an EUR 18 million investment in its Neupack folding carton plant at Hirschwang, Austria, covering an enlarged production and storage hall, new printing technology, die-cutting capacity and automation.

Delice Group renovated its dairy plant in the Governorate of Sid Bouzid, Tunisia, with new sleeving line from FINPAC, now operating 24/6.

Inovar Packaging Group acquired Kansas City-based Tabco, a label and packaging manufacturer founded in 1957, in partnership with its existing management team, announced on 4 November 2020.

Wepoba Wellpappenfabrik, part of the Panther Group, installed a BOBST 8.20 Expertline inline machine at its Display and Packaging Park in Wustermark, Germany, as part of a €60 million investment program to increase folding box capacity.

Aktieselskapet Vinmonopolet awarded a framework contract for plastic bags for its stores to Stenqvist AS, with an award value of NOK 45,000,000 dated 3 November 2020.

Berlin Packaging announced the acquisition of Consolidated Bottle Corporation, a Canadian supplier of plastic, glass and metal containers and closures. The deal significantly expands Berlin Packaging's footprint in Canada, and all Consolidated Bottle employees and locations will be retained.

AR Packaging acquired German-based specialist folding carton pharma packaging firm Kroha.

Chicago-based BASCO, Inc. announced the acquisition of Youngstown-based Youngstown Barrel and Drum (YBD), a distributor of industrial packaging. YBD customers will gain access to BASCO's wider product lines.

Thailand-based SCG Packaging announced its acquisition of Go-Pak, a UK total packaging solution provider based in Yate, Bristol. Go-Pak will keep its management, operations and brand, and the deal supports SCGP's expansion in the UK, Europe and North America.

Thailand's SCG Packaging (SCGP) signed a share purchase agreement to acquire 100% of Go-Pak UK Limited, a foodservice packaging maker with its base in Vietnam, expected to close around December 2020 and add over THB 2,800 million in annual revenue.

Sweden's Försvarsmakten awarded CLIP-LOK SIMPAK (Scandinavia) ApS a SEK 15,000,000 contract to supply packaging material, published 2020-11-02 via open procurement.

Wipak UK announced a £5 million strategic investment in November 2020, including a combi laminator from Nordmeccanica, an advanced slitter, and a laser machine for its flexible packaging factory in Welshpool, Powys. The combi laminator is the first of its kind in Wales and one of the largest installations in the UK.

Jokey Group is building a new production facility in Murcia, Spain, for its Jokey Treplás subsidiary, investing about 12 million euros, to replace the Molina de Segura plant and double capacity, with operation expected in early 2021.

SCG Chemicals and A.J. Plast will set up a joint venture in Vietnam to produce and distribute biaxially oriented film, with a total capital of 700 million baht, SCG Chemicals holding 45%.

SCG Chemicals, a unit of SCC, will subscribe to 40,560,773 new A.J. Plast shares, about 9.22%, at 17.15 baht per share, totaling roughly 696 million baht, in a private placement.

TriMas signed an agreement to acquire Affaba & Ferrari Srl, a designer and manufacturer of precision caps and closures based in Borgo San Giovanni, Italy. The deal is expected to close before the end of 2020 and will join TriMas' Packaging segment through its Rieke division.

HSIL Ltd. announced a ₹220 crore investment in a new greenfield facility for AGI Glaspac to manufacture specialty glass in Bhongir, Telangana. The plant will have a capacity of 150 tonnes per day with five lines and is expected to be operational by September 2022.

Ardagh Group, Glass - North America, has selected TricorBraun WinePak, a division of TricorBraun, in a strategic alliance announced October 28, 2020. The article is a short excerpt with few details.

Orkla launched chips packaging made with certified renewable polypropylene from SABIC's TRUCIRCLE portfolio, converted into BOPP film by Irplast. The partners say the solution halves the carbon footprint of their value chain compared with traditional plastics.

U.S. Corrugated of Delaware chose Dover, Delaware as its preferred location for a new $80 million, 457,000 sq ft box-manufacturing plant creating 159 jobs, with state grants of over $3 million under consideration.

Flexible packaging converter Glenroy, Inc. appointed Tom Danneker as President and CEO and William Dopp as CFO; the company plans a major campus expansion to boost film and pouch production, due for completion in 2021.

Ardagh Group is adding two new high-speed beverage can manufacturing lines at its Olive Branch, Mississippi facility, starting production by end of 2020 and adding more than 80 jobs.

Private equity group KCE of Bilbao, Spain completed the acquisition of CTL Packaging USA Inc., the U.S. manufacturing subsidiary of Corporacion Juan Celaya located in North Carolina, via a stock deal.

Ball Corporation approved a US$90 million investment to build a new aluminum can production plant in Frutal (MG), Brazil, its eleventh plant in the country, to meet rising demand for canned beer and new beverage categories.

The government of Bashkortostan opened a new plant by Sterex Pak LLC for multi-layer aseptic packaging in Sterlitamaksky District on October 24, 2020, with investments of 1.87 billion rubles, creating 110 jobs and capacity of up to 100 million packages per month.

Noelle + von Campe GmbH & Co. KG is investing EUR 65 million in a new glass furnace at its Boffzen site, with groundbreaking in week 44 of 2020 and first glass production expected in early 2022.

Korporacja KGL signed a framework agreement with Mondelēz International Europe to supply packaging to Mondelēz production plants in Poland and Lithuania.

OAO SvetlogorskKhimvolokno is implementing an investment project to increase output of polypropylene fabric and big-bag containers at its plant in Svetlogorsk, Belarus. The project includes installation of an extrusion line from STC and 19 circular looms, with a second phase adding sewing and printing equipment.