PaperWorks is investing $25 million in new state-of-the-art equipment to enhance its North American production capacity and innovation capabilities.

PaperWorks upgraded its high-quality packaging production with a new Komori Lithrone GX40 press supplied by Komori America.

Luxempart acquired a minority stake in Enoflex, a wine and spirits closure producer formed by combining Enoplastic and Sparflex, alongside the Moglia family and Cobepa. The group operates 13 production sites in 6 countries.

PAC Worldwide, a US-based protective packaging manufacturer, placed an order with CHUANGLIAN for three fully customized packaging machines: a 1250 Single Facer, a 1250 Creaser Crusher, and a 2050 Creaser Crusher.

Greiner Packaging produces Pro Nature toilet-cleaner bottles for Henkel using 50 per cent recycled material. The article gives no further details on volumes or value.

The Weedon Group, a UK corrugated packaging manufacturer, has joined forces with Flexi-Hex to develop an Eco Bottle Packaging Kit for shipping individual bottles. The kit comes in three sizes and uses recyclable corrugated board.

VPK Group increased its shareholding in corrugated board producer CorrBoard UK to 50% through new shares and the purchase of former shareholder Garthwest's stake. CorrBoard operates a plant in North Lincolnshire.

Mondi completed the installation of a Windmöller & Hölscher AD 8320/AM 8115 paper sack converting machine at its Nyíregyháza site in Hungary, with a €7 million investment. The plant can now produce over 130 million sacks annually for food packaging.

Spanish engineering equipment manufacturer Enprom has supplied French flexible packaging firm Janu'sac with a customised eS2TA 140 hybrid converting line to meet new French packaging legislation.

Cama Group completed a new R&D and manufacturing centre for packaging machinery in Shanghai, China, to meet increased demand in Asia. The facility will produce a new machine series called CCM (Cama China Manufacturing).

CCL Industries acquired InTouch Label and Packaging, a short-run digital label converter near Boston, Massachusetts, for an enterprise value of about $10.9 million. The business will join Avery's WePrint direct-to-consumer label business.

In the second half of 2020, Hatzopoulos S.A. completed the expansion of its cylinder engraving line with an additional engraving station, increasing in-house capacity.

Hefei Zengran, a subsidiary of Hefei Taihe Intelligent Technology Group, won a bidding contract worth 5,674,000 yuan from Yuan Longping Agricultural Hi-Tech Co., Ltd. for equipment including vertical packaging machines, secondary packaging production lines, and palletizing machinery for the Lupin Hi-Tech Yiyang Seed Industrial Park.

In July 2020 SÜDPACK entered a joint venture with India-based Kamakshi Flexiprints to develop a new flexible packaging facility near Ahmedabad. The plant will serve barrier, aesthetics and convenience packaging needs.

Ball Metal Beverage Container, a division of Ball Corp, signed a lease for 165,000 square feet at the Monroe Logistics Center in Monroe, Ohio, relocating its distribution operations from Trenton. The landlord is Industrial Developments International.

Arkhbum is upgrading its Ulyanovsk corrugated plant, which makes double and triple wall packaging with monthly output of 16 million square meters. The total project cost is 2.5 billion rubles, with a new plant due to launch in March 2021.

Gaosen Packaging is constructing its fourth beverage can plant in China at Xinzheng in Henan province, invested at RMB350 million (US$50m). It plans trial production of two-piece beverage cans by the end of the year.

Packaging manufacturer WestRock appointed Rajiv Banavali as senior vice president for science and innovation.

Tosca, a reusable packaging provider, has agreed to acquire Contraload NV, a plastic pallet pooling leader in the UK and EU, expanding its geographic reach and product portfolio. The announcement was made on June 29, 2020. Terms were not disclosed.

Belarus's Grodno Tobacco Factory Neman purchased 1,200 tonnes of biaxially oriented polypropylene film for cigarette packs and blocks from Ukraine's Tatrafan Plastkhim-T for a total of 2.979 million euros, after winning a supplier tender.

Berry Global is collaborating with Mondelez International to supply packaging containing recycled plastic for Philadelphia cream cheese.

Holmach Ltd has partnered with Atlantic Engineering of Belgium to develop the Innofill by Atlantic pouch, a large pre-formed pouch filler that reduces plastic use by 90% compared to buckets. The solution targets food industry and industrial kitchens.

Kam Shing Group (Holdings), through its subsidiary Kam Shing Packaging (Shenzhen), agreed to purchase 2,276 items of production machinery, office equipment and consumables from Dongguan Ruixing Paper Products for RMB 21.88 million, to replace aging equipment used in corrugated board and paper packaging production.

Cincinnati packaging company BGR acquired Louisville-based Laise Packaging to expand into Central Kentucky and Northern Tennessee. The deal was reported June 24, 2020.

Brazil's Klabin agreed to sell its packaging paper unit in Nova Campina, São Paulo, to Klingele Paper & Packaging for R$196 million, with R$132 million paid at closing. The unit has nominal capacity of 162,000 tonnes per year of kraftliner and is subject to CADE approval.

H&A Prestige Bottling placed an order worth nearly £1 million for three Cosmapack case packing lines from Makro Labelling UK, to upgrade bottling lines to 9,000 bottles per hour.

Atlantis-Pak has started installation of the first extrusion line at its new high-barrier film plant in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. The project has an investment of over RUB 3 billion and will create more than 150 jobs. First production is expected in Q1 2021.

Bühler Group and Premier Tech formed a 50/50 joint venture in China called PT-Bühler, operating in Wuxi, to develop cost-effective packaging solutions for food and feed markets. The joint venture will officially start on July 1, 2020.

Swiss Bühler Group and Canada's Premier Tech expanded their strategic cooperation into a global partnership for bulk packaging in grain and food markets. The partnership builds on a joint venture in China that will officially start on July 1, 2020.

Coventry-based Staeger Clear Packaging has won a substantial NHS contract to supply face visors, which managing director Ian Jamie says will more than double the size of the business.

Norske Skog plans to invest about EUR 350 million to convert paper machines at its Golbey (France) and Bruck (Austria) mills into renewable containerboard production adding 765,000 tonnes of capacity, starting in H2 2021 over 18 months.

Ball Corporation will supply aluminum cans and lids for Legend of Baikal's 330 ml natural water, moving the Russian brand away from plastic bottles. The cans launched earlier in 2020 in Russia, Southeast Asia and the Middle East.

Taylor Packaging, a North East England packaging firm, has become the UK supplier of Danish manufacturer Nordic Woodfibre's packaging for heavy industrial goods. The distribution partnership was announced on 2020-06-21 with no value given.

First Choice Packaging plans to invest $1.6 million to purchase a new machine and renovate its factory in Fremont, Ohio.

Wuxi Chuanglian Packaging Machinery has received an order from Polish company Inter Paket for a single facer group to produce 2-ply corrugated cardboard. The order was confirmed on June 19, 2020.

C-P Flexible Packaging, a First Atlantic Capital portfolio company, acquired Genpak Flexible, a North American compostable and flexible packaging supplier with plants in Aurora, Ontario and Lakeville, Minnesota. The deal was announced on 2020-06-19 and no value was disclosed.

Brook & Whittle Holdings has acquired Label Impressions, Inc., an Orange County, California label manufacturer serving household, beverage, beauty and food brands, expanding its US manufacturing network to the West Coast.

IMA acquired 71.5% of Record, an Italian manufacturer of horizontal flowpack machines based in Garbagnate Monastero, to strengthen its IMA FLX division for flexible packaging solutions.

Dairy group Ausnutria and packaging company Trivium are jointly building a EUR 30 million can factory at the Internationaal Bedrijvenpark Friesland in Heerenveen, under a ten-year contract, to produce 150 million cans per year for infant formula, with completion expected end 2020.

Plastic container maker Auer Packaging is expanding its Amerang site with a third production hall, expected to go into operation in July 2020, bringing the site to three production halls and one warehouse.

Serioplast US, the North American unit of Italy's Serioplast Group, will begin operating a rigid plastic packaging plant in Red Springs, Robeson County, North Carolina, investing $9.4 million and creating 46 jobs, as announced by Governor Roy Cooper's office.

Sharp invested £1 million to expand its Rhymney, Wales facility into commercial primary and secondary packaging, adding packaging rooms, blistering equipment and automated cartoners. Commercial blister production at the site was set to begin in June 2020.

Montreal-based TC Transcontinental bought the assets of Enviroplast, an insolvent LDPE film recycler with plants in Quebec and Ontario, for 16.1 million Canadian dollars. The purchase was announced June 16, 2020, and the equipment will supply recycled resin for its packaging production.

Fulcrum Capital Partners acquired contract packaging provider Belvika Trade & Packaging in Mississauga, Ontario, marking the eleventh platform investment from its Private Equity Fund V. The management team led by President Mario Golias will continue to run the business. The deal value was not disclosed.

Atlantic Coated Papers is building a 12,000 square foot warehouse at its Windsor, Quebec plant and has bought a rewinder to enter cosmetics packaging, with a stated investment of 2.5 million. The company expects five to 10 new full-time jobs over the coming months.

Bryce Corporation's packaging division will invest $10 million to expand capacity and technical capabilities, creating 20 new jobs: 12 in Memphis, Tennessee and eight in Searcy, Arkansas.

TopPop Packaging has opened a 30,000 sq ft FDA-registered contract manufacturing center in Marlton, New Jersey, producing shelf-stable alcohol-infused ice pops and pouch packaging with capacity above 50 million pouches per year.

Eatery Essentials announced the expansion of its corporate offices, manufacturing and warehouse facility in Dallas, Texas. Initial operations in the 400,000 sq. ft. facility will start in October 2020, with expanded extrusion and thermoforming capacity doubling over 24 months, creating over 150 jobs.

Bryce Corp invested $10 million to expand capacity and enhance technical capabilities at its packaging division, purchasing a new printing press, developing a fully automated extrusion laminator, and adding two pouch making lines, creating 20 new jobs.

AT Systematization Bhd signed a Letter of Intent to acquire Pearl Glove (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd, which has a contract to produce around 500 million gloves in the next year. The deal is valued at about RM100 million.