Tetra Pak will invest 700 million yuan ($98.9 million) to build a large intelligent closure facility in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, expected to be operational next year. The plant will produce DreamCap closures with an annual capacity of 10 billion caps.

Progroup and Krystals Premier Packaging will invest £20m (€22m) to create a packaging park at Progroup's sheetfeeding site in Ellesmere Port, UK. Progroup will invest in site infrastructure and Krystals in a new production facility.

Logoplaste plans a $35 million, 100,000-square-foot rigid plastic packaging facility on about 16 acres in Lima, Ohio, creating 37 jobs initially and 51 within three years.

August Faller GmbH & Co. KG plans to invest EUR 30 million in a new headquarters and plant at its Waldkirch, Germany site, with construction starting in Q1 2022 and completion about two years later.

O-I is building a third furnace at its Gironcourt plant in France, with a €60 million investment. The expansion will enable production of 2 billion beer bottles per year and has created 60 new jobs.

AGI glaspac, the packaging products business of HSIL Ltd, plans to invest 700 crore rupees ($92.6 million) in a greenfield facility in eastern India and 150 crore rupees ($19.8 million) in a brownfield expansion at its Telangana plant. The expansions will increase total capacity to 8.9 million bottles per day by 2022.

SiO2 Materials Science of Auburn, Alabama, won a $143 million federal contract to produce vials and packaging for storing COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics. The company expects to hire about 200 more employees for production.

Pharma folding-carton maker Faller Packaging plans a new plant in Waldkirch, described as its largest investment in company history, after sales and orders rose during the crisis.

Intertape Polymer Group agreed to acquire Schaumburg, Illinois-based Nortech Packaging and Tishma Technologies, makers of automated packaging machines. XLCS Partners advised the sellers.

TUBES plans to open a facility in Bordeaux in the second half of 2020, and will prepare a production location in California from Q1 2021.

TUBES, which makes wine and spirits drinks in single-serve RPET and glass tubes, signed a letter of intent with a California company for tube supply with a minimum turnover of EUR 10 million. A cooperation agreement is expected before July 17, 2020.

Comar announced a major capacity expansion of its Buena plant operations by building a new 159,000 sq.ft. facility in Vineland, New Jersey. The facility will house injection molding and assembly operations and is scheduled to be completed by March 2021.

The Swedish Armed Forces (Försvarsmakten) awarded a packaging materials contract for 2020 to Clip-Lok Simpak (Scandinavia), Pacson Öst and Vida Packaging, with a contracted value of 15,000,000 SEK.

Jaymar Packaging invested in a fourth BOBST folder-gluer, a VISIONFOLD 110 A2, to handle a wide range of packaging. The order was placed before the UK lockdown.

Silgan Holdings has completed the acquisition of Albéa's pump manufacturing, metal conversion (Covit in Europe and the US) and Brazil operations. Albéa retains its tubes, rigid cosmetic packaging and beauty solutions businesses, and a transition services agreement was signed.

Klöckner Pentaplast is expanding its Klöckner Barrier Film facility in central Virginia, adding 6,000 metric tonnes of capacity and new coating capabilities for pharmaceutical barrier films. The multi-million dollar investment is expected to be operational toward the end of 2021.

Ontex Group entered into an agreement to acquire the feminine hygiene production assets of Albaad in Rockingham County, North Carolina.

Southern Champion Tray, a paperboard packaging maker for the bakery and food service industry, acquired substantially all assets of Honeymoon Paper Products, Inc. of Fairfield, Ohio, effective June 29, 2020. Honeymoon provides packaging to supermarket bakeries, delis and food service companies.

Progroup and Krystals are expanding their Ellesmere Port site in England to create a packaging park, with 20 million pounds invested over about 16,000 square metres. Completion is expected in the second half of 2020. The announcement is dated June 4, 2020.

Coca-Cola Amatil Indonesia signed a Heads of Agreement with Dynapack Asia to develop a bottle-to-bottle grade PET recycling facility in Indonesia, starting with a proof of concept phase. The recycling could cut new plastic resin use by about 25,000 tonnes a year by 2022.

Kenyan packaging company Silafrica has increased PET preform capacity at its Tanzania factory by installing a Husky-3 machine, which produces 330,000 preforms per day, up from 250,000.

CorrBoard UK will shortly install a new £1.5 million automated palletisation system and IT control system upgrades at its 320,000 sq ft North Lincolnshire plant.

Parikh Flexibles, part of Constantia Flexibles, purchased a 1350 mm Bobst Expert K5 metallizer to be installed in 2021 at its new greenfield Ecoflex facility in Ahmedabad, India, for producing ultra high barrier MDO PE film.

Constantia Flexibles, through its subsidiary Parikh Flexibles, purchased a BOBST EXPERT K5 metallizer for a new greenfield facility Ecoflex in Ahmedabad, India, to produce ultra-high barrier PE film for sustainable packaging.

Toyo Seikan announced on 27 May 2020 a total investment of about ¥12 billion to add automated aluminum two-piece can manufacturing equipment at its Ishioka plant in Ibaraki, with start-up from April 2021.

Coastal Group, a Holland, Michigan investment management company, acquired Louisiana-based honeycomb packaging manufacturer Veecor and launched Coastal Honeycomb LLC, which will produce honeycomb packaging in Holland with an initial 12 jobs.

Shanghai Baosteel Packaging plans to build a beverage can plant in Malaysia at a cost of RMB461 million (US$66 million), its second project outside China after Saigon, Vietnam.

Typack-Recipet plans to invest US$5 million in a new thermoformed plastic packaging plant in Mexico, expected to be operational within 15 months.

Chilean PET recycler Typack-Recipet is preparing a strategic alliance with Peruvian packaging company Colca, including a new packaging company for Peru's agricultural sector.

BioPappel announced the start of operations at its new Lebanon, Indiana plant, run through subsidiary US Corrugated Co., its sixth industrial unit in the United States.

Hellmann Worldwide Logistics has extended its European distribution and transport management contract with Silgan Closures by three years, effective May 1, 2020.

Dobrush Paper Factory 'Geroy Truda', part of the holding 'Belarusian Wallpaper', is building a modern plant for coated and uncoated three-layer cardboard in Dobrush, Belarus. First production is expected by the end of 2020, with full capacity by 2022.

VPK Group raised its shareholding in CorrBoard UK to 50% by buying the stake of former shareholder Garthwest and subscribing for new shares. McLaren Packaging also subscribed for new shares in the North Lincolnshire company.

Polipak signed a contract worth over 50 million zloty with general contractor W.P.I.P. on 20 May 2020 to build production, warehouse and office buildings of over 20,000 m2 in Środa Wielkopolska, doubling its production and storage space. Completion is planned for mid-2021.

Bay Cities designed and manufactured the packaging for the Gratitude Box, an initiative from Dreamrbox whose proceeds go to Project N95. The box was announced on May 20, 2020.

Scholle IPN announced a sales and marketing agreement with ALLIEDFLEX Technologies to market and sell Scholle IPN filling equipment for bag-in-box and aseptic spouted pouch packaging in North America.

AlliedFlex Technologies and Scholle IPN entered into a sales and marketing alliance for Scholle IPN's aseptic spouted pouch and bag-in-box filling equipment in North America.

Nipro PharmaPackaging is investing over US$60 million to expand capacity at its glass tube-draw facilities in Aumale, France and Millville, New Jersey, USA. First production is scheduled for 2021, with full fruition by 2024, creating about 70 jobs.

Canada's Transcontinental made a $1.32 billion offer to purchase Coveris Americas, which operates 21 facilities producing labels and shrink films, to become a major North American packaging company.

Accredo Packaging expanded its Sugar Land, Texas facility by 200,000 square feet, with a $50 million investment in the recent phase, completed in the first quarter of 2020.

Munich-based Accursia Capital acquired tinplate packaging maker Klann Packaging from fellow Munich holding company Mutares on 18 May 2020. Financial terms were not disclosed.

ProMach, a US-based packaging machinery manufacturer, has acquired STOCK America, a provider of sterilization equipment for the food processing industry. STOCK will join ProMach's portfolio alongside the Allpax brand.

AB InBev will invest $220 million in new bottling lines at South African Breweries plants in Gauteng province, South Africa, to produce returnable glass bottles, with both lines expected operational by October 2020. The expansion is expected to raise overall capacity by up to 8%.

Rexam plans to build two £50 million can manufacturing plants, one in Sri City in Chittoor district, Andhra Pradesh, and one in Jaipur, Rajasthan. The investment totals £100 million.

Ball Corporation confirmed its board is in discussions about a possible acquisition of Rexam PLC, with a proposed combination of cash and equity reportedly valued at $6 billion. No formal agreement had been reached as of May 2020.

Ball Corporation agreed to sell its metal beverage can and end plants in Beijing, Foshan, Hubei and Qingdao, China, to ORG Technology for approximately $225 million, plus potential additional consideration. Ball will license its technology to ORG and reinvest about $50 million in ORG's shares.

Tetra Pak will build a new plant at its existing Straws and Strips Plant in Rayong, Thailand, to manufacture closures for carton packaging. The €24 million investment is expected to create around 60 jobs and produce more than 3 billion closures per year when it opens in early 2021.

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

Belgian packaging group VPK Group has agreed to merge with French corrugated packaging maker Viallon Emballage, expanding into the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.

Rage Corp., based in Hilliard, Ohio, plans to invest $34 million in a new packaging plant in Virginia, where it already operates a plant in Altavista.