SPR Packaging, a member of the Armando Alvarez Group, is opening a $100 million plastic film manufacturing plant on a 103,000-square-foot site in Greenville, Texas. A separate project record lists the construction cost as $50 million, which conflicts with the reported figure.

Pact Group and Aldi are scaling up recycled packaging in Australia, with more than 19 million laundry and cleaning bottles per year to contain up to 50% Australian recycled plastic. The announcement is dated 22 October 2026.

Outlook Group completed the acquisition and integration of the Pewaukee, Wisconsin, flexible packaging facility of ABX Innovative Packaging Solutions, adding flexible packaging and film-printing capacity.

CurTec USA, the American arm of a Dutch packaging supplier, is investing $10 million to expand its Westminster, South Carolina facility with a new blow molding line. The 27,300 sq ft expansion is expected to finish in Q2 2027 and create 10 jobs.

Cube Packaging Solutions is investing $30 million to expand U.S. manufacturing capacity at its St. Charles, Illinois facility. The investment was announced on October 13, 2026.

CuBE Packaging Solutions is investing more than $30 million to expand its U.S. manufacturing facility in St. Charles, Illinois, adding high-speed injection molding machines and end-of-line automation. The announcement was made on October 13, 2026.

CurTec is investing USD 10 million to expand warehouse and production lines at its Westminster, South Carolina plant, adding 10 jobs. The expanded capacity is expected online in summer 2027.

French start-up Lactips signed a contract with US packaging group SmartSolve to produce 210 tonnes of its casein-derived water-soluble polymer, a substitute for petroleum-based PVOH, following two years of joint development.

EPL and Indovida signed definitive agreements to merge their flexible and rigid PET packaging businesses into a group valued at about USD 2 billion with roughly USD 1 billion in revenue. Indorama Ventures will hold 51.8% and Blackstone 16.6%, pending regulatory and shareholder clearances.

Intertape Polymer Group acquired Clysar, which will operate as Clysar, an IPG Company, alongside its Exlfilm brand in the shrink film category.

Alpla is building a 13,000 sq m extrusion blow moulding plant in North Las Vegas, Nevada, with capex of just over $8 million and 51 new positions. Operations are due to begin in spring 2027.

Kenlead is building a packaging film plant in Qantara West in the Suez Canal Economic Zone, Egypt, on a 170,000 square meter site with EGP 4.16 billion of self-financed investment. Operations start with two lines and output is targeted to reach 48,000 to 60,000 tonnes a year by 2027.

Malaysia's Scientex agreed to acquire a 70% stake in Hunan-based flexible plastic packaging producer Mintpack for RMB 167.3 million (about USD 25 million), with completion expected by end-2026.

Amcor will invest $44.55 million in its Centerville, Iowa flexible packaging facility to add machinery and raise capacity for multilayer films, creating 24 jobs.

Amcor is expanding production capacity for multilayer packaging films at its Centerville, Iowa facility with a $44.6 million corporate investment and $2 million in state tax credits, creating 24 jobs.

Rinsler Pack is investing 840 million rubles in a new plastic packaging production site at its existing facility in Vsevolozhsk, Leningrad region, creating 177 jobs. Annual capacity will be 92 million unprinted bottles, 23 million printed bottles and 237 million container lids.

UFlex has commissioned its first overseas woven polypropylene bags plant in Altamira, Mexico, with an investment of about USD 52 million. The 10-acre facility strengthens its manufacturing presence in the Americas.

Symphony Environmental Technologies delivered its first commercial container-load of d2p EA masterbatch to Sirane Central Americana in Mexico. The delivery follows new independent ethylene-adsorption test results from AIMPLAS.

Fuxing Development Group is expanding output of PP corrugated plastic boxes, fish totes and harvest bins at its Davao and Manila plants to serve North American produce and seafood buyers. The move follows the 2026 US AD/CVD case on boxes from China and Vietnam.

Scientex agreed to acquire a 42.41% stake in Daibochi through a share swap valued at RM222.5 million, with a mandatory general offer for the remaining stake under consideration.

Polska Grupa Górnicza awarded Grupa Azoty Zakłady Azotowe PUŁAWY a supply contract for plastic packaging sacks and bags, valued at PLN 1,541,952. The award decision was made on 28 July 2026.

Jones Healthcare Group, an Ontario-based healthcare packaging company, acquired an operating thermoforming facility and related assets in Brampton, Ontario, previously owned by good natured Products, to add in-house production of custom-formed packaging components.

Amcor agreed to supply Tiptree, the preserves brand owned by Wilkin and Sons, with RecyClass-certified collation shrink film and stretch wrap containing 30% post-consumer recycled content. The move prepares Tiptree for UK Plastic Packaging Tax changes from April 2027.

The European Commission authorised the combination of Spanish packaging groups Caiba and Nosoplas under shared control of Portobello Capital Fondo IV, Cobega and Sonab, finding no competition concerns. The combined company covers PET preforms, containers and recycled PET resin.

Pezzutti Group acquired the recycled PET container technology of Socopet srl for about €4 million, taking a 75% stake in the newly formed Socopet Group based in Rivalta Scrivia, Italy. The founding Petrini brothers hold the remaining 25%.

Butterfly Equity has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Sayreville, New Jersey-based Sabert, a plastic, paper and molded-fiber food packaging maker with 13 manufacturing facilities, for undisclosed terms.

ALPLA opened a new packaging plant in Adana, Türkiye, on 14 September 2026, covering about 20,000 square metres for PET preforms and HDPE and PP packaging. It is part of Turkish investments totalling about EUR 30 million.

Boca Raton-based New Water Capital acquired LidWorks, a family-owned maker of custom food and beverage lids in Plant City, Florida, and plans plastic packaging add-ons.

The European Commission approved, under its simplified procedure, the combination of Portobello Capital's Caiba and Cobega's Nosoplas plastics businesses into a single PET packaging company.

Sukano AG signed a capacity reservation agreement with Avantium for releaf PEF polymer, securing future production volumes from industrial-scale facilities built by Avantium's potential licensing partners.

Indorama Ventures' Indovida unit, Suntory, Suntory PepsiCo Beverage Thailand and Iwatani formed a partnership bringing Flake-to-Preform direct recycling technology to Thailand through a joint venture. The venture is expected to produce preforms equivalent to about 400 million bottles annually, supplied to Suntory PepsiCo from 2028.

Cromwell Polythene Ltd was awarded a £68,000 contract by City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council for recyclable liners for food waste kitchen caddies. The award date is 23 August 2026.

Indorama Ventures, Suntory Holdings, Suntory PepsiCo Beverage Thailand and Iwatani will develop commercial-scale circular PET packaging in Thailand via the Indovida venture, using flake-to-preform recycling technology. Output is expected to be about 400 million bottles' worth of preforms a year from 2028.

ALPLA Inc. plans to establish a plastic bottle manufacturing facility in Clark County, Nevada, with $8.01 million in capital investment and 51 near-term jobs. Nevada's governor's office approved $818,718 in tax abatements for the project. The approvals were announced on 14 August 2026.

The European Commission approved the combination of EPL and Indovida India, a $2 billion packaging deal in which Indorama Ventures will hold a 51.8 per cent stake in the combined business. The commission found no competition concerns under its simplified review.

The Plast-Box Group will install a new machine for 5-litre IML containers at its Suwary plant in Ksawerow, Poland, in January 2027, significantly increasing capacity for this segment.

The European Commission approved a packaging joint venture in which Indorama Netherlands and Epsilon Bidco (Blackstone affiliate) gain joint control of EPL, with Indovida to be absorbed by EPL. The clearance was granted under the simplified merger procedure and covers plastic packaging and PET products.

Balcan Packaging launched a five-layer wide web extrusion line at its Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin plant, enabling production of industrial sheeting up to 50 feet wide.

Axjo Group, a Sweden-based recycled plastic packaging specialist, opened a new 160,600-square-foot plant in Haltom City, Texas, and has begun producing large reels for the wire and cable sector.

Axium Packaging is expanding its Midwest presence with a new 202,000-square-foot facility in the St. Louis area, its third in Missouri. It will initially launch with extrusion blow molding and later add injection stretch blow molding.

Greif announced it is acquiring Envaplast, a Spanish producer of polymer containers, as reported alongside its fiscal third-quarter 2026 results. Deal value was not given in the excerpt.

Gerresheimer agreed to sell Centor US Holding and its global Primary Packaging Plastics business, with 15 plants in nine countries plus Centor's US site, to Apax Funds at an enterprise value of about EUR 1.5 billion. Closings are expected by the end of FY2026 for Centor and in H1 FY2027 for the plastics business.

Rajshree Polypack received a repeat order worth about ₹3.09 crore from a wholly owned subsidiary of a global confectionery company to supply plastic rigid sheets, to be delivered by September 2026.

Indian packaging manufacturer Rajshree Polypack Limited has secured a commercial order worth ₹30.9 million for supply of rigid plastic packaging products and sheets, disclosed to stock exchanges on July 21, 2026.

Morocco's Competition Council received notification of a joint control acquisition of Caiba SA, after its merger with Nosoplas SLU, by Portobello Capital Gestión, Cobega and Sonab. Third-party observations are due by July 27, 2026.

Rajshree Polypack Ltd secured a repeat order worth about INR 2.07 crore to supply plastic rigid sheets to a listed Indian packaging manufacturer majority-owned by a Finland-based group, to be completed by August 2026.

Vert opened a 35,000-square-foot pouch and roll stock production site in Longmont, Colorado, built around HP Indigo digital printing, with pouch production starting in July 2026.

RFBL Flexi Pack Limited received a domestic order worth ₹20 crore from 3B Films Limited to supply transparent and metallised films, to be executed within four months. The order was disclosed in an exchange filing.

RFBL Flexi Pack Limited received an order from domestic client 3B Films to supply transparent and metallized films, to be executed within four months. The filing states Rs 20 crore in words but Rs 3.2 billion in figures.

Profile Films plans to build a new 97,000-square-foot facility in Grand Rapids, Michigan, next to its existing headquarters and production site, according to MLive. A city board approved a $5.1 million incentive for the project this week.