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.

Lee Li Holdings is investing $533 million in renovating and expanding its existing Mississauga, Ontario bottling plant and building a new 85,000 sq ft facility, expected to create 275 jobs with $90 million in provincial funding.

SCG Packaging invested VND 2,825 billion (about THB 3,727 million) to take a further 30% stake in Duy Tan JSC, raising its total shareholding to 100%.

Balcan Innovations announced a $200 million capex plan to add co-extrusion, printing and bag-making machinery at its Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin plant, which will raise film capacity by more than 700%. Installation is planned for 2025 through 2027.

Intraplás, a Portuguese sustainable dairy packaging maker, invested more than €15 million between 2023 and 2024 in new PET and PS extrusion and IML-T packaging lines in Santo Tirso. The investment created more than 20 direct and indirect jobs.

APackaging Group, a beauty and cosmetics packaging maker, invested $49 million to open a new manufacturing facility in Defiance, Ohio, providing bottle blow molding, custom molding and dispenser and cap production.

Corrugated packaging specialist Twinplast invested £1.5 million (US$1.9 million) in a new extrusion line made by Omipa Extrusion Machinery in Milan, Italy, which will increase extrusion capacity three to four times while cutting energy use per ton by 40%.

Aliaxis plans to invest about €28 million in Australian factories, including a new Toowoomba 2 plant near Brisbane for stormwater drainage products, with production lines starting from Q3 2024.

TC Transcontinental Packaging announced a US$60 million investment in a new biaxially oriented polyethylene film line and a 120,000 sq. ft building expansion at its Spartanburg, South Carolina facility, with completion expected in fiscal 2024. Brückner was selected to supply the equipment.

Depak Company Limited received approval to raise its investment in a packaging factory at Bim Son Industrial Park, Thanh Hoa, from VND85 billion to VND394.2 billion (about $14.74 million). The plant will make carton packaging and plastic wood products, with operations expected 37 months after land handover.

Pact Group is investing more than $76 million in new packaging manufacturing equipment across its Australian operations to produce recycled packaging. The investment is currently underway as of June 2023.

Stora Enso laid the foundation stone on 30 May 2023 for a new high-volume consumer board line in Oulu, Finland, with capacity up to 750,000 tonnes of renewable packaging materials, due in 2025.

Alongside the Esterpet deal, Biffa Polymers made a minority investment in its sister company Esterform, a manufacturer of PET preforms. The stake size and value were not disclosed.

US private equity firm Shore Capital Partners announced a partnership to invest in Container Services (CSI), a Hillsboro, Kansas maker of PET and HDPE blow-moulded plastic containers, to fund growth and acquisitions. The announcement was made on February 14, 2023.

Greiner Packaging UK & Ireland invested over £3,700,000 in a new PET decontamination and extrusion line at its Dungannon, Northern Ireland site to make food-contact recycled packaging. The site has also gained SSP and FSC certifications.

Greiner Packaging UK & Ireland announced new investments totalling over £10 million at its Dungannon, Northern Ireland site for new machinery, a new manufacturing hall and warehouse expansion, celebrating its 50th anniversary.

Flex Américas CEO Om Prakash Mishra announced a second stage of expansion in Altamira, with a planned $300 million complex to be built in 2024-2025 on a site still being sought. The total investment through 2025 is above $500 million.

Yplastic, part of Grupo Telles, invested about R$12 million to modernize its Fortaleza plant, including a Husky HyPET preform production cell with capacity of 10 million preforms per month. The company has begun preform production.

Moldtek Packaging plans capital expenditure of Rs 125 crore in FY23, adding capacity at Sultanpur, Daman, Vizag, Hyderabad and Kanpur units and setting up a second plant at Daman with robotic IML facilities.

Magic Pack (Gruppo Happy) obtained a 13 million euro seven-year loan from Finlombarda and Cassa di Risparmio di Bolzano to fund investments including new production capacity and recycling lines for expanded polystyrene food containers. The plant is in Gadesco Pieve Delmona, Italy.

Juhua Co. board approved two fixed-asset investment projects at its electrochemical plant: a 48kt/a VDF expansion (CNY 979 million) and PVDF projects (CNY 693 million), expected to be completed and operational in Q4 2023.

Packaging firm Coveris invested £500,000 in new hi-tech equipment at its Hartlepool plant to produce branded tamper-evident bags for Covid-19 test kits, creating 20 new jobs.

Palaplast is entering PVC pipe production by acquiring facilities and mechanical equipment from a large company in the sector in Thebes. The investment aims to expand its product range and increase production capacity by up to 50%.

A. Hatzopoulos S.A. announced a €20 million plan of strategic investments in new facilities, machinery and equipment, to be implemented by the end of 2022. The plan includes a new warehouse at its Stadiou plant.

SCG Packaging plans to invest US$334 million in Vietnam as part of its expansion of packaging businesses, including the Duy Tan acquisition and paper production expansion in northern Vietnam.

Biodegradable plastics developer Aquapak Polymers received an investment from private equity firm ADM Capital Europe, reported on January 25, 2021.

Berivo, an equipment leasing company set up by Chetwode and Acofi, provided a EUR 3.77 million sale-and-leaseback financing to flexible packaging maker UNI Packaging, now Schur Flexibles, to fund its European expansion. The contract was signed in July 2015.

DBC Plastics of Durban installed a five-layer Reifenhäuser blown film extrusion line to replace an older monolayer system. The line allows thinner film and better print quality for its flexible packaging output.

Altium Packaging is entering the next phase of a $10 million investment in PET capacity and capabilities, expanding its PET bottle production from 2 ounces to 5 gallons and its preform catalog. The announcement was made in Atlanta on August 5, 2020.

The Government of Canada through FedDev Ontario announced C$7.8 million to help three York Region manufacturers, including Vision Profile Extrusions in Woodbridge, scale up and create 116 skilled jobs in Ontario.

Alberta, federal and other funders invested $4.5 million to expand TerraVerdae Bioworks' product development facilities in Edmonton, Alberta, for biodegradable PHA bioplastics. The announcement was made on April 29, 2020.

Somerset-based thermoformed packaging firm Kingsmoor Packaging has started the year with fully refurbished design, pattern and tooling facilities.

Henkel announced a partnership with ALPLA to invest over $130 million in enhancing laundry detergent production at its Bowling Green, Kentucky facility, including a new bottle production area that will bring ALPLA 60 jobs.

Packaging maker ALPLA invested 13 million euro in ultra-modern packaging manufacturing in Werner & Mertz's new Mainz production center, making recycled-plastic bottles on site.

Kuraray is investing approximately $15 million to install plant-based high barrier resin production in Houston, Texas, with the plant scheduled to be completed in September 2019 and operating in early 2020.

Kuraray America is investing approximately US$15 million to install plant-based high barrier resin production in Houston, Texas, supporting Sealed Air's Plantic packaging work.

Packaging manufacturer Duo UK received a multi-million pound funding package from HSBC UK to buy an Italian-made co-extruder for its Manchester factory, scaling up production by up to 20% and stock capacity by 30%. The company expects to create 5 new jobs over the next 12 months.

French luxury house Chanel invested in Finnish biodegradable material company Sulapac. The investment is dated December 2018.

Stockwell Elastomerics announced a total investment of more than $8 million to expand its manufacturing footprint, production capabilities and technical workforce for custom silicone gaskets and elastomeric components.

AST Kunststoffverarbeitung plans to invest around 30 million euros in 2018 in several projects at its Erndtebrück headquarters.

Constantia Flexibles Group is investing in new technology at its flexible packaging subsidiary in Vietnam to expand its product portfolio. The item is dated March 20, 2018.

Robinson Packaging is planning to expand in the UK after a funding package deal with HSBC; the amount was not disclosed.

Constantia Flexibles has invested around EUR 6 million in new technology to make film-based flexible packaging at its Weiden site in Germany.

Coveris has bought two Hosokawa Alpine coextrusion lines from Gelpack Excelsior.

Plastics supplier ActionPlas has invested over GBP 1 million in new premises, staff and machinery to support its growth plans.

Amcor Flexibles will install a UV flexo printing press at its Kreuzlingen site in Switzerland to serve pharmaceutical packaging markets, as part of a European printing investment plan that also includes a digital press at Cramlington, UK.

IPL announced a $36 million investment plan to expand production capacity in Canada and the United States and enter new market segments in the US.

BASF plans to invest more than €200 million globally in its plastic additives business over five years, about half in Asia, focusing on capacity expansions and operational excellence.