Stora Enso plans to close a corrugated packaging plant in Finland as it centralises the country's production at other sites.

German packaging maker Edelmann Group sold its Brazilian folding box site in a management buy-out led by Lucas Jardim and Marisa Scheurich, completed with effect from 30 September 2026. The article is dated 21 October 2026.

Mondi announced the closure of three further processing sites, a Consumer Flexibles plant in Hungary and two Corrugated Solutions sites in Germany and Poland, with about 450 jobs lost over the year.

Coveris announced an agreement to sell its paper business unit, a divestiture intended to focus the group on core EMEA flexible packaging activities.

Perfection Packaging, a unit of Pro-Pac Packaging based in Dandenong, Victoria, is being wound down and is scheduled to close in February 2026. It was excluded from the sale to Knoxcorp.

Packaging Corporation of America will permanently shut down the W2 paper machine and kraft pulp lines at its Wallula, Washington containerboard plant, cutting about 200 jobs and reducing annual capacity by about 250,000 tonnes. Measures are to be completed by the end of Q1 2026, with pre-tax charges of about USD 205 million.

VPK UK and Ireland plans to close its corrugated packaging site in Leeds, UK, by 29 August 2025, affecting 59 employees. Operations will move to other VPK locations and consultation with unions has begun.

VPK UK & Ireland plans to close its Leeds corrugated packaging site by 29 August 2025, affecting 59 employees. Operations will move to other VPK locations.

VPK Group revealed plans in early 2025 to close its Leeds facility on August 29, 2025, citing concerns over the plant's long-term commercial viability.

Mondi decided to offload its Russian operations after its board considered all options, including legal separation. The company had already suspended operations and significant capital projects in Russia.

WestRock will close its existing corrugated box plant in North Chicago, Illinois, once the new Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin facility is complete.

Vetropack reported gloomy prospects for 2024 and the closure of its last Swiss production site. The headline does not give a date, so the article date is used.

Cascades announced the permanent shutdown of paper machine number 2 at its Niagara Falls, New York mill, which had been temporarily shut down since November 2022.

Stora Enso completed the sale of its Maxau paper production site in Germany and related assets to Schwarz Produktion.

DS Smith decided to close its Berlin plant, which can no longer be operated economically, following an analysis of its site portfolio.

DS Smith decided to close its Berlin plant, which it no longer considered economically viable, as part of a review of its German locations.

Ox Industries closed its Halltown Mill in Halltown, West Virginia, in November 2022, eliminating about 70 jobs. The mill, the state's oldest continuously operating manufacturing plant, made recycled paperboard.

WestRock will permanently close its corrugated medium operations at its St. Paul, Minnesota facility in the United States.

GEA will discontinue production at its Bodenheim site near Mainz, Germany, by the end of 2024 as part of a consolidation of its global production network.

U.S. Corrugated will close its 35-year-old full-line box plant in Newark, New Jersey, and transfer operations to the planned Dover, Delaware plant by the end of 2021.

SKF will consolidate its factories in Avon, Ohio and North Charleston, South Carolina into its Sumter, South Carolina factory, reducing staff by about 115 with restructuring costs of $4 million. The changes take about 12 to 18 months.

German pump and valve maker KSB is restructuring its French service activities by selling three maintenance companies to the Orano group. The article does not give a sale value.

Sonoco is closing a recycled paperboard mill in Trent Valley, Ontario, which can take in 100,000 metric tons per year of recovered fiber. The closure was reported alongside its South Carolina investment in April 2020.

Greif Inc. completed the divestiture of its Consumer Packaging Group business to Graphic Packaging Holding for $85 million in cash, with proceeds used for debt repayment.

API Foils, a tobacco packaging foil maker, has entered administration, resulting in 155 job losses.

Georgia-Pacific will shut its Darlington, South Carolina, cup plant by September and close its current distribution center sometime in 2021. Cup customers will be served from its Lexington, Kentucky, and Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, plants.

Danfoss will close its refrigeration and air conditioning valves factory in Kolding, Denmark, in 2022 with the loss of 335 jobs, moving production to Grodzisk, Poland.

Danfoss plans to close its Arkadelphia, Arkansas manufacturing facility by the end of 2020, affecting 170 employees, citing decreasing market demand for small capacity scroll compressors.

Danfoss Commercial Compressors will close its Arkadelphia, Arkansas plant by the end of 2020 because of declining demand for small scroll compressors, affecting about 170 employees. Production will be consolidated elsewhere.

Greif announced on October 15, 2019 that an uncoated recycled board machine with capacity of nearly 65,000 tons per year at its Mobile, Alabama mill will stop operating.

Flexible plastics firm STM Packaging has entered administration following declining business.

Coster Group will end operations at its Stevenage, UK plant by September 30, with activity transferred to Barlborough and some product lines moved to Zwolle, Netherlands. Staff were offered relocation to Barlborough.

On 1 May 2018 the Belgian and Dutch subsidiaries of Egger Pumps merged into Egger Turo Pumps Belgium, and the Dutch branch disappeared with its activities taken over by the Belgian company.

Brilén, a Spanish polyester plant in Barbastro, is studying a restructuring of its filament section affecting nearly 50 staff, with cuts starting 7 January. Output is being reduced from 6,000 to 4,500 tonnes due to cheaper Chinese competition after EU tariff removal.

Ball Corporation will cease production at its Birmingham, Alabama, Chatsworth, California, and Longview, Texas beverage packaging plants during 2018, eliminating about 309 jobs. Existing customers will be supplied from other Ball facilities, with an approximately USD 22 million after-tax charge.

Amcor Rigid Plastics is closing its Batavia, Illinois plastic bottle factory, eliminating 110 jobs, with a rolling shutdown from September 2017 until March 2018 and equipment to be sold.

The MATLET Group will close its 150,000 sq ft Central Florida Press manufacturing operation in Orlando, Florida by the end of summer 2017, affecting about 145 workers, and move the work to its Packaging Graphics facility in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

Ball Corporation intends to end production at its Recklinghausen beverage packaging facilities at the end of July 2017, subject to negotiation with the Works Council.

Milacron announced the closure of its Youngwood, Pennsylvania plant, putting 63 employees out of work, with the plant to close in summer 2017 as machining moves to Greenville, Michigan.

Weir Group is moving Delta Industrial valve manufacturing from Michigan to an existing facility in St. Louis, Missouri, starting June 2017 to support planned expansion.

Ball Corporation will close its Reidsville, North Carolina beverage can plant next year, eliminating about 150 jobs. The company expects an after-tax charge of about $18 million, mostly for severance, pensions, impairments and shutdown costs.

Stora Enso plans to shut its corrugated packaging plant in Heinola, Finland, and transfer production to its Lahti plant. A total of 47 employees will be affected.