Graphic Packaging

Graphic Packaging International signed an agreement with New Jersey co-packer JJM Packaging to make its Boardio paperboard canisters available to brands and retailers in the U.S. and Canada from Q2 2025.

Graphic Packaging International signed an agreement making its Boardio paperboard canister available through New Jersey co-packer JJM Packaging to brands and retailers across the U.S. and Canada, with availability from Q2 2025.

Graphic Packaging International is building a recycled paperboard manufacturing facility in Waco, Texas, with machine installation underway. The site is on track to ramp up in late 2025.

Graphic Packaging agreed to sell its Augusta, US bleached paperboard manufacturing facility to Clearwater Paper for US$700 million, based on about US$100 million Adjusted EBITDA. The deal is subject to regulatory approvals and expected to close in Q2 2024.

Graphic Packaging Holding has agreed to acquire Bell Incorporated, which has three packaging facilities in the Midwest consuming 95,000 tons of paperboard a year. The deal is expected to add about $200 million in sales and close in Q4 2023, subject to regulatory approvals.

Graphic Packaging International is moving its Bristol, UK beverage packaging operations to a new 255,000-square-foot factory nearby, creating up to 30 new jobs. The site is expected to be fully operational in Q4 2023.

Graphic Packaging launched its KeelClip fiber-based can multipack packaging in the United States with an AutoClip KC1600 machine installed at Liberty Coca-Cola Beverages' Elmsford, New York facility. The system removes plastic rings and shrink wrap from can multipacks.

Graphic Packaging obtained all mandatory regulatory approvals to acquire fiber-based packaging maker AR Packaging in a US$1.45 billion cash deal first announced in May 2021.

Graphic Packaging installed its QuikFlex machine at Coca-Cola HBC's Lisburn plant in Northern Ireland to produce paperboard cartons for 10- to 24-can multipacks, replacing plastic shrink wrap.

Graphic Packaging announced plans to acquire North American folding carton maker Americraft Carton for around $280 million. The deal includes seven Americraft converting facilities and all its employees.

Graphic Packaging agreed to acquire AR Packaging Group, Europe's second largest fiber-based consumer packaging producer, from CVC Capital Partners funds for approximately $1.45 billion in cash, announced May 14, 2021.

Graphic Packaging opened a highly automated 1.2 million sq ft folding carton factory in Monroe, Louisiana, consolidating two plants and three warehouses. The 180 million US dollar investment will convert more than 1.4 billion beverage cartons a year.

Graphic Packaging Holding Company announced the close of its acquisition of the Consumer Packaging Group business from Greif, Inc., a paper-based consumer packaging business.

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.

Graphic Packaging agreed to acquire Greif's Consumer Packaging Group business for approximately $85 million, adding seven US converting facilities with over $200 million in annual revenue, with closing expected in Q1 2020.

Graphic Packaging is investing $600 million in an expansion, according to a Crain's Grand Rapids report dated September 25, 2019. Site and capacity details are not given in the text.

Graphic Packaging's board approved a $600 million investment in a new coated recycled board machine with about 500,000 tons annual capacity, to be built in Ohio or Michigan subject to permitting and incentives. The company expects $100 million incremental annualized EBITDA upon full ramp-up in 2022.

Graphic Packaging International agreed to acquire substantially all assets of the foodservice business of Letica Corporation, a subsidiary of RPC Group, for $95 million. The deal is expected to close in the third quarter of 2018, subject to regulatory review.

Graphic Packaging has closed its $6 billion deal to buy International Paper's North American Consumer Packaging business, merging it with Graphic's existing operations. The closing took place in early January 2018.

Graphic Packaging Holding will acquire International Paper's North American consumer packaging business for $1.8 billion. The company says the combination with its mills would create an integrated packaging company with potential sales of $6 billion.

Graphic Packaging will run a new paper-based packaging partnership with International Paper's Consumer Packaging business, holding 79.5% while IP keeps 20.5%. The partnership is valued at about $6bn and will assume $660m of IP debt.

Graphic Packaging will own 79.5% of a new partnership combining its businesses with International Paper's North America Consumer Packaging business, with International Paper holding 20.5% valued at $1.14 billion. The deal was announced on 24 October 2017.

Graphic Packaging and DHL Supply Chain will make a combined $274 million investment in Northeast Louisiana, building a 1.27 million-sq-ft folding carton plant and logistics center in Monroe and creating 93 direct jobs. Graphic Packaging will also invest $120 million in its West Monroe mill.