VPK

VPK Group is investing €4m in a brand-new manufacturing facility of nearly 6,000 sqm in Salonta, Bihor County, Romania, to produce corrugated packaging, cardboard tubes, cores and edge protectors for VPK Packaging Romania and Corex Romania.

Belgian packaging group VPK has fully acquired Fencor Packaging Group, including Manor Packaging, which operates a corrugated packaging plant in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, after holding a minority stake since 2024.

VPK Group completed the acquisition of full ownership of Fencor Packaging Group, owner of Manor Packaging, a corrugated packaging maker in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, UK. VPK had held a minority stake since 2024. Manor Packaging's sales director Tony Clifton becomes managing director after David Orr retires.

VPK Group agreed with the shareholders of UK corrugated cardboard maker Ribble Packaging to increase its equity stake from 30% to 50%, creating joint control and expanding its fanfold production network in Europe.

Three family-run UK hauliers formed a joint national solution to run VPK Group's multi-year UK storage and distribution contract for packaging movements from its three main manufacturing sites.

Belgium-based VPK Group is acquiring Open Imballaggi, a family-owned corrugated packaging producer in Calcinate near Bergamo, Italy. The target runs one sheet plant with capacity of 40 million m² of corrugated packaging.

VPK Group's Aquila commissioned a new Fosber 2.8m S/Line corrugator at its Września plant in Poland as part of a €25 million investment. The line can produce up to 20 million square meters of corrugated board per month, and the official ribbon cutting took place in early 2025.

AQUILA Września, part of VPK Group, is building a 13,000 sqm production hall and installing a new FOSBER 2.8m corrugator in Greater Poland. The line is expected to launch in early 2025 and produce up to 20 million m2 of corrugated board monthly.

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.

McLaren Packaging is forming a 50/50 joint venture called McLaren Corrugate Limited with VPK Packaging UK & Ireland, combining its Port Glasgow corrugate plant with VPK's East Kilbride site to serve the Scottish corrugated market.

VPK Group has commissioned FMW Industries to deliver an OCC pulper feed line and an automatic OCC bale wire cutter to its Oudegem plant in Belgium, with a capacity of 1,200 BDMT per day. Commissioning is planned for October 2025.

McLaren Packaging and VPK UK & Ireland agreed to form a 50/50 joint venture, McLaren Corrugate Limited, combining McLaren's Port Glasgow corrugate plant with VPK's East Kilbride site to serve the Scottish corrugated market.

VPK Group acquired a minority stake of about 28% in Fencor Packaging Group, which wholly owns the Cambridgeshire corrugated sheet plant Manor Packaging. Fencor announced the deal on 26 September 2024.

VPK subsidiary Aquila is adding a state-of-the-art corrugator with a 2.80 m Fosber line in a new 13,000 sqm hall at its Września plant. The line is scheduled to start up at the beginning of 2025.

Aquila Września, part of VPK Group, is expanding its factory in Września, Poland, with a new production hall of nearly 13,000 sqm and a new corrugator that can produce up to 20 million m2 of corrugated board per month.

Aquila Września, a subsidiary of VPK Group, has started construction on a new production hall of about 13,000 square metres at its Września plant in Poland; the investment value was not disclosed.

VPK Group entered a joint venture with IEMME srl, an Italian corrugated cardboard company in Gambolò near Milan. The move is VPK's second growth step in Italy after its October 2023 Zetacarton stake.

VPK Group announced a joint venture with IEMME srl, a corrugated cardboard producer based in Gambolò near Milan, to expand its paper-based packaging business in Italy. IEMME's plant produced 70 million m² of cardboard in 2023.

Belgium-based VPK Group is taking a stake in Italian corrugated packaging company IEMME Packaging, based in Gambolò near Milan, to expand its paper-based packaging offer in Italy. IEMME produced 70 million m² of cardboard and generated about €40 million revenue in 2023.

VPK Group reached an agreement to acquire a minority share in Ribble, a UK corrugated cardboard company specialising in fanfold based in Oldham, Lancashire. The deal supports VPK's vertically integrated packaging model across Europe.

VPK Group signed an agreement to acquire a majority stake in Zetacarton, an Italian corrugated cardboard manufacturer near Como that makes fanfold and big-box packaging. The company had 110 employees and about EUR 75 million revenue in 2022. The financial terms were not disclosed.

McLaren Packaging's corrugate business agreed a new 50/50 joint venture with VPK Packaging UK & Ireland, part of Belgian VPK Group, to serve the Scottish corrugated market. The announcement was dated 18 December 2024.

Valmet will supply a grade conversion rebuild to VPK's Alizay mill in France, converting a fine paper machine to produce recycled lightweight containerboard, with start-up scheduled for the end of 2022.

VPK has opened a new production and warehouse plant of 22,000 sqm in Brzeg, Poland, in the Skarbimierz special economic zone. The plant adds 60 million sqm of production capacity and 120 staff, with 60 more jobs planned.

Belgian VPK Group's Polish subsidiary Aquila Brzeg opened a new corrugated packaging plant in Skarbimierz near Wroclaw, after about one year of construction. The plant was officially inaugurated on 17 June 2021.

VPK Packaging Polska, part of the VPK Group, officially opened a new packaging factory in Brzeg, Poland, on 17 June 2021 with 22,000 m2 of production and warehouse space. The plant adds 60 million m2 of production capacity and is planned to employ 60 more people.

VPK Group increased its shareholding in CorrBoard UK to 50% through new shares and by acquiring the stake of former shareholder Garthwest. McLaren Packaging also subscribed for new shares in the corrugated sheet board producer.

VPK Group agreed to buy Encase, a manufacturer of corrugated cardboard packaging with two corrugated plants in England and one sheet plant in Scotland, for an undisclosed fee. VPK will merge Encase with its UK corrugated operations.

VPK Group agreed to buy Encase Ltd from Canadian Overseas Packaging Industries (COPI) Ltd, a corrugated packaging manufacturer with two plants in England and one in Scotland. VPK intends to merge Encase with its UK corrugated operations.

VPK Group increased its shareholding in corrugated board producer CorrBoard UK to 50% through new shares and the purchase of former shareholder Garthwest's stake. CorrBoard operates a plant in North Lincolnshire.

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.

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

Norwegian paper maker Ranheim Paper & Board has a seven-year supply agreement with Belgian packaging group VPK Peterson, as reported in July 2017. The article does not state a value.

VPK has started up a new Bobst 924 flexo folder gluer at its Oudegem plant in Belgium, adding about 5 million square metres of corrugated packaging capacity. The total project, including a double-deck WIP and a second pallet inserter, is worth about 7 million euros.