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Italy's Fosber S.p.A. has completed the acquisition of Quantum Corrugated, taking full ownership of a company in which it had held a 60% stake since 2020.
Brookfield reached an agreement with DongFang Precision to acquire the shareholdings in Fosber Group, the Italian corrugated machinery maker, including Fosber Italia, Fosber America, Fosber Asia, Tiruña and Quantum Corrugated. Completion is expected in the first half of 2026.
SFT Group's corrugated packaging plant in Taganrog, Russia, raised capacity by 10% to 200 million square meters per year after modernizing its main equipment with China's Fosber Group. The investment amount was not disclosed.
Fosber has started construction of a new €50 million production plant in Monsagrati, Pescaglia near Lucca, redeveloping about 40,000 square metres of former industrial buildings. The plant aims to double production of corrugated cardboard machinery and will raise the workforce from 400 to 650.
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.
Ondupack inaugurated a corrugated cardboard plant in Navalmoral de la Mata, Cáceres, with an investment of 49 million euros, capacity for 200 million square meters per year and 50 direct jobs.
VPK Packaging Group's AQUILA plant in Września, Poland has installed a new Fosber corrugator as part of an investment that includes a 13,000 square metre production hall.
Ondupack SAU, part of CL Grupo Industrial, launched a new corrugated board factory in Navalmoral de la Mata, Cáceres, Spain, with an initial capacity of 60 million m² per year and a planned 200 million m² project capacity. The 60,000 m² plant is equipped with Fosber, BOBST and Emmepi machinery.
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.
Green Bay Packaging announced that its new 600,000-square-foot corrugator plant in Fort Worth, Texas, is nearing completion this fall. It will replace an older facility built in 1986 and will house a new 110-inch Fosber corrugator.
Guangdong Fosber Intelligent Equipment (Fosber Asia) held the groundbreaking for a new intelligent factory making corrugator production lines in Songxia Industrial Park, Foshan, on 10 February 2023. The estimated investment is about 500 million yuan over an 80-acre site.
Welch Packaging reported an expansion of its Indianapolis operations with a new 98-inch Fosber corrugator. The announcement was made in July 2022.
Welch Packaging, based in Elkhart, Indiana, bought a 98-inch Fosber corrugator for a new operation at 4200 Industrial Blvd in Indianapolis, expected to add at least 50 jobs.
Coastal Container Corporation plans to expand its existing Holland, Michigan facility by adding 65,000 square feet of manufacturing space and an on-site corrugator, creating 62 manufacturing jobs with $22 million in private investment. The project received support from the Michigan Strategic Fund.
Cartones de Guatemala opened a new greenfield corrugated board facility of under 33,000 sqm in Escuintla, with a Fosber corrugator that started up on April 26, 2021.
Europal Packaging, part of the D.I. Group, has started up a new 2.5m doublewall Quantum corrugator line at its new factory in Blandain/Tournai, Belgium. The line was installed by Quantum Corrugated and Fosber Group.
Hood Container installed a new state-of-the-art 98-inch Fosber corrugator at its Chicago facility to expand its product range and speed to market.
Green Bay Packaging will begin construction of a new 550,000 sq ft corrugator plant in Tulsa, Oklahoma, replacing its 180,000 sq ft plant there. Construction starts September 1, 2020, with start-up scheduled for October 2021.
Ondulati Nordest, a corrugated sheet feeder near Venice, is investing EUR 20 million to add a second corrugator line from Fosber, after its existing Agnati line reached capacity.
Thimm installed a new Fosber corrugator at its Sibiu, Romania plant, tripling corrugated cardboard capacity, with about EUR 10.4 million invested in the site over two years.
Mondi opened its expanded Mondi Simet site near Poznań, Poland on 20 June 2018, with a new Fosber corrugator that quadrupled the plant's production capacity for heavy-duty corrugated packaging.
South African packaging maker Corruseal Group has commissioned a new corrugated board plant in Cape Town, equipped with a 2.5m Fosber S/Line corrugator and converting and materials handling machinery. The article is dated 1 June 2018.
Weedon Corrugated Products has invested in a Fosber dry end for its in-house corrugator to boost sheet board production.
Crown Paper Group's Montebello Container installed an automated dry end at its La Mirada sheet feeder plant plus conveyors, unitizers and wet-end upgrades, and improved safety and waste at Pico Rivera and Santa Fe Springs. Montebello increased production more than 20 percent in 2016.
