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Graphic Packaging International launched wrap-style paperboard multipacks with primary container orientation and a modular system to replace shrink film on tertiary packaging. The announcement was dated 18 September 2025.
Graphic Packaging International is advancing a proposal to build a warehouse and parking lot beside its recycled paperboard mill in Kalamazoo, Michigan, consolidating four local warehouses, with completion scheduled for 2028.
Graphic Packaging International signed an agreement with co-packer JJM Packaging to make its Boardio paperboard canister available to brands across the U.S. and Canada for nutrition powders, sweeteners, beverage mixes and cereals.
Graphic Packaging International announced a new facility in Waco, Texas, with a state-of-the-art coated recycled paperboard machine and 640,000 square feet of production and warehouse space valued at $1 billion. The company expects to create around 230 local jobs.
Valmet will supply a coated board machine for Graphic Packaging International's mill in Waco, Texas, with start-up scheduled for early 2026. The machine will have an annual capacity of about 500,000 short tons of coated recycled board. The deal value was not disclosed.
Atlanta-based Graphic Packaging International announced it will invest $1 billion over three years in a new fiber-based consumer packaging facility in Waco, Texas. It is described as Waco's largest-ever capital investment.
Graphic Packaging International developed a paperboard multipack for Estrella Damm cans to replace plastic shrink wrap. The format will initially come in six-, 12- and 24-can packs.
Graphic Packaging International announced a $100 million investment at its Texarkana, Texas mill to add swing production across SBS and CUK substrates. Start-up of swing production is expected in Q1 2022.
Coca-Cola HBC has started rolling out the KeelClip paperboard alternative to plastic wrap on can multipacks across its EU markets, after a €15 million investment in a partnership with Graphic Packaging International. The rollout is due to finish by early 2022.
Graphic Packaging International expanded its Sneek, Netherlands folding carton facility, doubling production capacity with a new 11-colour press and a new folder-gluing line. The EUR 20 million (about $22 million) project took two years and added a 5,000 m2 building extension.
Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company is investing EUR 15 million ($16.54 million) in Graphic Packaging's KeelClip paperboard packaging to replace plastic shrink-wrap on can multipacks in Europe, with rollouts in Ireland and Poland planned for 2020.
WIELAND has been awarded the construction management contract for Graphic Packaging International's new mill in Kalamazoo, Michigan, which includes a coated recycled board machine. Groundbreaking occurred in late September 2019, with completion expected in October 2021.
Graphic Packaging International is expanding its Kalamazoo, Michigan site on a brownfield plot, with an anticipated $600 million investment and construction starting in Q4 2019, supported by $21M in tax breaks.
Graphic Packaging International won a contract to make half a million zero-plastic KFC food buckets for the 2018 Big Bash League in Australia, produced exclusively at its Winsford, UK plant.
RPC sold its foodservice business, Letica Corporation, to US-based Graphic Packaging International for $95 million (£74 million).
Graphic Packaging International collaborated with 2 Sisters Food Group to launch an ovenable cartonboard tray insert carton for Marks and Spencer's Detroit-style Deep and Loaded pizzas.
City Brewing Company installed a new high-speed can cartoning and casing line with a QuickFlex 2100 folding carton machine from Graphic Packaging International at its Memphis, Tennessee plant. Installation started in January 2017 and the line went live in May 2017.
Graphic Packaging International and DHL Supply Chain announced a combined $274 million investment to develop a 1.27 million-square-foot folding carton plant and logistics center in Monroe, Louisiana, creating 93 direct jobs.
Graphic Packaging International will supply a QuikFlex 2100 beverage cartoning machine to City Brewing Company's Memphis, Tennessee packing site. The variety pack line adds 9.5 million cases a year to the plant's 50 million case capacity.
