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More than a dozen North American packaging companies recently announced expansions for facilities specializing in products including corrugated boxes, PET bottles and flexible medical packaging.

These are the announcements on Packaging Dive’s radar:

Bay Cities, a retail packaging and displays manufacturer, relocated its Midwest packout, fulfillment and logistics facility to a more than 230,000-square-foot space in Oak Forest, Illinois. Operations began in February.

Cascades invested $6.9 million in its Kingsey Falls, Quebec, uncoated recycled boxboard manufacturing plant to boost production capacity and quality. It installed “several new pieces of equipment to improve sheet quality control,” including for surface finish and printing, according to a news release. The facility serves industrial and food packaging customers.

ePac Flexible Packaging is opening a new facility in Phoenix while adding capacity at its existing sites in Atlanta, Philadelphia and Vancouver, Canada. The Phoenix plant will be the company’s largest and will serve as a hub for customers in the Southwest U.S., which has experienced rapid growth in the consumer packaged goods sector, the company said in a news release. The company also signed a three-year, $50 million deal with HP to install at least 10 HP digital printers across ePac’s network.

Hood Container signed two industrial leases in Chicago, according to CoStar. Together, the spaces total more than 391,000 square feet.

International Paper will spend $225 million to build a greenfield box plant in Brandon, Mississippi. Construction on the 468,000-square-foot facility is slated to begin in June, and operations are expected to begin in the fourth quarter of 2027. The 80-acre site is less than 10 miles from IP’s existing Richland box plant, and when that site closes the employees will transfer to the new facility.

Liberty Packaging began operations at its new site in Riverside, California, according to LinkedIn posts. The company especially heralded the installation of a digital printer, aimed at offering customers faster, customized printing for corrugated packaging and displays.

Lindenmeyr Munroe, a New York-based paper and packaging provider, opened a new facility in Pompano Beach, Florida. The company said this facility will offer increased product availability and will support next-day delivery. This opening follows the company recently relocating its Orlando facility.

Nelipak, a Rhode Island-based healthcare packaging provider, opened a new technical development center in Singapore to serve the Asia-Pacific region. This center focuses on both rigid and flexible solutions and is intended to “enhance how medical device and pharmaceutical companies develop and validate sterile packaging systems,” the company said in a news release.

Southeastern Container, which manufactures PET bottles, preforms and HDPE pallets for Coca-Cola, is investing $31 million to modernize its headquarters and expand closure production capacity in North Carolina’s Asheville region. The company plans to hire 12 new employees there over 18 months.

Specialized Packaging Group opened a new 75,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Austin, Texas. It will initially focus on producing engineered corrugated and foam packaging for automotive and technology customers. The site will let SPG better support and respond faster to some of its largest customers. This opening will create an unspecified number of new jobs, according to a news release.

Rand-Whitney added three new manufacturing facilities: in El Paso, Texas; Juarez, Mexico; and Reynosa, Mexico. These facilities are “heavily invested in graphic retail packaging and point-of-purchase displays,” according to a news release. The company touts “several” single-pass digital printers to help deploy promotional packaging quickly and efficiently.

The Royal Group, an Illinois-based manufacturer of boxes and other packaging, plans to lease a nearly 65,000-square-foot warehouse space in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, according to the BizTimes. The facility reportedly will be used for storing finished goods and producing foam-in-place products.

Yazoo Mills, a paper tube and core manufacturer, completed construction of its $14 million, 107,000-square-foot manufacturing plant in Hanover, Pennsylvania. The company is expanding its production capacity with five new high-speed lines as part of a phased equipment installation and relocation process. Yazoo Mills expects to hold a grand opening in the coming months.

Henkel, the Germany-based manufacturer of adhesives as well as consumers brands such as Dial soap, Soft Scrub cleanser and Snuggle fabric softener, broke ground on a new $70 million research and development center in Trumbull, Connecticut. This location will include three buildings totaling more than 110,000 square feet. The site will consolidate employees, including a packaging team, into one location rather than the current three locations across the state. The center is scheduled to open by the end of next year.

Nefab expanded with the opening of a new 32,000-square-foot production and engineering facility in Guadalajara, Mexico. The Sweden-based company plans to combine packaging design, testing, prototyping and production capabilities at a single campus for customers across Mexico and the Americas. This is expected to create 60 new jobs within the first year of opening.

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