News in brief: Klingele invests in packaging in Africa

Smurfit Kappa Group (SKG) has successfully completed the expansion of its Polish packaging plant in Pruszków. The facility is now one of the most modern packaging plants in Europe, SKG said. The measures will ultimately lead to an increase in the plant’s capacity to 37,500 and include a new corrugator, modern...

British packaging group DS Smith is expanding its packaging operations in Finland. The company has relocated the operations of its Turku plant to Pirkkala near Tampere, and has also announced plans to invest €10m in its existing packaging operations. DS Smith’s new packaging plant in Pirkkala, Finland, started...

Germany’s association of the corrugated board industry (VDW) published a review of the past  financial year and made a forecast regarding the current financial year. There was market distortion resulting from Russia’s war against Ukraine, the energy crisis and an increasingly poor consumer sentiment, the association...