The latest news, trends, analysis, interviews and podcasts from the global food and beverage industry

Chicken processor Farmer Focus has announced the opening of a new 78,000-square-foot packaging facility in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Swedish meat alternatives brand Oumph! has announced it is phasing out plastic packaging in favour of recyclable cardboard packaging.

SIG Combibloc has entered into an agreement to acquire packaging solutions company, Scholle IPN, for an enterprise value of €1.36bn.

Grupo Modelo, the brewer of Corona beer, has partnered with WestRock and Grupo Gondi to invest in a sustainable, fibre-based packaging solution.

Sustainable, innovative packaging start-up Notpla has closed a £10 million Series A financing round, led by Horizons Ventures.

Ardagh Group has announced that it will acquire African glass packaging firm Consol Holdings for approximately $1 billion.

Swedish manufacturer of renewable packaging solutions Stora Enso has invested €97 million to expand the board production at its Skoghall site in Sweden.

European packaging company Smurfit Kappa has announced that it will invest $22 million to expand its corrugated packaging plant in Mexico.

Mars Wrigley UK has pledged to remove the black PE liner from its Maltesers boxes, which will see 82 tonnes of plastic eliminated every year.

Tetra Pak and Stora Enso have joined forces to boost the recycling capacity of beverage cartons in Central and Eastern Europe, with an investment of €29m.

DS Smith has agreed to divest its De Hoop paper mill in the Netherlands to De Jong Packaging for €50m, as it focuses on light-weight fibre-based packaging.

Ball Corporation plans to build new aluminium beverage packaging plants in the UK and Russia, in a move to significantly expand its manufacturing capacity.