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Trombini Embalagens’ R$120 million Farroupilha expansion includes a Mitsubishi flexographic machine specified at up to 42,000 boxes per hour. Over an eight-hour shift, that headline speed equals 336,000 boxes. Now apply a purely illustrative OEE scenario. At 85% OEE, the...

A UK-reviewed value model points to more than £710,000 in potential annual cost reduction and nearly 4,000 staff hours for a representative £25 million sheet plant. At stand 47 in Telford, Amtech will let visitors put their own operating figures...

An Interview With the CEO of MachineryAssist Tadas Šalkauskas runs MachineryAssist, a company specialising in industrial machinery relocation across a wide range of manufacturing industries.

The answer depends not only on pallet design, but also on the strength of the corrugated board itself. New ixs-pal® test data shows how ECT values can translate into real pallet load capacity — from around 400 kg to more...

BOBST is already building the NOVAFFG 1024 in India. On September 9–10, 2026, the company will open a new Competence Centre in Pune. And its new Managing Director, Ashish Saxena, says India is being developed as a “global manufacturing and...

The global top three barely moved. The real changes begin below the top three. A data-driven corruga.expert feature on production, rank shifts, plants, employment, market value and the changing geography of the global corrugated industry.

The global corrugated packaging market is worth roughly $180 billion to more than $220 billion a year. But which companies have the financial scale to shape this market? A corrugated board production facility: scale, automation and efficient material flow are...

International Paper has paid $360 million for North Pacific Paper Company — NORPAC. This is not just another paper-mill acquisition on the U.S. West Coast. For independent corrugated board producers, it is a warning signal: after the $7.2 billion DS...

Mondi announced targeted upgrades at two German corrugated plants - and the real story for producers is the system being built around the corrugator.

€600 million in new investment, €500 million already spent, 50 French sites, four net zero plants — and a clear warning for independent corrugated board producers.

Sappi is contributing European mills connected with premium liner for high-value corrugated packaging, while UPM keeps its disclosed functional packaging-paper direction outside the announced transaction perimeter

€14 million for Romania, more than €100 million across the wider regional network, destroyed capacity in Ukraine — and the new geography of corrugated packaging power

CartonMach is a supplier of high-performance corrugated converting equipment, headquartered in Mexico, installing advanced machinery under the Carton brand across Latin America, the United States, and Europe.

Brookfield Capital Partners has agreed to acquire Fosber Group from Guangdong Dongfang Precision Science & Technology Co., Ltd. in a transaction valuing the business at approximately $900 million. This carve-out reflects Dongfang’s strategic decision to focus on higher-margin opportunities in...

By Rustem Karimov, ixs-pal®.

At FEFCO 2025 in Rome, I asked Marco Bertola, the CEO of Fosber Group, a simple question: “What do corrugated manufacturers need to know right now?” His answer surprised me — and it might surprise many of you, too.

An Interview with President Alessandro Bersanetti.

How the German printing pioneer is redefining corrugated printing for the digital age.

Savannah, Georgia — October 20–22, 2025. CorrExpo returned with a tighter, more technical focus this year, emphasizing automation, energy efficiency, software, and plant-level ROI. By week’s end, organizers and industry media reported ~1,100 attendees, 153 exhibitors, and 38 sponsors, a...

Interview with Aurélie Gasiglia, Product Marketing Manager, at FEFCO 2025. https://youtu.be/3f_1Rr-exCY What are you presenting today at FEFCO? Today, I’m introducing the next evolution of our rotary die cutters — the DRO with UPack. This solution is designed for converters...