June 25: The most recent updates to this tracker include:

• Global plastic packaging giant Alpla is growing its injection molding division with the acquisition of German company KM Packaging, pending regulatory approvals. This gives Alpla six additional sites with 500 employees in the U.S., Germany, Austria and Poland, with manufacturing capacity for closures for tubes, bottles and jars. KM currently produces more than 6.5 billion injection-molded parts annually. “‘At ALPLA, we think of packaging in its entirety. We create a competitive advantage for brand-name manufacturers globally with innovative, system-based solutions. Injection-moulded parts play a key part in this,” said Michael Feltes, managing director of ALPLAinject, in a statement.
• TerraSafe Materials and DisSolves are merging. The combined entity will be known as TerraSafe and offer packaging solutions for food customers, including with biobased substrates, coatings and edible films. The news was announced by Big Idea Ventures; it manages the Generation Food Rural Partners fund, which acquired DisSolves in January 2024. TerraSafe was previously formed by GFRP.

Analysts project M&A activity could tick up in 2025 – after a string of megadeals, there’s still plenty of runway for consolidation. Packaging Dive aims to track as many deals as possible to help you stay up to date.

Although the packaging industry is global, this list focuses on deals involving companies that are either based, or have a notable presence, in the U.S. or Canada. We list the acquirers by their parent company or common operating name, which may differ from the specific legal entities involved in the acquisitions. The list can be sorted by category by clicking on each column title in the table below. You can also scroll down to see archived lists from 2023 and 2024.

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