Feb. 12: The most recent updates to this tracker include:
- New Jersey-based plastics specialist Inteplast Group has acquired Tennessee-based adhesives and coatings specialist STA, whose offerings include performance tapes and sustainable water-based options. Inteplast is incorporating the 40-person business, now known as STA Coated Technologies, into its BOPP Films unit, which has locations in South Carolina, Texas, Tennessee and Canada and serves food packaging and label customers.
- Los Angeles-based private investment firm Kingswood Capital Management is acquiring the paper business from European packaging company Coveris so it will stand alone under its former name, Paragon Print and Packaging. The business was first established in 1994 and has operated under Coveris since 2020. Paragon has 1,400 employees. Its existing leaders will stay in place and Jo Ormrod, who served as chief operating officer for paper under Coveris, will serve as CEO of Paragon. Coveris expects the deal to close in the first quarter of 2026.
Following a string of megadeals in 2024 and 2025, analysts anticipate consolidation in 2026 could be driven by smaller players. 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, 2024 and 2025.
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