The most recent updates to this tracker include:
- Rhode Island-based healthcare packaging company Nelipak acquired Illinois-based Technipaq, which manufactures flexible, sterilizable packaging solutions for healthcare, medical device, pharmaceutical, diagnostic and life sciences applications. Technipaq’s leadership team and nearly 200 employees are joining Nelipak. Nelipak is backed by private equity firm Kohlberg.
- New York-based private equity firm KPS Capital Partners is acquiring the packaging business from Austrian fiber specialist MM Group. MM Packaging, valued at 2.4 billion euros, will operate as a standalone business. MM Group will retain a 30% stake. MM has U.S. plants in Indiana and North Carolina.
- Food packaging specialist Packaging Matters acquired Wisconsin-based Skana Aluminum Co., which makes aluminum coils and blanks, per an announcement from sell-side financial advisor D.A. Davidson & Co.
- CJK Group acquired fellow Minnesota company Viking Label & Packaging. Viking will maintain its name and management team, operating as a standalone CJK Group company. Viking’s offerings include custom pressure-sensitive labels and inserts, which may include RFID inlays and other features.
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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