Jan 15: The most recent updates to this tracker include:

• Los Angeles-based Butterfly Equity acquired digitally printed flexible packaging specialist ePac from an investor group including Amcor and Indevco North America. ePac’s leadership team remains in place and “retained a significant ownership interest in the business.” ePac operates 14 facilities throughout the U.S. and Canada with automated quoting and fast turnaround times.
• Austin, Texas-based investment firm Soterra Capital acquired New Jersey-based Albert Paper Products. Soterra said the deal enables the specialty paperboard and corrugated packaging manufacturer, which dates back to 1944, to return to family ownership. “While the Kenah family has managed the company since its founding, ownership has resided with an outside private party since the 1980s,” Soterra said, but this transaction “enables the Kenah family to buy back ownership of the business and continue family stewardship of the enterprise.” The operating partnership will see Albert retain its existing leadership team.
• Miami-based packaging distributor AE Global acquired Sun Packaging Technologies, which also serves South Florida. Sun offers machinery solutions as well as packaging materials, including stretch film, strapping and custom boxes.
• Axis Corrugated Container is now owned by Gary Brewer, who also owns fellow North Carolina company Package Crafters and Georgia’s Creative Packaging. Brewer founded Package Crafters in 2003, acquired Creative in 2015, and now adds Axis’ 70,000-square-foot manufacturing and distribution facility.

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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