Over the years, Packages has continued to enhance its facilities to meet the growing demand of packaging products.

The Bulleh Shah Project: Packages is planning to relocate its paper manufacturing facilities from the existing location, which has limited capacity for expansion, to a new site 54 km from the present one. This will enable us to radically increase our paper and paperboard production from 100,000 to 300,000 tonnes per year. The packaging operation shall continue concurrently at the Lahore site.

In 2003, Packages entered into an agreement with Vimpex of Austria to provide management and technical assistance to help in the operation, production optimization and capacity expansion of a paperboard mill in Syria. A team from Packages is currently providing these services and is close to optimizing mill production.

In 1999-2000, Packages Limited successfully completed the expansion of the flexible packaging line by installing a new rotogravure printing machine and expanded the carton line by adding a new Lemanic rotogravure inline printing and cutting creasing machine. A new 8-color Flexographic printing machine was also installed in the Flexible Business Unit in 2001.

Packages Limited has also started producing corrugated boxes from its plant in Karachi from 2002.

In 1996, a joint venture agreement was signed with Printcare (Ceylon) Limited for the production of flexible packaging materials in Sri Lanka. Packages Lanka (Private) Limited commenced production in 1998. Packages Limited now owns 79% of this company.

In 1994, Coates Lorilleux Pakistan Limited, in which Packages Limited has 55% ownership, commenced production and sale of printing inks.

In 1993, a joint venture agreement was signed with Mitsubishi Corporation of Japan for the manufacture of Polypropylene films at the Industrial Estate in Hattar, NWFP. This project, called Tri-Pack Films Limited, commenced production in 1995 with equity participation by Packages Limited, Mitsubishi Corporation, Altawfeek Company for Investment Funds, Saudi Arabia and the public. Packages Limited owns 33% of Tri-Pack Films Limited's equity.

Since 1982, Packages Limited has had a joint venture with Tetra Pak International in Tetra Pak Pakistan Limited to manufacture paperboard for liquid food packaging and to market Tetra Pak packaging equipment.

Packages commissioned its own paper mill with a production capacity of 24,000 tonnes in 1968. The mill produces paper and paperboard based on waste paper and agricultural by-products like wheat straw and river grass. With growing demand the capacity was increased periodically and in 2003 was nearly 100,000 tonnes per year.

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