Orora intends to bring forward A$130 million of capital investment to expand its Cans capacity at Rocklea, Queensland, which it says will increase Cans capacity by more than 30%.

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners will spend $105.5 million on a new warmfill bottling line for Powerade and Fuze Tea at its Moorabbin, Victoria plant, adding about 23% to site capacity. Krones supplies the line.

Atlas Copco Group has acquired AVT Services Pty Limited, a vacuum pump and system sales and service company headquartered in Sydney with 15 employees, undisclosed price.

Metso has signed an agreement to acquire Jindex Pty Ltd, a Sydney-based private Australian valve and flow control company. The deal is expected to close in August 2024, and the transaction value was not disclosed.

Baker Hughes entered a new 10-year services frame agreement with Woodside Energy to support its LNG operations in Australia, covering spare parts, field service, turbomachinery maintenance and digital asset performance services.

Baker Hughes signed a new 10-year services frame agreement with Woodside Energy to support its LNG operations in Australia, covering spare parts, field services, turbomachinery maintenance and digital asset performance. The price was not disclosed.

Ampo Poyam Valves is designing and supplying around 1,500 cryogenic and non-cryogenic valves, including sizes up to 38 inches, for Woodside's Pluto LNG Train 2 near Karratha, Western Australia. Bechtel is the EPC contractor. The train will have an LNG capacity of 5 million tonnes per annum. No contract value was disclosed.

Ingersoll Rand acquired Complete Air and Power Solutions (CAPS) of Australia, which provides compressed air and power generation services, as part of a combined roughly $150 million deal for four companies.

AMPO Poyam Valves is designing and supplying around 1,500 cryogenic and non-cryogenic valves, including valves up to 38 inches, for the second LNG train at Woodside's Pluto LNG facility near Karratha, Western Australia.

Visy announced a US$500m investment to build a glass container manufacturing plant and recycling facility in Yatala, Queensland, with annual capacity of about 1bn glass containers. It expects to relocate its South Brisbane glass remanufacturing operations there by 2025.

US packaging provider TricorBraun acquired NSW-based UniquePak, a distributor of glass packaging for the spirits, wine, pharma and food industries, to expand its ANZ presence. The acquisition was reported on 17 May 2024.

TechnipFMC was awarded a significant integrated EPCI contract by Woodside Energy for the Xena Phase 3 development offshore Australia, covering subsea production systems, flexible pipe and umbilicals. The contract value is between $75 million and $250 million. The award was announced on May 13, 2024.

Recyclable packaging maker PakTech has launched local manufacturing of multipack beverage can handles in Australia. PakTech and its partners have capacity to make up to 75 million recycled handles annually in Australia.

PakTech announced a collaboration with Endeavour Group to expand a closed-loop recycling scheme for PakTech handles at Dan Murphy's outlets in Australia. The scheme aims to collect used handles for recycling.

BioPak, an Australian packaging company, announced its acquisition of Australian reusable cup company Huskee to strengthen its circular and reusable product offering.

De.mem Ltd signed a binding agreement to acquire the Border Pumpworks business, based in Wodonga, Victoria, Australia, in Q2 2024.

Aliaxis plans to invest about €28 million in Australian factories, including a new Toowoomba 2 plant near Brisbane for stormwater drainage products, with production lines starting from Q3 2024.

IVE Group plans to invest in new die-cutting and gluing finishing equipment at its Silverwater, NSW facility to generate about AUD 30 million of packaging capacity in the short term. Implementation begins in the new financial year.

Pneumatic Scale Angelus, a BW Packaging Co company, will exhibit its CB100R full rotary canning line at APPEX 2024 in Melbourne, running at 100+ cans per minute for craft beverages.

The Australian Department of Defence awarded EBSRAY PUMPS PTY LTD a contract to supply valve balls, valued at about $10,890, in New South Wales. The contract was awarded on February 15, 2024 with a two-month term.

Trelleborg Sealing Solutions has signed an agreement to acquire Baron Group, an Australian-Chinese maker of precision silicone components, to strengthen its healthcare and medical offering. Baron had 2023 sales of about SEK 1,000 million and operates two plants in Australia and two in China.

Precision hydraulic componentry maker Oilpath will build a new engineering and manufacturing facility of nearly 3,000 square metres at the Tonsley Innovation District, relocating from Edwardstown. The investment is about AU$7 million.

Queensland Fire and Emergency Services (QFES) awarded Bauer Kompressoren Aust P/L a contract to supply compressors, valued at AUD 10,848.20. The award was published on December 31, 2023.

Atlas Copco completed its acquisition of Sykes Group Pty Ltd from Seven Group Holdings, a Newcastle, New South Wales maker of mining and wastewater dewatering pumps with 123 employees and about 65 MAUD in annual revenue. The purchase price was not disclosed.

Pact Group and Morrison & Co completed the sale of a 50 per cent stake in Pact's Crate Pooling business to Morrison, creating the 50/50 joint venture Viscount Reuse for reusable plastic packaging crates in Australia and New Zealand.

TNA Solutions added a third Australian manufacturing site, its second in Sydney, in Wetherill Park to produce complete confectionery line systems for its global supply chain.

Beak & Johnston opened a new A$110 million pastry and ready-meal production facility in Arndell Park, Sydney, with capacity for up to one million meal solutions per week and 180 new jobs.

Meat processor MAP WA invested $35 million at its Bibra Lake facility in Western Australia, including $10 million construction and $25 million robotics and equipment, doubling capacity to 400,000 kg per week and adding Multivac thermoforming packaging technology.

Opal Fibre Packaging, a Nippon Paper Group member, has officially opened its corrugated cardboard packaging facility in Wodonga, Victoria, Australia, established with a AUD 140 million investment. The site can produce up to 720,000 square meters of packaging per day.

Mondelēz International opened a new AUD 13 million automated packaging line at its Gourmet Food facility in Dandenong, Victoria, increasing production of Olina's Bakehouse Artisan crackers by 35 per cent.

Opal Group opened stage one of its A$140 million corrugated cardboard packaging facility at the Logic Wodonga industrial estate in Barnawartha, Victoria, in November 2023, creating 432 jobs, with stage two planned to add capacity.

Bundaberg Brewed Drinks opened its 22,000 sqm Master Brewery in Bundaberg, Queensland, on 31 October 2023 with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese attending. The plant cost more than A$120 million, including a A$19 million government grant, and was equipped with Krones beverage systems.

IVE Group signed a binding agreement to acquire 100% of Melbourne packaging group JacPak for a total consideration of $35 million. The deal enters the short to medium run folding cartons segment and is scheduled to complete on 31 October 2023.

Visy opened its A$175 million corrugated cardboard box factory in Hemmant, Queensland, capable of making up to one million boxes a day from recycled paper. The facility directly employs over 100 people.

TricorBraun opened its Bev-Cap injection moulding facility on Coronation Avenue, Kings Park, in Western Sydney. The project took over six months and cost over AUD 2 million, a joint effort with PB Packaging and Cormack Packaging.

Zipform Packaging opened its new A$8 million manufacturing facility in Dandenong South, Victoria, doubling its production capacity with a linear forming line for composite food packs.

Orora Beverage invested $110 million to expand beverage can manufacturing in Victoria, establishing a new aluminium can line at Dandenong and increasing capacity at Ballarat. The project creates up to 18 jobs.

Orora invested $110 million to expand can manufacturing at its Dandenong and Ballarat plants in Victoria, partly funded by a Victorian Government grant. The expansion creates 18 new jobs.

Atlas Copco agreed to acquire Sykes Group Pty Ltd from Seven Group Holdings, a manufacturer of dewatering pumps based in Newcastle, New South Wales. The price was not disclosed and closing is expected in Q4 2023.

Morrison agreed to acquire a 50% interest in Pact Group's reusable plastic crate pooling business serving Australia and New Zealand, valuing the business at an enterprise value of about A$380 million.

Pact Group has extended its contract to own, operate, wash and store a crate pool for Woolworths Group for a further 10 years. Current annual revenue from the contract exceeds $50 million, and Woolworths has dropped its option to buy 50% of the Pact entity serving it.

Pact Group extended its crate pooling contract with Woolworths Group for a further 10 years, with Pact owning, operating, washing and storing reusable plastic produce crates. The contract generates annual revenue above $50 million.

Pact Group extended its seven-year crate ownership, washing and pooling contract with Woolworths by 10 years to 2033. The deal is reported as worth more than A$50 million a year, and Woolworths dropped its option to buy half of the Pact entity.

CleanCo agreed to supply electricity and large-scale generation certificates covering 100 per cent of Frucor Suntory's electricity needs at its new Swanbank facility, enabled by the Queensland Energy and Jobs Plan. The deal provides 11GWh of publicly owned renewable energy.

Frucor Suntory announced a new A$400 million beverage manufacturing and distribution facility at Swanbank, Queensland, its first in Australia. It is expected to create 160 long-term jobs when it starts operating in mid-2024.

Orora Beverage launched Helio by Orora, a high-speed digital printing solution for cans in Oceania, supplied under an agreement with Israel-based Velox-digital. The first digital printer will be installed at Orora's Dandenong, Victoria can plant.

Recopak Machinery, an Australian family-owned packaging machinery manufacturer founded in 1986, opened a new factory in Cobram, Victoria. The facility is intended to streamline in-house manufacturing and speed delivery.

Martogg is commissioning its Circular AU food-grade plastic recycling facility in Melbourne, expected to be operational before year end 2023. The plant will reprocess plastic packaging waste into food-grade recycled plastics.

Pernod Ricard Winemakers has started up a high-speed combination can and small-format bottle line at its Rowland Flat site in South Australia, with capacity up to 24,000 cans per hour. The line will produce RTD and small-format wine products.

Pact Group is investing more than $76 million in new packaging manufacturing equipment across its Australian operations to produce recycled packaging. The investment is currently underway as of June 2023.