Armstrong International has secured a European Commission Innovation Fund grant to accelerate expansion of its Herstal, Belgium manufacturing facility for high-temperature heat pumps. The grant amount was not disclosed.

Atlas Copco will invest 70 million euros over three years in production capacity and expanded R&D facilities at its Wilrijk site in Antwerp, Belgium, including a smart factory extension and additional laboratories and production space.

Agfa is building a new unit at its central factory in Mortsel, near Antwerp, to produce water-based inks for laminates, corrugated and other packaging. The plant will be co-located with R&D and quality control and is meant to cover volumes for the next five to ten years.

Vopak is expanding its Terminal Linkeroever by 50,000 cubic metres with eight new tanks, mainly for storing monoethylene glycol (MEG). The report is dated 4 November 2019.

Fluxys LNG is adding a fifth LNG storage tank and vapor recovery system at its Zeebrugge LNG plant in Belgium, raising storage capacity from 380,000 to 560,000 cubic meters. Commissioning was underway in 2019.

Borealis took the final investment decision to expand its polypropylene plant in Kallo, Belgium by 80 ktpa. The added capacity is expected to start up in mid-2020.

VPK Packaging Group completed an upgrade of paper machine 6 at its Oudegem, Belgium mill, including new stock preparation, a faster drying section and a new winder, with a target capacity of 200,000 tonnes a year.

VPK has started up a new Bobst 924 flexo folder gluer at its Oudegem plant in Belgium, adding about 5 million square metres of corrugated packaging capacity. The total project, including a double-deck WIP and a second pallet inserter, is worth about 7 million euros.