BorgWarner expects 2023 turbocharger production to be 18% higher than last year at its Itatiba, Sao Paulo state plant, and is studying a capacity expansion there, though nothing has been agreed with headquarters.

Hitachi Energy won an order from Taesa, one of Brazil's largest private transmission groups, to upgrade the control and protection system of the Garabi HVDC converter station in Brazil. The upgrade uses its MACH technology.

Bonet Madeiras e Papéis announced the start of activities at a R$15 million vertically integrated plant in Caçador, Santa Catarina, for biodegradable packaging and cups. The company expects its revenue to triple next year.

Suzano will invest R$490 million (about US$100 million) to convert a pulp line at its Limeira mill into a flexible machine, raising annual fluff pulp capacity from 100,000 to 440,000 tons. Production is expected to start by Q4 2025.

SIG announced an €8.4 million investment in the fifth expansion of its carton packaging plant in Campo Largo, Paraná, raising capacity to 5.2 billion packs per year. The plant employs about 500 people.

Prysmian Group was awarded a contract by Petrobras to supply 350 km of deep-water electro-hydraulic umbilicals with steel tube and thermoplastic technology, plus offshore services. The contract is worth about 92 million euros and deliveries run from 2022 to 2025 from Prysmian's Vila Velha centre.

Tredegar agreed to sell its Terphane flexible packaging films business, with about 500 employees and sites in Brazil and New York, to affiliates of Oben Group for net debt-free base consideration of $116 million. Closing is subject to competition clearance in Brazil and Colombia and is expected in 8 to 14 months.

Zempack, a JBS company, is finishing construction of its new metal packaging plant in Três Lagoas, Mato Grosso do Sul, with an investment of over R$15 million, creating about 120 jobs, with opening planned for early in the second half of 2023.

ENGIE Brasil Energia awarded ANDRITZ a contract to modernize the 424 MW Jaguara hydropower plant in Rifaina, Sao Paulo State, including four Francis turbine-generator units. Completion is expected by the end of 2028.

Neptune Brasil & Marine, a subsidiary of Houston-based Neptune Americas & Marine, agreed to acquire 51% of Brazilian engineering and equipment maker Natec Equipamentos as of July 1, 2023. Natec will operate as Natec Equipamentos Ltda – A Neptune Marine Company.

Baker Hughes was awarded a contract by Modec to supply gas technology and turbomachinery, including LM2500 gas turbine generators and steam turbine generators, for the BM-C-33 FPSO in the Campos Basin pre-salt, Brazil, developed by Equinor with Repsol Sinopec Brasil and Petrobras.

Baker Hughes was awarded a significant order by MODEC to supply gas turbine and steam turbine generator technology for a combined cycle power solution on the BM-C-33 FPSO in Brazil's pre-salt Campos area, booked in Q2 2023.

Italian packaging group Goglio acquired Mega Embalagens, a Brazilian maker of flexible packaging for food, hygiene and pet food, in July 2023. Terms were not disclosed.

All4Labels Global Packaging Group signed an agreement to acquire Brazilian healthcare packaging companies Faberprint, Allbox and Involv Labels as wholly-owned subsidiaries, subject to closing conditions including regulatory approval. Terms were not disclosed.

Klabin has started up the PM 28 board machine supplied by Valmet as phase 2 of its Puma II project in Ortigueira, Brazil. The line, with a related fiber line and automation, targets 460,000 tons of coated board annually. The start-up occurred on May 9, 2023 and was reported on June 21, 2023.

Brazilian ethanol producer Raízen selected Sulzer as a key technology supplier for its planned 20 second-generation (E2G) bagasse-to-ethanol facilities over the next seven years. Sulzer has supplied pumps for E2G pilot plants for over twenty years.

Ambev plans a new sustainable container glass plant in Carambei, Parana, Brazil, with an investment of 870 million reais ($154m) using recycled glass. HORN Glass Industries is the contractor, and operations are expected from 2025.

TechnipFMC has been awarded an integrated EPCI contract by Equinor for the BM-C-33 development in the Campos Basin offshore Brazil. The contract covers the full subsea system and installation, with a value of more than $1 billion.

MHI received a significant order from Brazil-based Klabin for five casemaker machines for its new corrugated board plant in Piracicaba, São Paulo, with two lines due for delivery before the facility opens in late 2023.

Chevron Lummus Global was awarded a Petrobras contract for a new 12,580 bpd hydroisodewaxing unit at the GasLub Hub lubricant plant in Itaboraí, Rio de Janeiro state. Its scope covers the technology license, basic design engineering and research unit testing.

OneSubsea, a unit of SLB, has secured contracts to supply 16 Christmas trees for Petrobras' Buzios 10 project, and multiphase pumps for the Atlanta field operated by Enauta and the Wahoo field operated by Prio, all offshore Brazil. The contract values were not disclosed.

OneSubSea announced new supply contracts to provide equipment to Petrobras, Enauta and PRIO, including 16 subsea Christmas trees for Petrobras' Buzios 10 project in the Santos Basin, with further units for Mero.

Klabin concluded the first stage of a 188-million-Reais ($35.7 million) investment at its Horizonte packaging unit in Ceará state, Brazil, installing a new corrugator that raises capacity to 100,000 tonnes of corrugated board per year from 20,000 tonnes.

All4Labels Global Packaging Group, a Triton portfolio company, signed an agreement to acquire LabelPress Industria e Comercio da Amazonia in Manaus, Brazil, making it a 100% subsidiary. Closing is subject to regulatory approval; terms were not disclosed.

Ball Corporation announced a R$100 million investment to increase production capacity at its aluminum can plant in the Suape industrial complex, Pernambuco, Brazil, backed by 85% state tax incentives. The announcement was made on February 2, 2023.

Verallia is building a second furnace at its Campo Bom glass container plant in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, at a total investment of €80 million. Construction is expected to start in March 2023 and take about eight months.

Baker Hughes Masoneilan has won a package of high-pressure API-6A control valves for the Mero-3 FPSO in the Santos Basin, offshore Brazil. The valves were made at its Conde, France facility and shipped in January 2023, with production expected in 2024.

SAIPEM awarded Baker Hughes more than 250 Consolidated pressure relief valves, including high-pressure API 10/15k valves, for the Petrobras P-79 FPSO at the Búzios field. The FPSO is due for delivery in 2025.

Vallourec will supply 35,000 metric tons of line-pipe, including 2,000 metric tons of X80 grade, to ExxonMobil Guyana for the deep-water Uaru project in the Stabroek Block. The order is the third under a long-term agreement and will be served from Vallourec's Jeceaba factory in Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Aker Solutions was awarded a five-year frame agreement by Petrobras and partners to supply subsea production systems and lifecycle services for Petrobras-operated fields offshore Brazil, with up to 33 subsea trees estimated. The agreement runs from Q4 2022 to Q4 2027.

Tecumseh do Brasil, marking 50 years in Brazil, plans to invest more than R$75 million over the next three years in São Carlos to increase compressor production capacity and develop next-generation high-efficiency compressors for 2025 INMETRO standards.

Canpack will invest R$710 million to build an aluminum can plant in Poços de Caldas, Minas Gerais, with capacity of 1.3 billion units per year. Construction is expected to start at the end of 2022 and finish by Q1 2024.

WEG announced it will invest R$660 million over three years to build a new factory for industrial and electric mobility motors and expand existing plants in Jaraguá do Sul, Santa Catarina, completing the new plant by Q1 2024.

Owens-Illinois announced an R$300 million investment to expand its glass bottle factory in Vitoria de Santo Antao, Pernambuco, Brazil, creating 100 new jobs on top of 165 existing ones. A letter of intent was signed with the state government.

Saipem awarded Baker Hughes an EPC subcontract for over 250 Consolidated Pressure Relief Valves, including API 10/15k valves, for the P-79 FPSO being built for Petrobras in the Búzios field, delivery scheduled for 2025.

Smurfit Kappa has signed an agreement to acquire PaperBox, a packaging plant in Saquarema, about 70 km east of Rio de Janeiro. The deal is subject to regulatory approval and is expected to close at the end of October 2022.

Yplastic, part of Grupo Telles, invested about R$12 million to modernize its Fortaleza plant, including a Husky HyPET preform production cell with capacity of 10 million preforms per month. The company has begun preform production.

HORN has been contracted by Ambev to supply and build a third 400 tpd container glass furnace at a new plant in Carambeí, Paraná, Brazil. HORN acts as turn-key supplier including refractory materials, steel construction, and commissioning.

SAIPEM awarded Baker Hughes over 250 Consolidated pressure relief valves for the Petrobras P-79 FPSO in the Búzios field, Santos Basin. Delivery of the platform is scheduled for 2025.

Fibrasa signed a letter of intent with the Pernambuco government to build a new plastic bucket factory in the Polo Empresarial of Abreu e Lima, with R$70 million in private investment and about 100 jobs expected.

Canpack announced a new greenfield aluminium beverage can plant in Poços de Caldas, Minas Gerais, with a total investment of about BRL 710 million (USD 140 million) and around 140 direct jobs. Construction is expected to start in Q4 2022, with operations from Q1 2024.

Klabin will invest almost R$1.6 billion in a new corrugated box plant in Piracicaba, São Paulo, with annual capacity of 240,000 tonnes, scheduled to start production in Q2 2024. The Figueira Project is announced on 20 July 2022.

TechnipFMC signed a letter of intent with Equinor Energy do Brazil for an integrated FEED study on the BM-C-33 gas and condensate development in the pre-salt Campos Basin offshore Brazil. The study includes an option for a direct award of the subsea iEPCI contract.

Canpack announced a new aluminum caps factory in Manaus, with construction scheduled to begin in 2023. The investment value was not stated.

JOST Brasil inaugurated a new 3,500 square meter industrial plant in Campinas, São Paulo, with about R$11 million of investment to expand capacity and develop new products for buses, trucks and implements. The opening took place on June 1, 2022.

Saipem selected GE Power Conversion to develop the Electrical Module for Petrobras' P-79 FPSO for the Buzios field off Brazil. The module will be fabricated in Asia, delivered in 2023 and the FPSO is scheduled to start operations in 2025.

Sonoco acquired the remaining one-third interest in Sonoco do Brasil Participacoes from private investors, taking full ownership of the flexible packaging joint venture near Curitiba, Brazil. The joint venture had about $34 million in 2021 sales.

Keppel Offshore & Marine selected Siemens Energy to provide power generation and compression packages for Petrobras' P-78 FPSO in Brazil's Búzios field. Equipment will be built at Siemens Energy's Santa Barbara d'Oeste facility, with delivery slated for 2023.

GE Renewable Energy's Hydro division signed a contract with SPIC Brasil to lead the full modernization of six generating units and auxiliary systems at the 1,710 MW São Simão hydroelectric plant in Minas Gerais and Goiás, Brazil, with Powerchina supporting the consortium.

Majesty Packaging Systems built a new facility in Brazil through its subsidiary Majesty America do Sul Embalagens, to be operational by mid-2022, producing actuators, dip tubes and aerosol valves and pumps.