TMC Compressors has been contracted to supply a large marine compressed air system for the FPSO Anita Garibaldi, which will operate at the Marlim field in the Campos basin offshore Brazil; contract value was not disclosed.

MISC Berhad awarded Siemens Energy an EPC contract for eight topsides modules for the FPSO Marechal Duque de Caxias at the Mero field in Brazil's Santos basin, with production expected to start in 2024.

Tecnipar Ambiental finished installing a reverse osmosis water treatment system for Ball Corporation's aluminum can production at Aguas Claras, Rio Grande do Sul, developed with VIGAflow.

Crown Embalagens announced an R$300 million investment to install a second aluminum can production line at its Rio Verde unit in Goias, Brazil, expected to create 50 direct jobs by the end of 2021 and double annual output to two billion cans.

MODEC Offshore Production Systems awarded SUEZ a multi-million euro contract for seawater sulphate removal technology for a new FPSO vessel built for Equinor Norway. The contract covers equipment supply, engineering, project management and construction supervision.

Verallia will invest €60 million in its Jacutinga plant in Minas Gerais, Brazil, adding a new furnace that more than doubles glass packaging production capacity. The announcement was dated 1 March 2021.

Irani Papel e Embalagem is expanding its Campina da Alegria packaging plant in Vargem Bonita, Santa Catarina, Brazil, with the Gaia II project adding corrugated board capacity, with estimated investment of R$150.4 million.

Modec Offshore Production Systems of Singapore placed a purchase order with PetrolValves Group for 52 severe service control valves for Equinor's Bacalahu FPSO offshore Brazil. The valves are rated up to 635 bar.

Ball Corporation announced a new aluminium can factory in Frutal, Minas Gerais, Brazil, with an investment of R$500 million and about 100 direct jobs. Production is expected to start in Q4 2021 with capacity of 1.5 billion cans per year.

TMC of Oslo won a contract to supply the complete compressed air system for the Bacalhau FPSO being built by MODEC for Equinor. The FPSO will be deployed at the Bacalhau field offshore Brazil. The contract value was not disclosed.

Crown's Brazilian subsidiary CROWN Embalagens plans a two-line plant in Minas Gerais to make two-piece aluminum beverage cans. At full operation the plant will add 2.4 billion cans of annual capacity, starting production in Q2 2022.

Baker Hughes has been awarded two flexible pipe contracts by Petrobras covering up to 322 km of pipe for five offshore fields in Brazil, including Sapinhoá, Tupi, Marlim 2 and Itapu. The announcement was reported January 7, 2021.

Earlier in 2021 Verallia announced an expansion of its Jacutinga plant in Minas Gerais with an investment of R$370 million. The exact announcement date is not given.

TechnipFMC's all-electric Robotic Valve Controller has operated since February 2020 on a subsea water and gas injection manifold for Petrobras in the Tupi pre-salt field, Santos Basin, off Rio de Janeiro, under a contract to deliver robotic manifolds.

Amcor will invest over R$115 million to expand its packaging factory in Três Lagoas, Mato Grosso do Sul, doubling production capacity and raising direct jobs to 720 by July next year.

Neuman & Esser (NEA Group) acquired Brazil's HYTRON Energy & Gas on 19 November 2020. HYTRON, based in Sumaré, São Paulo, provides engineering and system integration for PEM and alkaline electrolysers and gas reformers and is integrated into NEA Energy Solutions.

MODEC has commissioned MAN Energy Solutions to supply five radial compressors and two screw compressor trains for the FPSO vessel serving Equinor's Bacalhau field off Brazil. The FPSO will process up to 220,000 barrels of crude oil and 15 million cubic meters of gas per day.

Ball Corporation approved a US$90 million investment to build a new aluminum can production plant in Frutal (MG), Brazil, its eleventh plant in the country, to meet rising demand for canned beer and new beverage categories.

International Paper announced on 14 October 2020 that it completed the previously disclosed sale of its Brazilian corrugated packaging business to Klabin S.A. The business has three containerboard mills and four box plants. No price is given in the article.

PJ Valves has been contracted to supply six packages of valves for topside process services, including gas and water services, on the Mero 2 FPSO in Brazil, which will produce 180 000 bpd. The article is dated 14 October 2020 and gives no contract value.

PJ Valves (PJV) was awarded a contract by an unnamed operator to manufacture and supply butterfly, ball, globe and check valve packages for the Marlim 2 FPSO in Brazil's Santos and Campos Basins. The article is dated 14 October 2020 and gives no contract value.

China's Neway Valve signed a supplier contract with Modec Offshore Production Systems Singapore, a Petrobras contractor, to deliver valves for an offshore oilfield project in Brazil, worth about USD 25 million, with delivery by March 2021.

PJ Valves was contracted to supply six packages of valves for different topside process services, including gas and water, on the Mero 2 FPSO, which will produce 180,000 barrels of oil per day in Brazil.

PJ Valves was awarded a contract to manufacture and supply butterfly, ball, globe and check valves for the Marlim 2 FPSO, which will process up to 70,000 barrels of oil and 4 million cubic meters of gas per day in the Santos and Campos basins.

Eaton announced the modernization of its first plant outside the United States, in São José dos Campos, Brazil, which produces combustion engine valves. The upgrade adds new technologies and Industry 4.0 automation, with improvements scheduled through 2022.

Aker Solutions signed a contract with Equinor worth about NOK 2.5 billion (approximately US$264 million) to supply four subsea templates and up to 23 subsea Christmas trees for the Breidablikk field in the North Sea, with Brazil manufacturing at its São José dos Pinhais plant.

Yinson contracted TMC Compressors to deliver a marine compressed air system with four large air compressors, dryers and filters for the FPSO Anna Nery, which will operate in Brazil's Campos Basin; value not disclosed.

Oliver Valves Ltd and Oliver Twinsafe Valves Ltd won a contract to supply about 600 valves for the Marlim 2 (Anna Nery) FPSO in the Campos Basin, Brazil, for a client based in Bergen, Norway; production start-up is scheduled for 2023.

Grupo Petrópolis' greenfield brewery in Uberaba, Brazil, built with Krones as general contractor and Steinecker brewing lines, started production in September 2020 and reached nearly 6 million cans in a single day in February 2021.

Brazil's Klabin agreed to sell its packaging paper unit in Nova Campina, São Paulo, to Klingele Paper & Packaging for R$196 million, with R$132 million paid at closing. The unit has nominal capacity of 162,000 tonnes per year of kraftliner and is subject to CADE approval.

Atlas Copco agreed to acquire Pressure Compressores Ltda., a Brazilian manufacturer of piston compressors and related equipment, announced 2 June 2017.

Paper Machinery Producer (PMP) signed a contract to deliver two Intelli-Jet V hydraulic headboxes and engineering services for Smurfit Kappa's PM5 paper machine at the Uberaba mill in Brazil. Delivery and start-up are scheduled for the last quarter of 2020.

Companhia Hidrelétrica do São Francisco awarded Andritz Hydro a contract worth more than €40 million for the complete modernization and digitalization of the 1050 MW Sobradinho plant in Bahia. The project is expected to be completed in 2025.

Andritz signed a contract with CHESF to fully modernize and digitalize the 1,050 MW Sobradinho hydropower plant in Bahia, Brazil, with an order value above EUR 40 million and completion expected in 2025.

ANDRITZ signed a contract with CHESF worth more than 40 million euros to fully modernise and digitalise the Sobradinho hydropower plant on the Sao Francisco river in Bahia, Brazil, with completion expected in 2025.

Grupo Opersan and Crown Embalagens signed a new contract for Opersan to install and operate for years a water reuse system at Crown's aluminium can plant in Cabreuva, Sao Paulo state, Brazil.

Actega is significantly expanding production of water-based and UV-cured overprint varnishes, raising global capacity to over 150,000 tonnes per year. About €2 million has been invested in a new integrated production facility in Brazil employing 180 people.

Huhtamaki has completed the acquisition of the remaining shares of its Brazilian joint venture Laminor S.A., a tube laminate maker, for approximately EUR 30 million. The business is consolidated from April 1, 2020.

Klabin agreed to acquire International Paper's packaging assets in Brazil for R$330 million, consolidating its leadership in corrugated packaging. The deal was announced on 29 March 2020.

Klöckner Pentaplast completed an expansion at its Cotia facility in Brazil, adding a coating line that raised its South American coating capacity by over 30%. The announcement was dated 23 March 2020.

Embaquim started full operation of a new Carnevalli coextruder at its São Bernardo do Campo plant to make multilayer barrier films. The equipment adds 50 tonnes per month and raises total film capacity by 15%.

Ball Corporation agreed to buy Tubex Industria e Comercio de Embalagens for $80 million plus a potential earn-out, gaining an aluminum aerosol can plant near Sao Paulo with eight extruded can lines.

Sandvik won a contract to supply more than 500 km of super duplex stainless steel umbilical tubes, encapsulated by Prysmian, for Brazil's Mero pre-salt oilfield in the Santos Basin. The order is for the Mero 1 phase, operated by the Libra Consortium.

Lindal Group is building a new factory for Lindal do Brasil in Jundiaí, São Paulo state, with an investment of R$112 million due by 2021 and about 130 new jobs. Construction is underway and completion is expected within a year.

Japan's MODEC signed a sales and purchase agreement with Equinor Brasil Energia to deliver the Bacalhau FPSO for the Bacalhau oil field in Brazil's Santos Basin, with the execution option subject to Equinor's investment decision later in 2020. SOFEC, a MODEC group company, will supply the mooring system.

Smurfit Kappa Brazil signed a contract in February 2020 with Polish supplier PMP for two Intelli-Jet V hydraulic headboxes for paper machine PM5 at its Uberaba mill in Minas Gerais, with delivery scheduled for Q4 2020.

A consortium led by Petrobras awarded Prysmian Group a contract to supply about 60 km of steel tube umbilicals for the Mero 1 ultra-deepwater project in the Libra area offshore Brazil. Oil production is expected to begin in 2021.

Huhtamaki agreed to buy the remaining shares of its Brazilian joint venture Laminor S.A., a tube laminate maker, for about EUR 30 million. Closing is expected in Q1 2020 subject to Brazilian approval.

ANDRITZ has received an order from Bracell to supply pulp production technologies and key process equipment for the STAR pulp mill project in Lençóis Paulista, São Paulo, with start-up scheduled for Q3 2021.

Lindal announced it is moving its Brazilian operations to Jundiaí and building a new unit at Fazenda Grande with about US$10 million of investment. The first phase covers 8,000 m2, expanding to 16,000 m2, and staff is expected to grow from about 90 to 120.