Mars Canada officially opened its C$70 million, 60,000 square foot expansion of its Newmarket, Ontario chocolate factory, which now makes MALTESERS for the first time in North America and is expected to create up to 30 jobs.

Laker Energy Products won three contracts totalling more than $54 million from the SNC-Lavalin-Aecon Joint Venture for nuclear components for the Darlington RFR project, to be manufactured at its Oakville, Ontario plant.

NIBE Industrier acquired 50% of the shares in heat pump company CGC Group of Companies, which has a manufacturing facility in Fergus, Ontario, with an option to buy the rest by spring 2022. The purchase price was not disclosed.

Cascades will invest CAD 6.1 million and the Quebec government CAD 5.2 million in two energy efficiency projects at its Cabano containerboard plant, modifying residual biomass boilers to reduce heavy-fuel oil use.

Mueller Water Products agreed to acquire Singer Valve, a Surrey, British Columbia maker of automatic control valves, for C$34 million in cash. The deal is expected to close in Mueller's fiscal second quarter of 2017.

Triangle Fluid Controls is launching a C$1.86 million expansion at its Belleville, Ontario plant, adding 12,600 sq ft of floor space and new production and lab testing equipment, and expects to create 10 jobs over three years.

Kruger is investing C$250 million with Investissements Québec to convert its Trois-Rivières newsprint mill to make lightweight cardboard packaging, starting production May 7, and plans to hire about 100 workers within five years.

Stanpac Inc. is investing C$45.6 million to add four production lines at its Smithville, Ontario packaging plant, increasing capacity and exports and creating up to 50 jobs. The federal government contributes C$4.5 million through FedDev Ontario.

Rotork's Calgary facility fitted IQ3 electric actuators to fifteen gate valves for Suncor's Fort Hills oil sands mine in Alberta, and shipped them. Over 1,000 pneumatic actuators were also supplied from Italy and South Korea under the wider relationship.

Rotork shipped fifteen IQ3 electric actuators from its Calgary facility to Suncor's Fort Hills oil sands mine in Alberta, with over 1,000 pneumatic actuators also supplied from Italy and South Korea.

Envelope maker Supremex agreed to acquire Montreal-based corrugator Durabox Paper, which runs a 50-person corrugated box plant in Lachine, Quebec; the price was not disclosed, announced November 28, 2016.

Kruger is rebuilding Paper Machine 10 at its Trois-Rivières mill to produce 100% recycled linerboard, with about $250 million invested and completion expected in May 2017. About $135 million of the budget has been committed to date.

TC Transcontinental acquired all shares of Flexstar Packaging, a Richmond, British Columbia flexible packaging converter with over 120 employees and about C$36 million in revenue. The deal was announced on October 17, 2016.

Give & Go Prepared Foods completed its acquisition of Toronto-based Create-a-Treat Ltd., NAFTA Foods and Packaging Inc. and related entities on July 29, 2016, concurrent with its acquisition by Thomas H. Lee Partners. Financial terms were undisclosed.

Kruger completed the conversion of its No. 10 newsprint machine at the Trois-Rivières mill in Quebec into a lightweight linerboard line with 360,000 tonnes annual capacity, creating 270 jobs. The project was first announced with the Government of Quebec in September 2015.

Wolseley Industrial Canada announced the sale of its Engineered Pipe Group to Emco Corp. Emco acquires the HDPE pipe, fittings, flanges and fabricated vessels business. The deal was reported on 2015-07-17.