ARCA Regler was named again as one of two global key suppliers of automated control valves to BASF under the MVV4 framework for 2021 to 2026. The framework agreement was to be finalised and signed shortly.

Siemens Energy is investing over €60 million to add a 6,200 m² vacuum interrupter manufacturing facility at its Berlin switchgear plant, scheduled to start operations in 2023. The vacuum interrupters form the core of its SF6-free Blue Portfolio.

Schumacher Packaging plans its largest investment program, about EUR 700 million by 2025 with EUR 300 million in Germany, to expand corrugated board plants and paper mills and add renewable energy. The plan aims to create around 500 jobs and lift sales to EUR 1.3 billion by 2025. Reported November 25, 2021.

Schumacher Packaging plans to invest about €700 million by 2025, including €300 million in Germany, to expand corrugated board plants and paper mills. The program is expected to create around 500 new jobs.

GEA is supplying Olin with a thermal vapor recompressor based on its nozzle needle-controlled steam jet compressor for a distillation plant at Olin's Stade site. The system can reduce specific steam consumption by up to 10 percent.

PAPACKS has started construction of its PAPACKS GIGAFACTORY 2, a molded fiber parts plant next to GIGAFACTORY 1 in Arnstadt, Thuringia, investing over 13 million euros. Annual capacity at the site will double to over 360 million molded parts from 2022.

Schumacher Packaging is expanding its Greven, Germany plant to double production capacity, with about €70 million invested and 200 new jobs created by the end of June 2021.

Endress+Hauser invested about 46 million euros over several years to expand its Maulburg site, adding a building with 11,000 square metres of production space. The building was completed in 2020 and was formally presented on October 8, 2021.

Endress+Hauser dedicated its expanded Maulburg, Germany site, a roughly 46 million euro project adding a production and office building and parking garage, used for level and pressure measurement technology.

BHS Corrugated broke ground on a logistics park in Weiherhammer, Germany, with a 26,500 m² production hall and a three-storey administration building, with construction due by March 2023. The investment totals approximately €38 million.

A German trade register entry lists Akshar Patel and Andreas Schüpfer as managing directors of pump maker HALBERG Maschinenbau in Itzehoe, with Flowserve SIHI Holding as controlling shareholder. The entry also records a merger with APV and a change of headquarters.

Rheinmetall received an order from an international automaker for CWA400 electric coolant pumps for luxury hybrid vehicles, worth a figure in the two-digit million-euro range. Pierburg Pump Technology will produce the pumps at Hartha, Saxony, with delivery complete by 2024.

Endress+Hauser and Hahn-Schickard created the joint venture Endress+Hauser BioSense in Freiburg, Germany, to develop rapid molecular analysis equipment for contamination detection in water and beverages.

Atlas Copco acquired NATEV GmbH of Borken, Germany, a maker of positioning solutions for assembly tools, to expand its industrial technique business area. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Packaging maker DS Smith developed a 100% corrugated board e-commerce shipping solution for the Hesse start-up Blaue Helden, using inserts so no filler material is needed for its starter sets. The announcement was dated August 25, 2021.

Thimm expanded its Alzey corrugated board plant in Rhineland-Palatinate with a new corrugating roll module from BHS Corrugated, raising maximum speed to 350 metres per minute and enabling F-flute production in Germany.

Ziehl-Abegg is investing 36 million euros in a new production facility at its Kupferzell site in Baden-Württemberg, with 16 million for buildings and 20 million for machinery, and plans 180 additional jobs.

Progroup is preparing construction of its PW15 corrugated sheetfeeder plant near Petersberg, Rhineland-Palatinate, investing more than €90 million, with production from Q2 2023 and about 60 new jobs.

HORSCH Maschinen GmbH is investing about €17 million to build a new assembly hall and office building of roughly 11,000 square metres at its Ronneburg, Thuringia site, groundbreaking on 27 July 2021 with completion planned by spring 2022.

Ingersoll Rand Inc. completed its acquisition of Seepex GmbH, a Bottrop, Germany maker of progressive cavity pumps with about 800 employees and roughly EUR 160 million revenue. The deal was announced as complete on September 1, 2021.

Dortmunder Brauereien has placed a multi-million order with KHS Group for a new, resource-saving beverage can filling line in Dortmund, Germany. The line can process up to 80,000 cans per hour.

Schumacher Packaging is expanding its Greven corrugated board plant with more than 20,000 sqm of new production space and two BHS Corrugated lines, bringing capacity to 600 million sqm per year by 2022. The group is investing about €70 million in 2021 and 2022 and creating 200 jobs.

Tillotson acquired all assets of PVL Probosch-Vogt-Loos Electronic and Elektrotechnik, a German maker of small engine ignition systems, which will continue operating in Cadolzburg through a new subsidiary.

Dosing technology maker ViscoTec held a groundbreaking on 5 July 2021 for a new three-storey building in Töging, Germany, adding office, final assembly and warehouse space. Completion is planned by the end of 2022.

Vestas and Iberdrola finalised a contract for Vestas to supply and install 476 MW of V174-9.5 MW turbines and service them for up to 10 years at the Baltic Eagle offshore project in German waters, expected to be completed in 2024.

Wellpappe, part of the Schiettinger group, is doubling its commercial area in Lichtenau, Germany, investing about EUR 35 million in new halls and warehouses to meet demand for new packaging.

Bayer Weimar has commissioned a new automated pouch packaging line costing about EUR 5 million, which will make all Bayer Pharmaceuticals pouch products of hormone-containing solid dosage forms at Weimar. Five new jobs are created.

Ingersoll Rand agreed to acquire German progressive cavity pump maker Seepex GmbH in an all-cash deal valued at €431.5 million, expected to close in Q3 2021 pending regulatory approvals. Announced June 21, 2021.

Robert Bosch has won a long-term contract from cellcentric to supply electric air compressors with power electronics for fuel cell systems used in heavy trucks and stationary applications, with series production starting in the mid-2020s. Announced June 18, 2021.

Eckes-Granini began producing its one-liter hohes C juice bottle entirely from recycled PET since mid-May 2021, with KHS providing bottle and shape design on its InnoPET FreshSafe block at Bad Fallingbostel.

Munich-based Accursia Capital acquired 100% of Müller & Bauer GmbH & Co. KG, a metal packaging producer in Metzingen, Germany, from G. Staehle GmbH & Co. KG. The company employs 100 people.

viastore received an order worth around four million euros from NETZSCH Pumpen & Systeme to build a new automated logistics center in Waldkraiburg, Upper Bavaria. Commissioning is scheduled for June 2022.

Atlas Copco agreed to acquire Arpuma, a specialized vacuum systems and solutions provider with 14 employees based in Kerpen near Cologne, Germany, serving the chemical and pharmaceutical industry. The purchase price was not disclosed. The deal was expected to close in late Q2 2021.

Mimir Group agreed to acquire Wärtsilä Euroatlas GmbH from Wärtsilä Corporation. Euroatlas, based in Bremen, makes power conversion systems for naval, aviation and mobile land applications; closing is expected in Q3 2021.

Smurfit Kappa is investing EUR 35 million to refurbish the PM2 paper machine at its Hoya mill in northwest Germany, raising output by 70 kt to 450 kt per year. The project is expected to be operational in Q1 2023.

thyssenkrupp Steel Europe chose Schroeder Valves SMA minimum flow valves for the overhaul of unit 4 of its Hermann Wenzel power station in Duisburg. The valves replace a two-valve system.

Germany-based Emsland Group awarded GEA a follow-up order, valued in the low single-digit million-euro range, for a potato protein process line at its Wietzendorf site. The order covers planning, delivery and installation support, including plate heat exchangers, pumps and protein decanters.

The Emsland Group contracted GEA for the construction and expansion of its potato protein production line at its Wietzendorf starch plant in Germany, in a follow-up order valued in the low single-digit million-euro range.

Flottweg inaugurated Plant 2 in Vilsbiburg, Germany, a roughly $66 million investment that doubles the company's separation-technology production capacity.

Meyer Werft selected TMC Compressors to supply the marine compressed air system for a newbuild AIDA Cruises LNG-powered cruise vessel being built in Papenburg, Germany. The contract value was not disclosed.

Georg Utz in Schüttorf started series production of the GS1 Smart-Box, a reusable polypropylene transport container; the first 100,000 units were delivered in late April 2021 to pooling partner IPP.

Netzsch Pumpen & Systeme broke ground in Waldkraiburg on a 50 million euro new campus with a multi-storey assembly hall and automated warehouse, due by June 2022, consolidating three plants for 650 employees.

ABB has secured a contract from rail vehicle maker Stadler to supply traction converters and lithium-ion energy storage systems for 55 new NAH.SH bi-mode electric multiple units in northern Germany. The order also covers traction converters for more than 600 new BVG underground cars in Berlin.

Folding carton maker Joh. Leupold GmbH & Co. KG, majority-owned by Waterland Private Equity since August 2020, is merging with carton and corrugated packaging maker Strobel AG of Roth. The founding Strobel owners remain during a transition phase.

Linde Engineering won the contract to design and build an integrated hydrogen fueling station and electrolysis plant for AGR in Herten, Germany, with PEM electrolyzers and an annual output of about 440,000 kg of hydrogen. The project receives up to EUR 6.2 million in federal funding.

Closure maker Heinlein Plastik-Technik has built a new production hall in Ansbach for twenty more injection molding machines and assembly units. The project also upgraded energy supply and infrastructure, including water-cooled chillers and screw compressors.

DS Smith is investing EUR 16.7 million to expand and modernise its Arnstadt site in Thuringia, adding a new corrugator and automated conveyors. Construction began with a ground-breaking ceremony and runs about 12 months.

Private equity firm Fidelium Partners agreed to acquire the steering and transmission pump business of Robert Bosch Automotive Steering. Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal was announced on 31 March 2021.

Altonaer Wellpappenfabrik in Tornesch near Hamburg will replace its finished goods palletizing system in spring 2021 and add a fully automated 4-color inline folding box machine in the second half of 2021. The company says it is investing over 10 million euros in quality and productivity across 2020/21.

Financial investor NORD Holding completed the purchase of compressor manufacturer GEA Bock from GEA Group on February 26, 2021, and the company now operates as Bock GmbH. The deal included the Frickenhausen headquarters and subsidiaries in China, India and the Czech Republic.