Dover Corp's PSG has acquired IPP Pump Products GmbH, a Bersenbrück-based maker of hygienic lobe and progressive cavity pumps for food, pharma and biotech.

Krones is building the Bayreuther Brauhaus brewery near Bayreuth, Germany, with Steinecker brewhouse and cellar equipment and a complete returnable-glass bottling line of 40,000 bottles per hour. The brewery is designed for 500,000 hectolitres annual capacity.

The DUBAG-managed LEO III fund acquired Ampack GmbH and Osgood Industries from Syntegon, a CVC portfolio company. Ampack and Osgood make form, fill and seal machines for cups and bottles used in food packaging.

PSG, a Dover company, has completed its acquisition of ipp Pump Products GmbH, a maker of rotary lobe pumps for hygienic applications in Bersenbrück, Germany. The exact completion date is not stated on the page.

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.

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.

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.

KHS GmbH agreed, pending antitrust approval, to acquire a stake in Ferrum Packaging AG, while Ferrum Packaging Inc. takes over KHS's can seaming business to combine can technology in a joint offer.

GEA Group won a contract from Hochwald Foods GmbH to supply the complete dairy processing technology for a new dairy in Mechernich near Cologne, which will process about 800 million liters of milk per year, with commissioning planned for mid-2021.

SIG was selected as preferred partner to supply 15 aseptic filling machines for Hochwald's new greenfield UHT milk plant in Mechernich, Germany, with production planned from 2022. The plant will have capacity of more than 800 million litres of milk per year.

Weber Maschinenbau is investing a seven-figure sum in a new assembly hall of about 2,300 m² and a two-storey office building at its Breidenbach site. Completion of the assembly hall is planned for September 2019 and the office building for January 2020.

Unibloc-Pump Inc. of Marietta, Georgia has acquired German manufacturer R&H GmbH, creating a combined European market leader in road tanker pumps. The deal was announced on May 30, 2018.

HQ Equita agreed to sell ROVEMA GmbH, a German maker of vertical form-fill-seal food packaging machinery based in Fernwald, Hesse, to Franz Haniel & Cie, subject to regulatory approvals; Alantra advised the seller.

Folmeg Engineering of Eschwege has taken over Schuy, an insolvent maker of filling and packaging machines in Hünfeld, Germany. Schuy will remain independent and its site will stay open.

Multivac and TVI plan to build a new production site and office building with a demonstration and customer centre in Bruckmühl, southern Bavaria, with construction due to finish in 2018.

Multivac's German unit bought a 49.9% stake in TVI Entwicklung und Produktion GmbH for an undisclosed sum, to offer complete production lines from a single source.