Klingele Paper & Packaging Group has acquired the Société Guadeloupéenne de Carton Ondulé corrugated board plant in Baillif, Guadeloupe, from International Paper, to operate as Klingele Cartonnerie de Guadeloupe.

SK Capital Partners, LP completed its previously announced acquisition of IPACKCHEM Group SAS, a Paris-headquartered supplier of barrier packaging for crop protection and specialty chemicals. The deal value was not disclosed.

Chinese appliance group Hisense Home Appliances will acquire 75% of Sanden and inject 175 million euros of capital, with the shareholder change to be approved at the May 7 shareholder meeting. Sanden's only French plant is in Tintenia near Rennes.

Chinese group Hisense is set to acquire 75% of Japanese compressor maker Sanden via a share issue worth about 21.4 billion yen (about 178 million euros). The process is to be finalised at a shareholder meeting on May 7, and affects the Tinteniac plant in France.

UI Investissement has entered exclusive negotiations to sell packaging maker Gault & Fremont, based in Saint-Pierre-des-Corps, France, to the listed packaging group Guillin.

Groupe Guillin has entered exclusive negotiations with UI Investissement to acquire Groupe Gault & Fremont, a French and Belgian maker of paper bags, cardboard boxes and baking paper with 270 employees across four sites. The announcement is dated March 2, 2021.

Berlin Packaging announced the acquisition of French glass and metal packaging companies Sodis-Uhart and Audoubert, adding more than 9,000 square meters of warehouse space in southern France. It is Berlin Packaging's eleventh European acquisition since 2016.

The Pusterla 1880 group finalized the acquisition of the Adine Group, which includes box maker Adine, printer Chiffoleau and plastic thermoformer Thermoform, in France. The deal aims to strengthen its luxury packaging offer.

Refresco France bought the Nissan-lez-Enserune fruit juice bottling plant near Béziers from Britvic in early October 2020, along with two other French juice sites in La Roche-sur-Foron and Château-Thébaud.

Ingersoll Rand's Industrial segment completed its previously announced merger with Gardner Denver Holdings, creating a global leader in mission-critical flow creation and industrial technologies. The combined company will operate as four reportable segments.

Sonoco acquired Can Packaging, which makes paper cans and packaging machines at two French facilities in Habsheim, for a transaction valued at EUR 41.7 million. The deal was announced on August 4, 2020.

Kokusai Pulp & Paper completed on 21 July 2020 the purchase of Sequana's and Bpifrance Participations' Antalis shares, giving it 83.7% and majority control, and plans a simplified cash tender offer at EUR 0.73 per share.

Orano acquired KSB Service Energie and its subsidiaries KSB Service Cotumer and STII from German group KSB to expand its industrial maintenance services, including for the French nuclear fleet.

KSB has sold three French service companies, KSB Service Énergie, its subsidiary STII and KSB Service Cotumer, to Orano DS. KSB Service Énergie and STII specialise in nuclear maintenance, and the three companies employ around 300 staff in total.

Atlas Copco acquired Ovity Air Comprime, a distributor of industrial air compressors based in Le Mans, France, with 8 employees. The purchase price was not disclosed. The announcement is dated June 5, 2020.

Belgian group VPK Packaging acquired part of the capital of family-owned French corrugated packaging firm Viallon Emballage, expanding into the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. The deal value was not disclosed.

FACT (Fluid Actuation & Control Toulouse), which makes electro-hydraulic and electro-pneumatic equipment for aeronautics, defense and space, acquired TVI Nortier on May 15, 2020, and it became Nortier.

Belgian packaging group VPK Group has agreed to merge with French corrugated packaging maker Viallon Emballage, expanding into the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.

Crédit Mutuel Equity became a minority reference shareholder with 25% of Paris-founded packaging maker Verpack in a leveraged buyout advised by Pax Corporate Finance, with Stéphane Viers becoming Chairman.

French private equity firm Sparring Capital acquired a majority stake in Pure Trade, a French maker of luxury packaging and promotional products for cosmetics and fragrance. Initiative et Finance and Isatis Capital exited.

Kokusai Pulp & Paper (KPP) signed binding agreements with Sequana and Bpifrance to acquire their 83.7% stake in paper and packaging distributor Antalis, representing about 75.2% of its share capital. The deal is subject to conditions precedent.

PSB Industries is in negotiations with manufacturer Groupe Pochet to acquire its plastic packaging business Qualipac, a beauty packaging company.

Swiss group LK Hydraulics took over 80% of Picardie Valves Industries in Ham, France, from bankrupt Altifort, keeping all 106 permanent and 12 fixed-term contracts. The change of ownership took effect on December 13, 2019.

Saur Group made a strategic investment in pump monitoring and optimisation company Riventa under a partnership signed the week before November 26, 2019. The deal is intended to strengthen Saur's offering to municipal and industrial customers in France and other markets.

French manufacturer Neyret is taking over 100% of SERAM and its subsidiaries through its holding company NTH, creating a world leader in textile and multi-material decoration and identification for luxury products.

Addev Materials, a supplier to the aerospace, space and defence market, has agreed to acquire ANDPAK, a custom chemical packaging provider, and Zip-Chem, a surface preparation products maker. Investors reinvested EUR 33 million into Addev to finance the deal.

Thermador Groupe announced exclusive negotiations with the shareholder of regional competitor Eurobinox to buy back its shares. Eurobinox, based near Lyon, makes valves, fittings and tubes and had turnover of EUR 14.5 million last year.

Hutchinson has taken a majority share in TCSA, a joint venture with MANN+HUMMEL in Laval, France, making thermal management and cooling systems for EV and HEV vehicles. The unit employs around 60 people and is already operational.

Sidel announced on July 18, 2019 that it acquired Cognac Moules Emballages Plastiques (COMEP), a French producer of PET bottle moulds based in Salles-d'Angles with around 60 employees and over 4,000 moulds produced per year. COMEP will operate as a separate sales channel for moulds and tooling.

Private equity firm Equistone Partners agreed to buy French engineering company Vulcain Ingénierie, according to a PE Hub report dated 24 June 2019. No deal value was given in the available text.

France's Autorité de la concurrence cleared International Paper to acquire DS Smith Packaging Normandie's two plants in Torigni-sur-Vire and Cabourg, Normandy, as a remedy for DS Smith's acquisition of Europac.

French corrugated packaging manufacturer Cartonneries de Gondardennes (CGW) signed an agreement to take over competitor Lacaux Frères, an integrated producer of corrugated board and packaging. The transaction is expected to complete in April 2019.

Berlin Packaging announced the acquisition of Verrerie Calvet, a glass and container packaging supplier in Aimargues, France. Verrerie Calvet will be integrated into Bruni Glass. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Cartonneries de Gondardennes Wardrecques Group (CGW) signed an agreement with the shareholders of Groupe Lacaux to acquire it, with completion expected in April 2019. The combined group will have turnover of about €200 million and around 660 employees.

Atlas Copco acquired S.A.S. Air Diffusion, its distributor of compressors based in St. Etienne, France, through its subsidiary Exlair. The purchase price was not disclosed. The announcement was made on 2 April 2019.

Cosmetic packaging group Texen took over the flexible packaging business of plastic packaging maker PRP Creation of Oyonnax, France, in February 2022.

Gault & Frémont, backed by UI Gestion, has acquired paper bag makers Emballages du Dauphiné and Daujas, which serve industrial bakeries and retail. The deal ensures the transfer of the founder's stake to managing director Carmen Pirès.

French packaging group BBA Emballages announced the acquisition of Attis, a Paris-region wholesale distributor of food packaging for restaurants. The deal adds over 1,300 product references and about EUR 10 million in revenue.

Smurfit Kappa acquired Papcart, a French offset printing and consumer cardboard packaging company with two sites in Gétigné and Jarnac, to expand its luxury, wine and spirits, FMCG and bag-in-box portfolio. The deal was reported on 21 February 2019.

Cartonneries de Gondardennes Wardrecques Group (CGW) signed an agreement in February 2019 to acquire all shares of the Lacaux Group, with the final acquisition expected in April 2019. The new group will have turnover of about €200 million and a workforce of about 660.

Gimv entered exclusive negotiations to acquire a majority stake in French water network equipment maker Groupe Claire, alongside its management, from majority owner Industries et Finances. Groupe Claire has about 190 staff and annual turnover of around EUR 50 million.

Astorg agreed to acquire drug delivery device maker Nemera from Montagu Private Equity, and Montagu elected to reinvest as an equal partner alongside Astorg and management. Nemera operates four manufacturing sites in France, Germany and the US and employs 1,950 FTEs. Terms were not disclosed.

Unigrains, together with Mecatherm's management, completed the acquisition of bakery equipment maker Mecatherm S.A. from Wendel and other shareholders. The enterprise value was 120 million euros.

Denmark's Royal Unibrew bought the remaining stake in Geyer Frères, owner of the Lorina, PureThé and InFreshhh brands in Munster, Moselle, for €88.5 million, and plans to double production capacity.

Indorama Ventures has agreed to acquire Sorepla Industrie S.A., a French plastics recycler with a combined capacity of 52,000 tonnes per year and 58 employees. The deal expands its food-grade rPET supply in Europe.

Fineska B.V. agreed to acquire Arjowiggins Papiers Couches/Arjowiggins Creative Papers from Sequana SA for EUR 125 million, with net proceeds to Sequana around EUR 20 million. Completion is expected by the end of October 2018.

French group Diverre, based in Grigny, acquired the shares of BMV, which has about 15 employees and an industrial site in Bouttencourt, to diversify its glassware-industry products.

Austrian flexible packaging group Schur Flexibles reached a general acquisition agreement with France's UNI Packaging, which has seven production sites in France, the UK and Austria.

Portugal's Amorim acquired a 60% stake in Bourrassé, a cork stopper producer based in Tosse, Landes, for EUR 29 million. Amorim holds an option on the remaining capital until 2022.

Saica acquired French group Emin Leydier, a paper and corrugated packaging maker with eight French plants and 1,029 employees, adding 800,000 tonnes of recycled paper capacity. The deal was announced on 28 February 2018 and no price was disclosed.