URACA, a maker of high-pressure plunger pumps, completed its acquisition of cleaning equipment companies Hydroclean and SAT Dimaco on 10 March 2022. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Hébert Group became a PulPac licensee and will install the PulPac Modula Dry Molded Fiber production platform at PulPac's facilities in Orgelet, eastern France, this summer.

Axium Packaging has moved its headquarters and subsidiaries Acti Pack and Loire Plastic Industrie into a 22,000 sqm facility near Saint-Etienne, France, after a €16 million, six-month fit-out. Production capacity is reported to rise by 15%.

Coveris has installed a five-layer coextrusion extruder at its Montfaucon plant in France to increase capacity for shrink and stretch hoods with recycled content. The equipment was recently acquired and the site was redesigned to accommodate it.

Danish marine pump maker Svanehøj has acquired Wärtsilä Tank Control Systems, a maker of LNG tank gauging systems, and is establishing Svanehøj France as a land-based business at its Calais, France facility with almost 40 employees.

Chemieanlagenbau Chemnitz has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management contract by PVC maker Kem One to build a membrane chlor-alkali electrolysis plant at Fos-sur-Mer, France. The order volume is $64 million, with Asahi Kasei as technology partner.

JTEKT Corporation agreed to sell its French industrial hydraulic components division HPI Industrial to EiM Capital and Apogee, following a December 2021 put option; the deal is subject to employee consultation and expected to complete in the first half of 2022.

French public buyer Siresco awarded mrnet a EUR 500,000 contract for disposable packaging materials, including film rolls and polypropylene and cellulose food trays, with the award dated 2021-11-22.

S.F.E. Group announced the acquisition of Axxair Group, a privately held maker of orbital tube and pipe cutting and welding equipment based near Valence, France. Axxair has subsidiaries in Germany, the USA, South Korea and China and about 65 employees.

Valmet will supply a grade conversion rebuild to VPK's Alizay mill in France, converting a fine paper machine to produce recycled lightweight containerboard, with start-up scheduled for the end of 2022.

Selig Group, owned by CC Industries, has acquired Manufacture Générale de Joints (MGJ), a foam-based liner supplier headquartered near Lyon, France; MGJ will keep operating from its France facility.

Pacur, a Gryphon Investors portfolio company, signed a definitive agreement to acquire CAROLEX SAS, a French PETG sheet extruder, from epsotech Holding GmbH. The deal is expected to close by year end 2021 and terms were not disclosed.

Berlin Packaging has signed a binding commitment with O-I France SAS to acquire the Le Parfait glass jar and lid business and brands, with closing expected around year end 2021. Le Parfait glass jars are made at plants in Puy-Guillaume, France and Sevilla, Spain.

Private equity firms Azulis Capital and Arkea Capital entered the capital of Nantes-based packaging distributor Fidel Fillaud, which reported €76 million in 2020 sales, while founding family keeps control.

Lacroix Emballages will invest in its La Ferté-Macé site in Normandy, enlarging the building and diversifying its activity, with state support from the France Relance industrial investment fund. The investment will also create jobs and add solar panels.

The French city of Colomiers awarded supplier Sorepack a EUR 400,000 contract for compostable and biodegradable trays, films and labels for its municipal catering centre. The award was published on October 6, 2021.

Haskel plans a second manufacturing facility in Rouen, northern France, set to become operational in 2022 and scale up to double manufacturing capacity as part of a global expansion.

Atlas Copco acquired AEP, a privately owned French distributor of compressors and service provider with 8 employees based in Saint-Michel-sur-Orge near Paris. The purchase price was not disclosed.

Investment fund LBO France acquired a majority stake in Baobag, a French maker and distributor of large-capacity flexible packaging, alongside AfricInvest, BNP Paribas Développement and management. The deal was announced in Paris on 24 September 2021 and no value was disclosed.

Sogefi received a series order from a German premium carmaker for a cooling water distributor module for its next-generation full-electric platform, with about 200,000 parts over seven years and production from 2023 at its Orbey plant in France.

Plastic Omnium and start-up Greenerwave formed an exclusive partnership to develop a 4D imaging radar for vehicles, expected in 2025, with prototypes in 2022.

Tetra Pak announced a €100 million investment programme at its Châteaubriant factory in France, which specialises in producing caps. The investment aims to expand European manufacturing.

Cryostar is investing EUR 15 million of its own funds to build a ninth 1,600 m2 hall at Hésingue, Haut-Rhin, for assembling and testing turbines and compressors, doubling capacity for these products, with 25 hires planned and commissioning expected end of 2022.

Norske Skog commissioned Voith to convert the PM 1 paper machine at its Golbey mill in France to produce recycled packaging paper, with a BlueLine stock preparation system and an XcelLine machine; output will be 550,000 tons per year and commissioning is scheduled for Q4 2023.

Ville de Lille awarded food container supplier Sorepack a contract worth EUR 700,000 for containers used to transport school and childcare meals, published on 6 July 2021.

Smurfit Kappa will invest 24 million euros to expand and modernize its corrugated plant in Rethel, north-east France, adding an 8200 square meter machine plant, with completion expected in 2023.

Guillin, a European food packaging group, has completed the acquisition of Gault et Frémont, a maker of paper bags, cardboard boxes and baking paper with four sites in France and Belgium, from UI Investissement. Gault et Frémont reported 2020 sales of 63 million euros.

Tetra Pak announced a EUR 100 million, three-year investment at its Châteaubriant plant in France to add about 30% manufacturing capacity and support the transition to tethered caps by 2024.

Norske Skog's board approved the final investment decision to convert one machine at its Golbey industrial site in France from newsprint to recycled containerboard, adding 550,000 tonnes of capacity. Golbey PM1 conversion costs about EUR 250 million, with production starting in Q4 2023.

In June 2021 Ardagh partnered with France-based beverage group Ogeu to invest in a beverage can filling line, which Ogeu will use to add new can formats to its drinks range.

JDE Peet's announced a €110 million investment at its Andrézieux-Bouthéon site in the Loire, France, to raise aluminium coffee capsule production capacity by more than 60%, with about 40 new hires planned by year-end and works finishing in 2022.

Mutares completed the acquisition of RDM La Rochette S.A.S. from the Reno De Medici Group. The Valgelon-La Rochette, France plant makes virgin-fibre folding boxboard for pharma and food packaging, with revenues near EUR 120 million and about 300 employees.

GE Renewable Energy is investing €60 million to expand its Montoir-de-Bretagne factory by 10,000 sqm to 26,000 sqm total, to meet demand for Haliade-X 12MW turbines.

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.

Bürkert is investing 15 million euros to extend its production site in Triembach-au-Val, France, including a new production laboratory, offices and logistics hall, with about 20 hires planned within 36 months.

KEPCO Engineering & Construction, jointly with Triliium Flow Korea, won a design and supply contract for special valves from the ITER international organization, signed on 5 February 2021.

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.

Sundyne expanded its manufacturing and testing facility in Dijon, France by 1,200 square metres, adding space for package assembly and full unit tests on larger machines. The expansion was announced on 2 February 2021.

Framatome has ramped up production of replacement component parts at its Le Creusot forge in France, starting forging of shells for replacement steam generators on 28 October 2020. Production follows validation of qualifications by the French nuclear regulator ASN.

JDE Peet's plans to invest EUR 110 million in new high-speed aluminium coffee capsule production lines, starting with Andrézieux, France, operational in H1 2021. The investment will raise its capsule capacity by 60%.

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.

Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction and Doosan Babcock signed an agreement with the ITER Organization to design and manufacture a pressuriser for the reactor under construction at Cadarache, for delivery by 2022.

Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction, with UK subsidiary Doosan Babcock, will design, manufacture and supply a pressurizer for the ITER nuclear fusion project in Cadarache, France, to be delivered by 2022.

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.