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.

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.

German pump and valve maker KSB is restructuring its French service activities by selling three maintenance companies to the Orano group. The article does not give a sale value.

AGCO, which includes Massey Ferguson, is acquiring 15 hectares of land in Beauvais for a €40 million investment creating 200 permanent jobs. The Beauvais 4 site will host tractor customisation, additive manufacturing, hydraulic tube production and gearbox reconditioning.

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.

TUBES plans to open a facility in Bordeaux in the second half of 2020, and will prepare a production location in California from Q1 2021.

Siemens Gamesa won a contract from Ailes Marines, an Iberdrola subsidiary, to supply 62 SG 8.0-167 DD offshore wind turbines for the 496 MW Bay of Saint-Brieuc project off France, with nacelles and blades made at its planned Le Havre factory, plus 10 years of maintenance.

Siemens Gamesa and Ailes Marines signed a contract for 62 Siemens Gamesa 8 MW turbines for the 496 MW Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm off Brittany, marking the final investment decision on the EUR 2.4 billion project. Blades, nacelles and generators will be made at Le Havre, creating 750 jobs.

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.

Prysmian was awarded a contract worth over EUR 150 million by RTE to design, supply, install and commission two 225 kV submarine and land export cable systems connecting the Yeu-Noirmoutier offshore wind farm to the French grid, with delivery scheduled for 2023.

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.

The Coca-Cola Company and Coca-Cola European Partners plan to invest up to €1 billion in France over five years, covering new products, bottling capacity expansion and plant modernization. CCEP alone has earmarked €500 million for its production and distribution network.

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.

Rolls-Royce has selected Liebherr-Aerospace to supply a pneumatic valve for its Trent 7000 engine, according to the company's press release.

Liebherr-Aerospace Toulouse has been selected by Rolls-Royce to supply the pneumatic component package, including valves and actuation devices, for the Pearl 700 business jet engine that powers the Gulfstream G700.

Tikehau Capital, Bpifrance and minority investors provided 33 million euros to ADDEV Materials to finance its acquisitions of Andpak and Zip-Chem, following an April investment of 38 million euros.

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.

Danfoss Commercial Compressors inaugurated a 3,000 square metre ATEX laboratory at its Reyrieux, France plant on 12 September 2019, a €16 million investment for testing compressors with flammable refrigerants.

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.

ENGIE subsidiaries ENDEL and TRACTEBEL, working through a temporary joint venture, won a strategic batch of EDF's contract to replace primary circuit components such as pipes and pipe bends in 900 MW power stations. The work runs in phases until 2026, with onsite interventions starting in 2023.

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.

Velan SAS, a Velan subsidiary, secured a contract with ITER for the tokamak cooling water system in southern France. The article reports a combined value of US$63 million for this and the MODEC contract.

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.

Firopa subsidiaries Deja Link and Nortier Emballages jointly bought an HP Indigo 12000 digital press, installed at Deja Link's Stains site in Seine-Saint-Denis. It will print commercial work and flat cartons.

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.

O-I will invest more than EUR 60 million at its Gironcourt plant in France, adding a new furnace in 2020 and upgrading an existing one, for about 1.9 billion incremental glass containers per year and around 60 new jobs.

In March 2019 Owens-Illinois announced an investment of more than $60 million to expand its plant in Gironcourt, France, to broaden its premium segment presence and increase capability.

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.

Ceisa Packaging, a subsidiary of ExcelRise, will produce R100, a 100% recycled plastic film, at its Bernay plant in Eure, France, for Carlsberg multipacks in Sweden. The Bernay plant is to produce 1,000 tonnes of R100.